

DIETELMO PIEVANI
Title: Professore ordinario
SSD: M-FIL/02 - Logic and Philosophy of Science
Address: VIALE GIUSEPPE COLOMBO, 3 - VIA UGO BASSI, 58/B - PADOVA
Phone: 0498276193
E-mail: dietelmo.pievani@unipd.it
Teaching in current academic year
Curriculum
Curriculum in PDF: English CV
Research area
Telmo Pievani’s current main research interests are in the field of philosophy of evolutionary biology: - Philosophy of Biology; - History of ideas in biological thought; - The Structure of Evolutionary Theory; - Gradualism, adaptationism, reductionism, pluralism; - Punctuated Equilibria Theory; - Hierarchy Theory of Evolution; - Multilevel selection; - The concept of exaptation; - Structuralism and functionalism in biology; - Charles Darwin's work and logic of discovery: the Transmutation Notebooks 1836-1844 - Darwin's Heritage in XX and XXI Centuries; - Stephen J. Gould’s work and heritage; - Philosophy of epigenetics; - Nature and nurture problem; - Human evolution (hominin phylogeny); - The communication of science in evolutionary fields.
Proposals for thesis