Instituto de Filosofía

Biomarkers in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy is one of the most frequent myopathies. Its clinical presentation and genetic background are unique. FSHD needs reliable and measurable biomarkers to monitor the disease and assess the efficacy of therapeutic approaches. T...

Liability to Climate Defensive Harm: A Normic Risk Approach

Abstract Some authors have recently argued that people who emit large amounts of greenhouse gases are liable to defensive harm against their property. The main reason is that, according to recent estimates, a high emitter causes—in a matter of hours or days—a climate-related deat...

The Illusion of the Artifact Semiotic Indexation and the Genesis of Production in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence

This article proposes an ontological distinction between the human artifact and the output of generative artificial intelligence systems, here designated meta-artifact, shifting the contemporarydebate from Bourdieu’s arbitrary symbolic capital toward the semiotic genesis of produ...

Rethinking Plasticity in Sponges

What lies behind the extraordinary phenotypic plasticity of sponges? We used this question to conduct a systematic review of how "phenotypic plasticity" is approached in the literature regarding the phylum Porifera. First, we gathered information on what the literature says about...