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ID41326
NAMEC N El-Hani
GIVEN NAMESC N
FAMILY NAMEEl-Hani
SIGNATUREEL-HANI C N
AFFILIATIONSUniversidade Federal da Bahia
ORCID0000-0002-2308-3983
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS48
TOTAL CITATIONS67
AUTHOR COUNT48
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5
  • What Is the Value of Nature? in advance

    Juliomar Marques Silva, Nei Nunes-Neto et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Ethics•2026

    This article discusses the possibility of ascribing intrinsic value to ecological systems. One way of talking about the intrinsic value of something is through its inherent characteristics. The concept of closure of constraints, which plays a central role in the organizational theory of ecological functions, allows us to claim ecological systems have inherent characteristics, namely, an intrinsic teleology and normativity. In this sense, ecologic…

  • Museologia e Educação no estuário do Itapicuru

    Open Access•Manoela Paiva, Mariana Moura Souza et al.•ARTICLE•Museologia & Interdisciplinaridade•2025

    The article investigates the intersections between Museology and educational practices developed at the Escola Municipal Brazilina Eugênia de Oliveira, located in the Estuary of the Itapicuru River, Bahia, Brazil. The study highlights the formation of a Community of Practice (CoP), which acts as a contact and articulation zone between school and local knowledge, with emphasis on those related to artisanal fishing. This inter and transdisciplinary…

  • Mensagens Locais para uma Agenda Global

    Open Access•Leandra Regina Gonçalves, Renck et al.•ARTICLE•Ambiente & sociedade•2025

    O ambientalismo frequentemente deixa de abordar, e por vezes reproduz, estruturas coloniais que marginalizam povos indígenas e comunidades locais. Essa exclusão histórica reforça a urgência de abordagens decoloniais e inclusivas para enfrentar as crises interconectadas das mudanças climáticas, perda de biodiversidade e degradação oceânica. O protagonismo dessas comunidades, aliado ao reconhecimento de seus sistemas de conhecimento e experiências …

  • Local Messages for a Global Agenda

    Open Access•Leandra Regina Gonçalves, Renck et al.•ARTICLE•Ambiente & sociedade•2025

    Environmentalism has often failed to address, and at times has reproduced, colonial structures that marginalize Indigenous and local peoples. This historical exclusion reinforces the need for decolonial and inclusive approaches in addressing the interconnected crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and ocean degradation. The protagonism of Indigenous and local communities, alongside the recognition of their knowledge systems and territorial…

  • Intercultural Education as Dialogue Between Knowledge Systems

    Open Access•C N El-Hani, David Ludwig•ARTICLE•Science & Education•2025

  • Research as a Mangrove

    Open Access•Esther Milberg Muñiz, David Ludwig et al.•ARTICLE•International Review of…•2025

    This study explores the challenges of realizing the emancipatory potential of transdisciplinary research and methodology through a case study involving researchers from the Federal University of Bahia and the community of Siribinha Brazil. The project aimed to prioritize community perspectives, critical reflexivity, and dialogue between diverse knowledge systems to address social-environmental challenges. However, three core challenges emerged: 1…

  • Describing viewpoints on human‐nature relationships to unveil socio‐environmental conflicts and support community‐based projects

    Open Access•Beatriz Demasi, Nina Garcia de Almeida Prado et al.•ARTICLE•People and Nature•2025

    Socio‐environmental changes are threatening Indigenous peoples and local communities (IP&LC), hampering conservation efforts, jeopardizing biocultural diversity and escalating environmental injustice. This situation fostered both collaborative research projects showing the potential of engaging with IP&LC for conserving biocultural diversity, and ideas in sustainability science as the relevance of accounting for plural human‐nature relationships …

  • Caring policy-relevant knowledge? The case of the Brazilian Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

    Open Access•Adriana Ressiore C, Giannetta Fusco et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Science & Policy•2025•References: 25

    Science-policy interfaces like the Brazilian Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BPBES) aim to provide policy-relevant knowledge that guides decision-makers in addressing the current biodiversity crisis. At the same time, dominant approaches to policy-relevant knowledge have been widely challenged for relying on a misguided linear model that treats science and policy as separate domains, presenting the former through depoliticized i…

  • Regulation in ecological systems

    Open Access•Clarissa Machado Pinto-Leite, Ítalo Nascimento de Carvalho et al.•ARTICLE•History & Philosophy of the Life…•2025

    The concept of regulation is used in biology to explain properties such as stability, robustness, and long-term persistence of biological systems. Regulation claims often focus, however, on the capabilities of these systems, rather than the mechanisms underlying them. In an attempt to produce a full-fledged theoretical account of regulation, a stricter concept has been proposed by Bich and colleagues based on the theory of biological autonomy. Ac…

  • Differentiation of Expertise in Local Communities

    Open Access•Renck, David Ludwig et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Ethnobiology•2025•References: 51

    Indigenous and local expertise have become widely emphasized in debates about environmental conservation and sustainable development. However, the engagement of this knowledge into conservation and sustainable development efforts should avoid assuming that a local community has uniform knowledge or some sort of cultural consensus, unless there is evidence supporting this conclusion. Investigating expertise in local communities offers a relevant w…

  • From the Organizational Theory of Ecological Functions to a New Notion of Sustainability

    Open Access•C N El-Hani, Felipe Rebelo Gomes de Lima et al.•CHAPTER•Organization in Biology•2024

    In this chapter, we will address criticisms to the theory of ecological functions introduced by Nunes-Neto et al. (2014). In doing so, we intend to further develop the theory, as a possible basis for naturalizing the teleological and normative dimensions of ecological functions. We will also take the first steps in the construction of an integrated scientific and ethical approach to sustainability that is intended to avoid an anthropocentric pers…

  • The conceptual potential of ‘more‐than‐human care’

    Open Access•Adriana Ressiore C, David Ludwig et al.•ARTICLE•Geo Geography and Environment•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 30

    As dominant approaches to biodiversity loss and climate change continue to fail in mitigating current socio-environmental crises, scholars and activists are exploring novel conceptual frameworks to drive transformative change in conservation. Among these, more-than-human care has emerged as a concept at the intersection of feminist debates about care and post-humanist discussions around the more-than-human. Although more-than-human care is increa…

  • Transdisciplinary Philosophy of Science

    Open Access•David Ludwig, C N El-Hani et al.•ARTICLE•Philosophy of Science•2024•Cited by: 3•References: 37

    Transdisciplinary research knits together knowledge from diverse epistemic communities in addressing social-environmental challenges, such as biodiversity loss, climate crises, food insecurity, and public health. This article reflects on the roles of philosophy of science in transdisciplinary research while focusing on Indigenous and other subjugated forms of knowledge. We offer a critical assessment of demarcationist approaches in philosophy of …

  • Navigating between Promises and Realities of Transdisciplinary Research for Environmental Conservation

    Open Access•G De La Rosa, Esther Milberg Muñiz et al.•ARTICLE•Human Ecology•2024•Cited by: 5•References: 46

    Transdisciplinary approaches combining technical perspectives with qualitative insights from the social sciences and non-academic stakeholders have emerged as a promising way to address the complexity of current socioenvironmental crises. However, transdisciplinary incorporation of diverse interests, knowledge, and worldviews requires acknowledging and addressing inherent inequities. Our case study combines two complementary transdisciplinary stu…

  • A Model for Teaching About the Nature of Science in the Context of Biological Education

    Open Access•Tiago Guimarães Inêz, Breno Pascal de Lacerda Brito et al.•ARTICLE•Science & Education•2023

  • Pluralist Ethnobiology

    Open Access•A Nieves Delgado, David Ludwig et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Ethnobiology•2023

    In the introduction to this special issue on ethnobiology and philosophy, we consider how the included papers show that ethnobiology is an inherently pluralist project that has a unique potential to foster inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives on issues such as the complex multispecies relations between humans and non-humans that one finds in livelihood practices such as farming and fishing, in conservation management, or in industrial resour…

  • O lago Otjikoto e as suas diferentes narrativas

    Open Access•Paride Bollettin, C N El-Hani•ARTICLE•AntHropológicas Visual•2023

    Em janeiro de 2023, no âmbito de atividades do projeto “Educação Intercultural como Diálogo entre Modos de Conhecer e Formas de Conhecimento: Pesquisa Multiestratégica e Colaborativa em Comunidades Tradicionais” (financiado pelo CNPq, Proc. n. 423948/2018-0), realizamos uma viagem de campo à Namíbia. O intuito foi colaborar em estudo conduzido por pesquisadores da Universidade da Namíbia, sob coordenação de Cynthy Haihambo, sobre a evasão escolar…

  • The Challenges of Symmetrical Dialogue

    Open Access•Paride Bollettin, C N El-Hani et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnobiology Letters•2023•Cited by: 7•References: 7

    This article explores ways to promote symmetrical dialogue among knowledge-practices of artisanal fishing communities, primary education teachers, and academic researchers in the state of Bahia, Brazil. We describe multiple engagements in an inter- and transdisciplinary project that integrates research, educational, and conservation activities in two communities living in an estuarine ecosystem. Most community members dedicate their efforts to fi…

  • Taking fishers' knowledge and its implications to fisheries policy seriously

    Open Access•Renck, Vitor Renck et al.•ARTICLE•Conservation Ecology•2023•Cited by: 5

    Sustainable fishing is one of the most pressing challenges for mankind and requires insightful knowledge of the drivers that may foster or hinder predatory exploitation. It has been widely recognized that Indigenous and local knowledge can contribute to biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of resources, such as fisheries, worldwide. Nevertheless such knowledge continues to be marginalized and unacknowledged by a range of academic scienti…

  • Exploring Partial Overlaps Between Knowledge Systems in a Brazilian Fishing Community

    Open Access•Renck, David Ludwig et al.•ARTICLE•Human Ecology•2022

  • Bases Teórico-Filosóficas Para O Design De Educação Intercultural Como Diálogo De Saberes

    Open Access•C N El-Hani•ARTICLE•Investigações em Ensino de Ciências•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 22

    Neste trabalho, são discutidas bases teórico-filosóficas para a construção de uma educação intercultural fundamentada num diálogo de saberes, tanto em termos mais gerais, quanto no domínio específico do ensino de ciências. Estas bases têm sido elaboradas a partir de estudos filosóficos e experiências de pesquisa em comunidades pesqueiras artesanais. Essas experiências incluem, de maneira central, trabalho colaborativo com professoras da educação …

  • Between Scientific Ideas and Christian Religious Beliefs

    Open Access•Gonzalo Peñaloza, C N El-Hani et al.•ARTICLE•Science & Education•2021

  • Gender differences in plant use knowledge within a traditional fishing community in northeastern Brazil

    Open Access•David Y P Tng, Deborah M G Apagua et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnobotany Research and…•2021

    Background: Understanding patterns in traditional plant use knowledge is crucial for assisting policy making with regard to nature conservation, human nutrition, human health, as well as educational and participatory processes in traditional communities. We aim to document and describe local ethnobotanical knowledge and test the hypothesis that gender structures the knowledge of plant use possessed by artisanal fishers in a fishing community in n…

  • How Should We Select Conceptual Content for Biology High School Curricula

    Open Access•Ítalo Nascimento de Carvalho, C N El-Hani et al.•ARTICLE•Science & Education•2020

  • Philosophy of Ethnobiology

    Open Access•David Ludwig, C N El-Hani•ARTICLE•Journal of Ethnobiology•2020

    Ethnobiology has become increasingly concerned with applied and normative issues, such as climate change adaptation, forest management, and sustainable agriculture. Applied ethnobiology emphasizes the practical importance of local and traditional knowledge in tackling these issues but thereby also raises complex theoretical questions about the integration of heterogeneous knowledge systems. The aim of this article is to develop a framework for ad…

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  • A semiotic analysis of the genetic information system

    Open Access•C N El-Hani, Juliana Queiroz et al.•ARTICLE•Semiotica•2006•Cited by: 9•References: 39

    Terms loaded with informational connotations are often employed to refer to genes and their dynamics. Indeed, genes are usually perceived by biologists as basically ‘the carriers of hereditary information.’ Nevertheless, a number of researchers consider such talk as inadequate and ‘just metaphorical,’ thus expressing a skepticism about the use of the term ‘information’ and its derivatives in biology as a natural science. First, because the meanin…

  • Semiosis as an Emergent Process

    Juliana Queiroz, João Queiroz et al.•ARTICLE•Transactions of the Charles S…•2006•Cited by: 8•References: 18

    In this paper, we intend to discuss if and in what sense semiosis (meaning process, cf. C. S. Peirce) can be regarded as an "emergent" process in semiotic systems. It is not our problem here to answer when or how semiosis emerged in nature. As a prerequisite for the very formulation of these problems, we are rather interested in discussing the conditions which should be fulfilled for semiosis to be characterized as an emergent process. The first …

  • The Challenges of Symmetrical Dialogue

    Open Access•Paride Bollettin, C N El-Hani et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnobiology Letters•2023•Cited by: 7•References: 7

    This article explores ways to promote symmetrical dialogue among knowledge-practices of artisanal fishing communities, primary education teachers, and academic researchers in the state of Bahia, Brazil. We describe multiple engagements in an inter- and transdisciplinary project that integrates research, educational, and conservation activities in two communities living in an estuarine ecosystem. Most community members dedicate their efforts to fi…

  • Navigating between Promises and Realities of Transdisciplinary Research for Environmental Conservation

    Open Access•G De La Rosa, Esther Milberg Muñiz et al.•ARTICLE•Human Ecology•2024•Cited by: 5•References: 46

    Transdisciplinary approaches combining technical perspectives with qualitative insights from the social sciences and non-academic stakeholders have emerged as a promising way to address the complexity of current socioenvironmental crises. However, transdisciplinary incorporation of diverse interests, knowledge, and worldviews requires acknowledging and addressing inherent inequities. Our case study combines two complementary transdisciplinary stu…

  • Taking fishers' knowledge and its implications to fisheries policy seriously

    Open Access•Renck, Vitor Renck et al.•ARTICLE•Conservation Ecology•2023•Cited by: 5

    Sustainable fishing is one of the most pressing challenges for mankind and requires insightful knowledge of the drivers that may foster or hinder predatory exploitation. It has been widely recognized that Indigenous and local knowledge can contribute to biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of resources, such as fisheries, worldwide. Nevertheless such knowledge continues to be marginalized and unacknowledged by a range of academic scienti…

  • Physical anthropology and the description of the 'savage' in the Brazilian Anthropological Exhibition of 1882

    Open Access•Juanma Sánchez Arteaga, C N El-Hani•ARTICLE•História Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos•2010•Cited by: 5•References: 7

    This paper discusses attempts to popularize scientific knowledge about anthropology through exhibitions of natives in the United States and Brazil from the nineteenth century to the beginnings of the twentieth century. In the First Brazilian Anthropological Exposition (Rio de Janeiro, 1882), a group of Botocudos was characterized in a manner that can be related to the reification of the myth of the savage, an important part of the European cultur…

  • Fostering inter- and transdisciplinarity in discipline-oriented universities to improve sustainability science and practice

    Open Access•Pedro Luís Bernardo Da Rocha, Renata Pardini et al.•ARTICLE•Sustainability Science•2019•Cited by: 4•References: 11

  • Transdisciplinary Philosophy of Science

    Open Access•David Ludwig, C N El-Hani et al.•ARTICLE•Philosophy of Science•2024•Cited by: 3•References: 37

    Transdisciplinary research knits together knowledge from diverse epistemic communities in addressing social-environmental challenges, such as biodiversity loss, climate crises, food insecurity, and public health. This article reflects on the roles of philosophy of science in transdisciplinary research while focusing on Indigenous and other subjugated forms of knowledge. We offer a critical assessment of demarcationist approaches in philosophy of …

  • Bases Teórico-Filosóficas Para O Design De Educação Intercultural Como Diálogo De Saberes

    Open Access•C N El-Hani•ARTICLE•Investigações em Ensino de Ciências•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 22

    Neste trabalho, são discutidas bases teórico-filosóficas para a construção de uma educação intercultural fundamentada num diálogo de saberes, tanto em termos mais gerais, quanto no domínio específico do ensino de ciências. Estas bases têm sido elaboradas a partir de estudos filosóficos e experiências de pesquisa em comunidades pesqueiras artesanais. Essas experiências incluem, de maneira central, trabalho colaborativo com professoras da educação …

  • Argumentação Sobre Problemas Socioambientais No Ensino De Biologia

    Open Access•Dália Melissa Conrado, Nei Freitas Nunes-Neto et al.•ARTICLE•Educação em Revista•2015•Cited by: 3•References: 9

    O ensino de argumentação na educação científica, em todos os níveis, pode facilitar o processo de aprendizagem de ciência e contribuir para desenvolver o pensamento crítico e, ainda, melhorar a tomada de decisão pelo cidadão, entre outros benefícios. Partindo do pressuposto de que saber argumentar é fundamental nas atividades profissionais, discutimos o uso de questões sociocientíficas (QSCs) para promover habilidades argumentativas em um curso d…

  • Por que a tese de Domingos Guedes Cabral foi recusada pela Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia em 1875

    Open Access•R R Almeida, C N El-Hani•ARTICLE•Revista Brasileira de História da…•2010•Cited by: 3

    O artigo apresenta uma análise das razões da recusa da tese inaugural Funcções do cerebro pela Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia, em 1875. Escrito por Domingos Guedes Cabral, este foi um dos primeiros trabalhos darwinistas produzidos no Brasil, tendo sido publicado na forma de livro em 1876. O exame de fontes da época nos leva à conclusão de que não se pode explicar a recusa da tese de Guedes Cabral com base em um único fator, sejam suas idéias evol…

  • The instability of field experiments

    Open Access•Jean-Baptiste Grodwohl, Franco de Salles Porto et al.•ARTICLE•History & Philosophy of the Life…•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 4

  • Towards the emergence of meaning processes in computers from Peircean semiotics

    Open Access•Antônio do Nascimento Gomes, Ricardo Gudwin et al.•ARTICLE•Mind & Society•2007•Cited by: 2•References: 4

    In this work, we propose a computational approach to the triadic model of Peircean semiosis (meaning processes). We investigate theoretical constraints about the feasibility of simulated semiosis. These constraints, which are basic requirements for the simulation of semiosis, refer to the synthesis of irreducible triadic relations (Sign–Object–Interpretant). We examine the internal organization of the triad S–O–I, that is, the relative position o…

  • Evidence against a Relationship between Dermatoglyphic Asymmetry and Male Sexual Orientation

    Valter Forastieri, Cristiane Pinto Andrade et al.•ARTICLE•Human Biology•2002•Cited by: 2•References: 2

    Hall and Kimura (1994) studied the relation between dermatoglyphic asymmetry and male sexual orientation in a sample of 66 homosexual and 182 heterosexual men. They found that more homosexual men possessed a leftward dermatoglyphic asymmetry than did heterosexual men. In this paper, we report a comparative study about the relationship between sexual orientation and dermatoglyphic characteristics, including 60 homosexual men, 76 heterosexual men, …

  • The conceptual potential of ‘more‐than‐human care’

    Open Access•Adriana Ressiore C, David Ludwig et al.•ARTICLE•Geo Geography and Environment•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 30

    As dominant approaches to biodiversity loss and climate change continue to fail in mitigating current socio-environmental crises, scholars and activists are exploring novel conceptual frameworks to drive transformative change in conservation. Among these, more-than-human care has emerged as a concept at the intersection of feminist debates about care and post-humanist discussions around the more-than-human. Although more-than-human care is increa…

  • A questão racial na obra de Domingos Guedes Cabral

    Open Access•Juanma Sánchez Arteaga, C N El-Hani et al.•ARTICLE•História Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos•2016•Cited by: 1•References: 13

    Na Bahia de 1875, a medicina e o evolucionismo foram utilizados pelo médico, jornalista e militante republicano Domingos Guedes Cabral como armas ideológicas para propor um programa radical de reformas sociais no país. O programa incluía diversas propostas no campo da educação, controle dos casamentos, assistência médica aos alienados, mudanças no sistema penal etc., tudo com base em conhecimentos científicos da época. Entre as ideias sociais de …

  • Alterização, biologia humana e biomedicina

    Open Access•Juanma Sánchez Arteaga, Juanma Sánchez-Arteaga et al.•ARTICLE•Scientiae Studia•2015•Cited by: 1•References: 7

    O presente artigo analisa processos de alterização na biologia humana e na biomedicina. A alterização é entendida aqui como o processo cultural de produção de alteridades por meio da delimitação, rotulação e categorização das formas possíveis de ser outro, desde um determinado marco de referência sócio-histórico. Ainda que a alterização faça parte de qualquer processo de delimitação de categorias de identidade no seio de uma cultura - e, nesse se…

  • A genética em transformação

    Open Access•Leyla Mariane Joaquim, C N El-Hani•ARTICLE•Scientiae Studia•2010•Cited by: 1

    O conceito de gene tem desempenhado um papel central na biologia desde sua introdução, no início do século xx. Contudo, ao longo do seu desenvolvimento histórico, o conceito tem sido objeto de controvérsia crescente, inicialmente na filosofia da biologia e, depois, na própria biologia. Desafios ao conceito de gene têm levado a uma dificuldade de preservar o chamado conceito molecular clássico, de acordo com o qual um gene é um segmento do DNA que…

  • Um exame histórico-filosófico da biologia evolutiva do desenvolvimento

    Open Access•Ana Maria Rocha De Almeida, C N El-Hani•ARTICLE•Scientiae Studia•2010•Cited by: 1

    O desenvolvimento tem papel central na compreensão da evolução dos organismos multicelulares, dado que é o processo que resulta na produção da forma orgânica adulta. Logo, toda inovação morfológica deve ser também o resultado de modificações no desenvolvimento. Entretanto, a biologia do desenvolvimento permaneceu à margem da síntese evolutiva e o desenvolvimento foi tratado por muito tempo como uma caixa preta entre o genótipo e o fenótipo. Somen…

  • Notas Sovre Percepção E Interpretação Em Ciência

    Open Access•C N El-Hani, Antonio Marcos Pereira•ARTICLE•Revista USP•2001•Cited by: 1

  • O papel da ética na pesquisa básica

    Open Access•D Meyer, C N El-Hani•ARTICLE•Revista USP•1995

  • Diferenças Entre Homens E Mulheres

    Open Access•C N El-Hani•ARTICLE•Revista USP•1996

    ou, mais amplamente, a vida em sociedade

  • Notas Sovre Percepção E Interpretação Em Ciência

    Open Access•C N El-Hani, Antonio Marcos Pereira•ARTICLE•Revista USP•2001•Cited by: 1

  • Formas de Construtivismo

    Open Access•C N El-Hani, Nelio Bizzo•ARTICLE•Ensaio•2002•References: 2

    Geelan (1997), em seu modelo bidimensional das formas de construtivismo, situa o construtivismo contextual, proposto por William Cobern, numa posição diametralmente oposta à pedagogia da mudança conceitual, por ele associada ao construtivismo pessoal. Neste artigo, discutimos as relações entre essas duas formas de construtivismo e algumas implicações para o ensino de Ciências

  • Evidence against a Relationship between Dermatoglyphic Asymmetry and Male Sexual Orientation

    Valter Forastieri, Cristiane Pinto Andrade et al.•ARTICLE•Human Biology•2002•Cited by: 2•References: 2

    Hall and Kimura (1994) studied the relation between dermatoglyphic asymmetry and male sexual orientation in a sample of 66 homosexual and 182 heterosexual men. They found that more homosexual men possessed a leftward dermatoglyphic asymmetry than did heterosexual men. In this paper, we report a comparative study about the relationship between sexual orientation and dermatoglyphic characteristics, including 60 homosexual men, 76 heterosexual men, …

  • Semiosis as an Emergent Process

    Juliana Queiroz, João Queiroz et al.•ARTICLE•Transactions of the Charles S…•2006•Cited by: 8•References: 18

    In this paper, we intend to discuss if and in what sense semiosis (meaning process, cf. C. S. Peirce) can be regarded as an "emergent" process in semiotic systems. It is not our problem here to answer when or how semiosis emerged in nature. As a prerequisite for the very formulation of these problems, we are rather interested in discussing the conditions which should be fulfilled for semiosis to be characterized as an emergent process. The first …

  • A semiotic analysis of the genetic information system

    Open Access•C N El-Hani, Juliana Queiroz et al.•ARTICLE•Semiotica•2006•Cited by: 9•References: 39

    Terms loaded with informational connotations are often employed to refer to genes and their dynamics. Indeed, genes are usually perceived by biologists as basically ‘the carriers of hereditary information.’ Nevertheless, a number of researchers consider such talk as inadequate and ‘just metaphorical,’ thus expressing a skepticism about the use of the term ‘information’ and its derivatives in biology as a natural science. First, because the meanin…

  • Towards the emergence of meaning processes in computers from Peircean semiotics

    Open Access•Antônio do Nascimento Gomes, Ricardo Gudwin et al.•ARTICLE•Mind & Society•2007•Cited by: 2•References: 4

    In this work, we propose a computational approach to the triadic model of Peircean semiosis (meaning processes). We investigate theoretical constraints about the feasibility of simulated semiosis. These constraints, which are basic requirements for the simulation of semiosis, refer to the synthesis of irreducible triadic relations (Sign–Object–Interpretant). We examine the internal organization of the triad S–O–I, that is, the relative position o…

  • O que é função? Debates na filosofia da biologia contemporânea

    Open Access•Nei Freitas Nunes-Neto, Nei Nunes-Neto et al.•ARTICLE•Scientiae Studia•2009

    Neste artigo, examinamos duas abordagens bastante influentes sobre a natureza das atribuições/explicações funcionais: a abordagem etiológica selecionista de Wright e a análise funcional de Cummins. A primeira parece capturar de modo adequado o significado de várias explicações na biologia evolutiva, ainda que não dê conta de toda e qualquer explicação evolutiva. A segunda, por sua vez, é mais aplicável a explicações fisiológicas ou de outras área…

  • Por que a tese de Domingos Guedes Cabral foi recusada pela Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia em 1875

    Open Access•R R Almeida, C N El-Hani•ARTICLE•Revista Brasileira de História da…•2010•Cited by: 3

    O artigo apresenta uma análise das razões da recusa da tese inaugural Funcções do cerebro pela Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia, em 1875. Escrito por Domingos Guedes Cabral, este foi um dos primeiros trabalhos darwinistas produzidos no Brasil, tendo sido publicado na forma de livro em 1876. O exame de fontes da época nos leva à conclusão de que não se pode explicar a recusa da tese de Guedes Cabral com base em um único fator, sejam suas idéias evol…

  • A genética em transformação

    Open Access•Leyla Mariane Joaquim, C N El-Hani•ARTICLE•Scientiae Studia•2010•Cited by: 1

    O conceito de gene tem desempenhado um papel central na biologia desde sua introdução, no início do século xx. Contudo, ao longo do seu desenvolvimento histórico, o conceito tem sido objeto de controvérsia crescente, inicialmente na filosofia da biologia e, depois, na própria biologia. Desafios ao conceito de gene têm levado a uma dificuldade de preservar o chamado conceito molecular clássico, de acordo com o qual um gene é um segmento do DNA que…

  • Um exame histórico-filosófico da biologia evolutiva do desenvolvimento

    Open Access•Ana Maria Rocha De Almeida, C N El-Hani•ARTICLE•Scientiae Studia•2010•Cited by: 1

    O desenvolvimento tem papel central na compreensão da evolução dos organismos multicelulares, dado que é o processo que resulta na produção da forma orgânica adulta. Logo, toda inovação morfológica deve ser também o resultado de modificações no desenvolvimento. Entretanto, a biologia do desenvolvimento permaneceu à margem da síntese evolutiva e o desenvolvimento foi tratado por muito tempo como uma caixa preta entre o genótipo e o fenótipo. Somen…

  • Physical anthropology and the description of the 'savage' in the Brazilian Anthropological Exhibition of 1882

    Open Access•Juanma Sánchez Arteaga, C N El-Hani•ARTICLE•História Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos•2010•Cited by: 5•References: 7

    This paper discusses attempts to popularize scientific knowledge about anthropology through exhibitions of natives in the United States and Brazil from the nineteenth century to the beginnings of the twentieth century. In the First Brazilian Anthropological Exposition (Rio de Janeiro, 1882), a group of Botocudos was characterized in a manner that can be related to the reification of the myth of the savage, an important part of the European cultur…

  • Livros didáticos de Biologia do Ensino Médio

    Open Access•C N El-Hani, Nádia Roque et al.•ARTICLE•Educação em Revista•2011•References: 11

    Em 2005, os livros didáticos de Biologia do ensino médio publicados no Brasil foram avaliados, como parte do Programa Nacional do Livro para o Ensino Médio (PNLEM). Neste artigo, relatamos resultados dessa avaliação. Os critérios e o processo de avaliação são apresentados de modo detalhado, bem como os principais problemas das obras não-recomendadas para compra pelo MEC e os principais aspectos positivos das obras recomendadas. Das 18 obras subme…

  • A identidade humana e o alter vivo

    Open Access•Acácio Alexandre Pagan, C N El-Hani et al.•ARTICLE•Revista de Educação Pública•2012

    Buscou-se investigar as concepções de graduandos em Ciências Biológicas da Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso (UNEMAT), Tangará da Serra, sobre a identidade (animal) humana. Foi aplicado um questionário baseado em escalas do tipo Likert, a todos os discentes do referido curso, totalizando 159 indivíduos. Os resultados mostraram que a extensão influenciou na construção das concepções desses alunos sobre a identidade animal-humana, bem como a pr…

  • Fundamentos neurobiológicos da consciência e a teoria do campo unificado

    Open Access•Carlos Eduardo de Sousa Lyra, Gabriel José Corrêa Mograbi et al.•ARTICLE•Veritas (Porto Alegre)•2015

    No presente artigo, analisamos as abordagens de António Damásio e Gerald Edelman sobre a consciência e fazemos um paralelo com as teses apresentadas pelo filósofo John Searle. Recorremos também às críticas dos filósofos Bennett e Hacker como pedras de toque da viabilidade de algumas teses. Desse modo, apresentamos uma revisão sistemática da obra de Damásio, Edelman e Searle, a fim de promover um diálogo produtivo entre as ideias defendidas por es…

  • Argumentação Sobre Problemas Socioambientais No Ensino De Biologia

    Open Access•Dália Melissa Conrado, Nei Freitas Nunes-Neto et al.•ARTICLE•Educação em Revista•2015•Cited by: 3•References: 9

    O ensino de argumentação na educação científica, em todos os níveis, pode facilitar o processo de aprendizagem de ciência e contribuir para desenvolver o pensamento crítico e, ainda, melhorar a tomada de decisão pelo cidadão, entre outros benefícios. Partindo do pressuposto de que saber argumentar é fundamental nas atividades profissionais, discutimos o uso de questões sociocientíficas (QSCs) para promover habilidades argumentativas em um curso d…

  • Alterização, biologia humana e biomedicina

    Open Access•Juanma Sánchez Arteaga, Juanma Sánchez-Arteaga et al.•ARTICLE•Scientiae Studia•2015•Cited by: 1•References: 7

    O presente artigo analisa processos de alterização na biologia humana e na biomedicina. A alterização é entendida aqui como o processo cultural de produção de alteridades por meio da delimitação, rotulação e categorização das formas possíveis de ser outro, desde um determinado marco de referência sócio-histórico. Ainda que a alterização faça parte de qualquer processo de delimitação de categorias de identidade no seio de uma cultura - e, nesse se…

  • A questão racial na obra de Domingos Guedes Cabral

    Open Access•Juanma Sánchez Arteaga, C N El-Hani et al.•ARTICLE•História Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos•2016•Cited by: 1•References: 13

    Na Bahia de 1875, a medicina e o evolucionismo foram utilizados pelo médico, jornalista e militante republicano Domingos Guedes Cabral como armas ideológicas para propor um programa radical de reformas sociais no país. O programa incluía diversas propostas no campo da educação, controle dos casamentos, assistência médica aos alienados, mudanças no sistema penal etc., tudo com base em conhecimentos científicos da época. Entre as ideias sociais de …

  • Historical Reconstruction of Membrane Theoretical Models

    Anna Cassia Sarmento, Anna Cássia de Holanda Sarmento et al.•CHAPTER•2018

  • The instability of field experiments

    Open Access•Jean-Baptiste Grodwohl, Franco de Salles Porto et al.•ARTICLE•History & Philosophy of the Life…•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 4

  • Fostering inter- and transdisciplinarity in discipline-oriented universities to improve sustainability science and practice

    Open Access•Pedro Luís Bernardo Da Rocha, Renata Pardini et al.•ARTICLE•Sustainability Science•2019•Cited by: 4•References: 11

  • How Should We Select Conceptual Content for Biology High School Curricula

    Open Access•Ítalo Nascimento de Carvalho, C N El-Hani et al.•ARTICLE•Science & Education•2020

  • Philosophy of Ethnobiology

    Open Access•David Ludwig, C N El-Hani•ARTICLE•Journal of Ethnobiology•2020

    Ethnobiology has become increasingly concerned with applied and normative issues, such as climate change adaptation, forest management, and sustainable agriculture. Applied ethnobiology emphasizes the practical importance of local and traditional knowledge in tackling these issues but thereby also raises complex theoretical questions about the integration of heterogeneous knowledge systems. The aim of this article is to develop a framework for ad…

  • Dimensões dos conteúdos mobilizados por estudantes de biologia na argumentação sobre antibióticos e saúde

    Open Access•Dália Melissa Conrado, Nei Nunes-Neto et al.•ARTICLE•Educação e Pesquisa•2020•References: 26

    Na literatura, têm sido apontadas muitas vantagens do ensino baseado em questões sociocientíficas (QSC). Contudo, reconhecer e avaliar conteúdos mobilizados pelos estudantes é um desafio no contexto da educação Ciência-Tecnologia-Sociedade-Ambiente (CTSA), pois ainda há poucos estudos acerca dos modos de avaliação de aprendizagem condizentes com os objetivos da perspectiva de educação CTSA. Neste trabalho empírico e qualitativo, temos como objeti…

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