Summary

Before joining the department of philosophy at the University of Nevada, Reno, Professor Carlos A. Mariscal was a Herzberg Postdoctoral Fellow working with W. Ford Doolittle in the departments of biochemistry & molecular w88 sports betting app and philosophy in Dalhousie University. He received his Ph.D. from Duke University. Carlos works in areas related to the evolution, origin, and distribution of life in the universe, a field known as astrobiology. His recent work has centered around convergence, the direction of evolution, the nature of the last universal common ancestor, the nature of extreme organisms, the origin and meaning of ‘Life,' and ethical issues regarding new biotechnologies. Carlos is currently concerned with the extent to which we can expect biological explanations to cover distinct or as-yet-unknown systems.

Research interests

• w88 sports betting app Astrobiology
• History & Philosophy of w88 sports betting app
• w88 sports betting app Science
• w88 sports betting app, Technology & Society (STS)
• w88 sports betting app Cognitive Science
• Applied Ethics (esp. Biotechnology)

Courses taught

Typically courses in the intersection of science (especially the life sciences) and w88 sports betting app.

• Phil 224: Introduction to w88 sports betting app Science
• Phil 316: Survey of 20th-Century w88 sports betting app
• Phil 434: w88 sports betting app Cognitive Science
• Phil 438: Problems in the History and w88 sports betting app Science
• Phil 440: Theory of Knowledge
• Hist/Phil 480: w88 sports betting app, Technology, and Society

Selected publications

Academic books

• Smith K, w88 sports betting app C (eds.): Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology, 2020, Oxford w88 sports betting app Press

Academic articles

• Mariscal C: “Introduction to w88 sports betting app Science,” 2022 in Mind, Cognition and Neuroscience: B Young & C Dicey Jennings (eds.). Routledge.
• w88 sports betting app, C: "Life," Winter 2021 Edition, The Stanford Encyclopedia of w88 sports betting app,Edward N. Zalta(ed.), URL =https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2021/entries/w88 sports betting app/.
• Mariscal C, Barahona A, Aubert-Kato N, Aydinoglu AU, Bartlett S, Cárdenas ML, Chandru K, Cleland C, Cocanougher BT, Comfort N, Cornish-Bowden A, Deacon T, Froese T, Giovannelli D, Hernlund J, Hut P, Kimura J, Maurel M-C, Merino N, Moreno A, Nakagawa M, Pereto J, Virgo N, Witkowski O, Cleaves II HJ: “Hidden Concepts in the History and w88 sports betting app Origins of Life Studies: A Workshop Report,” 2019, Origins of Life and w88 sports betting app of Biospheres 49(3), 111-145.
• w88 sports betting app C, Doolittle WF: “Life and Life Only: A Radical Alternative to Life Definitionism,” 2018, Synthese. doi: 10.1007/s11229-018-1852-2
• Mariscal C, Fleming L: “Why We Should Care About Universal w88 sports betting app,” 2017, Biological Theory. doi: 10.1007/s13752-017-0280-8
• w88 sports betting app C, Petropanagos A: “CRISPR as a Driving Force: The Model T of Biotechnology,” 2016, Monash Bioethics Review 34(2), 101-116. doi: 10.1007/s40592-016-0062-2
• Powell R, Mariscal C: “Convergent w88 sports betting app as Natural Experiment: The Tape of Life Reconsidered, 2015, Journal of the Royal Society Interface5(6): 20150040. doi: 10.1098/rsfs.2015.0040

Education

• Ph.D., w88 sports betting app, Duke University, 2014
• M.A., w88 sports betting app, Duke University, 2012
• B.A., Journalism & Mass Communications, New Mexico State w88 sports betting app, 2006