Personal info
Position | PhD Student |
alejandro.merlo AT ehu DOT eus | |
Address | EHU/UPV, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Avenida de Tolosa 70, 20080 Donostia – San Sebastián |
Summary
Research interests
- Gaia theory and Earth system science
- Life and thermodynamics
- Ecology and Marxism.
Education
- Ongoing: PhD Programme “Philosophy, Science and Values” at the UPV/EHU.
Thesis provisional title: “Life, Earth and the human: an organisational approach”.
Thesis supervisor: Dr. Xabier E. Barandiaran. - Master 2 Recherche “Philosophie et Société”, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Master’s thesis: “Temps de vie, temps abstrait et valeur dans la société de marché” under the supervision of Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Carlo Vercellone.
- Licenciatura en Filosofía, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Publications
- Merlo, A., & Barandiaran, X. E. (2024). Beyond fatalism: Gaia, entropy, and the autonomy of anthropogenic life on Earth. Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 24, 61–75. https://doi.org/10.3354/esep00213