Alejandro Merlo Oteo

Personal info

Position PhD Student
Email  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