Publications:

History and Philosophy of Science (Biology, Biomedicine, and Data Science)

Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals

• Boem F., Ratti E.,(2021) ‘Science and Politics in a Time of Pandemic: Some Espistemological and Political Lessons form the Italian Story’ HUMANA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies,  https://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/376, opens an external URL in a new window

• Ratti, E., Graves M., (2021) ‘Cultivating Moral Attention: a Virtue‑Oriented Approach to Responsible Data Science in Healthcare’ Philosophy & Technology,  https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-021-00490-3, opens an external URL in a new window

• Benzuidenhout L., Ratti E[1] (2020) ‘What does it mean to embed ethics in data science? An integrative approach based on the microethics and virtues’ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-020-01112-w, opens an external URL in a new window

• Ratti, E. (2020) ‘What Kind of Novelties Can Machine Learning Possibly Generate? The Case of Genomics’, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science (Part A), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2020.04.001, opens an external URL in a new window

• Lopez-Rubio E., Ratti E[1]. (2019) ‘Data Science and Molecular Biology: Prediction and Explanation’, Synthese, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02271-0, opens an external URL in a new window

• Ratti E. (2018) ‘Models of’ and ‘Models for’: On the Relation Between Mechanistic Models and Experimental Strategies in Molecular Biology’. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axy018, opens an external URL in a new window

• Boem F., Ratti E. (first author[2]), (et al. 2016) ‘Why Genes Are Like Lemons’. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science (Part C), Vol 57, June, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2016.04.005, opens an external URL in a new window

• Ratti E. (2015) ‘Big Data Biology: Between Eliminative Inferences and Exploratory Experiments’. Philosophy of Science, Vol. 82, No. 2 https://doi.org/10.1086/680332, opens an external URL in a new window

• German PL, Ratti E. (second author), Boem F. (2014) ‘Junk or Functional DNA? ENCODE and the Function Controversy’ Biology & Philosophy, Vol. 29, No. 6, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-014-9441-3, opens an external URL in a new window

• Ratti E. (2014) ‘Levels of Abstraction, Emergentism and Artificial Life’. Journal of Theoretical and Experimental Artificial Intelligence http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0952813X.2014.940144, opens an external URL in a new window

• An O., Pendino V., D’Antonio M., Ratti E., (et al. 2014) ‘NCG4.0: The Network of Cancer Genes in the Era of Massive Mutational Screenings of Cancer Genomes’ Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation. https://doi.org/10.1093/database/bau015, opens an external URL in a new window

Commentary

• Ratti E. (2016) ‘The End of Small Biology? Some Thoughts About Biomedicine and Big Science’. Big Data & Society, 3 (2), https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716678430, opens an external URL in a new window

Chapters in books

• Ratti E., Stoeger T., (2021) ‘Large-scale Biology: Philosophical, Historical, and Computational Perspectives’ Perspective on the Human Genome Project and Genomics http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/19074/, opens an external URL in a new window

• Ratti E. (2020) ‘Phronesis and Automated Science: The Case of Machine Learning and Biology’. In Sterpetti, F., and Bertolaso, M. (eds). 2020. A Critical Reflection on automated Science - Will Science Remain Human?. Springer

• Bertolaso M., Ratti E. (equal contribution) (2018) ‘Conceptual Challenges in the Theoretical Foundations of Systems Biology’. In Mariano Bizzarri (eds). Systems Biology. Springer Series Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 1702

• Boem F., Ratti E. (equal contribution) (2016) ‘Towards a Notion of Intervention in Big-Data Biology and Molecular Medicine’. In Marco Nathan and Giovanni Boniolo (eds.). 2016. Philosophy of Molecular Medicine. London: Routledge

Ethics of Science and Technology

Edited Books

• Ratti E., Stapleford, T. (eds.)  ‘Science, Technology, & Virtues; Contemporary Perspectives‘ Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-008171-3 (2022)

Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals

• Graves M., Ratti, E., (2022) ‘Who Is a Good Data Scientist? A Reply to Curzer and Epstein’ Philosophy & Technology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-022-00549-9, opens an external URL in a new window

• Ratti, E., Graves M., (2022) ‘Explainable machine learning practices: opening another black box for reliable medical AI’ AI and Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-022-00141-z, opens an external URL in a new window

• Bezuidenhout, L., Ratti, E. (equal contribution). ‘What Does it Mean to Embed Ethics in Data Science? An Integrative Approach Based on Microethics and Virtues’ AI & Society (accepted for publication)

• Bezuidenhout L., Ratti E., Warne N., and Beeler D. (2018) ‘Docility as a Primary Virtue in Scientific Research’. Minerva, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-018-9356-2, opens an external URL in a new window

• Ratti E. (2019) ‘The Unity of Science and the Ethics of Belief’. Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1628/ptsc-2018-0003, opens an external URL in a new window

Chapters in books

• Ratti, E., Warne, N. (2020) ‘Vocation, Science, and the Good Life’, in Melville, W., and Kerr, D. (eds.) Virtues, Science, and Science Education, Routledge Publishers

[1] Authors contributed equally

[2] Boem and Ratti contributed equally

Vorträge

• ‘Technology in Biology and Bioinformatics’, 9th Biennial SPSP Conference - Ghent 2022, University of Ghent, BEL, July 2022

• ‘What does it mean to embed ethics in data science?’ (with Louise Bezuidenhout), Building Inclusive Ethical Cultures in STEM: A Practice-Based Workshop, Illinois Institute of Technology, US, April 2021 (online)

• ‘Explainable AI and Medicine’: presented at: 1. PhilinBioMed Seminar, Universität von Bordeaux, France, April 2021 (online); 2. Seminar Deparments of Humanities and Arts, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, April 2021 (online); 3. Seminar Center for Logic and Language, and Cognition, University of Turin, Italy, March 2021 (online)

• ‘M.E.T.A: A MicroEThical Aprroach to Data Science‘, Rabb Symposium ‘Embedding AI in Society‘, North Carolina State University, US, February 21 (online)