Virus Ontology: Thing, Being, Process, or Information?

Abstract

The study of viruses raises pressing conceptual and philosophical questions about their nature, their classification, and their place in the biological world. A major set of problems concerns the individuality and diachronic identity of a virus: what is the virus, the viral particle (virion) or the entire viral cycle? The correct identification of the virus has significant ontological consequences, also related to the place and time when biological entities begin and end. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.35874.66241

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

Links

PhilArchive

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

  • Only published works are available at libraries.

My notes

Similar books and articles

Structure and biological function of ribonucleic acid from Tobacco Mosaic Virus.Alfred Gierer - 1957 - Nature 179:1297-1299.
What came first: the virus or the cell?Sfetcu Nicolae - manuscript
Potential Effect of Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria on Enhancing Protection Against Viral Diseases.Ahmed R. Sofy, Mahmoud R. Sofy, Ahmed A. Hmed & Noha K. El-Dougdoug - 2019 - In Dinesh Kumar Maheshwari & Shrivardhan Dheeman (eds.), Field Crops: Sustainable Management by Pgpr. Springer Verlag. pp. 411-445.
Lentiviral nuclear import: a complex interplay between virus and host.Jan De Rijck, Linos Vandekerckhove, Frauke Christ & Zeger Debyser - 2007 - Bioessays 29 (5):441-451.
Infectivity of ribonucleic acid from Tobacco Mosaic Virus.Alfred Gierer & Gerhard Schramm - 1956 - Nature 177:702-703.
Coordinating Coronavirus Research: The COVID-19 Infectious Disease Ontology.John Beverley, Shane Babcock, Barry Smith, Yongqun He, Eric Merrell, Lindsay Cowell, Regina Hurley & Sebastian Duesing - 2022 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies.
Viral information.Forest Rohwer & Katie Barott - 2013 - Biology and Philosophy 28 (2):283-297.
What is a virus? The case of tobacco mosaic disease.Ton van Helvoort - 1991 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 22 (4):557-588.
Ontologia virusului: lucru, ființă, proces, sau informație?Sfetcu Nicolae - manuscript
The Asexual Virus: Computer Viruses in Feminist Discourse.Martina Gillen - 2002 - Law and Critique 13 (2):151-171.
Book Reviews. [REVIEW][author unknown] - 2003 - Journal of the History of Biology 36 (1):197-224.
Making a Virus Visible: Francis O. Holmes and a Biological Assay for Tobacco mosaic virus. [REVIEW]Karen-Beth G. Scholthof - 2014 - Journal of the History of Biology 47 (1):107-145.
The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930–1965. [REVIEW]Karen-Beth Scholthof - 2003 - Isis 94 (1):169-170.
A brief historical review of the great pandemic of 1918: the Spanish Tlu.Leonard H. Le Blanc - 2020 - Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 30 (3):81-83.
Flavors of Flaviviral RNA Structure: towards an Integrated View of RNA Function from Translation through Encapsidation.Kenneth Hodge, Maliwan Kamkaew, Trairak Pisitkun & Sarin Chimnaronk - 2019 - Bioessays 41 (8):1900003.

Analytics

Added to PP
2020-10-31

Downloads
234 (#86,991)

6 months
78 (#62,507)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Nicolae Sfetcu
Romanian Academy

Citations of this work

COVID-19 Pandemic – Philosophical Approaches.Sfetcu Nicolae (ed.) - 2020 - Drobeta Turnu Severin: MultiMedia Publishing.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Philosophy of Microbiology.Maureen O'Malley - 2014 - Cambridge University Press.
Process Metaphysics. An Introduction to Process Philosophy.Nicholas Rescher - 1996 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 32 (4):689-697.

View all 11 references / Add more references