In a recent publication in the BJPS Review of Books, KLI Hans Przibram Postdoctoral Fellow Olesya Bondarenko reviews Antonine Nicoglou’s “Plasticity in the Life Sciences”.

Here is what Olesya writes:
The notion of plasticity, most commonly understood as the ability of organisms to modify their characteristics in response to environmental conditions during lifetime, occupies an important place in the theory and practice of biology. Its centrality as a conceptual tool for analysing living systems has garnered attention from philosophers and historians of science. Antonine Nicoglou’s Plasticity in the Life Sciences is the latest book-length contribution to these interdisciplinary conversations. It traces the evolution of the idea (or, more accurately, ideas) of plasticity within Western philosophical and scientific thought, with special attention to the role these have played in the more recent debates concerning development and evolutionary change. In doing so, the book not only provides an exceptionally rich historical account of plasticity but also touches upon a number of problems that animate present-day philosophy of biology. …

Publication:
Bondarenko, O. (2026). ‘Antonine Nicoglou’s Plasticity in the Life Sciences’, BJPS Review of Books, 2026, doi.org/10.59350/tqgjb-0zh92