A Greenhouse Research Talk by Federico Comollo, PhD candidate at IUSS, Pavia, and LUISS, Rome, Italy.
In the era of Climate Change, non-human organisms are emerging as moral subjects in the philosophical debate. Plants, however, due to their unique condition of being enormously different from humanity, do not yet have a well-defined status. In this paper, I will discuss how biosemiotics can help us to recognise plants as agents and, consequently, to shape a vegetal turn in ethics.
Federico Comollo (he/they) is a PhD candidate in Sustainable Development and Climate Change at IUSS, Pavia, and Ethics and Politics of Plant Conservation in the Anthropocene at LUISS, Rome, Italy. His research interests are biosemiotics, phytosemiotics, philosophy of plants, and environmental ethics.