History, ontology, education, medical humanities, etc.
Philosophy of medicine & biomedicine
Political philosophy & democracy
Ethics & bioethics
Boniolo, G. (2025), Presymptomatic tests and individual decisions, Oncopedia. European History of Oncology
Boniolo, G. (2024), Le cure di supporto, Enciclopedia Italiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, XI Appendice, Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana, Roma, pp. 379-382.
Paccagnella, O., Miele, F. , Guzzon, A., Neresini, F., Rebba, V., Rigon, M., Boniolo, G. (2024), Effects of COVID-19 Nursing Home Restrictions on People with Dementia involved in a Supportive Care Programme. Frontiers in Health Services, 4. DOI=10.3389/frhs.2024.1440080
Guzzon, A., Rebba, V., Paccagnella, O., Rigon, M., Boniolo, G. (2023). The value of supportive care: A systematic review of cost-effectiveness of non-pharmacological interventions for dementia. PLoS ONE 18(5): e0285305.
Boniolo, G. (2021). Demented patients and the quandaries of identity: setting the problem, advancing a proposal, HPLS 43:21.
Boniolo, G., Carrieri, D., Peccatori, F.A. (2020). COVID-19: a plea to protect the older population. Int J Equity Health 19, 72.
Boniolo, G., Carrieri, D., Peccatori, F., Grassi, L (2020). Dealing with death in cancer care: should the oncologist be an amicus mortis? Support Care Cancer (2020) 28: 2753–2759.
Boniolo, G., Assael, B.M. (2019). Genetic prevention, carrier screening and the role of citizens: the legitimisation of libertarian paternalist policies by deliberative democracy, in A. Puyol, A. Estany, J. Vallverdù (eds), Philosophical and Methodological Debates in Public Health, Springer, Cham, pp. 149-162.
Boniolo, G., Sanchini, V. (2019). Spinal Cord Injury: Ethical Issues; in G. Perale, F. Rossi (eds), Spinal Cord Injury Repairing Strategies, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 67-75.
Boniolo, G., (2019). Ethical Counselling for a Patient-Centred Approach in the Context of Psychosomatic Medicine. In L. Grassi et al. (eds.), Person Centered Approach to Recovery in Medicine, Integrating Psychiatry and Primary Care, Springer, Cham (CH), pp. 279-288.
Boniolo, G., Carrieri, D., Peccatori, F. (2018). Supporting Supportive Care in Cancer: The ethical importance of promoting a holistic conception of quality of life, Critical Reviews in Oncology / Hematology, 131:90-95
Boniolo, G., Carrieri, D., Peccatori, F. (2018). The ethical plausibility of the ‘Right To Try’ laws, Critical Reviews in Oncology / Hematology, 122: 64–71.
Boniolo, G., Ferretti, G., Linkeviciute, A. (2017). Comprehending and Communicating Statistics in Breast Cancer Screening. Ethical Implications and Potential Solutions. In M. Gadebusch-Bondio, F. Spöring, J.-S. Gordon (eds), Medical Ethics, Prediction and Prognosis: Interdipliplinary Perspectives, Routledge, New York, pp. 30-41.
Boniolo, G. (2016). Editorial. Public obligation and individual freedom: how to fill the gap? The case of vaccinations, Journal of Public Health Research 5(:58-59
Boniolo, G. (2016). Ragionamento critico, bioetica deliberativa e consulenza etica, Bioetica. Rivista Interdisciplinare, 24: 27-46.
Boniolo, G., Sanchini, V., Bonizzi, G., Monturano, M., Pece, S., Viale, G., Di Fiore, P.P. (2016). Research Biobanks: Why Information And Information-Based Consents Are Not Enough, Bioethics, 30: 260-271.
Boniolo, G., Linkeviciute, A., Sanchini, V., Dierickx, K. (2016). Potential pitfalls in the evaluation of ethics consultation: the case of ethical counselling, The American Journal of Bioethics, 16: 56-57.
Boniolo, G., Annoni, M. (2015). Identity. In: Henk A.M.J. ten Have (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 1-10.
Boniolo, G., Linkeviciute, A., Sanchini, V., Peccatori, F.A. (2015). Oocyte cryopreservation beyond cancer: tools for ethical reflection, Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, 32:1211-1220.
Boniolo, G., Linkeviciute, A., Peccatori, F.A. (2014). Setting Up an Ethical Oncofertility Practice in Developing Countries, Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics, 5: 6-17
Boniolo, G., Linkeviciute, Chiavari, L. V., Peccatori, F.A. (2014). Fertility Preservation in Cancer Patients: The Global Framework, Cancer Treatment Reviews, 40:1019-1027.
Boniolo, G. (2013). Is an account of identity necessary for bioethics? What post-genomic biomedicine can teach us, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 44: 401-411.
Boniolo, G., Bruni, T., Mameli, M., Pravettoni, G. (2012). Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Screening in Veneto (Italy) – An Ethical Analysis, Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy, 15: 321-328.
Boniolo, G., Di Fiore, P.P., Pece, S. (2012). Trusted Consent and Research Biobanks. Towards a “new alliance” between researchers and donors, Bioethics, 26: 93-100.
Boniolo, G., Di Fiore, P.P. (2010). Deliberative Ethics in a Biomedical Institution. An Example of Integration Between Science and Ethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, 36: 409-414.
Boniolo, G. (2009). Methodological Considerations About The Ethical And Social Implications Of Protocells, in M.A. Bedau, E. Parke (eds.), The Ethics of Protocells. Moral and Social Implications Of Creating Life in the Laboratory, The MIT Press, Cambridge (Mass.), pp. 333-347.
Boniolo, G., Camporesi, S., (2008). Fearing a non existing Minotaur? The ethical challenges of research on cytoplasmatic hybrid embryos, Journal of Medical Ethics, 34: 821-825.
Boniolo, G. (2007). Death and Transplantation: Let’s Try To Get Things Methodologically Straight, Bioethics, 21: 32–40.
Boniolo, G., De Anna, G. (2006). The Four Faces of Omission. Ontology, Terminology, Epistemology, and Ethics, Philosophical Explorations, 9: 276-293.
History, ontology, education, medical humanities, etc.
Boniolo, G., Campaner, R., Gazzaniga, V. (2024), Medical Humanities: una proposta interpretativa e didattica, in D. Orsini, M. Aglianò (edited by), A fianco del paziente. Educare a prendersi cura del malato (anche negli ultimi giorni di vita), Firenze University Press and USiena PRESS, pp. 121-136.
Boniolo, G., Campaner, R. (2023). What Philosophy for medical Education? Theoretical Issues in Practice, Medicina nei secoli:
Boniolo, G, Gennari, G. (2022), Ahi Popper! Ripensando criticamente al suo mito tra i giuristi, Sistema Penale, 3:5-26,
Boniolo, G, Gennari, G. (2021). Note su giurisprudenza e probabilità: fra leggi di natura e causalità, Sistema Penale, 10:85-104
Boniolo, G. (2021). Mathematical Models and the Life Sciences, in C. Calosi, P. Graziani, D. Pietrini and G. Tarozzi (Eds), Experience, Abstraction and the Scientific Image of the World. Festschrift for Vincenzo Fano on his 60th Birthday, FrancoAngeli Editore, Milan, 2021, pp. 75-90
Boniolo, G., Campaner, R. (2020). Life sciences for philosophers and philosophy for life scientists. What should we teach? Biol Theory 15:1-11.
Boniolo, G., Campaner, R., Coccheri, S. (2019). Why include the humanities in medical studies? Internal and Emergency Medicine 14:1013–1017.
Boniolo, G., Campaner, R., Gazzaniga, V. (2019). Medical Humanities: una proposta interpretativa e didattica, Med. Chir. 83, 3697-3705
Boniolo, G., Andreoletti, M., Boem, F., Ratti, E. (2017). The Many Faces of Robustness, Dialogue And Universalism, 3: 157-172.
Boniolo, G., Chiapperino, L. (2014). Rethinking Medical Humanities, Journal of Medical Humanities, 35377-387.
Boniolo, G., D’Agostino, M., Piazza, M., Pulcini, G. (2013). A Logic of Non-Monotonic Interactions, Journal of Applied Logic, 11: 52-62.
Boniolo, G., Schiavone, G., Annoni, M., Chiapperino, L. (2012). Constructing the Medical Humanities Gaze, Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology, 84S2: S5-S10.
Boniolo, G., Valentini, S. (2012). Objects. A Study in Kantian Formal Epistemology, Notre Dame Journal of Formal logic, 53: 457-478.
Boniolo, G., Vaccari, T. (2012). Alarming shift away from sharing results, Nature 488: 157.
Boniolo, G., Testa, G. (2012). The Identity of Living Beings, Epigenetics, and The Modesty of Philosophy, Erkenntnis, 76: 279-298.
Boniolo, G., Faraldo, R., Saggion, A. (2011). Explicating the notion of ‘Causation’: The Role of the Extensive Quantitites, in P. McKay Illari, F. Russo, J. Williamson, Causality in the Sciences, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 502-525.
Boniolo, G., Faraldo, R., Saggion, A. (2009). On Spatial and Temporal ex mensura Boundaries, Foundations of Science, 14181-193.
Boniolo, G. (2009). Laws of nature: the Kantian approach, in M. Bitbol, P. Kerszberg, and J. Petitot (eds.) Constituting Objectivity: Transcendental Perspectives on Modern Physics, Springer Verlag (Western Ontario Series in the Philosophy of Science), pp. 183-201.
Boniolo, G., Valentini, S. (2008). Vaguennes, Kant, and Topology. A Study of Formal Epistemology, Journal of Philosophical Logic, 37: 141-168.
Boniolo, G. (2004). I modelli del mondo e il caso Galilei. Fra risultati empirici e questioni logico-epistemologiche, in O. Longo (a cura di), Giornate Galileiane, II, Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Olschki Firenze-Padova, pp. 23-41.
Boniolo, G., Carrara, M. (2004). On Biological Identity, Biology and Philosophy, 19: 443-457.
Boniolo, G. (2003). Kant’s Explication and Carnap’s Explication: the redde rationem, International Philosophical Quarterly, 43: 289-298.
Boniolo, G. (2002). On Properties and Processes of Numerical Assignment: an Empiricist Approach, Axiomathes, 13: 147-162.
Philosophy of medicine & biomedicine
Boniolo, G., Campaner, R. (2026), Casi singoli e medicina di precisione, in R. Campaner, C. Gabbani (a cura di), Conoscenze singolari. Il ruolo del caso singolo, Carocci, Roma, pp. 311-323
Boniolo, G., Campaner, R. (2026), Mechanisms, Pathways, and Networks: On Their Description and Explanation. Biol Theory. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-026-00550-x
Boniolo, G. (2025), Big Data Modelling: The Evolution of a Technique to Cluster Cancer Patients, Oncopedia. European History of Oncology
Boniolo, G. (2025), Understanding and communicating probability in the oncological field, Oncopedia. European History of Oncology.
Boniolo, G. (2025), From Philosophy to Practice. Critical reasoning in the oncological practice, Oncopedia. European History of Oncology.
Boniolo, F., Boniolo, G., Valente, G. (2023). Prediction via Similarity: Biomedical Big Data and the Case of Cancer Models. Philos. Technol. 36.
Boniolo, G., Campaner, R. & Carrara, M. (2021). Patient Similarity in the Era of Precision Medicine: A Philosophical Analysis. Erkenn. 88:2911–2932.
Boniolo, G., D’Agostino, M., Piazza, M. et al. (2021). Molecular Biology Meets Logic: Context-Sensitiveness in Focus. Found Sci 28:307–325
Marchi, S., Zanella, M., Pinton, P., Crafa, S., Boniolo, G. (2021). MitopatHs: a new logically-framed tool for visualizing multiple mitochondrial pathways, iScience, 24, 102324.
Boniolo, G., Annoni. M. (2020). Learning by Difference: Placebo Effects and Specific Efficacy in Pharmacological RCTs. In A. LaCaze, B. Osimani (eds.), Uncertainty in Pharmacology, Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 338, Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020, pp. 211-230.
Lalumera, E., Fanti, S., Boniolo, G. (2019). Reliability of molecular imaging diagnostics Synthese. 198(Suppl 23):5701–5717.
Boniolo, G., Campaner, R. (2019). Complexity and integration. A philosophical analysis of how cancer complexity can be faced in the era of precision medicine, Euro Jnl Phil Sci 9: 34.
Boniolo, G., Campaner, R. (2019). Causal Reasoning and Clinical Practice: Challenges from Molecular Biology, Topoi 38:423-435.
Boniolo, G., Campaner, R. (2018), Molecular pathways and the contextual explanation of molecular functions, Biology & Philosophy, 33.
Boniolo, G. (2017). Patchwork narratives for tumour heterogeneity. In H. Leitgeb, I. Niiniluoto, E. Sober, P. Seppälä, Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science – Proceedings of the 15th International Congress, College Publications, London, pp. 311-324.
Boniolo, G. (2017). Molecular medicine: the clinical method enters the lab. In G. Boniolo, M. Nathan, Philosophy of Molecular Medicine: Foundational Issues in Research and Practice,Routledge, New York; pp. 15-34.
Boniolo, G., Golubnitschaja, O., Baban, B., Wang, W., Bubnov, R., Kapalla, M., Krapfenbauer, K., Mozaffari, M.S., Costigliola, V. (2016). Medicine in the early twenty-first century: paradigm and anticipation – EPMA position paper, The EPMA Journal, 7:23.
Boniolo, G., Boem, F., Ratti, E., Andreoletti, A. (2016). Why genes are like lemons, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biol & Biomed Sci, 57: 88-95
Boniolo, G., D’Agostino, M., Piazza, M., Pulcini, G. (2015). Adding Logic to the Toolbox of Molecular Biology, European Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 5: 399-417.
Boniolo, G. (2013). On Molecular Mechanisms and Contexts of Physical Explanation, Biological Theory, 72: 256-265.
Boniolo, G., Di Fiore, P.P., D’Agostino, M. (2010). Zsyntax: a formal language for molecular biology with projected applications in text mining and biological prediction, PLOsONE, 5(2010): e9511.
Boniolo, G., Di Fiore, P.P. (2008). A Defining Analysis of the Life and Death Dyad: Paving the Way for an Ethical Debate, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 33: 609-634.
Boniolo, G., Lorusso. L. (2008). Clustering Humans: on Biological Boundaries, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 39: 63-70.
Boniolo, G. (2007). Death and Transplantation: Let’s Try To Get Things Methodologically Straight, Bioethics, 21: 32–40.
Boniolo, G., Vezzoni, P. (2006). Genetic Influences On Moral Capacity. What Genetic Mutants Can Teach Us, in G. Boniolo, G. De Anna (eds.), Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 77-96.
Boniolo, G. (2003). Biology without Information, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 25: 257-275.
Philosophy of physics
Boniolo, G., Budinich, P. (2005). The Role of Mathematics in Physical Sciences And Dirac’s Methodological Revolution, in G. Boniolo, P. Budinich, M. Trobok (eds.), Mathematics and Physics: an Interdisciplinary Approach, Springer, Dordrecht, 75-96.
Boniolo, G., Petrovich, C., Pisent, G. (2002). Notes On The Philosophical Status Of Nuclear Physics, Foundations of Science, 7: 425-452.
Boniolo, G., de Felice, F. (2000). On the Philosophical Foundations of Measurements in General Relativity, Foundations of Physics, 30: 1629-1641.
Boniolo, G. (1992). Theory and experiment. The case of Eötvös’ experiments, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 43: 459-486.
Boniolo, G., Gonella, F (1991). Quantum mechanics and imagery: a hermeneutical approach, Foundations of Physics, 21: 845-853.
Political philosophy & democracy
Boniolo, G. (2024), Che cos’è la laicità?, Rem, 1: 20-25.
Boniolo, G. (2022). La benvenuta riforma deliberativa del Comitato Nazionale di Bioetica! Bioetica. Rivista interdisciplinare. XXX: 160-173.
Boniolo, G., Rebba, V. (2015). Cancer, Obesity and the Legitimation of Suggested Lifestyles. A Libertarian Paternalism approach, ecancermedicalscience, 9:588.
Boniolo, G., Schiavone, G., Mameli, M. (2015). Epistocracy for Online Deliberative Bioethics, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 24:1 – 9.
Boniolo, G., Schiavone, G. (2015). Deliberation and Democracy. In: James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, 6. Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 61–67.
Boniolo, G., Schiavone, G., Maugeri, P., Mameli, M. (2014). Democratizzare la bioetica in Italia. Come riformare il Comitato Nazionale per la Bioetica, Bioetica. Rivista Interdisciplinare, 1-2: 21-46.
Boniolo, G., Schiavone, G., De Anna, G., Mameli, M., Rebba, V. (2014). Libertarian Paternalism and Health Care Policy: A Deliberative Proposal, Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy, 17:103-113.
Boniolo, G., Di Fiore, P.P. (2010). Deliberative Ethics in a Biomedical Institution. An Example of Integration Between Science and Ethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, 36:409-414.