Charles T. Wolfe is an Assistant Professor (ricercatore) in the Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali, Università Ca’Foscari, Venezia. He works primarily in history and philosophy of the early modern life sciences, with a particular interest in materialism and vitalism. He is the author of Materialism: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction (Springer, 2016), La philosophie de la biologie: une histoire du vitalisme (Classiques Garnier, 2019) and Lire le matérialisme (ENS Editions, 2020), and has edited or coedited volumes including Monsters and Philosophy (2005), The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge (2010), Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment Life-Science (2013), Brain Theory (2014), Physique de l’esprit (2018), and Philosophy of Biology before Biology (2019). Among his current projects are the Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences (edited w. D. Jalobeanu) and edited volumes on mechanism, life and mind in early modern natural philosophy and contemporary vitalism. He is co-editor of the book series ‘History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences’ (Springer).