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Summary
The American philosopher of popular culture known to the music world as “Madonna” once concluded that “we are living in a material world.” In Philosophy of Microbiology, Maureen A. O'Malley, a philosopher of biology, authoritatively sets the issue straight, arguing that we are in fact living in a microbial world, and that a realization of this will change the way we perceive biological phenomena, and the manner in which they are investigated.
