One of the most controversial and currently developed lines of research in philosophy of biology is that in which philosophers investigate pre-Darwinian assumptions that would still be present at the base of other philosophical sub-disciplines, such as ethics, epistemology, philosophy of language, etc. This type of inquiry, which I will call here "meta-philosophical interrogation," can be thought as a complementary approach to the epistemological one, which allows us to broaden the critical

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... oach of the discipline in question. The objective of this article will be to analyze the characteristics of the "meta-philosophical interrogation" and to argue about its legitimacy as a way of inquiry proper to the philosophy of biology.