What is PhilInBioMed?
PhilInBioMed is both an interdisciplinary institute located at the University of Bordeaux, France, and a national and international network of interdisciplinary institutes. PhilInBioMed aims at promoting philosophy in the biological and medical sciences, a co-production of knowledge by the direct interactions of philosophers, biologists, and medical doctors.
The mission of PhilInBioMed is to promote short-term and long-term stays of philosophers in biology and medicine labs, as well as short-term and long-term stays of biologists and MDs in philosophy labs, and, ultimately, collaborative publications by philosophers, biologists, and medical doctors.
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Three positions in the Conceptual Biology and Medicine Group at University of Bordeaux (June 2020)
Two PhD positions and one Postdoc position are open at the University of Bordeaux. They are open to philosophers of biology or medicine and to biologists alike. Both the PhD positions and the postdoc position are 3 year-long. The research of the PhD students and the postdoc will be on cancer. The method will necessarily… Read more »
PhilInBioMed elected 1 of 6 Useful Resources For Biology Enthusiasts
The video platfrom Wiki.ezvid.com is a free-to-use video wiki, where a user is introduced to a concept in the space of a four-to-seven minute video presentation, and then additional text, images, data, and links to third-party information sources are provided to add more detail to each topic. The website aims to answer questions on the… Read more »
‘What is an Individual Organism? Philosophical Problems’ Conference in Krakow
Understanding the origins and nature of biological individual constitute important problems in the biological sciences. For instance, what separates a genuine biological individual from an aggregate of lower units, or from a population of interacting lower entities? Answering these questions could permit us to understand better the status of ant colonies or honey bees,… Read more »
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