Bordeaux-Sydney Mini-Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and Biomedicine, featuring junior & senior speakers

Monday, November 23^rd

(Chair: Imane Barbara)

9h-9h30: Paul Griffiths, “Mismatch in evolutionary medicine”

9h30-10h: Jan Pieter Konsman, “A balance sheet of homeostasis: Some discipline!”

(Chair: Kate Lynch)

10h-10h30: Walter Weit, “Scuba divers, turtles, and mososaurs: a challenge for evolutionary accounts of health and disease”

10h30-11h: Elena Rondeau, “Understanding cancer progression and its control: from the ‘seed and soil’ analogy to immune involvement in metastasis”

Tuesday, November 24^th

(Chair: Saliha Bayir)

9h-9h30: Pierrick Bourrat, “Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties”

9h30-10h: Jonathan Sholl, “Is cancer a disease of the meta-organism? A critical assessment of recent work on host-microbiota interactions in oncology”.

(Chair: Elena Rondeau)

10h-10h30: Carl Brusse, “Cultural phenotypes and biological normativity”

10h30-11h: Martin Zach, “Modeling in Cancer Immunology: A Complementary Account”

Organized by: Paul Griffiths, Carl Brusse, and Thomas Pradeu