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Charles Wolfe (Toulouse), A note on the situation of biological philosophy
Charles Wolfe (Toulouse), A note on the situation of biological philosophy
(Picture of Georges Canguilhem in 1987) Charles Wolfe is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at University Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, France, with a focus on the history and philosophy of the life sciences & member of ERRAPHIS research group. Abstract: In a short and rarely discussed paper published in 1947 in the Revue de métaphysique …
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Pierre Durand (Johannesburg): The changing paradigm of programmed (cell) death (Team Meeting)
Pierre Durand (Johannesburg): The changing paradigm of programmed (cell) death (Team Meeting)
Our understanding of programmed death and its many manifestations such as programmed cell death, programmed organismal death, aging, behavioural suicide, etc. is undergoing a fundamental reappraisal—perhaps even a Thomas Kuhn-like paradigm shift. The realisation over the last few decades that heritable, programmed forms of dying are integral to evolutionary concepts and processes (e.g., the immunological …