Philosophy & Biology Seminars

• Jacob Stegenga (Cambridge & Bordeaux IDEX Visiting Scholar), Medical Nihilism

  18 October | 13 h 30 min - 14 h 30 min

• Gerd Müller (Univ. Vienna & Konrad Lorenz Institute, Austria), Do we need an extended evolutionary synthesis?

  22 January 2019 | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 min

• Lucie Laplane (CNRS, IHPST & Institut Gustave Roussy, France), Title TBA

  12 February 2019 | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 min

• Charles Pence (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Title TBA

  5 March 2019 | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 min

• Angela Potochnik (University of Cincinnati, USA), Title TBA

  5 April 2019 | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 min

• Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter, UK), Title TBA

  24 May 2019 | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 min

• Miriam Solomon (Temple University, USA), Title TBA

  18 June 2019 | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 min

• Lara Keuck (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Borderline cases and effective theories in philosophy of medicine

  27 September | 13 h 30 min - 14 h 30 min

• Paul Griffiths (Sydney), What is an organism, and what is it for? Neo-Aristotelian, Darwinian and post-Hamilton perspectives

  2 July | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 min

• Samir Okasha (University of Bristol, Philosophy Department, UK), The Metaphor of Agency in Biology

  20 June | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 min

• Alexander Bird (King’s College, London), Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy

  6 June | 11 h 00 min - 12 h 30 min

• Alvaro Moreno (San Sebastian), The unfolding of nested individualities in the origin of life and early evolution

  1 June | 11 h 00 min - 12 h 30 min

• Deborah Gordon (University of Stanford, Dpt of Biology, USA), The ecology of collective behavior: from ants to cells

  18 May | 11 h 00 min - 12 h 00 min

• Valerie Hardcastle (University of Cincinnati), “The Microbiome and the Brain: A New Revolution in Neuroscience?”

  24 April | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 min

• Arnaud Pocheville (University of Sydney, Australia), An Introduction to Measuring Causal Specificity

  6 April | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 min

• Johannes Jaeger (Complexity Science Hub, Vienna), Beyond networks: evolutionary dynamics of developmental processes

  27 February | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 min

• Lauren Ross (Irvine): Causal concepts in biology: how pathways differ from mechanisms and why it matters

  16 January | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 min

• Jean Gayon (IHPST & Pantheon-Sorbonne): Are population genetics models “reversible”: (ir)reversibility of evolution

  12 December 2017 | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 min

• Marc-André Selosse (MNHN), The evolution of interdependency between symbiotic organisms by neutral evolution

  6 October 2017 | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 min

• Tim Lewens (HPS, Cambridge Univ., UK): Science and Values: The Case of ‘Mitochondrial Donation’

  29 September 2017 | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 min

• James Woodward (University of Pittsburgh, History & Philosophy of Science Dpt, USA), Causation in Biology

  13 July 2017 | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 min

• Marc Daëron (Institut Pasteur, CIML, IHPST, Paris, France), Biological functions challenged by omics

  13 June 2017 | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 min

• Leonardo Bich (ImmunoConcept), Minimal cognition and its foundations in regulatory mechanisms

  31 May 2017 | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 min

• Marco Nathan (University of Denver, Dpt Philosophy, USA), Philosophical Reflections on Diagnosis and Prognosis

  2 May 2017 | 14 h 30 min - 15 h 30 min

• William Bechtel (UCSD), Constructing and Analyzing Networks to Discover Mechanisms: Applications in Yeast and Cancer Biology

  14 April 2017 | 14 h 30 min - 15 h 30 min

• Andrea Grignolio (Univ. Tours & Sapienza), The social resistance against vaccination: few suggestions from history

  31 January 2017 | 14 h 30 min - 15 h 30 min

• Etienne Coutureau (CNRS & University of Bordeaux, Decision and Adaptation Team, INCIA), Learning to decide

  17 January 2017 | 12 h 00 min - 13 h 00 min

• P. Lopez-Garcia (Paris-Sud), Molecular views on the microbial world challenge old misconceptions about biological evolution

  6 December 2016 | 12 h 00 min - 13 h 00 min

• François Duchesneau (Montreal), The cell as an elementary organism: from Schwann to Brücke and Kölliker

  22 November 2016 | 12 h 00 min - 13 h 00 min

• Sara Green (Dpt Science Education, University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Systems Biology – The Future of Medicine?

  18 October 2016 | 12 h 00 min - 13 h 00 min

• Peter Godrey-Smith (CUNY, USA & HPS, University of Sydney, Australia), Individuality and Minimal Cognition

  15 September 2016 | 13 h 30 min - 14 h 30 min

• André Ariew (Missouri), Sir Francis Galton, Reversion, and the Quincunx: The Rise of Statistical Explanations

  20 June 2016 | 10 h 00 min - 12 h 00 min

• Michel Morange (ENS Paris & UPMC), What does a ‘global history’ of biology bring to us?

  7 June 2016 | 12 h 30 min - 13 h 30 min

• Denis Walsh (Toronto), Organisms, Agency, and Evolution

  6 June 2016 | 10 h 00 min - 12 h 00 min

• David C. Queller & Joan Strassmann (WashU), Kith selection: simple theory, complicated amoebas and bacteria

  27 May 2016 | 14 h 30 min - 17 h 00 min

• Melinda Bonnie Fagan (Philosophy Dpt, Utah), Stem Cell Models: Cell identity, Development, and Levels of Organization

  2 May 2016 | 13 h 00 min - 14 h 00 min

• Marcel Weber (Philosophy, Geneva), What’s Special About Genes? Causal Specificity, Information, and Genetic Causation

  27 April 2016 | 12 h 00 min - 13 h 00 min

• Philippe Horvath (DuPont), Discovery of CRISPR-Cas, bacterial immune system: From fundamental research to industrial applications

  6 April 2016 | 11 h 00 min - 12 h 00 min

• Lynn Chiu (ImmunoConcept), Host-Microbiota Symbiosis: One, Many, or Mega-Organism? Lessons from Internalism vs. Externalism debates in biology and psychology

  5 April 2016 | 12 h 30 min - 13 h 30 min

• Maureen O’Malley (ImmunoConcept), Why Philosophy of Microbiology?

  3 March 2016 | 12 h 00 min - 13 h 00 min

• Sven Saupe & Mathieu Paoletti (Bordeaux), Self and nonself in fungi

  12 January 2016

• Anya Plutynski (WashU), Cancer From a Multilevel Perspective: Tumors as Proto-organism?

  21 December 2015

• Thomas Polger (Cincinnati), Birds, and Bees, and Primates, Oh My! A Defense of the Sparse Theory of Multiple Realization

  10 November 2015

• Ken Gemes (UnivLondon), Nietzsche’s Notion of Health

  6 October 2015

• Alyssa Ney (UCDavis), The Metaphysics of Mental Disorder

  30 September 2015

• Jean-François Moreau (ImmunoConcept), De l’importance de la mobilité dans le système immunitaire : l’exemple du vieillissement

  15 September 2015

• Adam Ferner, Organic individuals

  16 July 2015 | 12 h 30 min - 14 h 00 min

• Jan Pieter Konsman

  23 June 2015 | 12 h 30 min - 14 h 00 min

• Thomas Boraud, Les neurosciences peuvent-elle étudier les processus de prise de décision sans tomber dans la néo-phrénologie?

  8 June 2015 | 12 h 00 min - 14 h 00 min

• Nora Abrous

  18 May 2015 | 12 h 20 min - 14 h 00 min

• Maël Lemoine, Comment définir la maladie?

  20 April 2015 | 12 h 30 min - 14 h 00 min

• Philippe Kourilsky, Le jeu du hasard et de la complexité

  20 March 2015 | 14 h 00 min - 15 h 30 min

• Cédric Brun – L’explication en neurosciences, mécanisme et réductionnisme?

  10 February 2015 | 12 h 30 min - 14 h 00 min

• Andreas Bikfalvi, Variations, évolutions et métamorphoses de l’arbre vasculaire

  13 January 2015 | 12 h 30 min - 14 h 00 min

Organizer: Thomas Pradeu

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Past program (From January 2015 to July 2017): Philosophy & Biology Past Program