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Nick Lane (University College London, UK), Why membrane bioenergetics structures cell evolution from the origin of life to agency
Hybrid talk, in-person in Bordeaux; Zoom link available upon request. Nick Lane (PhD, FRSB, FLS) is Director, Centre for Life’s Origins and Evolution and Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry in the Department of …
Carlo Maley (Arizona State University, USA) How Evolution Can Help Solve All the Biggest Problems in Cancer
Carlo Maley is a biologist who specializes in cancer, evolution and computational biology. He works at the intersection of these fields. Professor Maley and his research team apply evolutionary and ecological theory to …
Bordeaux, 33076 France
Antonine Nicoglou (Université de Tours, France) Plasticity in the Life Sciences : Genealogy of a concept to mapping its contemporary significance
Antonine Nicoglou is a lecturer in philosophy affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tours. She is also a member of the Inserm research laboratory Imagin Brain …
(Postponed) Philippe Huneman, Biological individuality: organisms, ecosystems, or agents?
Philippe Huneman is CNRS Director of research at the Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (CNRS / Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne). He is an expert in …
Felipe De Brigard (Duke, USA), Characterizing dynamic cognitive systems (Online)
Felipe De Brigard is the Fuchsberg-Levine Family Associate Professor of Philosophy and an Associate Professor in the Psychology and Neuroscience departments and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University. …
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Aurora Nedelcu (Univ. New Brunswick, Canada) (virtual), Cancer and the evolution of multicellularity: limitations of current views and paradigms
Abstract The evolution of multicellularity requires the integration of single cells into new functionally, reproductively and evolutionary stable multicellular individuals. As part of this process, a change in levels of …
Andreas Wagner (Zurich), Entangled adaptive landscapes facilitate exaptation (in-person)
Andreas Wagner is an Austrian/US evolutionary biologist and Professor at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University Zurich, Switzerland. His laboratory studies the evolution and function of biological …
Kate Lynch (Melbourne, Australia), (Human) Genetic Causal Reasoning (Virtual)
Kate E. Lynch is a philosopher of science interested in causation, explanation, and causal reasoning in biology and medicine. Her work focusses on understanding the nature of causal relationships investigated …
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Ford Doolittle (Dalhousie, Canada), Making Evolutionary Sense of Gaia
Video of the talk https://youtu.be/HW35H0wSbaQ About the speaker W. Ford Doolittle FRSC FRS (born November 30, 1941, in Urbana, Illinois), Professor Emeritus at the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular …
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Stefan Linquist (Univ. of Guelph, Canada), Genome-level ecology, a novel approach to the functional analysis of junk DNA
Stefan Linquist (Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Guelph, Canada) Abstract: Why is the size of an onion’s genome five times larger than that of a human? And if only …
Mikala Egeblad (virtual), NETworking in cancer: bidirectional interplay between neutrophils and tumors drives metastasis
Mikala Egeblad is Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Tumor Microenvironment at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Appointments/Affiliations Professor of Cell Biology Professor of Oncology Co-Leader, Cancer Invasion and Metastasis …
Tim Lewens (HPS Cambridge) (hybrid), Is there a Direct Role for Values in the Heart of Science?
Tim Lewens is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He works on the philosophy of biology, biomedical ethics, and general philosophy of science. He is the …
Sabine Eming (virtual), Immunological checkpoints in wound healing and misregulated reparative responses
Dr. Sabine Eming is Professor of Dermatology at the University of Cologne. She received her MD and her training in Dermatology at the University of Cologne. She was research fellow …
Joseph LeDoux (Professor of Neural Science and Psychology, NYU) (Virtual), Our Four Realms of Existence: A Fresh Look at the Science of What and Who We Are
Joseph LeDoux is Director of The Emotional Brain Institute, NYU, Professor of Neural Science and Psychology, NYU, & Professor of Psychiatry and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU Langone. He is …
David Raubenheimer (University of Sydney, Australia) (virtual): Beyond empiricism: the need for framing and philosophy in nutrition science
Abstract: The global crisis of obesity and other forms of malnutrition has continued to rise despite redoubled research effort and increasingly sophisticated technology for collecting, curating, and interrogating research data. …
Alan Love (Minnesota) and Gunter Wagner (Yale) (Virtual), The Hierarchical Basis of Serial Homology and Evolutionary Novelty
Alan Love is John M. Dolan Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota (USA) and Director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. His research focuses on conceptual …
Nicole King (UC Berkeley), Why are choanoflagellates so rarely “in the mood” (Virtual)
Nicole King is an Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a Professor of genetics, genomics, and development. https://youtu.be/EhX9zdHABUs Research The origin of animals represents one of the pivotal transitions …
Andrew Ewald (Johns Hopkins), Cellular strategies and molecular mechanisms driving breast cancer metastasis
Andrew J. Ewald, Ph.D. Virginia DeAcetis Professor and Director, Department of Cell Biology Director, Giovanis Institute for Translational Cell Biology Johns Hopkins Medical School Video of the event: https://youtu.be/uYJGJXkOgAQ …
Uri Alon (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel), Simplifying inflammation and fibrosis
Uri Alon is Professor, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute, Israel. His lab studies biological circuits using a combined experimental and theoretical approach, aiming to uncover general underlying principles …
Steven Frank (Univ. of California Irvine, USA) (Zoom only), Robustness and complexity: how evolution builds precise traits from sloppy components
Steven Frank is Donald Bren Professor & Distinguished Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology School of Biological Sciences at University of California Irvine (USA) His main research interests concern evolutionary genetics …
Lawrence Shapiro (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Ruminations on Rubber Hands
Lawrence Shapiro is Berent Enç Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) Abstract: The rubber hand illusion was designed to provide insights into the phenomenological …
Bordeaux, 33706 France
Sarah-Maria Fendt (Professor of Oncology, KU Leuven, Belgium), Nutrient dependencies of metastasis formation
Sarah-Maria Fendt is since 2013 a Principal Investigator at the VIB Center for Cancer Biology and Professor of Oncology at KU Leuven, Belgium. Sarah’s lab is specifically interested in elucidating …
Tyler Brunet (University of Exeter, UK), Constructive Neutral Evolution and its Close Relatives
Tyler Brunet (University of Exeter, UK) is a Leverhulme Postdoctoral fellow working with John Dupré at Egenis. He is a reformed biologist who turned to philosophy of biology. Among several …
Deborah Gordon (Professor of Biology, Stanford University, USA), The ecology of collective behavior
Deborah Gordon is Professor of Biology at University of Stanford (USA). Deborah Gordon is a world-leading specialist of ant colonies and collective behaviors. With her group, she uses ant colonies …
Ned Block (Silver Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, New York University, USA), Perception is non-conceptual
Ned Block is Silver Professor in the Departments of Philosophy, Psychology and Center for Neural Science at New York University (NYU), NY, USA. Video: https://youtu.be/KpVWN5bxkrQ Abstract This talk …
David Bilder (Univ. Berkeley, USA), Ancient origins of tumor-host interactions: insights from the Drosophila model
The Bilder Lab (University of Berkeley, USA) studies the molecules and mechanisms that govern the polarity, growth, and morphogenesis of epithelia, the fundamental tissue of all animals and the major …
John Dupré (Egenis, University of Exeter, UK), What are viruses? Parasites, processes, parts or all of the above?
John Dupré is Professor of Philosophy of science at the University of Exeter (UK), with a main focus on philosophy of biology. He is the Director of Egenis, the Centre …
Stephen M. Downes (Utah), An Early History of the Heritability Coefficient Applied to Humans (1918–1960)
Stephen M. Downes is a Full Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Utah (USA). Most of his work is in philosophy of science with special focus on …
Elliott Sober (Madison): “Natural selection, random mutations and gradualism: Fisher, Kimura, and connecting the dots”
Elliott Sober is Hans Reichenbach Professor and William F. Vilas Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA. He is one of the founders of the …
Johanna Joyce (Univ. Lausanne, Switzerland), Exploring & Therapeutically Exploiting the Tumor Microenvironment
Johanna Joyce is a cancer biologist and geneticist, and her research interests focus on exploring the critical functions of the tumor microenvironment in regulating cancer progression, metastasis and therapeutic response, …
Marie I. Kaiser (Department of Philosophy at Bielefeld University, Germany), Individual-level Mechanisms in Ecology and Evolution
Marie I. Kaiser is a Full Professor for Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy at Bielefeld University, Germany. She has a strong interest in the philosophy of biology …
Maya J. Goldenberg (University of Guelph, Canada), A War on Science? Rethinking Vaccine Hesitancy and Refusal
Maya J. Goldenberg is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Guelph, Canada. She is cross-appointed with the Bachelor of Arts and Science. Her …
Ann-Sophie Barwich (Indiana University Bloomington, USA), The Limits of Current Machine Learning Models in Olfaction
Ann-Sophie Barwich is a cognitive scientist, an empirical philosopher, and a historian of science. She is an Assistant Professor with joint positions in the Cognitive Science Program and the Department of …
Emanuele Ratti (Institute of Philosophy and Scientific Method, Johannes Kepler University Linz) “Explainable AI and medicine”
Talk : Explainable AI and medicine Speaker : Emanuele Ratti is a philosopher based in the Institute of Philosophy and Scientific Method at Johannes Kepler University Linz. Before his current …
Judith Campisi (Buck Institute for Research on Aging; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, California) Cancer and aging: Rival demons?
Judith Campisi is a professor of biogerontology at the Buck Institute in California. She is a member of the National Academy of Science and a fellow of the American …
Eva Jablonka (Cohn Inst for History & Philosophy of Science, Tel Aviv Univ., Israel) Neural Transitions in Learning and Cognition
Eva Jablonka is professor emeritus at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University. In 1981 she was awarded the Landau prize …
Paul Rainey (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology), Ecological scaffolding and the Evolution of Individuality
Paul Rainey (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany & Ecole supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris, France), "Ecological scaffolding and the Evolution of …
Patricia Churchland (UC President’s Professor of Philosophy Emerita UCSD, USA), Our brains and our moral intuitions
Patricia Churchland is UC President's Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Please find the video below : https://youtu.be/os2l4NIApyE
James Tabery (Department of Philosophy, Utah), “Personalized Medicine” Wasn’t Personal; “Precision Medicine” Isn’t Precise
The talk will be given by Zoom at 6pm, Paris time zone (GMT+1) James Tabery is an Associate Professor at the University of Utah (USA), with appointments in the Department …
Antoine Dussault (Researcher, CIRST, Montréal), Towards a Holistic-Functionalist Account of Pathology
Antoine Dussault is a philosophy teacher at Collège Lionel-Groulx (Sainte-Thérèse, Québec). He is also a researcher in the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur les sciences et les technologies (CIRST) and a …
Federico Boem (Milan), “Out of our Skull, in our Skin: The Gut-Microbiota-Brain axis and the Extended Cognition Thesis”
Federico Boem is a philosopher of science who focuses on the life sciences and biomedicine. His current research interests include scientific reasoning and its public dimension, especially science-based policies, and the …
Ruslan Medzhitov (Professor Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine, USA), Homeostasis, Inflammation and Disease
Ruslan Medzhitov is a Professor of Immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine. His research focuses on the analysis of the innate immune system, inflammatory response, innate control of the adaptive …
Carl Craver (Washington University, USA), Episodic Memory and Time: Beyond the Mnemic Necessity Hypothesis
VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH1VwIwjTJc Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this was a virtual seminar. Abstract: The Mnemic Necessity Hypothesis, that memory is necessary for one to have or form the concept of …
Jerome Wakefield (Professor of Social Work & Conceptual Foundations of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine, USA) (postponed)
Jerome C. Wakefield is University Professor; Professor of Social Work; Professor of the Conceptual Foundations of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine; Affiliate Faculty, InSPIRES (Institute for Social and Psychiatric Initiatives: …
Pierre-Olivier Méthot (Université Laval) – Identifying Diseases in the Past: Promises and Problems with Retrospective Diagnosis in the Post-Genomic Era
Pierre-Olivier Méthot is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Université Laval (Québec). He specializes in the history and philosophy of the biological and medical sciences, with a particular focus …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
André Ariew (Professor or Philosophy, University of Missouri, USA), Darwin’s use of statistics to develop his theory of evolution
André Ariew is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Missouri (USA). When Karl Pearson asked Francis and Leonard Darwin whether their father was aware that the …
Jonathan Birch (Associate Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK), The Search for Invertebrate Consciousness
Jonathan Birch is Associate Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, specializing in the philosophy of the biological sciences. He is working on evolution of social behaviour, …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
Phyllis Illari (Senior Lecturer, University College London, UK), Why do we need evidence of mechanisms?
Phyllis Illari is a Senior Lecturer at University College London (Dept of Science & Technology Studies; Faculty of Maths & Physical Sciences) in the UK. She works in the philosophy …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
Federica Russo, What can technology do for you? Opportunities & challenges of health technologies in medicine and everyday life
Federica Russo is Assistant Professor at the Universiteit van Amstardam, where she carries out research and teaches philosophy of science (social sciences, techno-science, …). She is interested in causality and …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
Matt Haber (Chair of Philosophy Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA), Positively Misleading Errors
Matt Haber is a Professor and Department Chair at the University of Utah (USA). His area of specialty is Philosophy of Biology and Philosophy of Science. He is interested in …
Bordeaux, 33800 France
Kim Sterelny (Philosophy, Australian National University, Australia), Demography and Cultural Complexity
Kim Sterelny is Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University (ANU) College of Arts and Social Sciences. He is a central figure in philosophy of biology and philosophy of …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
Sabina Leonelli (Egenis, University of Exeter & Alan Turing Institute, UK), Actionable Data for Precision Oncology
Sabina Leonelli is a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute in London and the Co-Director of the Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences (Egenis), where she …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
Fridolin Gross (University of Kassel, Germany & IFOM, Milan Italy) – Occam’s Razor in Molecular and Systems Biology
Fridolin Gross is a postdoctoral researcher who works on computational models of the cell cycle at IFOM, Milan, and teaches philosophy at the University of Kassel. Occam’s Razor …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
Angela Potochnik (Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, USA), Causal Patterns and How Our Theories Change
Angela Potochnik is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and the Director of the Center for Public Engagement with Science at the University of Cincinnati. Her research addresses the nature of science and its …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
Charles Pence (Univ. catholique Louvain) “The Wonderful Form of Cosmic Order”: Bringing Statistics to Evolution
Charles Pence is a Philosopher of biology at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. His work spans two distinct areas. First is the philosophy and history of evolutionary biology – …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
Lucie Laplane (CNRS junior researcher, IHPST & Institut Gustave Roussy, France) – What is stemness and how does that matter?
What is a stem cell? This is both a biological and a philosophical issue. As a philosopher, my aim is to describe the kind of property (or set of properties) …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
Gerd Müller (Professor Biology, Univ. Vienna & KLI Institute, Austria) – Do we need an extended evolutionary synthesis?
Gerd B. Müller is Professor and Head of the Department of Theoretical Biology at the University of Vienna (Austria). He is the President of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI). Do we …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
Jacob Stegenga (University Lecturer in philosophy of science, Cambridge Univ. & Bordeaux IDEX Visiting Scholar), Medical Nihilism
Jacob Stegenga will be an IDEX Visiting Scholar in Thomas Pradeu’s group at ImmunoConcept from October 2018 to March 2019. More information here. Jacob is a University Lecturer in philosophy of …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
Lara Keuck (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Borderline cases and effective theories in philosophy of medicine
Lara Keuck (Research Scholar at the Department of History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). Lara will be a visitor of Thomas Pradeu's group at ImmunoConcept from Sept 24 to Oct 5, …
Paul Griffiths (Sydney), What is an organism, and what is it for? Neo-Aristotelian, Darwinian and post-Hamilton perspectives
A philosopher of science with a focus on biology and psychology, Paul Griffiths (University of Sydney, Australia) was educated at Cambridge and the Australian National University, receiving his PhD in …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
Samir Okasha (University of Bristol, Philosophy Department, UK), The Metaphor of Agency in Biology
Samir Okasha is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Bristol (UK). Most of his research falls into two main areas: (i) philosophy of biology / evolutionary theory; and …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
Alexander Bird (King’s College, London), Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy
Abstract The replication (replicability, reproducibility) crisis in social psychology and clinical medicine arises from the fact that many apparently well-confirmed ex- perimental results are subsequently overturned by studies that aim …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
Alvaro Moreno (San Sebastian), The unfolding of nested individualities in the origin of life and early evolution
Alvaro Moreno Bergareche is Full Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) (Spain). Founder of the Philosophy of Biology Group at the UPV/EHU, he …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
Valerie Hardcastle (University of Cincinnati), “The Microbiome and the Brain: A New Revolution in Neuroscience?”
Valerie Hardcastle is Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati. An internationally recognized scholar, Valerie is the author of five books and over …
Arnaud Pocheville (University of Sydney, Australia), An Introduction to Measuring Causal Specificity
Abstract Several authors have argued that causes differ in the degree to which they are ‘specific’ to their effects. Woodward has used this idea to enrich his influential interventionist the- …
Bordeaux, 33076 France
Johannes Jaeger (Complexity Science Hub, Vienna), Beyond networks: evolutionary dynamics of developmental processes
More on Johannes Jaeger's research here. Video of the talk: https://youtu.be/A-ksw8DlCZg Abstract: In evolution, as in the study of complex disease, the connection between genotype and phenotype is far …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
Lauren Ross (Irvine): Causal concepts in biology: how pathways differ from mechanisms and why it matters
Lauren Ross (Logic and Philosophy of Science Department, University of California, Irvine) Title of the talk: "Causal concepts in biology: how pathways differ from mechanisms and why it matters" https://youtu.be/TssjCftz_Es …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
Jean Gayon (IHPST & Pantheon-Sorbonne): Are population genetics models “reversible”: (ir)reversibility of evolution
Jean Gayon is the Director of the Institut d'Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (IHPST) and Professor Emeritus at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Philosophy and history of science). …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
Marc-André Selosse (MNHN), The evolution of interdependency between symbiotic organisms by neutral evolution
Marc-André Selosse (Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle; Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité; Sorbonne Universités) Professor, Interactions and evolution of vegetal and fungal models: Symbiosis, mycorrhizae, mycology, microbiology, botany, ecology, evolution. The …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
Tim Lewens (HPS, Cambridge Univ., UK): Science and Values: The Case of ‘Mitochondrial Donation’
Tim Lewens (HPS, Cambridge University, UK) Science and Values: The Case of ‘Mitochondrial Donation’ https://youtu.be/yPWmWl3hQcM Abstract: In 2015, the UK became the first country in the world to introduce …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
James Woodward (University of Pittsburgh, History & Philosophy of Science Dpt, USA), Causation in Biology
James Woodward (Distinguished Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh) Causation in Biology https://youtu.be/Z9vgbHRUnJo Abstract This talk will discuss some recent work …
Bordeaux, 33076 France
Marc Daëron (Institut Pasteur, CIML, IHPST, Paris, France), Biological functions challenged by omics
Marc Daëron (Institut Pasteur, CIML & IHPST) "Biological functions challenged by omics" Abstract Omics are technology-based large-scale analyses of structurally and/or functionally related populations of molecules designated by the …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
Leonardo Bich (ImmunoConcept), Minimal cognition and its foundations in regulatory mechanisms
Leonardo Bich (ERC IDEM, ImmunoConcEpT, CNRS & University of Bordeaux) "Minimal cognition and its foundations in regulatory mechanisms in basic living systems" Abstract: This talk addresses the question of minimal …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
Marco Nathan (University of Denver, Dpt Philosophy, USA), Philosophical Reflections on Diagnosis and Prognosis
Marco Nathan (University of Denver, USA) Philosophical Reflections on Diagnosis and Prognosis Abstract The goal of this talk is to discuss a prominent—albeit neglected—class of scientific inferences, ‘counterfactual explanations,’ which …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
William Bechtel (UCSD), Constructing and Analyzing Networks to Discover Mechanisms: Applications in Yeast and Cancer Biology
William Bechtel (Department of Philosophy and Center for Circadian Biology, University of California, San Diego, USA) Constructing and Analyzing Networks to Discover Mechanisms: Applications in Yeast and Cancer Biology Abstract: …
Bordeaux, 33800 France
Andrea Grignolio (Univ. Tours & Sapienza), The social resistance against vaccination: few suggestions from history
Andrea Grignolio (Historian of medicine, Sapienza & Université de Tours) The roots of the 1st international biopharmaceutical production in the Region Centre & the social resistance against vaccination: few suggestions …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
Etienne Coutureau (CNRS & University of Bordeaux, Decision and Adaptation Team, INCIA), Learning to decide
Etienne Coutureau (Decision and Adaptation Team, Aquitaine Institute for Cognitive and Integrative Neuroscience, UMR5287, University of Bordeaux) Learning to decide Abstract Decision making is an essential component of our life …
P. Lopez-Garcia (Paris-Sud), Molecular views on the microbial world challenge old misconceptions about biological evolution
Purificación Lopez-Garcia (Unité d’Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, CNRS UMR 8079, Université Paris-Sud) Molecular views on the microbial world challenge old misconceptions about biological evolution Abstract: Life and (biological) evolution are indissoluble. …
François Duchesneau (Montreal), The cell as an elementary organism: from Schwann to Brücke and Kölliker
François Duchesneau (Professor of Philosophy, University of Montreal, Canada) The cell as an elementary organism: from Schwann to Brücke and Kölliker Video of the talk. This presentation is about the way …
Sara Green (Dpt Science Education, University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Systems Biology – The Future of Medicine?
Sara Green (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Systems Biology – The Future of Medicine? Systems biology is expected to radically shape the future of medicine. In this talk I specifically address the …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
Peter Godrey-Smith (CUNY, USA & HPS, University of Sydney, Australia), Individuality and Minimal Cognition
Peter Godfrey-Smith (City University of New York, USA & HPS, University of Sydney, Australia) Abstract: The paper links discussions of two topics, biological individuality and the simplest forms of mentality. I …
André Ariew (Missouri), Sir Francis Galton, Reversion, and the Quincunx: The Rise of Statistical Explanations
– June 20, 10am-12pm: André Ariew (Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri, USA) Sir Francis Galton, Reversion, and the Quincunx: The Rise of Statistical Explanations Philosophical lessons learned from Galton’s …
Michel Morange (ENS Paris & UPMC), What does a ‘global history’ of biology bring to us?
Michel Morange (Centre Cavaillès, ENS Paris & UPMC). What does a ‘global history’ of biology bring to us? Video of the talk: Video Morange Abstract: To write a global history …
Denis Walsh (Toronto), Organisms, Agency, and Evolution
– June 6th 10am-12pm: Denis Walsh (University of Toronto, Canada) Bibliothèque du service de Rhumatologie, 12e étage du Tripode, groupe hospitalier Pellegrin. Rencontre avec l’auteur à propos de son livre …
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Bordeaux, 33000 France
David C. Queller & Joan Strassmann (WashU), Kith selection: simple theory, complicated amoebas and bacteria
David C. Queller & Joan Strassmann (Queller/Strassmann Research Group, Washington University in St. Louis, USA) Kith selection: simple theory, complicated amoebas and bacteria Commentator: Johannes Martens (IHPST, CNRS & Paris …
Bordeaux, 33000 France
Melinda Bonnie Fagan (Philosophy Dpt, Utah), Stem Cell Models: Cell identity, Development, and Levels of Organization
Melinda Bonnie Fagan (Philosophy Department, University of Utah, USA) Abstract: The concept of a stem cell is a peculiar one, uniting two very different ideas. A cell is a well-characterized biological …
Bordeaux, 33800 France
Marcel Weber (Philosophy, Geneva), What’s Special About Genes? Causal Specificity, Information, and Genetic Causation
Marcel Weber (University of Geneva, Switzerland) What’s Special About Genes? Causal Specificity, Information, and Genetic Causation Attention! Exceptionnellement, la séance commencera à 12h au lieu de 12h30 (The seminar will …
Philippe Horvath (DuPont), Discovery of CRISPR-Cas, bacterial immune system: From fundamental research to industrial applications
Philippe Horvath (DuPont): Discovery of CRISPR-Cas, the bacterial immune system: From fundamental research to industrial applications Slides of the talk: Slides Horvath. Abstract: Discovered in 2007, CRISPR-Cas is a bacterial …
Lynn Chiu (ImmunoConcept), Host-Microbiota Symbiosis: One, Many, or Mega-Organism? Lessons from Internalism vs. Externalism debates in biology and psychology
Lynn Chiu (post-doc ERC IDEM Project): Host-Microbiota Symbiosis: One, Many, or Mega-Organism? Lessons from Internalism vs. Externalism debates in biology and psychology Link to PDF presentation: Chiu, Host-Microbiota Symbiosis Video …
Maureen O’Malley (ImmunoConcept), Why Philosophy of Microbiology?
Maureen O’Malley (University of Bordeaux; previously: University of Sydney), Why Philosophy of Microbiology? Attention! Exceptionnellement, la séance commencera à 12h au lieu de 12h30 (The seminar will start at noon, instead …
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Sven Saupe & Mathieu Paoletti (Bordeaux), Self and nonself in fungi
Sven Saupe (UMR5095, IBGC, CNRS & Université de Bordeaux) & Mathieu Paoletti (UMR5095, IBGC, CNRS & Université de Bordeaux), “Self and nonself in fungi” (“Soi et non-soi chez les champignons”). …
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Anya Plutynski (WashU), Cancer From a Multilevel Perspective: Tumors as Proto-organism?
Anya Plutynski (Department of Philosophy, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA) Cancer From a Multilevel Perspective: Tumors as Proto-organism? Slides of the talk: Cancer from a multilevel perspective Abstract: We …
Thomas Polger (Cincinnati), Birds, and Bees, and Primates, Oh My! A Defense of the Sparse Theory of Multiple Realization
Thomas Polger (Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, USA & IdEx Visiting Scholar at Université Bordeaux-Montaigne), “Birds, and Bees, and Primates, Oh My! A Defense of the Sparse Theory of Multiple Realization” Slides of the talk: Sparse Multiple Realization Video of the talk available (contact me). …
Ken Gemes (UnivLondon), Nietzsche’s Notion of Health
Ken Gemes (Birkbeck, University of London), “Nietzsche’s Notion of Health”. Commentator: Andreas Bikfalvi (Directeur du Laboratoire de L’Angiogenèse et du Microenvironnement des Cancers, INSERM U1029) Link to the video recording of the conference: …
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Alyssa Ney (UCDavis), The Metaphysics of Mental Disorder
Alyssa Ney (Department of Philosophy, University of California Davis, USA), “The Metaphysics of Mental Disorder”. Abstract: In this paper I discuss the metaphysics of mental disorders, in particular the relationship …
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Jean-François Moreau (ImmunoConcept), De l’importance de la mobilité dans le système immunitaire : l’exemple du vieillissement
Jean-François Moreau (ImmunoConcept), “De l’importance de la mobilité dans le système immunitaire : l’exemple du vieillissement”. Commentator: Maël Lemoine (MCF en philosophie, Université de Tours) Audio file of the conference: Audio (or please contact Thomas Pradeu)
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Thomas Boraud, Les neurosciences peuvent-elle étudier les processus de prise de décision sans tomber dans la néo-phrénologie?
Thomas Boraud, Les neurosciences peuvent-elle étudier les processus de prise de décision sans tomber dans la néo-phrénologie? (discutant: Cédric Brun)
Maël Lemoine, Comment définir la maladie?
Maël Lemoine – Comment définir la maladie? (discutant à préciser)
Philippe Kourilsky, Le jeu du hasard et de la complexité
Vendredi 20 Mars, de 14h à 15h30 (Salle de conférences du Centre de génomique fonctionnelle) : Philippe Kourilsky – ‘Le jeu du hasard et de la complexité’ (discutant: Thomas Pradeu)
Cédric Brun – L’explication en neurosciences, mécanisme et réductionnisme?
Cédric Brun ‘L’explication en neurosciences, mécanisme et réductionnisme?’ (discutant: Thomas Boraud)
Andreas Bikfalvi, Variations, évolutions et métamorphoses de l’arbre vasculaire
Andreas Bikfalvi ‘Variations, évolutions et métamorphoses de l’arbre vasculaire’ (discutant: Thomas Pradeu)
Organizer: Thomas Pradeu
Past program (From January 2015 to July 2017): Philosophy & Biology Past Program