PhilInBioMed Seminars

• David Bilder (Univ. Berkeley, USA), Ancient origins of tumor-host interactions: insights from the Drosophila model

  5 October | 9 h 30 min - 10 h 30 min

• Ned Block (Silver Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, New York University, USA), Perception is non-conceptual

  18 November | 18 h 00 min - 19 h 30 min

• Deborah Gordon (Stanford University, USA), Title TBA, Exact date TBC

  8 December | 18 h 00 min - 19 h 30 min

• Sarah-Maria Fendt (Professor of Oncology, KU Leuven, Belgium), Metabolic rewiring driving metastasis formation

  13 March 2023 | 8 h 00 min - 17 h 00 min

• Steven Frank (Univ. of California Irvine, USA)

  3 April 2023 | 17 h 00 min - 18 h 00 min

 

You can find all video taped seminars here.

 

Past events

• John Dupré (Egenis, University of Exeter, UK), What are viruses? Parasites, processes, parts or all of the above?

  12 September | 17 h 30 min - 19 h 00 min

• Stephen M. Downes (Utah), An Early History of the Heritability Coefficient Applied to Humans (1918–1960)

  12 July | 14 h 00 min - 15 h 30 min

• Elliott Sober (Madison): “Natural selection, random mutations and gradualism: Fisher, Kimura, and connecting the dots”

  14 June | 14 h 00 min - 15 h 30 min

• Johanna Joyce (Univ. Lausanne, Switzerland), Exploring & Therapeutically Exploiting the Tumor Microenvironment

  14 January | 14 h 00 min - 15 h 30 min

• Marie I. Kaiser (Department of Philosophy at Bielefeld University, Germany), Individual-level Mechanisms in Ecology and Evolution

  24 November 2021 | 17 h 30 min - 18 h 30 min

• Maya J. Goldenberg (University of Guelph, Canada), A War on Science? Rethinking Vaccine Hesitancy and Refusal

  19 October 2021 | 17 h 30 min - 19 h 00 min

• Ann-Sophie Barwich (Indiana University Bloomington, USA), The Limits of Current Machine Learning Models in Olfaction

  13 October 2021 | 17 h 00 min - 18 h 30 min

• Emanuele Ratti (Institute of Philosophy and Scientific Method, Johannes Kepler University Linz) “Explainable AI and medicine”

  28 April 2021 | 17 h 00 min - 18 h 00 min

• Judith Campisi (Buck Institute for Research on Aging; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, California) Cancer and aging: Rival demons?

  2 March 2021 | 18 h 00 min - 20 h 00 min

• Eva Jablonka (Cohn Inst for History & Philosophy of Science, Tel Aviv Univ., Israel) Neural Transitions in Learning and Cognition

  25 February 2021 | 16 h 00 min - 18 h 00 min

• Paul Rainey (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology), Ecological scaffolding and the Evolution of Individuality

  21 January 2021 | 16 h 00 min - 18 h 00 min

• Patricia Churchland (UC President’s Professor of Philosophy Emerita UCSD, USA), Our brains and our moral intuitions

  6 January 2021 | 18 h 00 min - 19 h 30 min

• James Tabery (Department of Philosophy, Utah), “Personalized Medicine” Wasn’t Personal; “Precision Medicine” Isn’t Precise

  15 December 2020 | 18 h 00 min - 19 h 30 min

• Antoine Dussault (Researcher, CIRST, Montréal), Towards a Holistic-Functionalist Account of Pathology

  27 November 2020 | 16 h 00 min - 17 h 30 min

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

  23 November 2020 | 9 h 00 min - 24 November 2020 | 11 h 00 min

• Federico Boem (Milan), “Out of our Skull, in our Skin: The Gut-Microbiota-Brain axis and the Extended Cognition Thesis”

  10 November 2020 | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 min

• Ruslan Medzhitov (Professor Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine, USA), Homeostasis, Inflammation and Disease

  23 September 2020 | 17 h 00 min - 18 h 30 min

• Carl Craver (Washington University, USA), Episodic Memory and Time: Beyond the Mnemic Necessity Hypothesis

  3 July 2020 | 17 h 00 min - 18 h 30 min

• Jerome Wakefield (Professor of Social Work & Conceptual Foundations of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine, USA) (postponed)

  9 June 2020 | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 min

• André Ariew (Professor or Philosophy, University of Missouri, USA), Darwin’s use of statistics to develop his theory of evolution

  7 February 2020 | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 min

• Jonathan Birch (Associate Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK), The Search for Invertebrate Consciousness

  23 January 2020 | 17 h 30 min - 19 h 00 min

• Phyllis Illari (Senior Lecturer, University College London, UK), Why do we need evidence of mechanisms?

  17 December 2019 | 11 h 00 min - 12 h 30 min

• Federica Russo, What can technology do for you? Opportunities & challenges of health technologies in medicine and everyday life

  20 November 2019 | 17 h 30 min - 19 h 00 min

• Matt Haber (Chair of Philosophy Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA), Positively Misleading Errors

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

• Kim Sterelny (Philosophy, Australian National University, Australia), Demography and Cultural Complexity

  2 October 2019 | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 min

• Sabina Leonelli (Egenis, University of Exeter & Alan Turing Institute, UK), Actionable Data for Precision Oncology

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

• Fridolin Gross (University of Kassel, Germany & IFOM, Milan Italy) – Occam’s Razor in Molecular and Systems Biology

  16 May 2019 | 17 h 00 min - 18 h 30 min

• Angela Potochnik (Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, USA), Causal Patterns and How Our Theories Change

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

• Charles Pence (Univ. catholique Louvain) “The Wonderful Form of Cosmic Order”: Bringing Statistics to Evolution

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

• Lucie Laplane (CNRS junior researcher, IHPST & Institut Gustave Roussy, France) – What is stemness and how does that matter?

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

• Gerd Müller (Professor Biology, Univ. Vienna & KLI Institute, Austria) – Do we need an extended evolutionary synthesis?

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

• Jacob Stegenga (University Lecturer in philosophy of science, Cambridge Univ. & Bordeaux IDEX Visiting Scholar), Medical Nihilism

  18 October 2018 | 13 h 30 min - 14 h 30 min

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

  27 September 2018 | 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 2018 | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 min

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

  20 June 2018 | 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 2018 | 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 2018 | 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 2018 | 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 2018 | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 min

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

  6 April 2018 | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 min

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

  27 February 2018 | 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 2018 | 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