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 minAlexander Bird (King’s College, London), Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy
6 June | 11 h 00 min - 12 h 30 minAlvaro 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 minDeborah 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 minValerie Hardcastle (University of Cincinnati), “The Microbiome and the Brain: A New Revolution in Neuroscience?”
24 April | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 minArnaud Pocheville (University of Sydney, Australia), An Introduction to Measuring Causal Specificity
6 April | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 minJohannes Jaeger (Complexity Science Hub, Vienna), Beyond networks: evolutionary dynamics of developmental processes
27 February | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 minLauren Ross (Irvine): Causal concepts in biology: how pathways differ from mechanisms and why it matters
16 January | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 minJean Gayon (IHPST & Pantheon-Sorbonne): Are population genetics models “reversible”: (ir)reversibility of evolution
12 December 2017 | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 minMarc-André Selosse (MNHN), The evolution of interdependency between symbiotic organisms by neutral evolution
6 October 2017 | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 minTim Lewens (HPS, Cambridge Univ., UK): Science and Values: The Case of ‘Mitochondrial Donation’
29 September 2017 | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 minJames Woodward (University of Pittsburgh, History & Philosophy of Science Dpt, USA), Causation in Biology
13 July 2017 | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 minMarc Daëron (Institut Pasteur, CIML, IHPST, Paris, France), Biological functions challenged by omics
13 June 2017 | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 minLeonardo Bich (ImmunoConcept), Minimal cognition and its foundations in regulatory mechanisms
31 May 2017 | 14 h 30 min - 16 h 00 minMarco Nathan (University of Denver, Dpt Philosophy, USA), Philosophical Reflections on Diagnosis and Prognosis
2 May 2017 | 14 h 30 min - 15 h 30 minWilliam 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 minAndrea Grignolio (Univ. Tours & Sapienza), The social resistance against vaccination: few suggestions from history
31 January 2017 | 14 h 30 min - 15 h 30 minEtienne Coutureau (CNRS & University of Bordeaux, Decision and Adaptation Team, INCIA), Learning to decide
17 January 2017 | 12 h 00 min - 13 h 00 minP. 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 minFrançois Duchesneau (Montreal), The cell as an elementary organism: from Schwann to Brücke and Kölliker
22 November 2016 | 12 h 00 min - 13 h 00 minSara Green (Dpt Science Education, University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Systems Biology – The Future of Medicine?
18 October 2016 | 12 h 00 min - 13 h 00 minPeter Godrey-Smith (CUNY, USA & HPS, University of Sydney, Australia), Individuality and Minimal Cognition
15 September 2016 | 13 h 30 min - 14 h 30 minAndré Ariew (Missouri), Sir Francis Galton, Reversion, and the Quincunx: The Rise of Statistical Explanations
20 June 2016 | 10 h 00 min - 12 h 00 minMichel Morange (ENS Paris & UPMC), What does a ‘global history’ of biology bring to us?
7 June 2016 | 12 h 30 min - 13 h 30 minDenis Walsh (Toronto), Organisms, Agency, and Evolution
6 June 2016 | 10 h 00 min - 12 h 00 minDavid C. Queller & Joan Strassmann (WashU), Kith selection: simple theory, complicated amoebas and bacteria
27 May 2016 | 14 h 30 min - 17 h 00 minMelinda 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 minMarcel Weber (Philosophy, Geneva), What’s Special About Genes? Causal Specificity, Information, and Genetic Causation
27 April 2016 | 12 h 00 min - 13 h 00 minPhilippe 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 minLynn 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 minMaureen O’Malley (ImmunoConcept), Why Philosophy of Microbiology?
3 March 2016 | 12 h 00 min - 13 h 00 minSven Saupe & Mathieu Paoletti (Bordeaux), Self and nonself in fungi
12 January 2016Anya Plutynski (WashU), Cancer From a Multilevel Perspective: Tumors as Proto-organism?
21 December 2015Thomas Polger (Cincinnati), Birds, and Bees, and Primates, Oh My! A Defense of the Sparse Theory of Multiple Realization
10 November 2015Ken Gemes (UnivLondon), Nietzsche’s Notion of Health
6 October 2015Alyssa Ney (UCDavis), The Metaphysics of Mental Disorder
30 September 2015Jean-François Moreau (ImmunoConcept), De l’importance de la mobilité dans le système immunitaire : l’exemple du vieillissement
15 September 2015Adam Ferner, Organic individuals
16 July 2015 | 12 h 30 min - 14 h 00 minJan Pieter Konsman
23 June 2015 | 12 h 30 min - 14 h 00 minThomas 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 minNora Abrous
18 May 2015 | 12 h 20 min - 14 h 00 minMaël Lemoine, Comment définir la maladie?
20 April 2015 | 12 h 30 min - 14 h 00 minPhilippe Kourilsky, Le jeu du hasard et de la complexité
20 March 2015 | 14 h 00 min - 15 h 30 minCédric Brun – L’explication en neurosciences, mécanisme et réductionnisme?
10 February 2015 | 12 h 30 min - 14 h 00 minAndreas Bikfalvi, Variations, évolutions et métamorphoses de l’arbre vasculaire
13 January 2015 | 12 h 30 min - 14 h 00 min
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