Upcoming events
Judith Campisi (Buck Institute for Research on Aging and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California) Cancer and aging: Rival demons?
2 March | 18 h 00 min - 20 h 00 min
Emanuele Ratti (Institute of Philosophy and Scientific Method, Johannes Kepler University Linz)
28 April | 17 h 00 min - 18 h 00 min
Marie I. Kaiser (Department of Philosophy at Bielefeld University, Germany) Individual-level Mechanisms in Ecology and Evolution
20 May | 18 h 00 min - 19 h 00 min
John Dupré (Egenis, University of Exeter, United Kingdom), TBC
6 September | 16 h 30 min - 18 h 00 min
You can find all video taped seminars here.
Past events
Eva Jablonka (Cohn Instit. for History & Philosophy of Science, Tel Aviv Univ.) Neural Transitions in Learning and Cognition
25 February | 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 | 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 | 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 2015Ken 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 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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