John Dupré (University of Exeter, UK), Title TBA
Tag: Philosophy and Biology Seminar
Antoine Dussault (Associate Professor, CIRST, Montréal, Canada), Title TBA
Federico Boem (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy), Title TBA
Ruslan Medzhitov (Yale School of Medicine, USA), Homeostasis and Inflammation in Health 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 immunity, and host-pathogen interactions. The talk will be given via Zoom (Please follow this link).
Carl Craver (Washington University, USA), Episodic Memory and Time: Beyond the Mnemic Necessity Hypothesis
VIDEO 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 time and its passing, is older than the distinction between psychology and philosophy. It has been embraced by diverse thinkers. Among British empiricists, such… Read more »
Jerome Wakefield (NYU, USA) (canceled)
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: Research, Education and Service), Department of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine; Affiliate Faculty, NYU Center for Bioethics; Affiliate Faculty, NYU Center for Ancient Studies; Honorary… Read more »
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 theory of natural selection is applicable to statistical analysis, they responded that their father had a ‘non-statistical’ mind. Ever since, commentators and biographers have perpetuated… Read more »
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, the evolution of norms, animal sentience, and the relation between sentience and welfare. Video of the talk Abstract There is no agreement on… Read more »
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 of science, with particular expertise in causality, mechanisms and information. Abstract I will present a view of evidence of mechanisms as evidence of the… Read more »
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 probability in the social, biomedical and policy sciences, and in the relations between science and technology. Abstract Technology is pervasive in science and… Read more »
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