In July 2017, Katherine Liu gave the talk "Uncovering the Complex "Real" World Through Simple Models?" at ISHPSSB in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
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Marie Kaiser presents an invited talk "Metaphysik der biologischen Praxis" at the University of Paderborn
In July 2017, Marie Kaiser presented "Metaphysik der biologischen Praxis" at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Paderborn.
Alan Love presents "On Growth and Form: A Centennial Perspective" at the Society for Developmental Biology
In July 2017, Alan love was invited to present in the "Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of D'Arcy Thompson's 'On Growth and Form'" Plenary Session at the Society for Developmental Biology in Minneapolis MN.
Alan Love presents "Active Matter and Development: Conceptual Issues" at the Georgetown Active Materials Summer School
In June 2017, Alan Love presented "Active Matter and Development: Conceptual Issues" at the Georgetown Active Materials Summer School held at Georgetown University in Washington DC.
Public Lecture: Chance, Evolution, and the Burgess Shale
Alan C. Love
Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, and Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota
Thursday June 22, 2017, 7 pm
Whyte Museum of the Candian Rockies, 111 Bear St, Banff.
Marie I. Kaiser to give contributed paper at EPSA 2017
Marie's contributed paper “ENCODE and the Parthood Question” has been also accepted to EPSA17.
This paper is related to a paper on which Marie received valuable feed-back during her visit to Calgary in September 2016.
Cologne Workshop "Can Biological Practice Inform Metaphysics?"
Janella Baxter and Marie I. Kaiser hosted the two-day workshop "Can Biological Practice Inform Metaphysics?" in Cologne.
Invited speakers were Eva Boon, Adrian Currie, John Dupré, Laura Franklin-Hall, Joyce C. Havstad, Andreas Hüttemann, Catherine Kending, Thomas Reydon, and Derek Skillings.
Our thanks goes to all speakers for their great talks and discussions and to the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), FOR 1063) for having funded this workshop.
Alan Love presents "The Concept of Chance in Biological Practice" at the Workshop on Randomness and Providence
In May 2017, Alan Love was invited to present at the Workshop on Randomness and Providence hosted by the Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo MI. His talk was titled "The Concept of Chance in Biological Practice".
Oliver Lean gives a talk "Causation and Information Flow in Biological Systems" at CSHPS
In May 2017, Oliver Lean gave a talk "Causation and Information Flow in Biological Sciences" at the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science in Toronto.
Brian Hanley delivers talk "Causal Selection in Safety Engineering" at the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science
In May, 2017, Brian Hanley delivered a talk "Causal Selection in Safety Engineering" at the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science in Toronto.