Philosophy of Biology

9h00 Jean Gayon, Michael Ruse 

Introduction

9h15 Keynote lecture 1: James Justus (Florida State University)

The Methodological Individualism of Individual-Based Modeling in Ecology

10h00 Carmen Marcous (Florida State University)

Divergent Philosophies in Evolutionary Biology

10h25 Sophie Gerber (IHPST)

Plant genetic diversity and plant individuality

10h50 Coffee pause

11h10 Amanda Richard (Florida State University)

Where Science Meets Society: A Sociological Perspective on Ecology

11h35 Victor Lefèvre (IHPST)

An organizational account of ecological functions and ecosystemic health

12h00 Sébastien Dutreuil (IHPST)

The Gaïa hypothesis: a clarification of its explanandum and of the conceptual difficulties it faces

12h25 Lunch

14h00 Keynote lecture 2: Matteo Mossio (IHPST)

Organization, agency and functions

14h45 Jamel Langley (Florida State University)

Progressive idealism: Political implications for African Americans in the 21st Century

15h10 Gladys Kostyrka (IHPST)

A viral perspective on the origins of life

15h35 Emily Matykiewicz (Florida State University)

Alfred Russel Wallace's Evolutionary Thought in Time and Place

16h00 Coffee pause

16h20 Gabrielle Graham (Florida State University)

Amateur Naturalists: Citizens Advancing Science

16h45 Gaëlle Pontarotti (IHPST)

Pluralistic models of inheritance: toward the reform of a key concept in biology

17h10 Edwin Siu (Florida State University)

At the boundary of sexual selection: examining the evolutionary explanations for the absence of the human baculum

17h35 End of workshop