You are here
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