2013 Meeting, Montpellier, July 7-12, 2013

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09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00	Registration Introductory speeches: Paul Griffiths (president); Region Languedoc-Roussillon; University of Montpellier 3; Program committee; Organizing committee; Local organizing committee Plenary talk: "Beginnings. Medicine and Natural Philosophy in Medieval Montpellier" 13:00 - 17:00 (4h) Registration Registration to the conference (Centre Saint-Charles, Entrance, University of Montpellier 3) 15:00 - 16:00 (1h) Introductory speeches: Paul Griffiths (president); Region Languedoc-Roussillon; University of Montpellier 3; Program committee; Organizing committee; Local organizing committee Amphi Giraud 16:00 - 17:00 (1h) Plenary talk: "Beginnings. Medicine and Natural Philosophy in Medieval Montpellier" Amphi Giraud Maaike van der Lugt Welcome cocktail 17:00 - 19:00 (2h) Welcome cocktail (Location: Jardin des Plantes)	Functions and Complex Systems Public/scientist partnerships in the production of biomedical knowledge: the gamers, the advocates and the enablers Is Race Real? Biological Theories and Theories in Medicine Can human sciences be applied to animal societies Debates About the Level of Selection A (submitted papers) General Philosophy of Science A (submitted papers) New Directions in the Study of Inheritance More About Darwin and Wallace A (submitted papers) Public Health Issues A (submitted papers) Towards a motricity approach in cognitive sciences Genetics. From Mendel to Benzer and Beyond A (submitted papers) Responses to Principles of Evolutionary Medicine (RT) Making Modern Developmental Biology Eugenics Part I, eugenic traits 9:30 - 11:00 (1h30) Functions and Complex Systems 001 Chair: Eric Desjardins › Functions and Ecological Resilience - Gillian Barker, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western University 09:30-10:15 (45min) › Functional Analogical Models in Biomedical Research - Zachary Helwig Munroe, University of Western Ontario: Rotman Institute of Philosophy 10:15-11:00 (45min) 9:30 - 11:00 (1h30) Public/scientist partnerships in the production of biomedical knowledge: the gamers, the advocates and the enablers 002 Chair: Richard Creath › Public/scientist partnerships in the production of biomedical knowledge: the gamers - David Magnus, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Public/scientist partnerships in the production of biomedical knowledge: the enablers - Lauren Milner, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics 10:00-10:30 (30min) › Public/scientist partnerships in the production of biomedical knowledge: the advocates - Mildred Cho, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics 10:30-11:00 (30min) 9:30 - 11:00 (1h30) Is Race Real? 003 Chairs: Quayshawn Spencer & Melinda Gormley › Race, Slavery, and Polygenism: Edward Long's History of Jamaica - Suman Seth, Cornell University 09:30-09:50 (20min) › When We Say “Race is a Social Construction,” What Are We Saying? - John Jackson, University of Colorado 09:50-10:10 (20min) › Concepts of Race among U.S. Biologists and Anthropologists - Ann Morning, New York University 10:10-10:30 (20min) › Why the Usefulness of Race Is Useless - Matthew Kopec, University of Colorado Boulder (USA) 10:30-10:50 (20min) 9:30 - 11:00 (1h30) Biological Theories and Theories in Medicine 004 Chair: Jacob Stegenga › DSM-5 and the Removal of the Multiaxial System for Psychiatric Diagnosis: What Is at Stake? - Steeves Demazeux, Centre d'Histoire des Sociétés, des Sciences et des Conflits; Institut Faire Faces 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Does pathophysiology contain a theory of disease? - Maël Lemoine, University of Tours 10:00-10:30 (30min) › Network medicine as a genetic theory of disease - Marie Darrason, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques 10:30-11:00 (30min) 9:30 - 11:00 (1h30) Can human sciences be applied to animal societies 005 › Japanese wisdom? Natural cultures and cultural natures - Harry Wels, VU University Amsterdam 09:30-09:45 (15min) › The Pragmatics of Nonhuman Friendships - Irina Meketa, Department of Philosophy, Boston University 09:45-10:00 (15min) › Culturally Constructed Concepts in Animals - Grant Goodrich, The citadel 10:00-10:15 (15min) › Social networks and animal behavior - Colin Allen, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University 10:15-10:30 (15min) › Social Constructionism and Theory of Mind - Olivia Sultanescu, Department of Philosophy, York University 10:30-10:45 (15min) › Can Human sciences be applied to animal societies? - General discussion 10:45-11:00 (15min) 9:30 - 11:00 (1h30) Debates About the Level of Selection A (submitted papers) 006 › Variation Within and Between Hierarchical Levels - Lauren McCall, American Museum of Natural History 09:30-10:00 (30min) › On the Status of the Debate About Biological Individuality - Austin Booth, Harvard University Department of Philosophy 10:00-10:30 (30min) › Species Selection and the Individuality Thesis: A Lesson in Ontology from a Tasmanian Wolf - Leonard Finkelman, CUNY Lehman College 10:30-11:00 (30min) 9:30 - 11:00 (1h30) General Philosophy of Science A (submitted papers) 007 › Downward Determination as a Non-Causal Probability-Raising Relation - Charbel El-Hani, Professor 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Mechanisms and the puzzle of explanatory relevance - Maria Serban, School of Philosophy 10:00-10:30 (30min) › Ecosystem Research and Real-World Simulation - Astrid Schwarz, Institute for Philosophy, Technical University Darmstadt 10:30-11:00 (30min) 9:30 - 11:00 (1h30) New Directions in the Study of Inheritance 008 Chair: Pierrick Bourrat › Pluralistic models of inheritance: toward the reform of a central concept in biology - Gaëlle Pontarotti, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques 09:30-10:15 (45min) › Why culture evolves without being an inheritance system - Olivier Morin, Central European University 10:15-11:00 (45min) 9:30 - 11:00 (1h30) More About Darwin and Wallace A (submitted papers) 125 › Evolution without Natural Selection: Darwin's Domain of the Useless - Thomas Robert, University of Calabria / Università della Calabria, Université de Genève 09:30-10:15 (45min) › Modus Darwin Reconsidered - Casey Helgeson, University of Wisconsin, Philosophy dept. 10:15-11:00 (45min) 9:30 - 11:00 (1h30) Public Health Issues A (submitted papers) 127 › Sorting out patients and diseases in early XIXth century Paris. An historical account of how medicine met its subject. - Antoine Ermakoff, Laboratoire de Philosophie et d'Histoire des Sciences 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Fetal Risk, Federal Response: Alcohol Warning Labels and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Erica O'Neil, Arizona State University 10:00-10:30 (30min) › Bridging the Social-Biomedical Divide : Uncovering Explanatory Conflicts in the Public Health Literature - Eniola Salami, University of Calgary 10:30-11:00 (30min) 9:30 - 11:00 (1h30) Towards a motricity approach in cognitive sciences 214 Chair: Bernardo Yanez › Differences between identity and self-consciousness from a motricity approach - Melina Gastelum Vargas, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Autonomous movement: the beginning of mental life from an embodied and ecological approach. - Ximena González-Grandón, Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine-National Autonomous University of Mexico - Jimena Vergara Ortega, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) 10:00-10:30 (30min) › The unification of the mind: a hypothesis - Jose Padua-Gabriel, Institute of Philosophical Research- National Autonomous University of Mexico 10:30-11:00 (30min) 9:30 - 11:00 (1h30) Genetics. From Mendel to Benzer and Beyond A (submitted papers) Actes › What if Mendel had died in 1840? Retrodictions in early genetics. - Mike Buttolph, University College London - London's Global University 09:30-09:50 (20min) › Against Theory-Biased Classical Genetics - Yafeng Shan, University College London 09:50-10:10 (20min) › The growth of Morgan's evolutionary thought: 1903-1932 - Lilian Martins, Universidade de São Paulo 10:10-10:30 (20min) › Theorising and representational practices in genetics - Marion Vorms, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques 10:30-10:50 (20min) 9:30 - 11:00 (1h30) Responses to Principles of Evolutionary Medicine (RT) Amphi Physio Participants: Peter Gluckman, Mark Hanson, John Matthewson, Pierre-Olivier Méthot, Dominic Murphy, Kenneth Schaffner 9:30 - 11:00 (1h30) Making Modern Developmental Biology Colloque 1 Chair: Sabine Brauckmann › From Embryology to Developmental Biology: The Diversification of a Biological Field. - Michael Dietrich, Dartmouth College - Nathan Crowe, Arizona State University 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Molecularising mammalian development: gene transfer, recombinant networks and the making of transgenic mice - Dmitriy Myelnikov, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge 10:00-10:30 (30min) › Communicating Reproductive Biology: Claims to Human In Vitro Fertilization - Nick Hopwood, University of Cambridge 10:30-11:00 (30min) 9:30 - 11:00 (1h30) Eugenics Part I, eugenic traits Colloque 2 Chair: Moyra Lang › Eugenic Lists - Rob Wilson, University of Alberta, Canada 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Why did the Nazis sterilize the Blind? - Amir Teicher, School of Historical Studies, Tel-Aviv University, Safra Center for Ethics, Tel-Aviv University 10:00-10:30 (30min) › Combining permissible abortion with prenatal testing: Risking Eugenics? - Lyster Caroline, McGill University 10:30-11:00 (30min) New perspectives on the evolution of human cognition The Problem of "Race" A (submitted papers) Conceptual Difficulties Associated with Evo-Devo A (submitted papers) Immunology and Individuality Transnational Science During the Cold War A Debates About the Level of Selection B (submitted papers) General Philosophy of Science B (submitted papers) Functions in Ecology More About Darwin and Wallace B (submitted papers) Public Health Issues B (submitted papers) Physiology in the 20th Century (submitted papers) Genetics. From Mendel to Benzer and Beyond B (submitted papers) Dialogue Garland Allen - Bruno Strasser Hodgiana A Eugenics Part II, politics and eugenics 11:30 - 13:00 (1h30) New perspectives on the evolution of human cognition 001 Chair: Kim Sterelny › Bonobos as model of the last common ancestor of humans and apes: the neglected discussion in the evolution of human cognition - Ivan Gonzalez-Cabrera, Australian National University 11:30-12:15 (45min) › As far as I know. Social learning and the available information. - Chiara Ferrario, Victoria University of Wellington - Laura Di Paolo, Università di Roma 12:15-13:00 (45min) 11:30 - 13:00 (1h30) The Problem of "Race" A (submitted papers) 002 › Remeasuring Man - Michael Weisberg, University of Pennsylvania 11:30-12:00 (30min) › The use of the concept of race in biomedicine: the hypothesis of social causes undermines the utilitarian argument. - Ludovica Lorusso, University of Sassari 12:00-12:30 (30min) › The Last Race Realisms - Matthew Barker, Department of Philosophy, Concordia University 12:30-13:00 (30min) 11:30 - 13:00 (1h30) Conceptual Difficulties Associated with Evo-Devo A (submitted papers) 003 › The inception of modularity in biology - Silvia Caianiello, Silvia Caianiello 11:30-12:15 (45min) › Developmental explanation - Veli-Pekka Parkkinen, University of Oslo 12:15-13:00 (45min) 11:30 - 13:00 (1h30) Immunology and Individuality 004 Chair: Samuel Alizon › Doing Biographical Work: The ‘Self' of Immunological Theory and the ‘Self' of Autoimmune Disease - Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney 11:30-12:00 (30min) › Individuality and Immunology's Theories of Cognition - Alfred Tauber, Center for Philosophy and History of Science 12:00-12:30 (30min) › The individual, the organism, and the immune system - Thomas Pradeu, Paris-Sorbonne University 12:30-13:00 (30min) 11:30 - 13:00 (1h30) Transnational Science During the Cold War A 005 Chair: Edna Suarez-Diaz › Practices of circulation: radioisotopes and cytology in the atomic age - María Santesmases, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales 11:30-12:00 (30min) › A New Look at Radioisotopes: Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace and Its Consequences for Science and Medicine - Angela Creager, Princeton University Department of History - John Krige, Georgia Tech - School of History, Technology and Society 12:00-12:30 (30min) › Cold War Collaboration and the 'American Challenge': The European Society for Nuclear Methods in Agriculture - Karin Zachmann, Munich Center for the History of Science and Technology 12:30-13:00 (30min) 11:30 - 13:00 (1h30) Debates About the Level of Selection B (submitted papers) 006 › Conceptions of Multilevel Selection and their Implications for Empirical Results - Christopher Dimond, Arizona State University 11:30-11:50 (20min) › MLS3: Expanding Multi-level Selection Theory to Capture Hierarchical Transition by Individuation - David Crawford, Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol 11:50-12:10 (20min) › A Defense of Superorganisms - Karen Kovaka, University of Pennsylvania - Philosophy Department 12:10-12:30 (20min) › Interactionist Group Selection - Tomi Kokkonen, TINT (University of Helsinki) 12:30-12:50 (20min) 11:30 - 13:00 (1h30) General Philosophy of Science B (submitted papers) 007 › How Multiple Realization is Possible - Kenneth Aizawa, Rutgers University, Newark 11:30-12:00 (30min) › Divergent Philosophies in Evolutionary Science - Carmen Marcous, Florida State University 12:00-12:30 (30min) › Regulation: Integrating Concept or Epistemological Red Herring? - Kevin Amidon, Iowa State University 12:30-13:00 (30min) 11:30 - 13:00 (1h30) Functions in Ecology 008 Chair: Gillian Barker › Defending Ecosystem Health: A Normative but Naturalized Notion of Ecological Function - Antoine C. Dussault, Université de Montréal 11:30-12:00 (30min) › On the vague and metaphorical definitions of “good ecosystem functioning” - Catherine Dieleman, The University of Western Ontario 12:00-12:30 (30min) › Climate change and ecological management: from historical structural to futuristic functional goals - Eric Desjardins, University of Western Ontario 12:30-13:00 (30min) 11:30 - 13:00 (1h30) More About Darwin and Wallace B (submitted papers) 125 › Hair-raising observations: Darwin and Crichton Browne on piloerection and insanity - Pieter Adriaens, Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven 11:30-12:00 (30min) › Darwin and the decline of Ancient Greece: a problem or a shining example for his theory? - Ageliki Lefkaditou, University of Leeds 12:00-12:30 (30min) › Charles Darwin as Historical Methodologist; The Role of Scottish Conjectural History in the Origin of Species - Cosima Herter, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities 12:30-13:00 (30min) 11:30 - 13:00 (1h30) Public Health Issues B (submitted papers) 127 › Nathan Shock and the "Biomedicalization of Aging" - Hyung Wook Park, Nanyang Technological University 11:30-12:00 (30min) › Bacteriophage and the American Pharmaceutical Industry - Carolyn Farnsworth, University of South Carolina 12:00-12:30 (30min) › Socially and morally responsible cognitive neuroimaging: Mental rotation case study - Vanessa Bentley, University of Cincinnati 12:30-13:00 (30min) 11:30 - 13:00 (1h30) Physiology in the 20th Century (submitted papers) 214 › Forged Together: Anglo-American Physiologists and the Structure of War and Post-War Physiology 1935-1955 - Stephen Casper, Clarkson University 11:30-12:15 (45min) › The erythrocyte “has a life span” – erythrocyte aging between experimental and mathematical approaches - Maria Strecht Almeida, ICBAS, University of Porto 12:15-13:00 (45min) 11:30 - 13:00 (1h30) Genetics. From Mendel to Benzer and Beyond B (submitted papers) Actes › Economic models in the cell: division of labor in the German Empire and the transition from real- to finance economy in conception and heredity 1870-1900 - Bettina Bock von Wülfingen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 11:30-11:50 (20min) › Science During Wartime: Richard Goldschmidt's Internment during the First World War - Marsha Richmond, Wayne State University 11:50-12:10 (20min) › Randomization? Fisher, “Student,” and the Society for Psychical Research - Nancy Hall, University of Delaware 12:10-12:30 (20min) › A Historical and Systematic Analysis of the Hardy-Weinberg Law - Pablo Lorenzano, National Scientific and Technical Research Council, National University of Quilmes 12:30-12:50 (20min) 11:30 - 13:00 (1h30) Dialogue Garland Allen - Bruno Strasser Amphi Physio Theme: Biology in the 21st Century: Hybridization of Experimentalism and Natural History? 11:30 - 13:00 (1h30) Hodgiana A Colloque 1 Chair: Shane Glackin › Buffon and Darwin after Hodge: the case for extremism - Thierry Hoquet, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 11:30-12:00 (30min) › Against "Evolution"? Non-Darwinian Theorizing and the Hodgean Historiography of Biology - Peter Bowler, Queens University Belfast 12:00-12:30 (30min) › From germs and cells to species and trees of life... and beyond: Jon Hodge's articulation of Darwin´s Generation Theorizing into its wider frames - Carlos Lopez-Beltran, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas UNAM 12:30-13:00 (30min) 11:30 - 13:00 (1h30) Eugenics Part II, politics and eugenics Colloque 2 Chair: Moyra Lang › Differentiating Eugenics and Social Darwinism - Aida Roige Mas, University of British Columbia 11:30-12:00 (30min) › Revisiting Eugenics and the Left: JBS Haldane, Diversity, and an Independent India. - Gordon McOuat, University of King's College 12:00-12:30 (30min) › Confronting the ‘Eugenic Agitation': Herbert Spencer Jennings, the Biology of Democracy, and the American Social Welfare Community in the 1920s - Judy Johns Schloegel, Independent Scholar 12:30-13:00 (30min) Council Meeting #1 13:00 - 15:00 (2h) Council Meeting #1 Open to Council's members What is a gene? the gene concept faced to recent advances in genetics, molecular and developmental biology The Problem of "Race" B (submitted papers) Conceptual Difficulties Associated with Evo-Devo B (submitted papers) Individuality and the Division of Labor Transnational Science During the Cold War B Outsourcing biomedicine General Philosophy of Science C (submitted papers) Understanding variation beyond the Modern Synthesis More About Darwin and Wallace C (submitted papers) New Models and Approaches in Evolution (submitted papers) Genetics. From Mendel to Benzer and Beyond C (submitted papers) Macromolecules and Molecular Biology (submitted papers) Asking the Hidden Questions Raised by Stem Cells: History, Philosophy, and Biology Hodgiana B Eugenics Roundtable: Past and Present (RT) 15:00 - 16:30 (1h30) What is a gene? the gene concept faced to recent advances in genetics, molecular and developmental biology 001 Chair: Jean-Jacques Kupiec › "What is a gene? The gene concept faced to recent advances in genetics, molecular and developmental biology." - Jean Deutsch, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 15:00-15:20 (20min) › Hox genes' colinearity during Limb Development - Charles Galperin, IHPST 15:20-15:40 (20min) › Chromosome structure as a component of gene definition - Thomas Heams, Génétique Animale et Biologie Intégrative 15:40-16:00 (20min) › The molecular gene concept in the post-genomic era - Frédérique Théry, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques 16:00-16:20 (20min) 15:00 - 16:30 (1h30) The Problem of "Race" B (submitted papers) 002 › Racial Certificates and “Jewish Racial Traits”: Otmar von Verschuer and Nazi Racial Policy Practice at the Institute for Human Heredity and Racial Hygiene, 1936-1942 - Sheila Weiss, Clarkson University 15:00-15:30 (30min) › Survival of the Fittest during the First World War: Herbert Spencer, the French Army, and the Development of La force noire, 1890-1920 - Joe Lunn, University of Michigan--Dearborn 15:30-16:00 (30min) › Do I look Mexican? The Reification of a National Face - Abigail Nieves, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 16:00-16:30 (30min) 15:00 - 16:30 (1h30) Conceptual Difficulties Associated with Evo-Devo B (submitted papers) 003 › Rethinking innateness as a primitive term within developmental scenarios - Valentine Reynaud, Institut de Recherches Philosophiques de Lyon 15:00-15:45 (45min) › Typological thinking and essentializing from a practical point of view - Christopher DiTeresi, Philosophy Dept, George Mason University 15:45-16:30 (45min) 15:00 - 16:30 (1h30) Individuality and the Division of Labor 004 › Modularity and division of labor: from theory to experimental evolution - María Rebolleda Gómez, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities 15:00-15:30 (30min) › Individuality and the Division of Labor in the Nineteenth Century - Lynn Nyhart, University of Wisconsin-Madison 15:30-16:00 (30min) › Debating Division of Labor in European Ethology. An Epistemological Analysis of the Pardi-Deleurance controversy about the Organization of Wasp Societies in 1950. - Guido Caniglia, Arizona State University (Center for Biology and Society) 16:00-16:30 (30min) 15:00 - 16:30 (1h30) Transnational Science During the Cold War B 005 Chair: Edna Suarez-Diaz. The last 30 minutes will be devoted to a general discussion with all the participants › Human population studies and the World Health Organization - Soraya de Chadarevian, University of California Los Angeles 15:00-15:30 (30min) › Alfonso León de Garay and the set up of the Genetics and Radiobiology Program in Mexico, 1960-1970. - Ana Barahona, National Autonomous University of Mexico 15:30-16:00 (30min) 15:00 - 16:30 (1h30) Outsourcing biomedicine 006 Chair: Nick Hopwood › Outsourcing in anatomical visualization. Atlas production and the politics of visual cultures in early 20th century Vienna. Outsourcing biomedicine (Birgit Nemec, Lukas Rieppel, Sophia Roosth, Hallam Stevens) - Birgit Nemec, University of Vienna 15:00-15:20 (20min) › The Vertical Integration of American Paleontology - Lukas Rieppel, Northwestern University 15:20-15:40 (20min) › Open Source, Outsourced: Synthetic Biology in the Age of Biological Taylorism - Sophia Roosth, Harvard University 15:40-16:00 (20min) › Buy-ology: kits and knowledge in molecular biology - Hallam Stevens, Nanyang Technological University 16:00-16:20 (20min) 15:00 - 16:30 (1h30) General Philosophy of Science C (submitted papers) 007 › “If you can spray them, then they are real”: Evidence Construction in Fragrance Chemistry - Ann-Sophie Barwich, University of Exeter 15:00-15:30 (30min) › Open the doors: integrating epistemology into the lab - Thomas Camus, Dynamique des capacités humaines et des conduites de santé - Vincent Devictor, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution - Montpellier 15:30-16:00 (30min) › Some examples of possibology applied to biology and its history - Sylvie Allouche, Center for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol 16:00-16:30 (30min) 15:00 - 16:30 (1h30) Understanding variation beyond the Modern Synthesis 008 Chair: Fridolin Gross › Mutational Lamarckism and the Modern Synthesis view of mutational randomness as conditional independence - Pablo Razeto-Barry, Instituto de Filosofía y Ciencias de la Complejidad, Santiago - Davide Vecchi, Universidad de Santiago, Instituto de Filosofía y Ciencias de la Complejidad, Santiago 15:00-15:30 (30min) › Phenotypic variation in ecological setting: a challenge for evolutionary modeling beyond the Modern Synthesis - Serrelli Emanuele, "Riccardo Massa" Department of Human Sciences, University of Milano Bicocca, Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab, Center for Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon 15:30-16:00 (30min) › Variation in a world with multiple levels, mechanisms, and units of evolution: The Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Approach - Nathalie Gontier, Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab, Center for Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon 16:00-16:30 (30min) 15:00 - 16:30 (1h30) More About Darwin and Wallace C (submitted papers) 125 › The Charles Darwin-Wyville Thomson Debate: deep sea crinoids, scientific evidence, and the adjudication of Darwinian natural selection - Rodolfo Alaniz, University of California [San Diego] 15:00-15:30 (30min) › From The Malay Archipelago: Alfred Russell Wallace's Scientific Contributions - Emily Matykiewicz, Florida State University 15:30-16:00 (30min) › Contribution to the methodology of reception studies: considerations regarding the study of Darwin in Portugal (1910-1974) - Pedro Fonseca, FCT; CEIS20-University of Coimbra 16:00-16:30 (30min) 15:00 - 16:30 (1h30) New Models and Approaches in Evolution (submitted papers) 127 › Modelling the Course of an HIV Infection: Insights from Ecology and Evolution - Samuel Alizon, Maladies infectieuses et vecteurs : écologie, génétique, évolution et contrôle 15:00-15:45 (45min) › Modeling evolution using the probability of fixation - David McCandlish, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania 15:45-16:30 (45min) 15:00 - 16:30 (1h30) Genetics. From Mendel to Benzer and Beyond C (submitted papers) 209 › Patenting life: The life of a patent - Ana Romero, INSTITUTO DE FILOSOFÍA 15:00-15:30 (30min) › The French Concept of the Gene, from Microbe to Transposon? - Laurent Loison, Laboratoire Sciences, Histoire, Philosophie 15:30-16:00 (30min) › Seymour Benzer, Genetic Maps, and the Junkman's Problem - Yoichi Ishida, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh 16:00-16:30 (30min) 15:00 - 16:30 (1h30) Macromolecules and Molecular Biology (submitted papers) 214 › Rosalind franklin and the dna double helix: historiographical accounts - Marcos Silva, University State of Londrina 15:00-15:30 (30min) › Molecules in Biology Before Molecular Biology - Daniel Liu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dept. of History of Science 15:30-16:00 (30min) › Rendering the dynamic static: examining how x-ray crystallography constructs investigation into protein function - Julie-Anne Gandier, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Biozone Center for Applied Bioscience and Bioengineering 16:00-16:30 (30min) 15:00 - 16:30 (1h30) Asking the Hidden Questions Raised by Stem Cells: History, Philosophy, and Biology Amphi Physio Chair: Jason Robert › What's Surprising about Stem Cell Research? - Jane Maienschein, Arizona State University 15:00-15:20 (20min) › Leaping from Waddington's landscape: premature theorizing in stem cell biology - Melinda Fagan, Rice University 15:20-15:40 (20min) › Stem cell ontology: why does it matter? - Lucie Laplane, Institut Gustave Roussy, URSHS, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Institut de Recherches Philosophiques (IRePh) 15:40-16:00 (20min) › Stem cells in an evolutionary perspective - Michel Vervoort, Institut Jacques Monod 16:00-16:20 (20min) 15:00 - 16:30 (1h30) Hodgiana B Colloque 1 Chair: Shane Glackin › Hodge's Paradigm-Making Thinking about the Population Geneticists - Michael Ruse, Florida State University 15:00-15:30 (30min) › How Hodge's History of Biology and Philosophy of Biology Fit Together - Gregory Radick, University of Leeds 15:30-16:00 (30min) › Responses and reflections - Jon Hodge, University of Leeds 16:00-16:30 (30min) 15:00 - 16:30 (1h30) Eugenics Roundtable: Past and Present (RT) Colloque 2 Participants: Amir Teicher, Rob Wilson, Caroline Lyster, Judy Johns Schloegel, Gordon McOuat. Chair: Matthew Smithdeal Poster session, with cocktail (Hall) 16:30 - 19:00 (2h30) Poster session, with cocktail (Hall)	Teaching Biology A (submitted papers) Philosophical perspectives on and from systems biology Conceptual Tools for Neurobiology A (submitted papers) Abstracting from the Living: Characters and Classifications in the Life Sciences Psychological Altruism from a Biological Point of View A Simulation vs. Experiment in Evolutionary Biology Models & Mechanisms: Extending the Framework The Formation of Language (submitted papers) The Problem of Species A (submitted papers) Parental Effects I: Historical, Sociological, and Medical perspectives From Neurons to Knowledge A Selection at the level of the community and ecosystem The Status and Prospect of Genetic Explanations of Behavior Dialogue Sonia Kéfi - Annick Lesne 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Teaching Biology A (submitted papers) 001 › The Ghost in the Classroom. Evolution, Ernst Haeckel and German biology didactics (1859-1933) - Constance Sommerey, Maastricht University 09:00-09:30 (30min) › H.G. Wells: Biology Crammer - James Elwick, York University 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Concepts of dominance in 20th century genetics pedagogy - Annie Jamieson, University of Leeds 10:00-10:30 (30min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Philosophical perspectives on and from systems biology 002 Chair: Veli-Pekka Parkkinen › Articulating Mechanisms in Molecular Systems Biology - Robert Richardson, University of Cincinnati 09:00-09:30 (30min) › Systems biology and the quest for organizing principles - Sara Green, Aarhus University 09:30-10:00 (30min) › A standard for dividing labor in systems medicine - Rogier De Langhe, Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science - Olaf Wolkenhauer, Universität Rostock 10:00-10:30 (30min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Conceptual Tools for Neurobiology A (submitted papers) 003 › Early nervous systems and the origins of the animal sensorimotor organization - Fred Keijzer, Department of Theoretic Philosophy (University of Groningen) 09:00-09:45 (45min) › The Explanatory Role of Mechanisms in Neuroscience - Tobias Huber, Unaffiliated 09:45-10:30 (45min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Abstracting from the Living: Characters and Classifications in the Life Sciences 004 Chair: Pierre-Luc Germain › Enriching and observing: Microbial species as practices - Mathias Grote, Technische Universität Berlin 09:00-09:30 (30min) › Identifying Medically Relevant Variation to Re-Classify Disease: Linkage Analysis of Neurodegenerative Disorders in the 1980's - Lara Keuck, Institut für Philosophie der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 09:30-10:00 (30min) › From Merkmal to Marker. The taxonomic origin of the genetic character concept - Robert Meunier, Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry 10:00-10:30 (30min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Psychological Altruism from a Biological Point of View A 005 Chair: Christine Sachse › Why there might not be an evolutionary explanation for psychological altruism - Stephen Stich, Rutgers University 09:00-09:30 (30min) › Altruism, Egoism, or Neither? The Evolution of Psychological Capacities for Helping Behaviour - Armin Schulz, Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method; London School of Economics and Political Science 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Two Types of Psychological Hedonism - Justin Garson, Hunter College of the City University of New York 10:00-10:30 (30min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Simulation vs. Experiment in Evolutionary Biology 006 Chair: Brett Calcott. The end of the session will be devoted to comments by Paul Sniegowski & Kyle Stanford › Why aren't all cells in neoplasms cancer stem cells? An evolutionary explanation for cancer non-stem cells - Kathleen Sprouffske, University of Zurich 09:00-09:30 (30min) › What's the Difference Between Experiment and Simulation? - Emily Parke, Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania 09:30-10:00 (30min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Models & Mechanisms: Extending the Framework 007 Chair: William Bechtel › How mechanisms work, how they change, and how the way they work affects the way they change - Brett Calcott, Austalian National University 09:00-09:20 (20min) › How-kind-of actually Models - Stuart Glennan, Butler University, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research 09:20-09:40 (20min) › Causal Order & Two Kinds of Robustness - Arnon Levy, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem 09:40-10:00 (20min) › Mechanisms, Models, and Explanatory Autonomy - Thomas Polger, University of Cincinnati 10:00-10:20 (20min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) The Formation of Language (submitted papers) 008 › Language Acquisition, Rule-following, and the Individual Species Concept - Shane Glackin, University of Exeter 09:00-09:45 (45min) › Is syntax equals to language? A debate on a trait of human uniqueness. - Mercedes Tapia, Centro Lombardo 09:45-10:30 (45min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) The Problem of Species A (submitted papers) 125 › Cohesion and the Individuality Thesis - Celso Antônio Neto, Federal University of Minas Gerais 09:00-09:20 (20min) › The Perdurantist Implications of the Species-as-Individuals Thesis - August Martin, Leiden University Institute for Philosophy 09:20-09:40 (20min) › The Idea of Neo-Biological Species Concept–A new approach to responding the old debates - Bo-Chi Lai, Bo-Chi G. Lai 09:40-10:00 (20min) › A Process-Focused Approach to the Species Problem - Derek Skillings, Philosophy Program 10:00-10:20 (20min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Parental Effects I: Historical, Sociological, and Medical perspectives Amphi 8 Chair: Mark Hanson › Maternal Effects and the Twentieth Century Sciences of Heredity - Richardson Sarah, Harvard University 09:00-09:30 (30min) › The Origin and Operationalization of Fetal Programming Science - Miranda Waggoner, Princeton University 09:30-10:00 (30min) › A biomedical perspective on parental effects - Peter Gluckman, Liggins Institute 10:00-10:30 (30min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) From Neurons to Knowledge A Amphi Jean Rey Chairs: Robert C. Richardson & Christopher A. Shaw › A Place for Levels-Thinking in Science and Philosophy - Daniel Brooks, Bielefeld University 09:00-09:30 (30min) › Making Sense of Brain and Behavioural Lateralization - Elisa Frasnelli, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Cognitive task and brain activity: an uncertain correlation - Paola Hernandez Chavez, Centro Lombardo 10:00-10:30 (30min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Selection at the level of the community and ecosystem Amphi Physio Chairs: Antoine Dussault & Josiane Seghieri › Artificial selection of ecological interactions in microbial communities - Manuel Blouin, Biogéochimie et écologie des milieux continentaux 09:00-09:30 (30min) › How to define the selective environments in which symbiotic communities evolve in? - Karine Prévot, Institut de Recherche Philosophiques : Les Dynamiques de l'Invention Philosophique, Scientifique et Artistique - Frédéric Bouchard, CIRST, Département de philosophie, Université de Montréal 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Evolution in metacommunities: The role of population structure - Charles Goodnight, University of Vermont 10:00-10:30 (30min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) The Status and Prospect of Genetic Explanations of Behavior Colloque 1 Chair: Lauren Ross › Explanatory Virtues and Genetic Causation - Maria Kronfeldner, Bielefeld University 09:00-09:20 (20min) › The gene of - Pierre Roubertoux, INSERM U 910 Aix-Marseille Université 09:20-09:40 (20min) › Can Genes Explain Human Personality? Doubtful! - Kenneth Schaffner, Department of History and Philosophy of Science - University of Pittsburgh 09:40-10:00 (20min) › Gene-Environment Interaction in the 21st Century: Its Rise, Its Fall, Its Rise? - James Tabery, University of Utah 10:00-10:20 (20min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Dialogue Sonia Kéfi - Annick Lesne Colloque 2 Theme: Complex systems, tipping points and early warnings Teaching Biology B (submitted papers) Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Disease Biology Conceptual Tools for Neurobiology B (submitted papers) Generic and Genetic Explanations of Evolvability and Evolutionary Novelty Psychological Altruism from a Biological Point of View B Towards Epistemologies of Biological Practice Some Problematic Concepts in Evolutionary Biology (submitted papers) Playing by their own rules: marginality and heterodoxy in modern science The Problem of Species B (submitted papers) Animal Models in Neurobiology (submitted papers) Parental Effects II: Philosophical and Scientific perspectives From Neurons to Knowledge B Dialogue Samir Okasha - François Rousset Clustering Humans Doing Science Without Natural Kinds (RT) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Teaching Biology B (submitted papers) 001 › Research Integrity and Everyday Practice of Science - Frederick Grinnell, UT Southwestern Medical Center 11:00-11:30 (30min) › Object Lessons in the Life Sciences - Ruthann Dyer, Yorku University 11:30-12:00 (30min) › A qualitative and quantitative analysis of contents concerning of pluralism of processes and evo-devo in higher education textbooks of evolution and vertebrate zoology - Wellington Santos, Universidade Federal da Bahia 12:00-12:30 (30min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Disease Biology 002 Chair: Anya Plutynski › “Natural” and “Artificial” Infection: Host-Specificity in Mid-20th-Century Parasitology and its Implications for Evolutionary and Disease Biology - Rachel Mason Dentinger, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine; Imperial College 11:00-11:45 (45min) › Confronting the Complex Causality of Cancer - Katherine Liu, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities 11:45-12:30 (45min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Conceptual Tools for Neurobiology B (submitted papers) 003 › Re-Thinking Neuroconstructivism through Dynamic (neuro)-Enskilment: a critique of Neo-Nativism - Mirko Farina, Macquarie University 11:00-11:20 (20min) › Embodied Cognition: The Very Idea - Fred Adams, University of Delaware 11:20-11:40 (20min) › Embodied Cognition and Neuroethology: A Defense of Information Processing Models - Jonathan Martin, University of Cincinnati 11:40-12:00 (20min) › Corporization as the substrate of mental development - Melina Gastelum Vargas, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 12:00-12:20 (20min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Generic and Genetic Explanations of Evolvability and Evolutionary Novelty 004 Chair: William Wimsatt › Generic and Genetic Explanations: Comparing Experimental and Historical Biology - Alan Love, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities 11:00-11:30 (30min) › Generic vs genetic approaches to early animal evolution - Douglas Erwin, Smithsonian Institution 11:30-12:00 (30min) › Genetic and Generic Explanations: A Pluralistic Perspective - Karl Niklas, Cornell University 12:00-12:30 (30min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Psychological Altruism from a Biological Point of View B 005 Chair: Christine Sachse. Final comments: Elliott Sober › Psychological Altruism from a Biological Point of View - Some Recent Perspectives (Christine Clavien, Justin Garson, Armin Schulz, Elliott Sober, Chandra Sripada, Stephen Stich) - Chandra Sripada, University of Michigan 11:00-11:30 (30min) › Preference altruism: a conceptual link between economics and evolutionary biology - Christine Clavien, Département d'écologie et évolution [Lausanne] 11:30-12:00 (30min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Towards Epistemologies of Biological Practice 006 Chair: Hans-Joerg Rheinberger › From Conceptual Analysis to the Analysis of Conceptual Practice - C. Kenneth Waters, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota; Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary 11:00-11:20 (20min) › Why and How Biological Practice Matters to a Philosophical Analysis of Epistemic Reduction - Marie I. Kaiser, Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva 11:20-11:40 (20min) › The Ethos of Organism-Based Communities - Sabina Leonelli, University of Exeter - Rachel Ankeny, University of Adelaide 11:40-12:00 (20min) › The interplay of model building and science policy: the case of lock-and-key in 20th century biochemistry - Rebecca Mertens, Department of Philosophy, University of Bielefeld 12:00-12:20 (20min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Some Problematic Concepts in Evolutionary Biology (submitted papers) 007 › Hannibal (The Cannibal) Lecter and (Un)natural Selection - Michael White, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University 11:00-11:20 (20min) › Plasticity cannot explains itself - Antonine Nicoglou, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques 11:20-11:40 (20min) › Gradualism: Complications and Implications. - Roger Sansom, Texas A & M University 11:40-12:00 (20min) › The Plant and the Pollinator Tale: how to take Teleology seriously in Biology and yet avoid being a Lamarkian? - Iñigo Ongay de Felipe, American School of Bilbao- Fundación Gustavo Bueno 12:00-12:20 (20min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Playing by their own rules: marginality and heterodoxy in modern science 008 Chair: Lynn K. Nyhart › ‘My sole intention in that country is to obtain a giraffe' – Science, patronage, and the local merits of an African expedition in Restoration Frankfurt am Main - Ayako Sakurai, School of Business Administration, Senshu University 11:00-11:30 (30min) › Science for gentlemanly breeders?: British acclimatisation revisited - Takashi Ito, Kanazawa Gakuin University 11:30-12:00 (30min) › Defining Wild: Japanese Primatology and Monkey Parks - Akihisa Setoguchi, Kyoto University 12:00-12:30 (30min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) The Problem of Species B (submitted papers) 125 › Is the Ontology of Homologous Traits a Matter of Pragmatics? - Christopher Pearson, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Department of Philosophy 11:00-11:30 (30min) › Models of species metaphysics - Rafael Ventura, Duke university [Durham] 11:30-12:00 (30min) › Informationally-Connected Property Clusters and Polymorphism - Manolo Martinez, The Graduate Center, CUNY 12:00-12:30 (30min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Animal Models in Neurobiology (submitted papers) Actes › History of biological researches on memory - Quentin Lade, laboratoire Sphere 11:00-11:30 (30min) › Animal Models as Experimental Model Systems - Nina Atanasova, University of Cincinnati 11:30-12:00 (30min) › Humanizing Animals: The Selection and Justification of the Prairie Vole as an Animal Model for Autism Spectrum Disorders - Nicholas Zautra, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University 12:00-12:30 (30min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Parental Effects II: Philosophical and Scientific perspectives Amphi 8 Chair: Mark Hanson › Different interpretations of parental effects and their implications our understanding of development, heredity and evolution - Karola Stotz, University of Sydney 11:00-11:30 (30min) › Parental Effects: Development, Heredity, and Evolution - Tobias Uller, University of Oxford 11:30-12:00 (30min) › Parental Effects II: Philosophical and Scientific perspectives - General discussion, with all the participants of sessions I and II 12:00-12:30 (30min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) From Neurons to Knowledge B Amphi Jean Rey Chairs: Robert C. Richardson & Christopher A. Shaw › The neuroplasticity – neuropathology continuum: an alternative view on learning and memory formation - Isabella Sarto-Jackson, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research 11:00-11:45 (45min) › Neuro-Science vs. Folk Psychology: From Deadlock to Well-moderated Controversy - Katherina Zakravsky, University of Vienna, Dept. Philosophy, Philosophical Institute 11:45-12:30 (45min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Dialogue Samir Okasha - François Rousset Amphi Physio Theme: Adaptation and Optimality 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Clustering Humans Colloque 1 Chair: Hallam Stevens › Human Genetic Clustering and Ontological Inference - Quayshawn Spencer, University of San Francisco 11:00-11:20 (20min) › Human Genetic Diversity: Fact and Fallacy - Lisa Gannett, Saint Mary's University 11:20-11:40 (20min) › Genetic Clustering and the Definition of 'Race' - Adam Hochman, The University of Sydney 11:40-12:00 (20min) › The Israeli population-geneticists' conceptualisation of “Jewish Difference” - 1945-2012. - Snait Gissis, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University 12:00-12:20 (20min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Doing Science Without Natural Kinds (RT) Colloque 2 Participants: Tekin Serife, Machery Edouard, Rice Collin Student Advisory Workshop 12:30 - 14:30 (2h) Student Advisory Workshop Location: Colloque 1 Two plenary talks: "Ecology and Conservation Biology" 14:30 - 16:30 (2h) Two plenary talks: "Ecology and Conservation Biology" Amphi Giraud Isabelle Olivieri (University of Montpellier 2, France); Michel Loreau (Station d’Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS, Moulis, France) Teaching Biology C (submitted papers) Predictive ecology in a changing world: from data to practices Anthropological Ecology (submitted papers) Topics in the Philosophy of Behavioural Biology Biomobilites – travel, movement and relationality in the emergence of contemporary biological materials and knowledges An Example of "Citizen Science" (submitted papers) Working in biology: how laboratory and field practices shape biological knowledge Cancer and Viruses (submitted papers) Challenges for Molecular Biology (submitted papers) The Resistance of the Modern Synthesis (submitted papers) Antimetabolites, Magic Bullets & New Ways to Diagnosis (submitted papers) Charles Darwin and the Scientific Revolution From Groups to Individuals: Evolution and Emerging Individuality (RT) 17:00 - 18:30 (1h30) Teaching Biology C (submitted papers) 001 › The teaching of evolution in Mexico - Erica Torrens, Facultad de Ciencias 17:00-17:20 (20min) › Advisability of training course “The history of bacterial phytopathology” in higher education institutions - Vira Gamaliia, Borys Grinchenko Kiev University - Oksana Zabuga, D.F.Chebotarev State Institute of Gerontology NAMS of Ukraine 17:20-17:40 (20min) › Retrospective survey of ethical conceptions' development in the system “man – environment” - Yurij Duplenko, National University “Kyiv Mohуla Academy” - Svitlana Ruda, Institute of Art Modelling and Design 17:40-18:00 (20min) › Creative Nonfiction, Excerpt and Methodology - Melinda Gormley, University of Notre Dame 18:00-18:20 (20min) 17:00 - 18:30 (1h30) Predictive ecology in a changing world: from data to practices 002 Chair: Virginie Maris › When the bio-sphere becomes a data-sphere: quantifying nature for big ecology - Vincent Devictor, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution - Montpellier 17:00-17:30 (30min) › The two meanings of “prediction” and their consequences in ecological science - Sarah Calba, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution - Montpellier, Centre d'écologie fonctionnelle et évolutive 17:30-18:00 (30min) › The methodological individualism of individual-based modeling in ecology - James Justus, Florida State University 18:00-18:30 (30min) 17:00 - 18:30 (1h30) Anthropological Ecology (submitted papers) 003 › Cultivated plants and culture: Hypotheses of the origin of bread wheat - Kaori Iida, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies 17:00-17:20 (20min) › Crop diversity patterns as a mirror of communities' social organization: an illustration from the Tharaka people of Mount-Kenya region - Vanesse Labeyrie, CIRAD 17:20-17:40 (20min) › Models of plant-human interaction and the characterization of the indigenous knower in ethnobiology. - Diego Méndez, Departamento de Ciencias de la Comunicación. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Cuajimalpa 17:40-18:00 (20min) › Optimal Foraging Models and The Impact of Culture on Behavioral Variation - Kenneth Vernon, University of Utah 18:00-18:20 (20min) 17:00 - 18:30 (1h30) Topics in the Philosophy of Behavioural Biology 004 Chair: Ivan Dario Gonzalez Cabrera › Simple learning systems and evolvability: Why culture isn't all that matters - Rachael Brown, Australian National University 17:00-17:30 (30min) › The role of psychological vs. behavioral approaches to studying the evolution of cognition - Catherine Driscoll, North Carolina State University 17:30-18:00 (30min) › Can Altruism be Unified? - Grant Ramsey, University of Notre Dame 18:00-18:30 (30min) 17:00 - 18:30 (1h30) Biomobilites – travel, movement and relationality in the emergence of contemporary biological materials and knowledges 005 Chair: Rachel Ankeny › Cutting off the circulation: ordering and managing excessive evidence - Megan Clinch, The Open University 17:00-17:30 (30min) › The biomobile brain – on the pragmatics and politics of travelling between the neural and social sciences - Des Fitzgerald, Interacting Minds Centre, University of Aarhus 17:30-18:00 (30min) › Before and After the Return: Repatriating Indigenous DNA - Amy Hinterberger, University of Oxford 18:00-18:30 (30min) 17:00 - 18:30 (1h30) An Example of "Citizen Science" (submitted papers) 006 › Citizen Science in a Democracy - Pamela Henson, Smithsonian Institution 17:00-17:45 (45min) › Technology and Access: Naturalists in the Backyard - Gabrielle Graham, Florida State University 17:45-18:30 (45min) 17:00 - 18:30 (1h30) Working in biology: how laboratory and field practices shape biological knowledge 008 Chair: Raf de Bont › The mouse multiple: Intersections of welfare practices and experimental practices in the animal neuroscience laboratory - Nicole Nelson, McGill University 17:00-17:20 (20min) › Pregnancy testing with toads: Sourcing strategies of competing laboratories in postwar Britain - Jesse Olszynko-Gryn, Jesse Olszynko-Gryn 17:20-17:40 (20min) › A Feel for the Numbers: the Data and Discourse of Mark/Recapture Studies - Kristoffer Whitney, Holtz Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison 17:40-18:00 (20min) › Creativity in the paleobiology laboratory: why fossil preparators compare themselves to Michelangelo - Caitlin Wylie, New Jersey Institute of Technology 18:00-18:20 (20min) 17:00 - 18:30 (1h30) Cancer and Viruses (submitted papers) 125 › Cancers, viruses, and the contrastive model of disease - Alex Broadbent, University of Cambridge (HPS), University of Johannesburg (Philosophy) 17:00-17:30 (30min) › Political Viruses: RNA Tumor Viruses and the War on Cancer - Robin Scheffler, Yale University [New Haven] 17:30-18:00 (30min) › The virus, the prisoners, and the past: Historical ontology and the craft of history through the case of cancer virus - Laura Stark, Vanderbilt University 18:00-18:30 (30min) 17:00 - 18:30 (1h30) Challenges for Molecular Biology (submitted papers) 127 › Prevalence-knowledge and the changing store of molecular biology - Pierre-Luc Germain, Università degli studi di Milano, European School of Molecular Medicine 17:00-17:20 (20min) › The central dogma and its implications for gene-centrism revisited: from DNA-centrism to NA-centrism - Alexis De Tiège, Ghent University 17:20-17:40 (20min) › The gene after encode: a Wittgensteinian approach - Emanuele Ratti, European School of Molecular Medicine - Federico Boem, European School of Molecular Medicine 17:40-18:00 (20min) › Can Ecology Inform Molecular Biology? - Marco Nathan, University of Denver 18:00-18:20 (20min) 17:00 - 18:30 (1h30) The Resistance of the Modern Synthesis (submitted papers) 214 › The adaptive landscape as a unificatory tool - Stefan Petkov, The Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge at Bulgarian Academy of Science 17:00-17:30 (30min) › Niche Construction and the Insides and Outsides of the Modern Synthesis - Lynn Chiu, University of Missouri 17:30-18:00 (30min) › At the boundary of sexual selection: examining the evolutionary explanations for the absence of the human baculum - Edwin Siu, Florida State University 18:00-18:30 (30min) 17:00 - 18:30 (1h30) Antimetabolites, Magic Bullets & New Ways to Diagnosis (submitted papers) Actes › Using integrated history and philosophy to inform diagnostic medicine: The case of heart failure - Nicholas Binney, University of Exeter 17:00-17:20 (20min) › The right drugs for the job : the use of antimetabolites in biological research (1940-1960) - Thibaut Serviant-Fine, Sciences et Société ; Historicité, Éducation et Pratiques 17:20-17:40 (20min) › Theoretical Assumptions and Instrumental Strategies in Early Detection of Cancer - Ronan Le Roux, Cetcopra EA 2483 17:40-18:00 (20min) › Magic Bullets - Jacob Stegenga, University of Utah 18:00-18:20 (20min) 17:00 - 18:30 (1h30) Charles Darwin and the Scientific Revolution Colloque 1 Chair: Stéphane Tirard › Darwin and the Mechanical Philosophy: Likening Nature to Artifice - Andrew Inkpen, University of British Columbia 17:00-17:30 (30min) › Darwin's Experimentalism - Richard Richards, University of Alabama 17:30-18:00 (30min) › Charles Darwin's Particular Theory of Evolution - Richard Delisle, Richard G. Delisle 18:00-18:30 (30min) 17:00 - 18:30 (1h30) From Groups to Individuals: Evolution and Emerging Individuality (RT) Colloque 2 Participants: Frédéric Bouchard, Ellen Clarke, Charles J. Goodnight, Matt Haber, Philippe Huneman, Thomas Pradeu, Minus van Baalen, Scott Turner. Chair: Sylvia de Monte Public lecture (open to everyone, in French): Le déluge informationnel: Une opportunité pour des sciences expérimentales participatives? (Location: "Jacques 1er d’Aragon” room, Port Marianne 117, rue des états généraux, 34000 Montpellier) 20:00 - 22:00 (2h) Public lecture (open to everyone, in French): Le déluge informationnel: Une opportunité pour des sciences expérimentales participatives? (Location: "Jacques 1er d’Aragon” room, Port Marianne 117, rue des états généraux, 34000 Montpellier) Jacques 1er d'Aragon Bruno Strasser	Criticisms Addressed to Evolutionary Psychology (submitted papers) Anger : new insights on a very old notion A Longue Durée History of the Cell Epigenetics and Its Challenges A (submitted papers) General Issues in Philosophy of Biology A (submitted papers) Emergence and Downward Determination in Biological Systems? Cultural Evolution Ethics and Its Difficulties (submitted papers) Reconceptions: Life at the Frontiers of Health and Disease On the Expansion of the Modern Synthesis ca. 1960-1979, Session I Ecology and Evolution: How Ecology Matters Degeneration: Rethinking Teleological Conceptions of Living Organisms 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Criticisms Addressed to Evolutionary Psychology (submitted papers) 001 › The Difference Between Ice Cream and Nazis: Evolution and the 'Hard Problem' of Human Moral Psychology - P. Kyle Stanford, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science/UC Irvine 09:00-09:30 (30min) › Why psychiatrists shouldn't care about evolutionary psychiatry. - Andreas De Block, University of Leuven 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Deep homology in mirror neurons? Epistemic problems with the extrapolation of evo-devo schemes in cognitive science - Bernardo Yañez, Centro de Estudios Filosóficos Políticos y Sociales Vicente Lombardo Toledano 10:00-10:30 (30min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Anger : new insights on a very old notion 001 › Anger and personality test : A psychological investigation - Nathalie Blanc, Université Montpellier 3 09:00-09:30 (30min) › Anger in vitalist thought : Jacques Lordat and the question of passions - Thierry Lavabre-Bertrand, University Montpellier I, Faculty of Medicine 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Anger and genes : a philosophical inquiry - Pascal Nouvel, Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier 10:00-10:30 (30min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) A Longue Durée History of the Cell 002 Chair: François Duchesneau › Restricted individuality. Individuals and supra-individual order in German Naturphilosophie - Susanne Lettow 09:00-09:20 (20min) › Latent Life of Organisms and the Cell Scale During the XIXth Century - Stéphane Tirard, Université de Nantes 09:20-09:40 (20min) › Exploring the History of the Cell from a Transnational and Local Perspective - Marion THOMAS, Université de Strasbourg - Florence Vienne, Technische Universität Braunschweig 09:40-10:00 (20min) › Stem Cell Research and the Embryo. Conceptual and Practical Shifts in the 1970s - Christina Brandt, Ruhr University Bochum, Mercator Research Group & Institute of Philosophy I 10:00-10:20 (20min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Epigenetics and Its Challenges A (submitted papers) 003 › Epigenetics: a view from social theory - Maurizio Meloni, University of Nottingham 09:00-09:45 (45min) › Heredity without parents and offspring - Mathieu Charbonneau, Konrad Lorez Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research 09:45-10:30 (45min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) General Issues in Philosophy of Biology A (submitted papers) 004 › Multilevel Causation and the Extended Synthesis - Maximiliano Martinez, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana - Maurizio Esposito, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 09:00-09:20 (20min) › Toward a Propensity Interpretation of Stochastic Mechanism: Lessons from Fitness and Drift - Lane DesAutels, University of Maryland, College Park 09:20-09:40 (20min) › Idealized Models, Explanatory Roles, and Realism - Collin Rice, University of Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science 09:40-10:00 (20min) › Causal Selection versus Causal Parity: Relevant Counterfactuals and Biologically Normal Interventions - Marcel Weber, Department of Philosophy 10:00-10:20 (20min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Emergence and Downward Determination in Biological Systems? 005 Chair: Akihisa Setoguchi › Dynamic notions of emergence: interplay of entropic driving principle and environmental/genetic constraints over the hierarchy of life - Naoki Sato, Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, University of Tokyo 09:00-09:30 (30min) › Ecosystem downwardly affects adaptive evolution - Toshiyuki Nakajima, Ehime University 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Emergence and Downward Determination from a Philosophical Point of View - Shunkichi Matsumoto, Tokai University 10:00-10:30 (30min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Cultural Evolution 006 Chair: Adrian Boutel › The Kinetic Theory of Culture - Tim Lewens, University of Cambridge 09:00-09:30 (30min) › Expertise, Extension, Evolution - Andrew Buskell, University of Cambridge 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Methodological Individualism and Group Selection - Christopher Clarke, University of Cambridge 10:00-10:30 (30min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Ethics and Its Difficulties (submitted papers) 008 › Backtracking and the Ethics of Framing: Lessons from Voles and Vasopressin - Daniel McKaughan, Boston College 09:00-09:30 (30min) › Aristotle on the Material and Efficient Causes of Character - Julie Ponesse, SUNY Brockport 09:30-10:00 (30min) › The Menace of Magisteria - Richard Creath, Richard Creath 10:00-10:30 (30min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Reconceptions: Life at the Frontiers of Health and Disease Amphi 8 Chairs: Alex Broadbent & Scott Podolsky › Pathogens as Evolving Entities: Taking the ‘Microbe's View of Infection' Seriously - Pierre-Olivier Methot, Institute for the History of Medicine and Health 09:00-09:30 (30min) › Reconceptualizing viruses against the shifting sands of opposing thought styles in cancer etiology and bacteriology - Neeraja Sankaran, Yonsei University 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Life in harmony: The balancing role of the immune system - Bartlomiej Swiatczak, Bartlomiej Swiatczak 10:00-10:30 (30min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) On the Expansion of the Modern Synthesis ca. 1960-1979, Session I Amphi Jean Rey Chair: Michael Dietrich › The Creativity of Natural Selection? Darwin, the Synthesis, and Since - John Beatty, University of British Columbia 09:00-09:30 (30min) › A bibliometric enquiry about the Modern Synthesis (1947-2010): results and questions - Jean Gayon, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Going Molecular in Evolutionary Biology: techniques, objects, concepts and theories between 1960 and 1970. - Edna Suarez-Díaz, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico 10:00-10:30 (30min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Ecology and Evolution: How Ecology Matters Amphi Physio Chair: Stephan Linquist › Life history evolution in metapopulations - Ophelie Ronce, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution UMR5554 09:00-09:20 (20min) › Ecological Experiments that Inform Evolution: A Typology - Roberta Millstein, University of California, Davis 09:20-09:40 (20min) › Chaos and Unpredictability in Evolution - Michael Doebeli, University of British Columbia 09:40-10:00 (20min) › When Does Ecology Matter? The Stories of Fisher and Wright - Alirio Rosales, University of British Columbia 10:00-10:20 (20min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Degeneration: Rethinking Teleological Conceptions of Living Organisms Colloque 2 Chair: Gordon McQuat › Heredity and Deviation in the Life Sciences around 1800 - Staffan Mueller-Wille, University of Exeter 09:00-09:30 (30min) › Treviranus' Biology: Degeneration and the Boundaries of Life - Joan Steigerwald, York University 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Early 19th century Animal and Plant Breeders' views on Variation, Degeneration and Teleology - Tarquin Holmes, University of Exeter 10:00-10:30 (30min) Epigenetics and Its Challenges B (submitted papers) Testing the ZFEL in a Macro-evolutionary Context The Organism Problem between Life Sciences and Philosophy of Nature around 1800 General Issues in Philosophy of Biology B (submitted papers) Metaphors and Models in Evolutionary Biology Issues in Biological Modeling--Mechanisms, Simulations and Target Systems The Nature of Living Systems (submitted papers) History and Philosophy of Medical Practice (the 19th century-today) (submitted papers) Evolution's narratives (RT) On the Expansion of the Modern Synthesis ca. 1960-1979, Session II Dialogue William Bechtel - Carl Craver HPS Informatics Demonstrations (RT) Microbes as model systems 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Epigenetics and Its Challenges B (submitted papers) 003 › Dissecting the explanatory power of epigenetics - Jan Baedke, Ruhr University Bochum 11:00-11:30 (30min) › Conductor´s baton: The meaning of the cell cycle for development, inheritance and evolution - Sebastian Gaub, Technical University Kaiserslautern 11:30-12:00 (30min) › Towards an extended epigenetics perspective - Xochitl Arteaga-Villamil, Posgrado en filosofía de la ciencia 12:00-12:30 (30min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Testing the ZFEL in a Macro-evolutionary Context 004 Chair: Matthew Haber › Quantifying the Zero Force Evolutionary Law - Leonore Fleming, Duke university [Durham] 11:00-11:45 (45min) › Testing the ZFEL in a Macro-evolutionary Context - Robert Brandon, Duke university [Durham] 11:45-12:30 (45min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) The Organism Problem between Life Sciences and Philosophy of Nature around 1800 005 Chair: Charles Wolfe › Blumenbach: Teleology and the Laws of Vital Organization - François Duchesneau, Université de Montréal 11:00-11:30 (30min) › Schelling, Oken and the Problem of Animal Classification - Andrea Gambarotto, Andrea Gambarotto, IHPST 11:30-12:00 (30min) › Hegel's Theory of Organism - Luca Illetterati, Università di Padova 12:00-12:30 (30min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) General Issues in Philosophy of Biology B (submitted papers) 006 › Morgan's Munificent Canon - Devin Sanchez Curry, University of Pennsylvania 11:00-11:20 (20min) › Biological Kinds, Physico-chemical Kinds - Jordan Bartol, University of Leeds 11:20-11:40 (20min) › Astrobiology and the Evolutionary Contingency Thesis - Cory Lewis, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science (University of Toronto) 11:40-12:00 (20min) › Biological essentialism, evolutionary theory and the roles of different sorts of essences - Edit Talpsepp, University of Bristol 12:00-12:20 (20min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Metaphors and Models in Evolutionary Biology 007 Chair: Snait Gissis › Why is Metaphor like a Model? Epistemic and Cognitive Uses of Scientific Metaphors - Ehud Lamm, Tel Aviv University 11:00-11:30 (30min) › Metaphor and the Evolved Mind: The Case of Darwin's "Tree of Life" - Greg Priest, Stanford University 11:30-12:00 (30min) › How the Mouse Lost its Tail: A Brief History of Lamarckophobia - Jessica Riskin, History Department, Stanford University 12:00-12:30 (30min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Issues in Biological Modeling--Mechanisms, Simulations and Target Systems 008 Chair: Michael Hunter › What is the Target of a Generlized Model? - Alkistis Elliott-Graves, University of Pennsylvania 11:00-11:45 (45min) › Trading Fiction for Performance: How to Understand Computer Simulations of Ecological Systems - Shawn Miller, University of California , Davis 11:45-12:30 (45min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) The Nature of Living Systems (submitted papers) 125 › On minimal regulation in biological systems - Leonardo Bich, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, IAS-Research Centre for Life, Mind and Society - University of the Basque Country 11:00-11:30 (30min) › The ontophylogenetics of J.-J. Kupiec. In between historicism and determinism of the surroundings. - José Carlos Gutierrez Privat, Assistant Professor 11:30-12:00 (30min) › The problem of time in theories of organic self-organization and self-maintenance - Francisco Güell, Instituto Cultura y Sociedad 12:00-12:30 (30min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) History and Philosophy of Medical Practice (the 19th century-today) (submitted papers) Actes › Disease Avatars: the epistemology of cell reprogramming-based disease models - Giuseppe Testa, European Institute of Oncology, Research Group on Biomedical Humanities 11:00-11:30 (30min) › Why so long to abandon bloodletting, and why the relative lack of influence of the work of P.C.A Louis on its use? Reflections on whiggish queries in the history of medicine and biology. - Ernest B. Hook, University of California 11:30-12:00 (30min) › Cancer as a complex disease and a transdisciplinary challenge: ontological, epistemological and sociological implications - Edgar Valadez Blanco, PhD Student, Professor 12:00-12:30 (30min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Evolution's narratives (RT) Amphi 8 Jan Sapp, Michael Bradie, Charbel Niño El-Hani. Chair: Nathalie Gontier 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) On the Expansion of the Modern Synthesis ca. 1960-1979, Session II Amphi Jean Rey Chair: Roberta Millstein › To what extent – and why – did the Modern Synthesis give Developmental Biology short shrift, 1960-1980? - Richard BURIAN, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 11:00-11:30 (30min) › Best-behaved ethology? Behavioural ecology and the modern synthesis - Frank Cezilly, Biogéosciences 11:30-12:00 (30min) › The Changing Ideological Context of the Modern Synthesis - David Depew, University of Iowa 12:00-12:30 (30min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Dialogue William Bechtel - Carl Craver Amphi Physio Theme: What Roles Do Mathematical/Computational Models Play in Mechanistic Explanation? 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) HPS Informatics Demonstrations (RT) Colloque 1 Organized by Jane Maienschein 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Microbes as model systems Colloque 2 Chair: Arnon Levy › What microbes can model - Jessica Bolker, Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Hampshire 11:00-11:20 (20min) › How general is social evolution? - Gregory Velicer, Eldgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich 11:20-11:40 (20min) › Experimental Evolution of Multicellularity - Michael Travisano, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior [University of Minnesota] 11:40-12:00 (20min) › Beyond Tractability: Microbes as Model Systems - Maureen O'Malley, University of Sydney 12:00-12:20 (20min) Graduate Student Meeting 12:30 - 14:30 (2h) Graduate Student Meeting Location: Colloque 1 Reasoning with Diagrams in Biology Origins of Life Figures in the History of Cell and Molecular Biology A (submitted papers) Taxonomy and Phylogeny (submitted papers) Explaining adaptation: Organism/environment interactions accross time and spatial scales General Issues in Philosophy of Biology C (submitted papers) General Philosophical Issues Raised By the Theory of Evolution A (submitted papers) Issues with causation in Biology Biodiversity, Conservation, and Sustainable Development (submitted papers) Issues Raised by Synthetic Biology (submitted papers) Organisms, Individuality, and Personality A (submitted papers) Roundtable on Elliott Sober's book "Did Darwin write the Origin Backwards" (RT) Exploring the evolution of culture and social behavior A Complex Diseases: Evolutionary Models, Systems, and Explanations 14:30 - 16:00 (1h30) Reasoning with Diagrams in Biology 001 › Novice and Expert Understandings of Space in Scientific Diagrams - Ben Sheredos, UC San Diego, Department of Philosophy 14:30-15:00 (30min) › Between Phenomenon and Mechanism: Diagrams as Vehicles of Intermediate Explanatory Reasoning - Daniel Burnston, University of California, San Diego 15:00-15:30 (30min) › Diagrams and the production of visual evidence - Perini Laura, Pomona College 15:30-16:00 (30min) 14:30 - 16:00 (1h30) Origins of Life 002 Chair: TBA › Going Live: The Origin of (Artificial) Life - Robert Pennock, Michigan State University 14:30-14:50 (20min) › What is the driving force for life's emergence? - Robert Pascal, Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron 14:50-15:10 (20min) › On the origins of autonomy: protocells as the first forms of functional integration - Sara Murillo Sánchez, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of the Basque Country 15:10-15:30 (20min) › Flying Mother Nature's Seed Into a New Home Near the Sun - Christian Orlic, Michigan State University 15:30-15:50 (20min) 14:30 - 16:00 (1h30) Figures in the History of Cell and Molecular Biology A (submitted papers) 003 › Edmund Beecher Wilson: Amphioxus, the comparative and the exemplary - James Lowe, University of Exeter 14:30-15:00 (30min) › Wilhelm Roux's "The Struggle of the Parts in the Organism": a physiological synthesis of Darwinism - Ghyslain Bolduc, Université de Montréal 15:00-15:30 (30min) › Biometrics: the controversy on telomere length as biomarker of aging - Tiago Moreira, Durham University 15:30-16:00 (30min) 14:30 - 16:00 (1h30) Taxonomy and Phylogeny (submitted papers) 004 › Phylogeny and the Straight Rule of Induction - John Wilkins 14:30-14:50 (20min) › How Should Phylogeny Guide Biodiversity Conservation? - James Maclaurin, Department of Philosophy, University of Otago 14:50-15:10 (20min) › Phylogenetic ancestors - René Zaragüeta Bagils, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 15:10-15:30 (20min) › Hierarchies and orders in systematics and phylogenetics - Stéphane Prin, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 15:30-15:50 (20min) 14:30 - 16:00 (1h30) Explaining adaptation: Organism/environment interactions accross time and spatial scales 005 Chair: Francesca Merlin › Explaining the emergence of a global order out of biosphere-environment interactions: a critical appraisal of the Gaïa hypothesis theoretical foundations. - Sebastien Dutreuil, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne 14:30-15:00 (30min) › Niche construction theory and the concept of adaptation without selection - Arnaud Pocheville, Laboratory Ecology & Evolution 15:00-15:30 (30min) › The extended organism. Scale, adaptation, and the nature of the individual. - Scott Turner, State University of New York 15:30-16:00 (30min) 14:30 - 16:00 (1h30) General Issues in Philosophy of Biology C (submitted papers) 006 › Narrative Why-Explanations - Gary Fuller, Central Michigan University 14:30-15:00 (30min) › Robustness Redux - Jay Odenbaugh, Lewis & Clark College 15:00-15:30 (30min) › What's in a (natural) valuation? - David Suárez Pascal, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 15:30-16:00 (30min) 14:30 - 16:00 (1h30) General Philosophical Issues Raised By the Theory of Evolution A (submitted papers) 007 › A New Criticism of the Paradigm of Science as Requiring Paradigms - Sheldon Richmond, Independent Scholar 14:30-15:00 (30min) › Three Kinds of Constructionism: The Role of Analogies and Metaphor in the Debate over Niche Constructionism - Emanuele Archetti, University of Leeds 15:00-15:30 (30min) › The Moral of the Story: What Does the Evolutionary Contingency Thesis Teach Us About Biological Laws? - Jake Wright, University of Missouri - Department of Philosophy 15:30-16:00 (30min) 14:30 - 16:00 (1h30) Issues with causation in Biology 008 Chair: Benjamin Jantzen › Prospects of recommending management interventions on the basis of formal population viability analysis with scarce data. - Wes Anderson, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Center for Biology and Society, History and Philosophy of Science 14:30-15:00 (30min) › Population Size, Type Number, and Evolutionary Outcomes - Bruce Glymour, Kansas State University 15:00-15:30 (30min) › Integrating proximate/ultimate causation - Jun Otsuka, Indiana University 15:30-16:00 (30min) 14:30 - 16:00 (1h30) Biodiversity, Conservation, and Sustainable Development (submitted papers) 125 › Save the planet: eliminate biodiversity - Carlos Santana, University of Pennsylvania 14:30-15:00 (30min) › From ‘Anthropological Natural Monuments' to ‘Ecosystem People': Hunter Gatherers and the Discourse of International Nature Conservation - Raf De Bont, Maastricht University 15:00-15:30 (30min) › The Scientific and Technological Knowledge as a Common Good: Towards a “Sustainable Socially Justifiable Development”. - Carlo Marcello Almeyra, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México - Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas - Facultad de Ciencias 15:30-16:00 (30min) 14:30 - 16:00 (1h30) Issues Raised by Synthetic Biology (submitted papers) 127 › Synthetic biology and the almighty fixers - Susie Fisher, The Open University of Israel 14:30-14:50 (20min) › Is the Creation of Artificial Life Morally Significant? - Thomas Douglas, Oxford University - Russell Powell, Boston University 14:50-15:10 (20min) › Functions in Biological Artifacts - Sune Holm, Philosophy Section, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication 15:10-15:30 (20min) › From rational to random re-composition: two design principles in synthetic biology - Tero Ijäs, University of Helsinki 15:30-15:50 (20min) 14:30 - 16:00 (1h30) Organisms, Individuality, and Personality A (submitted papers) 209 › Immune tolerance as a developmental process -- innate immune system and gut bacteria interactions - Tami Schneider, Cohn institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University 14:30-15:00 (30min) › Ecosystems Unto Ourselves: the concept “organism” in the age of individualized medicine, targeted therapies, and the microbiome. - Julio Tuma, University of Pennsylvania 15:00-15:30 (30min) › From cohesion to collaboration:how to define biological individuality - Thiago Hutter, Université de Montréal 15:30-16:00 (30min) 14:30 - 16:00 (1h30) Roundtable on Elliott Sober's book "Did Darwin write the Origin Backwards" (RT) Amphi Physio Participants: Jean Gayon, Tim Lewens, Samir Okasha; Reply: Elliot Sober 14:30 - 16:00 (1h30) Exploring the evolution of culture and social behavior A Colloque 1 Chair: Sarah Richardson › Explanatory Appeals to Hormones in Evolutionary Anthropology. - Stephen Downes, University of Utah 14:30-15:00 (30min) › Fitness measures and the evolution of social behavior - Patrick Forber, Philosophy, Tufts University 15:00-15:30 (30min) › Learning to Spite and the Evolution of Envy - Rory Smead, Northeastern University 15:30-16:00 (30min) 14:30 - 16:00 (1h30) Complex Diseases: Evolutionary Models, Systems, and Explanations Colloque 2 Chair: Sandra D. Mitchell › Explaining Obesity: Implications for Treatment and Prevention - Robert Skipper, University of Cincinnati 14:30-14:50 (20min) › The Ecology and Evolution of Cancer - Anya Plutynski, University of Utah 14:50-15:10 (20min) › Recent reemergence of an evolutionary model of cancer growth - Michel Morange, CIRPHLES 15:10-15:30 (20min) › The impact of biological uncertainty on our understanding of complex biological systems. Cancer as a paradigmatic case. - Marta Bertolaso, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome 15:30-15:50 (20min) Information, how meaningful it is? (RT) Conceptual transfers and parallelism in Evolutionary biology and economics (RT) Figures in the History of Cell and Molecular Biology B (submitted papers) Conceptual Challenges for Human Microbiome Research The explanatory role of mathematical and dynamical models in molecular and cell biology General issues in philosophy of Biology D (submitted papers) General Philosophical Issues Raised By the Theory of Evolution B (submitted papers) Perspectives on Extinction Darwinian Ethics and Its Challenges (submitted papers) Reductionism, Emergence, and Complexity (submitted papers) Organisms, Individuality, and Personality B (submitted papers) Three Historical Studies on the Place of Microscopic Images (submitted papers) Exploring the evolution of culture and social behavior B Evolutionary transitions as social contracts? (RT) 16:30 - 18:00 (1h30) Information, how meaningful it is? (RT) 001 Participants: Minus Van Baalen, Livio Riboli-Sasco. Chair: Arnaud Pocheville 16:30 - 18:00 (1h30) Conceptual transfers and parallelism in Evolutionary biology and economics (RT) 002 Jean-Baptiste André, Mikael Cozic, Johannes Martens, Silvia De Monte, Bernard Walliser. Chair: Werner Callebaut 16:30 - 18:00 (1h30) Figures in the History of Cell and Molecular Biology B (submitted papers) 003 › Understanding Life: It's Not All Genes; An Examination of the Work and Thought of Daniel Mazia - Sherrie Lyons, sherrie.lyons@esc.edu 16:30-17:15 (45min) › August Weismann's First Embryological Investigations 1861-1866 - Charlotte Weissman, University Tel Aviv Cohn Institute 17:15-18:00 (45min) 16:30 - 18:00 (1h30) Conceptual Challenges for Human Microbiome Research 004 Chair: Lindley Darden; Comments: Chris Diteresi › Changing views on individuality and organismality: A role for the human microbiome - Mark Borrello, University of Minnesota 16:30-17:00 (30min) › Methodology and Ontology in the Human Microbiome Project - John Huss, The University of Akron 17:00-17:30 (30min) › Ecological Metaphors in Microbiome Research - Mark Sagoff, George Mason University 17:30-18:00 (30min) 16:30 - 18:00 (1h30) The explanatory role of mathematical and dynamical models in molecular and cell biology 005 Chair: Stuart Glennan › The Mathematics of Molecular Mechanisms S - Tudor Baetu, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research 16:30-16:50 (20min) › Explaining with mathematical models: the contribution of systems engineering to biology - Pierre-Alain Braillard, Université Lille 1 16:50-17:10 (20min) › The Relevance of Irrelevance: Explanation in Systems Biology - Fridolin Gross, Firc Institute of Molecular Oncology, University of Milan 17:10-17:30 (20min) › Mechanisms, models and explanatory force - Tarik Issad, Institut National de Santé et de Recherche Médicale - Christophe Malaterre, Université du Québec à Montréal 17:30-17:50 (20min) 16:30 - 18:00 (1h30) General issues in philosophy of Biology D (submitted papers) 006 › Are Celibate Priests Fit? The Expanded Gene Hypothesis - Elias Khalil, Monash University 16:30-17:00 (30min) › Non-reductive physicalism and its discontents - Paul Ryan, University of Southampton (Southampton, UK) 17:00-17:30 (30min) › Functions for Representation - Nicholas Shea, King's College London 17:30-18:00 (30min) 16:30 - 18:00 (1h30) General Philosophical Issues Raised By the Theory of Evolution B (submitted papers) 007 › Metaphors and operative definitions. The case of adaptive radiation - Alfonso Arroyo-Santos, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNAM, Center for Geoprospective Information 16:30-17:00 (30min) › Evolutionary Biology and the Axiomatic Method Revisited - Andreea Esanu, University of Bucharest, Department of Theoretical Philosophy 17:00-17:30 (30min) › Natural Selection as Rational Inference - Ryota Morimoto, Department of Letters 17:30-18:00 (30min) 16:30 - 18:00 (1h30) Perspectives on Extinction 008 Chair: Oren Harman › Extinction and the Value of Diversity - David Sepkoski, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science 16:30-16:50 (20min) › Ecosystem functioning and species extinctions - Julien Delord, Chercheur Indépendant 16:50-17:10 (20min) › Once upon a Time: Construction and Realism of K-T Mass Extinction Data - Marco Tamborini, Philosophisches Seminar der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 17:10-17:30 (20min) › The unextinct: Living fossils and their place in evolutionary theory - Derek Turner, Connecticut College 17:30-17:50 (20min) 16:30 - 18:00 (1h30) Darwinian Ethics and Its Challenges (submitted papers) 125 › The Moral Lives of Animals - Michael Bradie, Bowling Green State University 16:30-17:00 (30min) › Evolution and the diversity of moral norms - Justin Bruner, University of California, Irvine 17:00-17:30 (30min) › Descriptive and Prescriptive Darwinian Ethics - Jorge Oseguera Gamba, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM 17:30-18:00 (30min) 16:30 - 18:00 (1h30) Reductionism, Emergence, and Complexity (submitted papers) 127 › Complex systems: A causal approach to biological species - Elizabeth Martinez-Bautista, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas--UNAM 16:30-16:50 (20min) › Approaches based on complexity darken rather than solve the mind-body problem - Carlos Blanco, Instituto de Cultura y Sociedad 16:50-17:10 (20min) › The Bilaterian Body Plan and the Evolution of Intrinsic Intentionality - Alex Levine, University of South Florida 17:10-17:30 (20min) › Reductionism, eliminativism, and the concept of life in Descartes' biology - Barnaby Hutchins, Ghent University 17:30-17:50 (20min) 16:30 - 18:00 (1h30) Organisms, Individuality, and Personality B (submitted papers) 209 › Does plant genetic diversity shed light on plant individuality? - Sophie Gerber, INRA-Univ Bordeaux 16:30-17:00 (30min) › Autonomy and Multicellular Organisms - Argyris Arnellos, IAS-Research Center for Life, Mind and Society 17:00-17:30 (30min) › Bacteria Cognition and Natural Agency - Fermin Fulda, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto 17:30-18:00 (30min) 16:30 - 18:00 (1h30) Three Historical Studies on the Place of Microscopic Images (submitted papers) 214 › The soft entrance of photography into the serious world of science at the Naples Station - Christiane Groeben, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn 16:30-17:00 (30min) › Usage of photography by the biologist Wilhelm Giesbrecht – scientific instrument or documentation device? - Katharina Steiner, Universität Zürich 17:00-17:30 (30min) › Disposition and Morphology: Imagen and classification in 18th century. - Nuria Valverde Pérez, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana- Unidad Cuajimalpa 17:30-18:00 (30min) 16:30 - 18:00 (1h30) Exploring the evolution of culture and social behavior B Colloque 1 Chair: Sarah Richardson › Patterns of Discordance - Matt Haber, University of Utah 16:30-17:00 (30min) › Cultural phylogenetics: bringing anthropology, linguistics and biology together to understand cultural evolution - Fiona Jordan, Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Bristol 17:00-17:30 (30min) › The Logic of Research Questions: Adaptationism, the Null Hypothesis, and the Lack of a Stopping Rule - Elisabeth Lloyd, History and Philosophy of Science- Indiana University 17:30-18:00 (30min) 16:30 - 18:00 (1h30) Evolutionary transitions as social contracts? (RT) Colloque 2 Participants: Marion Blute, Daniel Brooks, Alejandro Rosas, Eörs Szathmáry, Richard A. Watson. Chair: Peter Godfrey-Smith	Systems Biology A (submitted papers) Plant Science: Its Role In Biology (RT) Different Facets of Evolutionary Psychology A (submitted papers) The Extension of Evolutionary Theory and Its Difficulties A (submitted papers) Conceptual Issues in Ecology A (submitted papers) Mechanistic Explanations A (submitted papers) A comparative history of evolutionary theories in the mid 20th century The Nature of Cellular Complexity Philosophy of Biology and Biology Education (RT) Ecological explanation at different levels and scales Cultural learning and cultural evolution Frameworks and Representation of Cells and Genes I. Lineages 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Systems Biology A (submitted papers) 001 › Hierarchical approach at the core of organicist and systemic views in biology - Jon Umerez, University of the Basque Country 09:00-09:30 (30min) › Institutional and Epistemic Practices in Systems Biology - Ramya Rajagopalan, Department of Sociology 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Mechanisms in Systems Biology: do they explain enough? - Constantinos Mekios, Stonehill College 10:00-10:30 (30min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Plant Science: Its Role In Biology (RT) 002 Participants: Jean-Francois Briat, Berris Charnley, Bertrand Muller, Staffan Müller-Wille, Francisco Vergara-Silva, Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis. Chair: Sabina Leonelli 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Different Facets of Evolutionary Psychology A (submitted papers) 003 › Phylogenetic Footprints in Organizational Behavior - Ulrich Witt, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena 09:00-09:30 (30min) › Birds Trust Their Wings, Sharks Their Teeth, and Humans Their Minds: The Critical Intelligence Argument Against Naturalism - John Mizzoni, Neumann University 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Conflict resolution in primates from an evolutionary approach - Alba Perez-Ruiz, Centro De Estudios Filosoficos Politicos Y Sociales Lombardo Toledano 10:00-10:30 (30min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) The Extension of Evolutionary Theory and Its Difficulties A (submitted papers) 004 › “Memetics is Dead! Long Live Memetics!”: The importance of conceptual framing in replication-based approaches to evolution - Colin Garvey, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 09:00-09:30 (30min) › The role of analogy in cultural transmission and human dispersal - Marshall Abrams, University of Alabama at Birmingham 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Reciprocal causation or hermeneutic spiral? Anthropological reflections on the theoretical integration of organismic development and niche construction with culture history. - Emily Schultz, St. Cloud State University 10:00-10:30 (30min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Conceptual Issues in Ecology A (submitted papers) 005 › Dynamical kinds and ecological theory - Benjamin Jantzen, Virginia Tech 09:00-09:20 (20min) › But isn't the neutral theory of ecology a null model? - William Bausman, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities 09:20-09:40 (20min) › An organizational account of ecosystem functions - Victor Lefèvre, Université Paris 1 Sorbonne 09:40-10:00 (20min) › Is the neutral theory of community ecology really neutral? - François Munoz, BotAnique et BioinforMatique de l'Architecture des Plantes 10:00-10:20 (20min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Mechanistic Explanations A (submitted papers) 006 › A Salmonian Approach to Mechanistic Explanations - Sarah Roe, University of California, Davis 09:00-09:20 (20min) › Abstract Models, Generic Mechanisms - Catherine Stinson, Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen 09:20-09:40 (20min) › Understanding the "machine metaphor": organizational similarities and differences between machines and living beings - Victor Marques, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio GRande do Sul 09:40-10:00 (20min) › Conflicting Results for Natural Selection and the New Philosophy of Mechanism - Lucas Matthews, University of Utah 10:00-10:20 (20min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) A comparative history of evolutionary theories in the mid 20th century 008 Chair: Miquel Carandell › Falls and rises of evolutionary theories during Franco's regime (1939-1975) - Clara Florensa, Centre d'Estudis d'Història de la Ciència - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 09:00-09:20 (20min) › Evolutionary theories in Portugal during the dictatorial regime (1933-1974) I – Portuguese botanists' differentiated stances towards evolution - Pedro Fonseca, FCT; CEIS20-University of Coimbra 09:20-09:40 (20min) › Evolutionary theories in Portugal during the dictatorial regime (1933-1974) II – Portuguese zoologists' differentiated stances towards evolution - Pedro Fonseca, FCT; CEIS20-University of Coimbra 09:40-10:00 (20min) › Microevolution on microscales: shifting views of the temporal and spatial scales of evolution in British genecology - Erick Peirson, Arizona State University 10:00-10:20 (20min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) The Nature of Cellular Complexity Amphi 8 Chair: Giovanni Boniolo & Ana Soto › Mechanicism vs. Organicism: Two Views of the Cell - Daniel Nicholson, Tel Aviv University 09:00-09:20 (20min) › The cell: between constraints and stochasticity - Jean-Jacques Kupiec, Centre Cavaillès, CIRPHLES, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris 09:20-09:40 (20min) › Demonstrated, predictable, information-rich: why biologists should not be afraid of stochasticity in gene expression - Olivier Gandrillon, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, Centre de Génétique et de Physiologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire 09:40-10:00 (20min) › The role of cell environment in controlling stochastic gene expression through the metabolism. - Andras Paldi, Inserm, UMRS 951, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes 10:00-10:20 (20min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Philosophy of Biology and Biology Education (RT) Amphi Jean Rey Participants: Ingo Brigandt, Richard Burian, David Depew, Annie Jamieson, Alan Love, Anya Plutynski, Michael Ruse, Tobias Uller, Kostas Kampourakis. Chair: Thomas Reydon. 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Ecological explanation at different levels and scales Amphi Physio Chair: Patrick Forber & Ryan Gregory › Distinguishing ecological from evolutionary approaches to transposable elements - Stefan Linquist, Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph 09:00-09:30 (30min) › Generality in community ecology - Karl Cottenie, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph 09:30-10:00 (30min) › The problem of pattern and scale in ecology: what have we learned in 20 years? - Jérôme Chave, Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB) 10:00-10:30 (30min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Cultural learning and cultural evolution Colloque 1 Chair: Beth Hannon › Social Learning and Human Cooperation - Kim Sterelny, Austalian National University 09:00-09:30 (30min) › Morality, evolution and culture - Matteo Mameli, King's College London 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Cultural inheritance of mentalizing - Cecilia Heyes, All Souls College, University of Oxford 10:00-10:30 (30min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Frameworks and Representation of Cells and Genes I. Lineages Colloque 2 Chair: Denis Thieffry › Stem trees, stem lines, stem cells - Ernst Haeckel´s and August Weismann´s legacy to stem cell research - Ariane Dröscher, Dep. of History Cultures Civilizations (Bologna) 09:00-09:30 (30min) › Between Molecular Ecology and Cytophysics - Sabine Brauckmann, Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Justifying molecular imagery in cell biology: Goodsell vs Roberts - Norberto Serpente, Department of Science and Technology Studies University College London 10:00-10:30 (30min) Systems Biology B (submitted papers) Different Facets of Evolutionary Psychology B (submitted papers) The Extension of Evolutionary Theory and Its Difficulties B (submitted papers) Conceptual Issues in Ecology B (submitted papers) Mechanistic Explanations B (submitted papers) Genetics: Ethical Issues (submitted papers) Transhumanism (submitted papers) History and Philosophy of Life sciences, 19th-20th century (submitted papers) Social microbes Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Cognition, and Culture Patenting Life: genes and generations (RT) Frameworks and Representation of Cell and Genes II. Networks 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Systems Biology B (submitted papers) 001 › Metabolic data and mathematical models - Josephine Donaghy, University of Exeter 11:00-11:20 (20min) › Systems biology and the limits of philosophical accounts of mechanistic explanation - Ingo Brigandt, University of Alberta 11:20-11:40 (20min) › Bridging the gap between system and molecular biology. The case of melanoma - Giovanni Boniolo, European Institute of Oncology, Department of Health Sciences, University of Milano 11:40-12:00 (20min) › What is a ‘hypothesis' in contemporary biology? - Eve Roberts, Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University 12:00-12:20 (20min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Different Facets of Evolutionary Psychology B (submitted papers) 003 › Towards a new evolutionary psychology - O'Neal Buchanan, Western University 11:00-11:30 (30min) › The Cambrian Explosion and the Origins of Embodied Cognition - Michael Trestman, Indiana University Bloomington 11:30-12:00 (30min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) The Extension of Evolutionary Theory and Its Difficulties B (submitted papers) 004 › The evolution of technology is Darwinian - Mark Bedau, Reed College 11:00-11:30 (30min) › Beyond Generalized Darwinism: Considering Alternative Ways to Articulate Evolutionary Economics - Werner Callebaut, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research 11:30-12:00 (30min) › The Relevance of Human Evolutionary History to Evolutionary Game Theory - Rebecca MacIntosh, University of Western Ontario, Rotman Institute of Philosophy 12:00-12:30 (30min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Conceptual Issues in Ecology B (submitted papers) 005 › Function in ecology: description of the scientific uses and an epistemological framework - Nei Nunes-Neto, Professor 11:00-11:30 (30min) › What may be General Ecology? - Michel Godron, Godron 11:30-12:00 (30min) › Functionality in Open Dynamical Systems: The Case of Ecology - John Collier, University of KwaZulu-Natal 12:00-12:30 (30min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Mechanistic Explanations B (submitted papers) 006 › Mechanistic Explanation & Evo-Devo. - Fabrizzio Mc Manus, National Autonomous University of Mexico 11:00-11:20 (20min) › Explanatory frameworks in molecular oncology: the case of the gene p53 - Paolo Maugeri, European Institute of Oncology, Università degli Studi di Milano - Alessandro Blasimme, INSERM UMR - Département d'épidémiologie et de santé publique, Faculté de Médecine - Pierre-Luc Germain, Università degli studi di Milano, European School of Molecular Medicine 11:20-11:40 (20min) › From Cyborg to Replicant: The Historical Transition from Mechanical Transplants to Digital Genetic Intervention. The Heart Case - Carlos Guevara-Casas, Escuela de Periodismo Carlos Septién García 11:40-12:00 (20min) › Statistical Learning as a Mechanism - Riana Betzler, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge 12:00-12:20 (20min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Genetics: Ethical Issues (submitted papers) 007 › The "Devil's Heritage": Masuo Kodani, Genetics, and Social Stratification at the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (1946-1954). - Vassiliki Smocovitis, University of Florida 11:00-11:45 (45min) › “Genetic load”, How the architects of the Synthesis got trapped in a scientific ideology - Alexandra Soulier, Génomique, biothérapies et santé publique, École Doctorale Biologie Santé Biotechnologies de Toulouse 11:45-12:30 (45min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Transhumanism (submitted papers) 008 › Reimagining the Guiding Forces of Synthetic Biology: The Ethical Preoccupation of Transhumanism - Laura Adams, Florida State University 11:00-11:45 (45min) › Bioethical issues on genetic enhancement : between conservatism and transhumanism - Laurence Perbal, Université Libre de Bruxelles 11:45-12:30 (45min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) History and Philosophy of Life sciences, 19th-20th century (submitted papers) Actes › Progress, Adaptation, and Organism-Environment Interaction: Spencer's Criticism of Lamarck - Federico Morganti, Dipartimento di Filosofia, 11:00-11:45 (45min) › Elan Vital Revisited: Bergson and the Thermodynamic Paradigm - James DiFrisco, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven 11:45-12:30 (45min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Social microbes Amphi Jean Rey Chair: Christopher Clarke › A genotypic view of social interactions in multispecies microbial communities - Sara Mitri, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford 11:00-11:20 (20min) › Multispecies individuals as units of selection - John Dupre, University of Exeter 11:20-11:40 (20min) › Bacterial individuality - Ellen Clarke, All Souls College, University of Oxford 11:40-12:00 (20min) › Gene mobility and the concept of relatedness - Jonathan Birch, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge 12:00-12:20 (20min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Cognition, and Culture Amphi Physio Chair: Colin Allen › Scaffolded Development--A Reproducer Perspective - James Griesemer, James Griesemer 11:00-11:30 (30min) › At the Juncture of Generations: Materiality and Scaffolding - Linnda Caporael, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 11:30-12:00 (30min) › Crafting Interchangeability: A Generative Structure for the Industrial Revolution and for Evolution - William Wimsatt, U Chicago and U. Minnesota 12:00-12:30 (30min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Patenting Life: genes and generations (RT) Colloque 1 Participants: Robert Cook-Deegan, Graham Dutfield, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Amanda Odell-West, Bronwyn Parry, Robin Scheffler, Ravi Srinivas, Kara Swanson, Antony Taubman. Chair: Berris Charnley 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Frameworks and Representation of Cell and Genes II. Networks Colloque 2 Chair: Ariane Dröscher › Paradoxes of "Live-Cell Imaging" - Lina Maria Stahl, Universität Potsdam 11:00-11:30 (30min) › From Pathways to Networks: Developments in the Science of Intracellular Signaling - Andrew Reynolds, Cape Breton University 11:30-12:00 (30min) › Graphing cellular regulatory networks - Denis Thieffry, Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure 12:00-12:30 (30min) Council Meeting #2 12:30 - 14:30 (2h) Council Meeting #2 Open to newly elected Council's members General Meeting of the ISHPSSB (including Hull and Greene Prizes) 14:30 - 16:30 (2h) General Meeting of the ISHPSSB (including Hull and Greene Prizes) Location: Amphi. Giraud (University of Montpellier 1) Will the distinction between medicine and enhancement be soon obsolete? (RT) Different Facets of Evolutionary Psychology C (submitted papers) Theory of Organisms Evolutionary Theory and Causation (submitted papers) Ethical Issues Behind Human Practices (submitted papers) History of Science in Science Education (submitted papers) Philosophical issues raised by Evo-Devo (submitted papers) Understanding Disease (submitted papers) Functions (submitted papers) Information and Plasticity 17:00 - 18:30 (1h30) Will the distinction between medicine and enhancement be soon obsolete? (RT) 002 Participants: Pascal Nouvel, Darian Meacham. Chair: Sylvie Allouche 17:00 - 18:30 (1h30) Different Facets of Evolutionary Psychology C (submitted papers) 003 › Biological causes and the epistemic status of moral beliefs - Elizabeth O'Neill, University of Pittsburgh 17:00-17:20 (20min) › Perception-action mechanisms as precursors to empathy - Alejandro Rosas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia 17:20-17:40 (20min) › Beyond Positive Illusions: Free Will as an Adaptive Misbelief - Matthew Smithdeal, University of British Columbia 17:40-18:00 (20min) › Evolutionary Psychology and Multimodularity: Rebutting Samuels' Challenge - Malte Dahlgrün, Department of Philosophy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 18:00-18:20 (20min) 17:00 - 18:30 (1h30) Theory of Organisms 004 Chair: Matteo Mossio › Propagative and Repulsive constraints in molecular and cellular biology - Paul-Antoine MIQUEL, Toulouse2/ Le Mirail 17:00-17:30 (30min) › The Darwinian input into development and carcinogenesis. On the default state of cells. - Carlos Sonnenschein, Tufts University/Centre Cavallies 17:30-18:00 (30min) › Towards a theory of organisms - Ana Soto, Tufts Universtity School of Medicine 18:00-18:30 (30min) 17:00 - 18:30 (1h30) Evolutionary Theory and Causation (submitted papers) 005 › Are there a priori causal relations in evolutionary theory? - Guillaume Schlaepfer, Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva 17:00-17:45 (45min) › Selection and drift: why "caused by" rather than "constitutes"? - Björn Brunnander, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University 17:45-18:30 (45min) 17:00 - 18:30 (1h30) Ethical Issues Behind Human Practices (submitted papers) 008 › Natural in the context of reproductive technologies - Maya Fisher, Tel Aviv University 17:00-17:20 (20min) › Un/Cut: The Ethics of Routine Infant Male Circumcision - Gal Kober, Bridgewater State University 17:20-17:40 (20min) › Body and Ren: Historical and Ethical Perspective on Organ Donation in China - Zhuran Li, Departemt of Philosophy, Nanjing Normal University 17:40-18:00 (20min) › Ethical foundations of biodiversity communication - Uta Eser, Nuertingen-Geislingen University 18:00-18:20 (20min) 17:00 - 18:30 (1h30) History of Science in Science Education (submitted papers) 125 › The History of Science as a tool for teaching metascience: an assessment of changes in pre-service biology teachers' conceptions - Maria Elice Prestes, Associação Brasileira de Filosofia e História da Biologia, University of São Paulo 17:00-17:20 (20min) › The origin of electric organs: can that Darwin's special difficulty contribute to the teaching of Evolutionary Biology? - Gerda Jensen, Sciences doctoral student at Department of Genetics and Evolutionary Biology/Biosciences Institut from University of Sao Paulo; Research Group in the History of Biology and Biology Education USP (GPHBE-USP) 17:20-17:40 (20min) › Darwin in the classroom: replication of historical experiments to assist in the understanding of the evolution theory - Tatiana Silva, Universidade de São Paulo 17:40-18:00 (20min) › History and Philosophy of Science and how they relate to Science Education: Teaching for Conceptual Change in Evolutionary Theory - Kostas Kampourakis, University of Geneva 18:00-18:20 (20min) 17:00 - 18:30 (1h30) Philosophical issues raised by Evo-Devo (submitted papers) 127 › Evolutionary Developmental Biology's Relative Significance Controversy - Lindsay Craig, University of Idaho 17:00-17:20 (20min) › The genetic and the morphogenetic approach in evo-devo: rethinking evolutionary causality - Laura Nuño de la Rosa, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research 17:20-17:40 (20min) › Theoretical and Methodological Diversity in the 1980s: Early Development of Evo-devo - Yoshinari Yoshida, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University 17:40-18:00 (20min) › Gene Networks in Developmental Evolution: What do Common Developmental Mechanisms mean for Evolutionary Explanations? - Valerie Racine, Arizona State University / University of Western Ontario 18:00-18:20 (20min) 17:00 - 18:30 (1h30) Understanding Disease (submitted papers) 214 › Clarifying Health and Disease in Darwinian Medicine via Phenotypic Flexibility and Robustness - Jonathan Sholl, KULeuven 17:00-17:30 (30min) › Biology, Health and Medical Practice - James Krueger, University of Redlands 17:30-18:00 (30min) › Biological normativity, clinical normalcy and the theoretical definitions of health and disease - Cristian Saborido, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia 18:00-18:30 (30min) 17:00 - 18:30 (1h30) Functions (submitted papers) Actes › Counterfactuals and the Generality Requirement - Sören Häggqvist, Stockholm University 17:00-17:30 (30min) › The Modal Theory of Function: Lessons from Molecular Biology - Maximilian Huber, Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva 17:30-18:00 (30min) › Context-based functional synthesis - Marc Daëron, Centre d'immunologie de Marseille Luminy, Institut Pasteur 18:00-18:30 (30min) 17:00 - 18:30 (1h30) Information and Plasticity Colloque 1 Chair: C. Kenneth Waters › Genetic, Epigenetic, and Neural Memory Systems - Peter Godfrey-Smith, City University of New York 17:00-17:30 (30min) › Plasticity and selection in synaptic populations - Rosa Cao, New York University, Philosophy 17:30-18:00 (30min) › Evolving to Generalize - Cailin O'Connor, University of California, Irvine 18:00-18:30 (30min) Gala dinner 19:00 - 22:30 (3h30) Gala dinner The gala dinner will be at the Parc Grammont	The Question of Levels (submitted papers) Philosophical Anthropology I: The Bio-Philosophy of Helmuth Plessner in Context Comparative Psychology (submitted papers) New light on species essentialisms in biology Cooperation (submitted papers) Ecology and Society A (submitted papers) Classification and Taxonomy (submitted papers) Fitness and Fitness Wars A (submitted papers) What Is Genetic Information? (submitted papers) History and Philosophy of Life Sciences, 17th-18th century A (submitted papers) Back to Darwin's tangled bank (RT) The space of explanations in evolutionary biology A 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) The Question of Levels (submitted papers) 001 › What is reductionism? - Megan Delehanty, University of Calgary 09:00-09:30 (30min) › The problem of ontic levels in mechanistic explanation. - Ramon Alvarado, University of Texas at El Paso 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Levels, Hierarchy, and Scale - Alex von Stein, University of Arizona 10:00-10:30 (30min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Philosophical Anthropology I: The Bio-Philosophy of Helmuth Plessner in Context 002 Chair: Kevin Amidon › The substantive and methodological integration of biology, anthropology, and philosophy in Plessner's Die Stufen des Organischen und der Mensch - Phillip Honenberger, Dept. of Philosophy and Religion, Rowan University 09:00-09:30 (30min) › Keywords in the Conceptualization of Life: Plessner's "Boundary" and Hegel's "Deficiency" - Francesca Michelini, Humboldt University Berlin Kulturwissenschaft, University of Kassel Department of Philosophy 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Plessner's Conceptual Investigation of ‘Life': Structural Narratology - Lawrence Davis, Department of Sociology, Washington and Jefferson 10:00-10:30 (30min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Comparative Psychology (submitted papers) 003 › Anthropomorphism and anti-anthropomorphism: A plea for synthesis - Hisashi Nakao, Nagoya University 09:00-09:45 (45min) › Basic Emotions, Flexible Aggression, and Angry Motivation - Isaac Wiegman, Washington University in St Louis 09:45-10:30 (45min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) New light on species essentialisms in biology 005 Chair: Sébastien Dutreuil › Essentialism, evolutionary theory, and the species concept - Anouk Barberousse, Barberousse 09:00-09:20 (20min) › “Biological species”: a hybrid notion referring to a bundle of essences? - Françoise Longy, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques 09:20-09:40 (20min) › How feasible is intrinsic taxon essentialism? - Thomas Reydon, Institute of Philosophy, Leibniz Universität Hannover 09:40-10:00 (20min) › A meta-analysis of species concepts as units of generalizations in biology - Francesca Merlin, IHPST, Paris 10:00-10:20 (20min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Cooperation (submitted papers) 006 › Revisiting Petr Kropotkin: Is competition necessary for natural selection? - Anne Marie Gagné Julien, Université de Montréal 09:00-09:20 (20min) › Randomization and the alignment of biological interests: why fairness doesn't matter - Johannes Martens, Department of Philosophy 09:20-09:40 (20min) › Spatial Reciprocity and the Evolution of Cooperation - Marie Barnett, University of Pennsylvania 09:40-10:00 (20min) › The evolution of empathy through parental care - Irene Audisio, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades "María Saleme de Bournichon"- Universidad Nacional de Córdoba 10:00-10:20 (20min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Ecology and Society A (submitted papers) 007 › Where Science Meets Society: A Sociological Case for Ecology - Amanda Richard, Florida State University 09:00-09:20 (20min) › Between place and cosmos: biodiversity knowledge, expertise and the IPBES - Maud Borie, 3S Research Group, University of East Anglia 09:20-09:40 (20min) › Environmental Crises and the Evolved Mind - Jason Zinser, University of Wisconsin Colleges 09:40-10:00 (20min) › People save the day: the influence of public activism on the history of conservation biology and why it remains important today - Hannah Koslowsky, Florida State University 10:00-10:20 (20min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Classification and Taxonomy (submitted papers) 008 › Complex Objects and Integrative Pluralism - Joyce Havstad, University of California [San Diego] 09:00-09:45 (45min) › Type-specimens and the (historical) metaphysics of taxonomic practice - Joeri Witteveen, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge 09:45-10:30 (45min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Fitness and Fitness Wars A (submitted papers) 125 › Process and Product Concepts of Natural Selection and Genetic Drift - Charles Pence, University of Notre Dame, Program in History and Philosophy of Science 09:00-09:30 (30min) › Measures of fitness: opening the Pandora's box - Thomas Lenormand, Centre d'écologie fonctionnelle et évolutive 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Will Simpson's Paradox and the Sure Thing Principle Resolve the Fitness Wars? - Peter Takacs, Florida State University 10:00-10:30 (30min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) What Is Genetic Information? (submitted papers) 127 › The genome and the stored program concept - Ronald Planer 09:00-09:20 (20min) › Defending a mathematical sense of biological information - Oliver Lean, University of Bristol, Department of Philosophy 09:20-09:40 (20min) › Is Shannon's Information Theory Applicable to Genetic Data? - Omri Tal, London School of Economics 09:40-10:00 (20min) › genetic information as a conceptual metaphor - Tomoko Ishida, Keio Universiy 10:00-10:20 (20min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) History and Philosophy of Life Sciences, 17th-18th century A (submitted papers) Actes › Joseph Lelarge de Lignac (1697-1762), a friend of Réaumur against the thought of Buffon - Olivier Perru, Sciences, Sociétés, Historicité, Education, Pratiques, E.A. 4148, Université Lyon 1 09:00-09:30 (30min) › Husbandry, alchemy, and technologies of ameliorating nature in the works of Gabriel Plattes - Oana Matei, 09:30-10:00 (30min) › The Watchmen of the Body: How Early Moderns Gained an Education in the Physiology of the Eye - Karen Buckle, Clarkson University 10:00-10:30 (30min) 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Back to Darwin's tangled bank (RT) Amphi Physio Participants: Greg Cooper, Nei de Freitas Nunes-Neto, Julien Delord. Chair: Emanuele Serrelli 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) The space of explanations in evolutionary biology A Colloque 2 Chair: Denis Walsh › Statistically autonomous explanations - Andre Ariew, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri 09:00-09:30 (30min) › Multilevel Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change - Lindley Darden, University of Maryland, College Park 09:30-10:00 (30min) › Articulating mechanisms and topologies as mutually required in explanatory strategies. - Philippe Huneman, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques 10:00-10:30 (30min) Philosophical Anthropology II: Applications in Genomics, Human Evolution, and Addiction Holism and organicism: conceptual consensus or historical typologies? Ecology and Society B (submitted papers) Fitness and Fitness Wars B (submitted papers) History and Philosophy of Life Sciences, 17th-18th century B (submitted papers) Roles of viruses in Ecology, Evolution and Origins of life The space of explanations in evolutionary biology B 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Philosophical Anthropology II: Applications in Genomics, Human Evolution, and Addiction 002 Chair: Sara Franceschelli › We-Intentionality, Being-in-the-World and Multi-Level Selection: Re-synthesizing an evolutionary account of anthropogenesis by way of the hominid ‘super-organism'. - Lenny Moss, University of Exeter 11:00-11:30 (30min) › Roles for technology in feeding an evolutionary feed-forward loop in the human lineage - Sylvia Blad, University of Amsterdam - Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies 11:30-12:00 (30min) › Advancing Insights from Philosophical Anthropology: Addiction as a Detachment-Compensatory Occupation - Sally Wasmuth, University of Exeter 12:00-12:30 (30min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Holism and organicism: conceptual consensus or historical typologies? 004 Chair: Michel Morange › Cabanis's Living Systems - Tobias Cheung, Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science 11:00-11:20 (20min) › Coming to Terms with Holism: Minimalistic Conceptual Tools for Describing and Explaining Holistic Systems in Biology - Georg Toepfer, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin 11:20-11:40 (20min) › Holism in biology: a restatement and defence - Matteo Mossio, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques 11:40-12:00 (20min) › Holism, organicism and the risk of biochauvinism - Charles Wolfe, Ghent University 12:00-12:20 (20min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Ecology and Society B (submitted papers) 007 › A Conflict between Biology and Geology: The "Thirty Years' War" in Coral Reef Studies, 1910-1939 - Alistair Sponsel, Vanderbilt University 11:00-11:30 (30min) › From local newspaper notes to DNA profiles – The science and politics of wolf population estimates in Norway from the 1960s until today - Håkon B. Stokland, Norwegian University of Science and Technology 11:30-12:00 (30min) › Ecosystem Function and Environmental Values - Gregory Cooper, Department of Philosophy, Washington and Lee University 12:00-12:30 (30min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Fitness and Fitness Wars B (submitted papers) 125 › Revisiting fitness: Trait-based Fitness - Pierrick Bourrat, University of Sydney 11:00-11:45 (45min) › Assessing Methodological Adaptationism: an Historical Approach - Alessandro Allegra, Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences, London School of Economics 11:45-12:30 (45min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) History and Philosophy of Life Sciences, 17th-18th century B (submitted papers) Actes › Charles Georges Leroy and Enlightened Ethology - Jorge Martínez-Contreras, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana 11:00-11:45 (45min) › Charles-Georges Leroy and Auguste Comte on cooperation in animals and altruism - Michel Bourdeau, Institut d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques, UMR 8590 11:45-12:30 (45min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) Roles of viruses in Ecology, Evolution and Origins of life Colloque 1 Chair: Karine Prévot › “What roles for viruses in origin of life scenarios?” - Gladys Kostyrka, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques 11:00-11:30 (30min) › Viruses: Essential Agents of Life - Luis Villarreal, University of California, Irvine 11:30-12:00 (30min) › Comments - John Dupre, University of Exeter 12:00-12:30 (30min) 11:00 - 12:30 (1h30) The space of explanations in evolutionary biology B Colloque 2 Chair: Lindley Darden › Maximum Entropy Explanations in Biology - Lyon Aidan, University of Maryland 11:00-11:30 (30min) › Asymptotic Idealization in Evolutionary Explanation - Michael Strevens, Department of Philosophy New York University 11:30-12:00 (30min) › Varieties of Invariance - Denis Walsh, Department of Philosophy/IHPST 12:00-12:30 (30min) Excursions in and around Montpellier 14:00 - 17:00 (3h) Excursions in and around Montpellier

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