Meeting of the ISHPSSB - Sciencesconf.org

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Dialogue Sonia Kéfi - Annick Lesne

Colloque 2

Theme: Complex systems, tipping points and early warnings

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Dialogue Samir Okasha - François Rousset

Amphi Physio

Theme: Adaptation and Optimality

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)

Doing Science Without Natural Kinds (RT)

Colloque 2

Participants: Tekin Serife, Machery Edouard, Rice Collin

Student Advisory Workshop

Location: Colloque 1

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Jacques 1er d'Aragon

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