Meeting of the ISHPSSB - Sciencesconf.org

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Evolution's narratives (RT)

Amphi 8

Jan Sapp, Michael Bradie, Charbel Niño El-Hani. Chair: Nathalie Gontier

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)

Dialogue William Bechtel - Carl Craver

Amphi Physio

Theme: What Roles Do Mathematical/Computational Models Play in Mechanistic Explanation?

HPS Informatics Demonstrations (RT)

Colloque 1

Organized by Jane Maienschein

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

Location: Colloque 1

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

001

Participants: Minus Van Baalen, Livio Riboli-Sasco. Chair: Arnaud Pocheville

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Evolutionary transitions as social contracts? (RT)

Colloque 2

Participants: Marion Blute, Daniel Brooks, Alejandro Rosas, Eörs Szathmáry, Richard A. Watson. Chair: Peter Godfrey-Smith

Planning