Meeting of the ISHPSSB - Sciencesconf.org

›9:00 (1h30)

The Question of Levels (submitted papers)

› 001

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 (1h30)

Philosophical Anthropology I: The Bio-Philosophy of Helmuth Plessner in Context
Chair: Kevin Amidon

› 002

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 (1h30)

Comparative Psychology (submitted papers)

› 003

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 (1h30)

New light on species essentialisms in biology
Chair: Sébastien Dutreuil

› 005

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 (1h30)

Cooperation (submitted papers)

› 006

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 (1h30)

Ecology and Society A (submitted papers)

› 007

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 (1h30)

Classification and Taxonomy (submitted papers)

› 008

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 (1h30)

Fitness and Fitness Wars A (submitted papers)

› 125

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 (1h30)

What Is Genetic Information? (submitted papers)

› 127

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 (1h30)

History and Philosophy of Life Sciences, 17th-18th century A (submitted papers)

› Actes

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 (1h30)

Back to Darwin's tangled bank (RT)
Participants: Greg Cooper, Nei de Freitas Nunes-Neto, Julien Delord. Chair: Emanuele Serrelli

› Amphi Physio

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 (1h30)

The space of explanations in evolutionary biology A
Chair: Denis Walsh

› Colloque 2

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)

›11:00 (1h30)

Philosophical Anthropology II: Applications in Genomics, Human Evolution, and Addiction
Chair: Sara Franceschelli

› 002

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 (1h30)

Holism and organicism: conceptual consensus or historical typologies?
Chair: Michel Morange

› 004

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 (1h30)

Ecology and Society B (submitted papers)

› 007

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 (1h30)

Fitness and Fitness Wars B (submitted papers)

› 125

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 (1h30)

History and Philosophy of Life Sciences, 17th-18th century B (submitted papers)

› Actes

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 (1h30)

Roles of viruses in Ecology, Evolution and Origins of life
Chair: Karine Prévot

› Colloque 1

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 (1h30)

The space of explanations in evolutionary biology B
Chair: Lindley Darden

› Colloque 2

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)

›14:00 (3h)

Excursions in and around Montpellier

14:00 - 17:00 (3h)

Excursions in and around Montpellier