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CFA: Prospects for the Science of Enaction Guest Editors: Russell Meyer, Jodie Russell, Marilyn StenderaDeadline for Abstracts: January 27th The editors invite abstracts for contributions to the Special Issue Prospects for the Science of Enaction, to be published in Adaptive Behavior. Invited Contributions: Description Enactive ideas and principles about the nature of life and mind […]
16/12/2024 — 29 rue d’Ulm, Centre Cavaillès, École Normale Supérieure, Paris. Workshop organization: Maël Montévil, Anton Robert. Abstract What understanding does the closure of constraints bring about a biological system in practices? Without discussing particular cases, one cannot answer this question. The goal of this workshop is to bring together and synthesize individual modeling experiences […]
The postdoctoral project will be conducted in the context of a larger ANR-FAPESP project entitled “Individuating Ecosystems: an interdisciplinary approach to their distinctive functional organization” (IndivEco), involving a collaboration between the Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (IHPST) CNRS/Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (Dr. Matteo Mossio) and the Centre Cavaillès, ENS, […]
with Marc Bekoff and Matthew Hayek About the even Current approaches in environmental conservation do not sufficiently recognize the agency of wild animals, meaningfully affecting the outcomes of conservation interventions. In this conversation, the authors of two recent articles on this topic will discuss how understanding individual differences in animal personalities and behaviors can transform […]
from: https://outonomy.net/?p=335 SUMMARY: Opportunity to join us at the IAS-Research Center for Life, Mind, and Society [https://ias-research.net] at the University of the Basque Country (San Sebastián) for a PhD studentship within the “Outagencies: Varieties of autonomous agency across living, humanimal, and technical systems” project [https://outonomy.net/project-description/]: an interdisciplinary exploration of agency across philosophy, biology, AI, and […]
Submission deadline: November 1st University of Porto, Porto, Portugal 20-25 July 2025 ISHPSSB 2025: Call for Session proposals The International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) brings together scholars from diverse disciplines, including the life sciences as well as history, philosophy, and social studies of science. The biennial ISHPSSB summer […]
Workshop on biological autonomy and the question of organismal agency at the Université Paris I. More information and the link to follow remotely available on the conference website. Program Lundi 18 mars 2024 9h00-9h15 : Ouverture du workshop/opening session : Florian Moullard (Bordeaux-Montaigne, SPH; Paris 1, IHPST) et Louis Virenque (CNRS, IHPST, Paris I),The Problem for Defining Agency. 9h15-10h45 : Anna Ciaunica (Université […]
We are pleased to announce the call for abstract for this Conference, on the relation between the Marxian tradition and the left-Sellarsian Pittsburgh School, to be held at University College London. Thee conference aims to build a dialogical space between Marxism and the Pittsburgh School in this conference and thus extend this call for papers. […]
The event will take place at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition in Klosterneuburg (Austria) on September 9th-12th. The summer school is organized by Leonardo Bich, Lucie Laplane and Matteo Mossio and is is mainly intended for young scholars, including PhD students and early post-doctoral researchers, who are engaged in the study of […]
Conference focusing on non-reductive approaches to the problem of consciousness, to be held at the University of Padua on February 21st-23rd. Conference will be only in person, recordings will be available later on on the UBI youtube channel. Program below. Wednesday, February 21Sala delle Edicole, Palazzo del Capitanio 9:00 am – Opening RemarksEGIDIO ROBUSTO | […]