New Special Issue: Origins of life: the possible and the actual

8 October 2025

New Special Issue: Origins of life: the possible and the actual

A new special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B—born out of a Santa Fe Institute workshop on the origins of life—brings together leading voices addressing the theoretical, experimental, and philosophical challenges of understanding how life emerges from nonliving matter. From Oparin and Miller’s pioneering prebiotic experiments to the frontiers of synthetic biology, […]

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Biennial summer meeting: ISHPSSB 2025 

22 October 2024

Biennial summer meeting: ISHPSSB 2025 

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 […]

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