2018

10-14 September 2018
KLI Klosterneuburg/Vienna
EASPLS : Interdisciplinarity in the Life Sciences and their Philosophy

14-15 June 2018
Explanatory Power (CFP)

2017

10-11 October 2017
Colladon
Bordeaux-Geneva Colloquium in Philosophy of Biology (programme)

18 June - 1 July 2017
Alberta, Canada
Summer Institute 
From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics: Practices of Individuation and Classification in Science

14 June 2017
Bastions, B101
Quodlibeta special
Bas van Fraassen (Princeton)
After Hempel's Dilemma: On the Evidence of Things Unseen

8-9 June 2017
Bastions, B214
Simulation and thought experiment

23 May
François Pellet
on “Disease and Its Kinds”

16 May
Andrea Loettgers
on modeling and experimentation

9 May
Michal Hladky
on simulation in neuroscience

2 May
Maria José Ferreira Ruiz (University of Buenos Aires)
on information in biology

25 April
Will Bausman
on “Understanding the inference from scientific practice to metaphysics as an adaptive inference”

11 April
Guillaume Schlaepfer
on a priori knowledge in evolutionary biology

4 April
Luigi Scorzato
on Science and Illusions

21 March
Raphael Scholl
on True causes

14 March
Joshua Babic, Lorenzo Cocco and Michal Hladky
Back to the Woodger - The Axiomatic Method in Biology (1937) (Part 2)

7 March
Joshua Babic, Lorenzo Cocco and Michal Hladky
on Joseph Woodger - The Axiomatic Method in Biology (1937) (Part 1)

28 February
Martin Wasmer (ETHZ)
on practices in evolutionary biology

21 February
Lorenzo Casini
Horizontal Surgicality and Mechanistic Constitution
(Michael Baumgartner, Lorenzo Casini, and Beate Krickel)

2016

lgBIG Fall 2016
Classification: Ancient and Modern Perspectives
Marcel Weber and Paolo Crivelli

September 2016

5-9 September 2016
KLI Klosterneuburg/Vienna
EASPLS : Function and Malfunction in Biology and the Social Sciences (CFP)

August 2016

1-12 August 2016
Basel
2016 Summer Institute: Reconceiving and Explaining the Success of Science (Details)

May 2016

3 May
2, Rue De-Candolle
Christian Sachse
on functions

10 May
2, Rue De-Candolle
TBA

17 May
Miloud Belkoniene
on Explanationism and Truthlike Explanations
2, Rue De-Candolle
(Department, 405A)

24 May
Michal Hladky
on Functions in biology and in technology : unified account (systemic account)
2, Rue De-Candolle
(Department, 405A)

April 2016

5 April
2, Rue De-Candolle
Justin Garson, A Critical Overview of Biological Functions, Ch. 5&6

12 April
2, Rue De-Candolle
Lorenzo Casini and Marcel Weber
on grounds and biological functions

19 April
2, Rue De-Candolle
Antoine Rebourg
on Peter Godfrey-Smith, Philosophy of Biology, CH. 5

March 2016

1 March
2, Rue De-Candolle
Andrea Loettgers
Tarja Knuuttila and Andrea Loettgers on defining life

8 March
2, Rue De-Candolle
Parissa Farmanfarian
on Peter Godfrey-Smith, Philosophy of Biology, Ch. 2

15 March
2, Rue De-Candolle
Justin Garson, A Critical Overview of Biological Functions, Ch. 1&2

22 March
2, Rue De-Candolle
Justin Garson, A Critical Overview of Biological Functions, Ch. 3&4

2015

December 2015

1 December 2015, 12:15
2, Rue De-Candolle
Michal Hladky
On simulation models in neuroscience

15 December 2015, 12:15
2, Rue De-Candolle
Raphael Scholl
The irrelevance of unconceived alternatives: On two types of inference in biological science

November

17 November 2015, 12:15
2, Rue De-Candolle
Marcel Weber
Which kind of causal specificity matters biologically?