Philosophy
School of Humanities
University of Leeds,
Leeds UK
Friday April 13th 2012
Aims
The purpose of the workshop is to encourage discussion of the natures and roles of objects, structure and mechanisms in biology with a view to achieving clarity on a number of issues, including:
How can the heterogeneity of biological objects be appropriately accommodated?
Is a metaphysics of mechanisms as entities and activities sustainable in biology?
What would be an appropriate metaphysics for biological kinds?
Schedule
10.30-10.55 Coffee
10.55-11.00 Welcome
11.00-12.15 Phyllis Illari (Hertfordshire) The Indispensability of Objects in Biology
12.15-13.30 Ellen Clarke (All Souls) The Organism as a Problem in Biological Ontology
13.30-14.15 Lunch (provided)
14.15-15.30 Marcel Weber (Geneva) Individual, Cell Lineage, and Functional Integration
15.30-15.45 Tea
15.45-17.00 Emma Tobin (UCL) Biomolecular Classification
17.00-18.15 Angelo Cei (Leeds) TBA
18.15-18.30 wrap up
A limited number of student bursaries will be available.
Registration is free but please indicate your interest in attending.
For further details contact:
Steven French s.r.d.french@leeds.ac.uk
Financial support for this workshop has been provided by the British Society for the Philosophy of Science.
Steven French
Professor of Philosophy of Science
Dept. of Philosophy
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
UK
Tel: 0113 3433279
Email: s.r.d.french@leeds.ac.uk
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/
Co-Editor, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Editor-in-Chief, New Directions in Philosophy of Science, Palgrave-Macmillan
