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Fifth PhilInBioMed Meeting in Bielefeld (Germany)
30 September | 8 h 00 min - 2 October | 17 h 00 min
The fifth Philosophy in Biology and Medicine (PhilInBioMed) Network Meeting & Workshop ” Philosophical Engagement with Biology and Medicine” will take place in-person in Bielefeld, Germany, on Sep 30-Oct 2, 2024, at Bielefeld University’s Institute for Advanced Study, the ZiF.
This workshop brings together philosophers, biologists and medical scientists with two goals: first, to foster and deepen the engagement of philosophy with biology and medicine by discussing examples of research projects in which philosophy contributes to biology or medicine; and second, to reflect on the PhilInBioMed approach (https://www.philinbiomed.org/) and to develop it further.
Keynote speakers:
Keynote Duo 1: Sex and Gender in Medical Research
- Sabine Oertelt-Prigione (Medicine, U Bielefeld & U Nijmegen)
- Kirstin Borgerson (Philosophy, U Dalhousie)
Keynote Duo 2: Major Transitions in Evolution
- Paul Rainey (Evolutionary Biology, MPI Plön)
- Samir Okasha (Philosophy, U Bristol)
Keynote Duo 3: Animal Personality
- Caroline Müller (Chemical Ecology, U Bielefeld)
- Marie I. Kaiser (Philosophy, U Bielefeld)
You can find the detailed program with all contributed and flash talks here.
Conveners: Marie I. Kaiser (Bielefeld University), Lara Keuck (Bielefeld University), Alkistis Elliott-Graves (Bielefeld University), Thomas Pradeu (University of Bordeaux), Fridolin Gross (University of Bordeaux)
Room: Plenarsaal, ZiF
Registration: zif-conference-office@uni-bielefeld.de (Taugheda Helterhof)
Funding: This workshop is generously funded by the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), by the Medical Faculty of Bielefeld University, and by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Program Committee
- Lara Keuck (University of Bielefeld, Co-Chair)
- Thomas Pradeu (CNRS, Co-Chair)
- Hanne Andersen (University of Copenhagen)
- Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo (Institut Jacques Monod, Paris)
- Martin Dresler (Donders Institute, Nijmegen)
- Gérard Eberl (Pasteur Institute, Paris)
- Alkistis Elliott-Graves (University of Bielefeld)
- Steven Frank (University of California, Irvine)
- Fridolin Gross (University of Bordeaux)
- Matt Haber (University of Utah)
- Katrin Hammerschmidt (University of Kiel)
- Eva Jablonka (Tel Aviv University)
- Marie Kaiser (University of Bielefeld)
- Lucie Laplane (University of Paris, Gustave Roussy)
- Maël Lemoine (University of Bordeaux)
- Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter)
- Kate MacCord (Arizona State University)
- Angela Potochnik (University of Cincinnati)
- David Raubenheimer (University of Sydney)
- David Redish (University of Minnesota)
- Samuel Scheiner (NSF)
- Günter Wagner (Yale University)
- Jon Williamson (University of Kent)