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This has been a really fun project to be a part of, and now we have a cool cover! My co-editors are Alison McConwell, Michael Dietrich, John Beatty, with authors from across biology, history, and philosophy (including one from me). It's due out in June 2027 -- can't wait! With the University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo287015165.html
#philsci #philbio #hpb #evolution #ecology #developmentalbiology
Mon court essai sur la place du temps en biologie et sur la complexité de la durée du vivant est sorti aujourd’hui !
Ça parle de Bergson mais aussi des pollinisateurs et d’écologie, de théories bancales et des histoires complexes qui tissent les cultures animales.
Vous le trouverez en librairie, apparemment en bonne compagnie.
We are delighted to invite you to our interdisciplinary workshop, which is the culmination of our seminar series on Agency between Biology and Philosophy.
The workshop will take place at University College London and online on 22-23 Sept 2026.
All info and registration details can be found here:
https://www.animalinventiveness.com/post/international-interdisciplinary-asab-workshop-agency-between-biology-and-philosophy
#workshop #philbio #agency #animal #welfare #behaviouralecology #philosophy
The next session (the last of this academic year!) of our seminar is tomorrow!
Christopher Joseph Gonzalez will talk about normative agency in nonhumans !
All info on how to join (online) can be found here : https://www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar-agency-between-biology-and-philosophy-2025-2026
We are looking forward to discussing this fascinating topic with you!
#agency #norms #normativity #animalagency #nonhumanagency #philbio #seminar
You know where to find us. #philbio
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Hello everyone,
The next session of our seminar on Agency between Biology and Philosophy will take place tomorrow 13th of May from 4 to 5 PM (UK time) on Zoom.
This session on AI agency will be led by Leonard Dung.
Feel free to join us :)
https://www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar-agency-between-biology-and-philosophy-2025-2026
Substantive revision of my entry on inheritance systems! Now with a whole new section on the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis and many other updates.
@[email protected] #philbio
plato.stanford.edu/entries/inhe...
Inheritance Systems (Stanford...
Hi Mastodon,
I'm a PhD candidate in #philosophy at the #UniversityOfHelsinki , focusing on #metaphysics, #ontology, #processphilosophy and philosophy of #biology. I also study #theology , in which I'm most interested in philosophy of religion, #processtheology , the relationship between science and religion, and the role of #religion in matters of conflict and #peace.
I'm looking forward to share things & have conversations about #research in my fields, but also about
- #books (I read #nonfiction #scifi and #specfic the most)
- #antimilitarism , #nuclearban , #nucleardisarmament
- #pedagogy (since I occasionally work in #education )
- #games: #videogames, #boardgames & #tcg
- #movies
- #birds
Let me know if you are tooting (:D) about any of these things!
I very much enjoyed reading Melinda Bonnie Fagan‘s recent book _ Explanatory Particularism in Scientific Practice_ and writing a review of it. Check it out!
rdcu.be/fdagG
#philsci #philbio
Breaking new ground in the und...
Some fresh news from us!
We will share the preliminary results of our research:
- at the ISAE regional conference 21 April (Nottingham)
- at the Common Ground on Animal Ethics Workshop 30 April (London, LSE)
We are looking forward to it ! 🐒 🐜
#agency #animalwelfare #philbio #conservation #isae #animalethics #lse #baboons
Hello everyone !
Our Agency Between Biology and Philosophy seminar is coming back tomorrow already ! I am very happy (and honoured) to say that Denis Walsh will be leading this session, on Ecological Agency.
=> on Zoom
=> 8 April from 4 to 5 PM, UK time
=> how to join? Here:
https://www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar-agency-between-biology-and-philosophy-2025-2026
#agency #philbio #biophilo #biologicalagency #animalagency #ecology
Turns out this is #philbio (read downthread for the explanation).
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The next session of our transdisciplinary (biology-philosophy) seminar on Agency will take place this Wednesday on Zoom !
Hugh Desmond will talk about agency and cognitive capacities!
More info on how to join us here: https://www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar-agency-between-biology-and-philosophy-2025-2026
Vol 17, Issue 3 (2025) has dropped! And it was worth the wait, with articles on sex/gender, #ecology in context, Darwinizing #Gaia, and theories in #physiology. We are loving the diversity of articles that are sent to us — keep them coming!
PTPBio is, as always, diamond #OpenAccess completely free for authors and readers!
The next session of our transdisciplinary (biology-philosophy) seminar on Agency will take place next Wednesday. Marek Špinka will talk about play in nonhuman animals, and I expect it to be super cool !
More info here :
https://www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar-agency-between-biology-and-philosophy-2025-2026
À paraître cette année chez Vrin !
Le temps du vivant, discussion de Bergson à l’aune de l’histoire de la biologie et des découvertes contemporaines
#philbio #bergson #evolution #temps #biologie
Tomorrow is the first session of the 2026 edition of our online seminar on animal agency!
This session will be led by Lisa Yon and will explore ways to promote agency in captive animals (especially elephants!).
Hoping to see many of you! 🐘🐘🐘
https://www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar-agency-between-biology-and-philosophy-2025-2026
#agency #elephants #captivity #animalwelfare #animalstudies #philbio
The next session of our online seminar is tomorrow !!
Angie Pepper will be presenting, on the topic « A good life or their own life? Rethinking nonhuman animal interests in freedom ».
Relevant information can be found here : https://www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar-agency-between-biology-and-philosophy-2025-2026
You’re welcome to join!
#animalrights #animalethics #animalwelfare #welfare #agency #philbio #animalagency
A new issue of PTPBio has dropped with articles from Marco Casali, Francesca Merlin & Alberto Vianelli; Meghan Barrett, Thomas Raffel & Bob Fischer; and Maja Dorota Sidzinska, Jacqueline Mae Wallis & Kate Nicole Hoffman.
Check them out! https://ptpbio.org/
Always fully #OpenAccess: free for authors and readers.
Next session is tomorrow !
Come and join us to unveil the mystery of animal agency (or just try to make sense of the concept actually…)! Daria Zakharova will be presenting.
https://www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar-agency-between-biology-and-philosophy-2025-2026
“Mutations are directed but not Lamarckian”. Exciting stuff! @eesupdate.bsky.social #philbio www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
De novo rates of a Trypanosoma...
Our seminar on animal agency, between biology and philosophy, is back !
Check out the programme for the next sessions here !
We meet on the second Wednesday of each month, on Zoom, from 4 to 5 PM (UK time).
You’re very welcome to join ! :)
https://www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar-agency-between-biology-and-philosophy-2025-2026
#agency #animalagency #animalbehav #behaviour #philbio #animalbehaviour #philosophy #EvoutionaryBiology #behaviouralecology
The main point ofc is the notion of #homology being proposed. #evolution #philbio
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Ok, here's a fun one for you to discuss (from @kevinlala.bsky.social et al. magisterial book): "Parent-offspring similarity may be just a side-effect of a process whose ultimate function is not stable transmission but accurate prediction." #philbio #genetics #evolution #evodevo
Ok, here's a fun one for you to discuss (from @kevinlala.bsky.social et al. magisterial book): "Parent-offspring similarity may be just a side-effect of a process whose ultimate function is not stable transmission but accurate prediction." #philbio #genetics #evolution #evodevo
I should mention that while this is a first class work of history it touches on many questions that play a central role in contemporary research: neuro and cognitive plasticity; the origins and function of hierarchical organization and modularity; role of agency in evolution; complexity. #philbio
A must read (but dense) book by a dear colleague. #histbio #philbio
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If you are interested in a postdoc on anything related to #philbio and evolution, but in particular cultural evolution, social norms, cognition, extended synthesis, and related areas, drop me a line. azrielifoundation.org/fellows/inte...
International Postdoctoral Fel...
« Avec son propos clair et bien documenté d’un point de vue scientifique, M Tahar a sans conteste réussi à dépoussiérer Bergson. Grâce à son travail, on comprend ce que la philosophie bergsonienne peut avoir de stimulant pour penser l’évolution aujourd’hui. »
Merci à Renan Strauss pour cette généreuse recension de mon livre paru aux PUF ( https://www.puf.com/du-finalisme-en-biologie )
#Bergson #evolution #biologie #philo #philbio
La recension est ici ==> https://laviedesidees.fr/L-elan-vital-aujourd-hui
My paper on the history of biological organization was accepted at HOPOS! The paper looks at organicist efforts in the first half of the 20th century to elevate organization in biology as a central practical and theoretical notion. #hpbio #philbio #histbio www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) The Problem of Organizat...
Nice talk by Amanda Corris @ishpssb2025.bsky.social on affordances in ecological psychology. The speaker highlighted "the active role the organism plays in shaping its own developmental and... evolutionary trajectories though its cognitive behaviour." #ishpssb2025 #philbio
If you are used to the complaint that #philbio is overly obsessed with evolution as opposed to other areas of biology, take a look at the #ishpssb2025. We have clearly moved beyond evolution. Just so y’all remember though: nothing makes sense except in the light of evolution.
Il y a un an, je finissais mon livre… #Bergson #biologie #évolution #philosophie #philbio
Mieux comprendre les animaux en mêlant philosophie bergsonienne et biologie contemporaine, c’est ma niche écologique 🌱
J’y parle de Bergson (évidemment), de babouins, de corbeaux, et de la mode du chapeau-saumon 🐒 🐦⬛ 🐳
Notre discussion avec Florian Moullard sur la #conscience animale, guidée par le journaliste Fabien Trécourt, est désormais disponible en podcast!
On y a parlé du jeu des poulpes🐙, des collaborations entre loups et corbeaux🐺 🐦⬛et - évidemment - de ce que ça fait d'être une chauve-souris 🦇!
#animalcognition #animal #animalculture #behaviour #philbio #podcast
Check out our latest issue with some outstanding papers from outstanding authors! As always, we are fully #openaccess, free for both authors and readers.
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ptpbio/issue/372/info/
imop, from a more general #ontology p.o.v. :
perhaps one good reason for why to pay attention to such and related recent discussion in #philbio were, that here we find most palpable examples and discussion of #emergence phenomena, at least more basic - I guess - than could be found in respective humanities studies.
wrt #process but we had to distinguish a - say - micro/biochemical concept of 'process' [not first view emergence related] from the more 'directly observable' unfolding of processes in sensation.
and its today, that a work confined to another old/new -imop anyway interesting -
trend in #philbio went available (also paywallfree) as a CUP "element", viz. Jan Baedke's 'the organism'
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/organism/D8BAF30E2D9A6E405F981EB0D58733B0
Just published the latest Gavin David Young Lecture, the 15th (3rd in the new series): Kim Sterelny, ‘Evolution and Moral Realism: take 2’. https://gavindavidyounglectures.au/index.php/gdylp/article/view/3 #philbio #philosophy #morality #Evolution
New paper alert:
Finkel & Lamm, Cultural evolution beyond the individual: what human collective knowledge adds to high fidelity copying.
This is the third in the Distributed Adaptation series.
Many thanks to the diligent reviewers! #philbio #cultevo
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10539-025-09982-4
New paper alert: Finkel & Lamm, Cultural evolution beyond the individual: what human collective knowledge adds to high fidelity copying. This is the third in the Distributed Adaptation series. Many thanks to the diligent reviewers! #philbio #cultevo link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Next session is tomorrow !!!
It will be on the limits of agency and will be led by Robin Bianchi !
Feel free to join us :)
Très heureuse de vous annoncer la publication de cet article bergsonien sur la conscience de la vie, et surtout la conscience des vivants non-humains !
https://shs.cairn.info/revue-archives-de-philosophie-2025-2-page-61?lang=fr
(Ps. Dans le même numéro, il y a une recension de mon livre par Tobias Endres 😃 !!)
Mercredi soir prochain je parlerai de l’imagination et de l’invention animales à IHPST avec Florian Moullard !!!! Plus d’infos ici 👉 https://ihpst.pantheonsorbonne.fr/evenements/soirees-philosophie-sciences-et-societe-sorbonne
#animal #philosophieanimale #animalcognition #animalbehaviour #philbio
I am very happy to share this more personal piece with you, exploring the link between inventiveness and play in our fellow nonhuman animals. It was written with care and a sincere desire to convey what science and philosophy can teach us about this fascinating topic.
I hope you enjoy reading it!
#animalplay #animalinvention #invention #animalbehaviour #evolution #aeon #philbio
https://aeon.co/essays/how-evolution-favoured-costly-and-frivolous-animal-play
Si vous voulez vous joindre à nous le 9 avril 💥
On parlera de la pensée animale !!
https://ihpst.pantheonsorbonne.fr/evenements/soirees-philosophie-sciences-et-societe-sorbonne
Next session of our online seminar on Agency between Biology and Philosophy is today (5pm UK time).
We will talk about the link between organism and agency + biosemiotics !!
Feel free to join us 😃
More info here:
Indispensable, information rich talk from @kevinlala.bsky.social . Should be watched by anyone doing #genetics, #evolution, or race studies. Maybe I’ll share some thoughts later. #sts #philbio #hps
underline.io/lecture/1051...
Genes, culture, and scientific...
I really enjoy Paris ✨ Their bookshops have amazing taste.
#Bergson #PhilBooks #Philbio #Books #philosophy #philosophyofscience
Hey ! I have a new paper I'm willing to submit. I am still working on it. But I'd be happy to have some feedback before the final version ! I think it need improvements ! It's about biological agency! Please share your comments :)
Here is the preprint:
http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.20494.88641
New preprint!!
The evolution of mutually exclusive alternatives. With the brilliant Yosef Prat.
We argue that ways of making choices are key to understanding cognitive evolution and suggest evolutionary stages leading to internal and flexible decision making ability.
For my followers in the Davis, California area, mark your calendars for one month from today for a free author event for my book, _The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium_ at our local bookstore, the Avid Reader!
#EnvironmentalEthics
#EnvironmentalHistory
#PhilBio
#HPB
#ConservationBiology
#Ecology
Last PTPBio issue of 2024 is out, with papers from Pierrick Bourrat, Yasmin Haddad, Ross L. Stein, and Marshall Abrams!
Always fully #openaccess — free for authors & free to read. Please share our posts & follow us!
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ptpbio/issue/265/info/
New special issue on fossil-driven science (vol 16, no 2) with papers from Adrian Currie, Douglas Erwin, Aja Watkins, and Caitlin Donahue Wylie, and an introduction from Meghan Page.
Always fully #openaccess — free for authors & free to read. Please share our posts & follow us!
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ptpbio/issue/264/info/
I am thrilled to read the first (that I am aware of) journal review of my @UChicagoPress book _The Land Is Our Community_. It is thoughtful and generous, and honestly, as much I could have hoped for (review by Samuel McKee for _Philosophy in Review_).
https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pir/article/view/22095
#EnvironmentalEthics
#EnvironmentalHistory
#PhilBio
#HPB
#ConservationBiology
#Ecology
#PhilSci
