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2024 Speaker schedule



20 March 2024: Kulyash Zhumadimova (Virginia Tech, US), “Richard Lewontin and critique of reductionism”.


06 March 2024: Phil Sloan (Notre-Dame University, US), “Niels Bohr's ‘Light and Life’ Lecture and his Combat with Reductionism” (paper to be circulated).


21 February 2024: Margarida Hermida (King’s College London), “ Alien Trees: Universal Natural Kinds in Biology”; paper to be circulated.


07 February 2024: Gokhan Akbay (Cyprus International Univeristy, Cyprus; University of Texas at Austin, US), “Behavioral ‘Traits’ and Hereditarian Fallacies: Notes on Chapter 5 of Not in Our Genes.”.

24 January 2024: Stuart Newman (New York Medical College, USA), “Form, function, mind: what doesn’t compute (and what might)” (paper attached; please focus especially on the discussion starting on p. 19).