19th October 2021: Maya J. Goldenberg
(University of Guelph, Canada)
A War on Science? Rethinking Vaccine Hesitancy and Refusal
13th October 2021: Ann-Sophie Barwich
(Indiana University Bloomington, USA)
The Limits of Current Machine Learning Models in Olfaction
29th April 2021: Emanuele Ratti
(Institute of Philosophy and Scientific Method, Johannes Kepler University Linz)
Explainable AI and medicine
2nd March 2021 : Judith Campisi
(Buck Institute for Research on Aging and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California)
Cancer and aging: Rival demons?
10th November 2020 : Federico Boem (Milan)
Out of our Skull, in our Skin: The Gut-Microbiota-Brain axis and the Extended Cognition Thesis
25th February 2021 : Eva Jablonka (Cohn Institute for History & Philosophy of Science, Tel Aviv University)
Neural Transitions in Learning and Cognition
6th January 2021 : Patricia Churchland (UC President’s Professor of Philosophy Emerita UCSD)
Our brains and our moral intuitions
27th November 2020 : Antoine Dussault (Researcher, CIRST, Montréal)
Towards a Holistic-Functionalist Account of Pathology
6th of July 2020 : Maria Blasco (CNIO, Madrid)
Telomerase Activation for the Treatment of Telomere Loss Disorders
23rd of January 2020: Jonathan Birch (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
The Search for Invertebrate Consciousness
12th of December 2019: Ana Soto (Tufts University, USA / ENS Paris, France)
Carcinogenesis explained within the context of a theory of organisms
20th of November 2019: Federica Russo (Universiteit van Amstardam, Netherlands)
What can technology do for you?
Opportunities & challenges of health technologies in medicine and everyday life
18th of October 2019: Matt Haber (University of Utah, USA)
Positively Misleading Errors
2nd of October 2019: Kim Sterelny (Australian National University, Australia)
Demography and Cultural Complexity
24th of May 2019: Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter, UK)
Actionable Data for Precision Oncology: Building Trustworthy Evidence for Exploratory Research and Clinical Diagnostics
16th of May 2019: Fridolin Gross (University of Kassel, Germany)
Occam’s Razor in Molecular and Systems Biology
5th of April 2019: Angela Potochnik (University of Cincinnati, USA)
Causal Patterns and How Our Theories Change
5th of March 2019: Charles Pence (Université catholique du Louvain, Belgium)
“The Wonderful Form of Cosmic Order”: Bringing Statistics to Evolution
27th of September 2018: Lara Keuck (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
Borderline cases and effective theories in philosophy of medicine
2nd of July 2018: Paul Griffiths (University of Syndey, Austrlia)
What is an organism, and what is it for? Neo-Aristotelian, Darwinian and post-Hamilton perspectives
20th of June 2018: Samir Okasha (University of Bristol, UK)
The Metaphor of Agency in Biology
6th of June 2018: Alexander Bird (King’s College London, UK)
Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy
24th of April 2018: Valerie Hardcastle (University of Cincinnati, USA)
The Microbiome and the Brain: A New Revolution in Neuroscience?
27th of February 2018: Johannes Jäger (Complexity Science Hub, Austria)
Beyond networks: evolutionary dynamics of developmental processes
8th of February 2018: Aleksandra Walczak (ENS Paris, France)
Diversity and prediction in immune receptor repertoires
16th of January 2018: Lauren Ross (Irvine, USA)
Causal concepts in biology: how pathways differ from mechanisms and why it matters
6th of October, 2017: Marc-André Selosse (MNHN)
The evolution of interdependency between symbiotic organisms by neutral evolution
29th of September, 2017: Tim Lewens (HPS, Cambridge Univ., UK)
Science and Values: The Case of ‘Mitochondrial Donation’
13th of July 2017: James Woodward (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Causation in Biology