Institut d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques

Réunion de travail avec M. Peter Godfrey Smith

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:01 +0200

Wednesday, 16th May 2012, 10h00-12h00

Responsable : P. Huneman

Philosophie de la biologie à Taïwan

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:01 +0200

Wednesday, 16th May 2012, 14h00-17h00

Philosophie de la biologie à Taïwan

Hsiao-Fan Yeh (doctorante à la National Chung Cheng University), Two New Approaches to the Old Issue of Reductionism: The example of classical genetics and molecular biology
Hsien-I Chiu et Kai-Yuan Jheng (doctorants à la National Chung Cheng University), An extended externalism approach to the species concept
Bo-Chi Lai (biologiste à la Da-Yeh University), The Species Concept and the Idea of Form

Réunion du Comité Editorial de la Collection de Philosophie de la Biologie de Springer

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:01 +0200

Thursday, 17th May 2012, 12h00-17h00

Responsable : P. Huneman

Réunion de travail avec M. Peter Godfrey Smith

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:01 +0200

Tuesday, 22th May 2012, 10h00-12h00

Responsable : P. Huneman

Soutenance de mémoire M2 : Ekaterina Koubichkina

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:01 +0200

Wednesday, 23th May 2012, 10h00-11h30

Groupe de lecture Auguste Comte : Kotaro Ono et Michel Bourdeau poursuivrons la présentation des pages du Discours sur l'ensemble du positivisme (1848) consacrées au débat avec le communisme (Edition GF, p. 195-216)

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:01 +0200

Thursday, 24th May 2012, 10h00-12h00

Responsable : M. Bourdeau

Kotaro Ono et Michel Bourdeau poursuivrons la présentation des pages du Discours sur l'ensemble du positivisme (1848) consacrées au débat avec le communisme (Edition GF, p. 195-216).

Séminaire PhilBio : Mark Bedau

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:01 +0200

Thursday, 24th May 2012, 16h00-17h30

Responsables : L. Laplane & G. Kostyrka

Séance en collaboration avec le séminaire BioThéo (CREA)

Mark Bedau
Minimal chemical life is a matter of degree
This talk defends the thesis that minimal chemical life essentially involves the proper chemical integration of three chemical functionalities: information storage and processing (or, Program), harvesting of raw materials and energy from the environment (or, Metabolism), and concentration and protections of reagents (or, Compartmentalization). This PMC model of minimal chemical life is illustrated and explained with the help of Rasmussen diagrams, which depict key chemical dependencies among cellular components. The PMC model gains some support from the broad view of life as the process of creative evolution, which I have defended elsewhere (e.g., Bedau 1996, 1998), which I defend with an Aristotelian methodology that considers life only in the whole context in which it actually exists, looks at the characteristic phenomena involving actual life, and seeks the deepest and most uniﬁed explanation for those phenomena. Further support for the PMC model comes from how it resolves the puzzle about whether the life/nonlife distinction is a dichotomy or a matter of degree.

Commentaires : Philippe Huneman (IHPST)

Séminaire PhilBio : Peter Godfrey-Smith

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:01 +0200

Friday, 25th May 2012, 12h00-14h00

Salle Cavaillès

Peter Godfrey-Smith (City University of New York)
Representation and Memory
The first part of the talk will look at the relevance of recent work on the evolution of communication to questions about the nature of content and representation. (Brian Skyrms' 2010 book Signals is the best example of the new work I have in mind.) The second part of the talk will apply these ideas to a particular case: memory. Both internal and external memory can be fit into a sender-receiver model. Does this help us gain a theoretical understanding of memory? How does this treatment of memory relate to philosophical questions about belief?