BioKoinos

Philosophy of Biology UCMadrid Group

Upcoming Events

UNED/BioKoinos Research Seminar

Vanessa Triviño (UCM) - ¿Cómo repensar la Metafísica de la Ciencia desde la Biología?

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Álvaro Moreno (UPV/EHU) - Donde empieza la mente. Un enfoque evolutivo de la agencia consciente

16 mayo 2023

11:00 - 14:00h

Lugar: UNED, Salón de grados de Filosofía (Planta -1)

C/Senda del Rey, 7. 28040. Madrid.


Abstracts


Para obtener el enlace Zoom, escriba a uned.lhfc@gmail.com

BioKoinos Research Seminar

Atocha Aliseda (UNAM/UNED) 

11 September 2023

11:00 - 13:00h


Details TBA.


Past Events

BioKoinos Research Seminar

Gustavo Caponi (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina) - Precisiones sobre el concepto evolutivo de especie

24 Abril 2023

11:00 - 13:00h

Room: Seminario 36, Facultad de Filosofía (Edificio A, 3ª planta), Universidad Complutense de Madrid


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Alejandro Fábregas Tejeda (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) - ¿Qué es el ambiente de un organismo cuando se postula como relatum? Una exploración metafísica y epistemológica

23 Marzo 2023

11:00 - 13:00h

Room: Seminario 215, Facultad de Filosofía (Edificio A, 2ª planta), Universidad Complutense de Madrid


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Alejandro Fábregas Tejeda (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) - El poder explicativo de la Síntesis Evolutiva Extendida

21 Marzo 2023

15:30 - 18:00h

Room: Seminario 22, Edificio B, Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Complutense de Madrid


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Stella Villarmea (UCM) - Nacimiento: repensar el origen desde la filosofía

20 Febrero 2023

11:00 - 13:00h

Room: Seminario 30, Edificio A Filosofía y Letras, 2nd floor left, Universidad Complutense de Madrid


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Stella Villarmea en conversación con Felix Grewe (Universität Paderborn) - Donna Haraway: Cyborgs and the Anthropocene

30 November 2022

11:00 - 13:00h

Facultad de Filosofía, B-38

Información y contacto: Stella Villarmea svillarm@ucm.es 


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José Antonio Pérez-Escobar (Université Paris Sciences et Lettres) - Contrafácticos matemáticos y explicaciones en biología: problemas y nuevas direcciones

7 November, 2022

11:00 - 13:00

Room: Seminario 30, Edificio A Filosofía y Letras, 2nd floor left, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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Mariano Martín Villuendas (Universidad de Salamanca) - La disputa meta-científica en el contexto de la investigación del cáncer

24 October, 2022

11:00 - 13:00

Room: Seminario 25, Edificio A Filosofía y Letras, 2nd floor left, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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David Álvaro Martínez González (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) - El desafío del LIS a las teorías de la cognición corporizada. Un enfoque biosistémico

12 May, 2022

11:00 - 12:30

Room: Seminario 25, Edificio A Filosofía y Letras, 2nd floor left, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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David Teira (Sorbonne Université) & Oriol Vidal (Universitat de Girona) - Are animal breeds social kinds?

07 April, 2022

11:00 - 12:30

Hybrid format

In person: Seminario 25, Edificio A Filosofía y Letras, 2nd floor left, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Online retransmission: Please contact Cristina Villegas for access.

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Saúl Pérez González (University of Turin) & Elena Rocca (Oslo Metropolitan University) - Evidence-based and patient-centred clinical practice. The bridging role of evidence of mechanism

23 March, 2022

11:00 - 13:00


Online Seminar.

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Riin Kõiv (University of Tartu) - Interactive genetic causes

09 March, 2022

11:00 - 13:00

Online Seminar.

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Javier Cumpa (UCM) - Foundational Metaphysics and the Complete Description of Reality

22 February, 2022

11:00 - 13:00

Room: Seminario 25, Edificio A Filosofía y Letras, 2nd floor left, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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Laura Menatti and Leonardo Bich (UPV/EHU) - What is health in the time of COVID-19? Adaptivity as a key notion to understand the relationship between health and the environment in the current and postpandemic scenario

1 December, 2021

11:30 - 13:00

Room: Seminario 25, Edificio A Filosofía y Letras, 2nd floor left

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Abstract

Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science research project ‘Stochastic Representations in the Natural Sciences: Conceptual Foundations and Applications’ (PGC2018-099423-B-I00)


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Cristina Villegas (KLI) - Evolutionary Propensities and their Evolution

10 November, 2021

11:30 - 13:00

Room: Seminario 25, Edificio A Filosofía y Letras, 2nd floor left

Universidad Complutense de Madrid


Abstract

Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science research project ‘Stochastic Representations in the Natural Sciences: Conceptual Foundations and Applications’ (PGC2018-099423-B-I00)

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Juan Campos Quemada (UCM) - Quantum Darwinism: analogy and the measure of stochasticity in nature

20 October, 2021

11:30 - 13:00

Room: Seminario 25, Edificio A Filosofía y Letras, 2nd floor left

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Abstract

Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science research project ‘Stochastic Representations in the Natural Sciences: Conceptual Foundations and Applications’ (PGC2018-099423-B-I00)

BioKoinos/UNED Research Seminar

Denis Walsh (University of Toronto) - Norms Are Like Colours: Naturalism and the Constitutively Perspectival

12 December 2022

11:00 - 13:00h

In person: Seminario 30, Edificio A, Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Online retransmission: Please contact Cristina Villegas for access.

Abstract: Oughts—not just moral oughts, but biological oughts too—make a difference to the natural world. Certain events or regularities occur because they ought to; and their oughting to figures in an explanation of their occurrence. In this respect, normative properties look like natural properties. I attempt to locate norms in nature. I draw on the recent work in perspectival pluralism to sketch an account of what natural normativity might be, and why it fails to show up in our usual scientific accounts of the world. Normative facts, I claim are constitutively perspectival facts. The category of the constitutively perspectival should not be problematic for the naturalist. Many phenomena we accept as natural—like colours—fall into it.


WORKSHOP ON METAPHYSICS OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(MoB21)

20-21 September, 2021

Room: Seminario 25, Edificio A Filosofía y Letras, 2nd floor left

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

PROGRAM

September 20th

9,30-11,00 James DiFrisco (KU Leuven), The individuation of biological characters

11,30-13,00 Arantza Etxeberria (EHU/UPV), The historicity of pregnancy: Temporal boundaries in reproductive relations

*Lunch Break*

15,30-17,00 Vanessa Triviño (URJC), Towards a metaphysics of biology. Characterizing the interaction between Metaphysics and Biology

17,30-19,00 Matteo Mossio (IHPST, CNRS/Paris1), Autonomy and Biological Identity

September 21th

9,30-11,00 Javier González de Prado (UNED) and Cristian Saborido (UNED), Biological teleology and regulation.

11,30-13,00 María Cerezo (UCM) and Laura Nuño de la Rosa (UCM), Time in biology: theory and metaphysics


The workshop will be held in-person at the Faculty of Philosophy, UCM.

Funding for the workshop from the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Spanish Government) and the European Regional Development Fund (Fondos FEDER EU). Project FFI2017-87193-P: Metaphysics of Biology: Framing the Interactions between Metaphysics and Molecular, Developmental and Evolutionary Biology. We thank both Institutions.

More info and abstracts.

 Regular Events

Research Seminar

During the academic course, we organice a bimensual colloquim with presentations from members of the group and invited speakers.

Check out our 'upcoming events' for more details

Reading Group

We gather every two weeks to discuss literature together.

Fall 2022: Mondays at 13:00