BioKoinos
Philosophy of Biology UCMadrid Group
Upcoming 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
Past Events
BioKoinos Research Seminar
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
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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10 November, 2021
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Seminario 25, Edificio A Filosofía y Letras, 2nd floor left
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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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20 October, 2021
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Seminario 25, Edificio A Filosofía y Letras, 2nd floor left
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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.
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