The Philosophy of Biological Lineages

Thursday 15/05/25 - Sala de Juntas, Departamento de Filosofía
9:30-10:00
Javier Suárez (Univ. of Oviedo) - “Introducing X-Philes”
10:00-11:00
Matt Haber (Univ. of Utah) - “Biology’s Einstein moment”
11:30-12:30
Ronald Jenner (Natural History Museum UK) - “Exposing the challenges of lineage thinking in a world of taxa”
12:30-13:30
Elisabeth Lloyd (Indiana University) - “Lineage Selection, Evolvability, and the Role of Developmental Biology”

15:30-16:30
Alba G. Padrós (Univ. of Oviedo) - Constructing Scaffolds: Niche Construction as a scaffold for Natural Selection
16:30-17:30
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejada (KU Leuven) - “The matrix account of  niche construction”

Friday 16/05/25 - Sala de Juntas, Departamento de Filosofía
10:00-11:00
Sophie Veigl (Univ. of Vienna) - “Genetic vs immunological lineages”
11:00-12:00
Celso Neto (Univ. of Exeter) - “Has population genetics moved away from typological thinking “
12:30-13:30
Carlos R. Landa (Univ. of Granada/ Univ. of Oviedo) - “The problem of definition of life or the mind-body problem? A processual and enactive approach to the problem of definition of life”

15:30-16:30
Adrian Stencel (Jagiellonian University) - “It takes two to tango. The evolutionary foundation of dualism on biological individuality”
16:30-17:30
Gaëlle Pontarotti (Univ. of Namur) - “Culture at the heart: a culture-centered account of human multidimensional lineages”
17:30-18:00
Final Discussion