Process Biology

March 21, 2018 - March 23, 2018
Royal Institution of Great Britain

Library Room, first floor
21 Albemarle Street
London W1S 4BS
United Kingdom

Sponsor(s):

  • European Research Council

Speakers:

Norwegian University Of Life Sciences
University of Edinburgh
University of Exeter
(unaffiliated)
University of Exeter
Swarthmore College
University of California, Davis
University of Exeter
Institute For Systems Biology Seattle
University College London
Konrad Lorenz Institute Klosterneuburg, Austria
Technische Universität Berlin
University of Exeter
Indiana University, Bloomington
University of Southampton
George Mason University
Trinity College, Dublin
Tufts University
University of Leeds
University College Dublin
Wesleyan University
University of Exeter
University of Toronto, St. George Campus
University of Calgary

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University of Exeter
University of Exeter
University of Southampton
George Mason University

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The ERC-funded project ‘A Process Ontology for Contemporary Biology’ (2013-2018) has sought to rethink central issues in the philosophy of biology by elaborating an ontology for biology that takes full account of the processual nature of living systems. The goal has been to develop a concept of process adequate for addressing the multiple levels of interacting processes at different time scales characteristic of living systems. All biological entities can be analysed as stabilised processes relative to an appropriate time scale, and this conception provides a better understanding of familiar biological pluralisms (about genes, organisms, species, etc.) in terms of different ways in which distinct scientific practices intersect with biological processes. A process perspective has been used to shed light on a number of traditional philosophical problems, including individuation, classification, persistence, explanation, essentialism, and reductionism. It has also addressed the consequences of a process perspective for particular areas of contemporary biological and biomedical research.

This final conference will present the main findings of the project and explore the broader consequences of a process ontology for biology, as well as suggest further avenues of future research in the philosophy of biology and metaphysics.

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February 21, 2018, 12:00pm BST

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