Biological Interest Group
lgBIG — lake geneva BIOLOGICAL INTEREST GROUP
The lake geneva BIOLOGICAL INTEREST GROUP is a forum for discussing biology from a multitude of perspectives, including philosophical, scientific and historical, and was founded in 2012 at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Geneva. Our standing members are based in different institutions at the Universities of Geneva, Lausanne, Bern, and Milan. We consider ourselves to be part of a BIG international movement that includes kindred groups at the University of Minnesota and the University of Exeter. Our members are also participating in the From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics initiative, sinergia and What if? research projects.
Our meetings take place on Wednesdays from 12:15 to 14:00 in Bâtiment de l'IFAGE in the room IF 401 (19 place des Augustins). We discuss our own research as well as other contemporary philosophical, scientific and historical work that addresses interesting biological issues.
Everyone is welcome!
MembersWilliam Bausman |
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Activities
5 Oct | Meeting cancelled |
12 Oct | Lucie’s tour behind the scenes of the Natural History Museum |
19 Oct | Raphael Scholl and Marcel Weber on COVID-19 modeling |
26 Oct | Silvia De Cesare, « Evolution et progrès : une question d’échelles temporelles » |
2 Nov | Ivan Gonzalez-Cabrera, “Folk Metaethics, Moral Realism, and the Adaptive Landscape of Human Cooperation” |
16 Nov | Marcel Weber, “Coherent Causal Control: A New Distinction within Causality” |
23 Nov | Luis Bordo Garcia on the problem of variable choice in causal models |
30 Nov | TBA |
7 Dec | José Pérez Escobar, “Mathematical models, rules of description, and the how-possibly/how-actually distinction” |
14 Dec | TBA |
Past Activities
- Program Spring Term 2022
- Program Fall Term 2021
- Program Spring 2021
- Program Spring 2020
- Program Fall Term 2019
- Program Fall Term 2018
- Program Spring Term 2018
- Program Fall Term 2017
- Program Spring Term 2017
- Program Fall Term 2016
- Program Spring Term 2016
- Program Fall Term 2015
- Program Spring Term 2015
- Program Fall Term 2014
- Workshop on Modelling, Experimenting and Simulating, July 27-28, University of Geneva
- Program Spring Term 2014
- Workshop on Organisms, Machines and Mechanisms, December 5-6, University of Geneva
- Program Fall Term 2013
- Program Spring Term 2013
- lgBIG getaway, December 14-15, 2012, Champex-d'en-Haut
- Program Fall Term 2012