ISHPSSB 2011 MEETING, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Session: Evo-devo, explanatory integration, and physical science Organizer: Alan Love Two issues are often neglected in the historical and philosophical analysis of developmental biology and Evo-devo: the role of visual representations in embryology, and the organicist approach to development and evolution. On the one hand, despite the […]
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Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP). Third Biennial Conference University of Exeter, UK 22-24 June 2011 Despite the role of models in scientific practice is increasingly being recognized, modelling in developmental biology and evo-devo has just recently started to be explored (Laubichler & Müller 2007). In particular, few attention has been paid to three-dimensional […]
Séminaire de Biologie Théorique, CREA (Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée)– CNRS / Polytechnique, París. Despite its radical importance in the development of organicism, embryology remains philosophically underexplored as a theoretical and empirical resource to clarify the nature of organisms. In my presentation I will discuss how developmental biology can help develop the organizational definition […]
3ème congrès de la Société de philosophie des sciences Symposium “Enjeux philosophiques de la pluralité des explications en biologie” 12/11/2009. Paris, France. La reconnaissance du rôle de la morphogénèse dans la compréhension de la forme biologique et de sa transformation évolutive a vécu un long éclipse après le triomphe de la Synthèse Moderne. Avec la […]
ISHPSSB 2009 Meeting, Brisbane, Australia Session: Biological Theory and Conceptual Power: Studies in Scientific Practice | Chair: Kevin S. Amidon Developmental biology has been mainly reduced to developmental genetics, neglecting the physico-chemical properties of cells and tissues and the emergent dynamics of pattern formation. However, in the last years, biophysics has arisen as a new […]
Laura Nuño de la Rosa 