Please find below a list of some of the activities (talks, seminars, workshops, etc.) carried out at our center during the last five years.

Upcoming Events

• April 10, Fundamentals of IAS-Research Seminars 2018. Seminar 3 (Run by Jon Umerez): Emergence, hierarchies, constraints
• April 24, Fundamentals of IAS-Research Seminars 2018. Seminar 4 (Run by Ezequiel di Paolo): Embodied and enactive approaches to agency and cognition
• May 8, Fundamentals of IAS-Research Seminars 2018. Seminar 5 (Run by Hanne De Jaegher): Intersubjectivity, social understanding, social normativity
• May 22, Fundamentals of IAS-Research Seminars 2018. Seminar 6 (Run by Antonio Casado): Health and autonomy in medical and bioethical contexts

January – March 2018

• March 20, Fundamentals of IAS-Research Seminars 2018. Seminar 2 (Run by Arantza Etxeberria): Concepts of the organism, individuality, and identity
• March 9, Graduate Workshop on Philosophy of Science / Seminario de Investigación en Filosofía de la Ciencia
• March 6, Fundamentals of IAS-Research Seminars 2018. Seminar 1 (Run by Kepa Ruiz-Mirazu): The organizational approach to minimal living systems
• March 6, Fundamentals of IAS-Research Seminars 2018: Information about topics, schedule, and readings
• March 1, IAS-Research Talk by Johannes Jaeger: Structuralist perspectives on the evolution of developmental processes
• February 9, IAS-Research Talk by Gustavo Caponi: El impacto de la Filosofía Anatómica de Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire en el desarrollo de la Historia Natural
• February 8, “Seminario Abierto de Filosofía” by Sandra Caponi: Vigilar y medicar: el DSM-5 y los trastornos mentales de la infancia
• January 23, IAS-Research Seminar by Xabier Barandiaran: Artificial Democratic Life: re-engineering the autonomy of the social
• January 17, IAS-Research Talk by Cristina Moreno Lozano: In between antibiotic reasons and rations. Introductory ideas to the study of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance from social science

October – December 2017

• December 5, IAS-Research Talk by Mihaela Pavlicev: Can knowledge help overcome the biases in societal perception of female biology?
• November 14, IAS-Research Seminar by Guglielmo Militello: Harnessing energy production: functional integration in symbiotic relationships
• November 7, IAS-Research Talk by Marc Canciani: Revising the Superorganism: An Organizational Approach to the Superorganism Concept
• November 7, IAS-Research Talk by Javier Suárez: Stability of Traits as the Kind of Stability That Matters in a Holobiont
• October 25, IAS-Research Talk by Marc Bedau: The meta-question about life
• October 24, IAS-Research Talk by Marc Bedau: A defense of cultural Darwinism

April – June 2017

• May 16, IAS-Research Talk by Mª José Ferreira: Disentangling causation and information: informational parity at issue
• May 8, 11 & 12, Seminar on The history and theory of vitalism, from Descartes to Canguilhem, by Charles Wolfe
• May 9, IAS-Research Talks by Charles Wolfe (The organism as hybrid, the organism without idealism) and Fred Keijzer (Why we may want a science of cognition that is not a science of mind)
• April 25, IAS-Research Talk by Davide Vecchi: Biological individuality and the challenge posed by the ubiquity of multi-species partnerships
• April 24, IAS-Research Talk by Davide Vecchi: Challenging the consensus: intrinsicalism and the minimal genome
• April 4, IAS-Research Seminar by Ramiro Frick: Comunicación biológica: hacia una perspectiva organizacional

January – March 2017

• February 14, IAS-Research Seminar by Laura Nuño de la Rosa: Evolvability as a dispositional property
• February 2, IAS-Research Seminar by Argyris Arnellos: From organization of processes to organisms and other biological individuals

October – December 2016

• November 8, IAS-Research Talk by Francesca Michelini: Keywords in Philosophy of Nature and Autonomy in Biology. On Hegel and Plessner’s Theories of Living Beings 
• October 20-21, First Bordeaux-San Sebastián Workshop on Philosophy of Biology
• October 11, IAS-Research Talk by Wim Hordijk: Autocatalytic Sets: The Origin and Organization of Life

April – June 2016

• June 21, IAS-Research Talk by Leonardo Bich: Why defining life is not pointless
• June 21, IAS-Research Talk by Sune Holm: Causation as control: the case of synthetic biology
• June 13, IAS-Research Seminar by Michael Beaton: Sensorimotor Direct Realism: How We Enact Our World
• June 13, IAS-Research Seminar by Laura Menatti and Antonio Casado da Rocha: Landscape and Health: Connecting Psychology, Aesthetics, and Philosophy through the Concept of Affordance
• June 7, IAS-Research Talk by Argyris Arnellos: The body complexity thesis: multicellular hurdles for animal cognition
• June 7, IAS-Research Talk by Sébastien Lerique: The Epidemiology of Representations paradigm for the enquiry of cognition-with-culture: how online experiments surface problematic assumptions

• February 26, IAS-Research Seminar by Xabier Barandiaran: Collective identities in interaction networks: exploring the technopolitical autonomy of the 15M through neurodynamic analogies
• February 26, IAS-Research Seminar by Ezequiel Di Paolo: Participatory Object Perception
• February 10, International Workshop SYSTEMS AND EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES ON THE ORIGINS OF LIFE

October – December 2015

• December 14, IAS-Research Seminar by Nei de Freitas Nunes-Neto: Regulation in organisms and its ecological consequences
• November 30, talk by Roslyn M. Frank: A cognitive approach to the schema of “dialogic subjectivity” (elkarrekikotasuna) in Euskera: Three examples
• November 9, talk by Francisco Vergara Silva: Evolución biocultural y filosofía de la ciencia

July -September 2015

• September 28, talk by Aníbal Monasterio Astobiza: The Morality of Head Transplant
• September 14, talk by Mª José Ferreira Ruiz: Information, inheritance systems and developmental resources

April – June 2015

• June 8, talk by James Difrisco: Individuality and the limits of biological functionalism
• June 4, International Workshop on Levels of organization, causality & top-down relations
• June 3, talk by William Bechtel: Minimal Cognition
• June 2, discussion with William Bechtel on Mechanistic explanation and beyond
• June 1, talk by William Bechtel: Mechanistic explanation and beyond
• May 11, IAS-Seminar by Nei de Freitas Nunes-Neto: Functionality and regulation in ecological and social-ecological systems 
• May 8, talk by Sara Diani: Complex systems and clinical medicine: do they have fitting points?
• April 27, talk by Marcella Faria: Cell-Matrix Adhesion Complexes and their Dinamic Assembly: the Poetics of Cell Attachment
• April 24, workshop with Alfred Tauber: On Identity and Autonomy
• April 13, talk by René Zaragüeta: Why, Willi, why? Phylogenetics and the dichotomy of trees

January – March 2015

• March 4, talk by Thomas Reydon: Metaphysics Naturalized? The Case of Classification in the Sciences.
• March 2, talk by Olatz González: Visualising Basque Fratriarchy: Enactions and Recognition in the Sport of Pelota.
• January 26, talk by Mikael Karlsson: Could Rabbits Dance?

October – December 2014

• December 15, talk by Carissa Véliz: In defence of habits.
• December 1, IAS-Seminar by Leonardo Bich: Biological Regulation: an organisational account.
• November 24, IAS-Seminar by Xabier E. Barandiaran: Enactivism without autonomy?
• November 17, IAS-Seminar by Sara Murillo: Towards integrative compartmentalized chemical systems: a lipid-peptide rendez-vous.
• November 10, talk by Oier Etxeberria: Aita Laburu: Imágenes y palabras sobre magia y locura en el País Vasco (1933-1935).
• November 3, IAS-Seminar by Alvaro Moreno: The Limits of Science as Biological Limits of Human Beings.
• October 6, talk by Nicole Rossmanith: Karl Bühler meets Enactive Cognitive Science – Towards a Science of Social Co-regulation and Making Sense.

July – September 2014

• July 1-2, IAS-IHPST Workshop: Boundaries and Levels of Biological Organization.

April – June 2014

• June 3, talk by Laura Galbusera: Body-Oriented Psychotherapy for Persons with Schizophrenia: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Participants’ Experience.
• May 30, talk by Juli Peretó: Evolutionary Innovations by Symbiogenesis – From Ancient to Modern (Geological) Times.
• May 13, IAS-Seminar by Alba Amilburu: Grouping Practices from a “Naturalistic” Point of View: A Meta-Theoretical Comment.
• May 1-3, Interdisciplinary Workshop: Interacting Complexity: Cognition and Communication in Conflict Transformation. 
• April 16, talk by Jürgen Streek: The Praxeology and Phenomenology of Gesture: A Case Study.
• April 1, IAS Key Topics discussion: Invidual vs. social and group levels of explanation.

January – March 2014

• March 25, talk by John McGraw: Ritual and Enaction.
• March 18, talk by Yanna Popova: Narrativity and Enaction: the Social Nature of Narrative Understanding.
• February 25, talk by David Romero: Art as a Mirror of Corporality. Poetics of estrangement – integration.

October – December 2013

• November 25, IAS-Seminar by Mike Beaton: Learning and Understanding.
• October 22, talk by Michael Marder: Toward a phenomenology of plant life. (Available online at: http://ehutb.ehu.es/es/video/index/uuid/526e2a42e814b.html).

July – September 2013

• September 18-25, Call for a one-year contract for a Post-doctoral position within the IAS Research group in Donostia/San Sebastián.

April – June 2013

• June 28, talk by Massimo Di Giulio: The coevolution theory of the origin of the genetic code and an its extension.
• June 25, IAS-Seminar by Ion Arrieta: The Autonomies of Bioethics.
• June 18, IAS-Seminar by Matthew Egbert and Xabier E. Barandiaran: Habits as sensorimotor life-forms: modelling self-maintaining behaviour with an iterant deformable sensorimotor medium.
• June 11, talk by Massimo Di Giulio: On the rigin of the tRNA molecule.
• May 23, IAS-Seminar by Mike Beaton: Towards a Scientifically Tractable, Direct Realist, Sensorimotor Account of Experience.

January -March 2013

• February 7-23, Call for a 4 year FPI (PhD) fellowship in IAS-Research Centre on Life, Mind, and Society.
• February 4, talk by Pablo Razeto-Barry: Autopoiesis 40 years later.
• January 15, talk by Randall Beer: The Cognitive Domain of a Glider in the Game of Life.

 October – December 2012

• December 11, IAS-Seminar by Ximena González: Musical imagery from an embodied and enactive approach.
• November 20, IAS-Seminar by Elena Cuffari: Linguistic Movement in Social Coordination: How an Enactivist Might Talk about Talking.
• October 27-28, Workshop on Autonomy and Individual Organisms in Biology: A Collaborative Perspective.
• October 9, IAS-Seminar by Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo and Sara Murillo: On the transition from prebiotic vesicles to protocellular membranes.

July – September 2012

• September 6-8, XXIIth edition of the SIUCC (Seminario Interuniversitario de Ciencia Cognitiva).
• September 4, talk by Hiru lizuka: Emergence of Turn-taking Behaviour on Agency Detection Simulation and Behavioural Turing Test Experiment.

April – June 2012

• June 22, talk by Richard Prum: Sexual Selection and Aesthetic Evolution.
• June 12, talk by Federica Russo: Mechanisms in the Sciences: A Field Guide.
• May 14-18, Summer School: TESIS: Toward an Embodied Science of InterSubjectivity.

January – March 2012

• March 11-16, Full week course on Bioethics and Film: Looking at Bioethics through the Lens of Both American and Spanish Films. 

October – December 2011

• December 3, IAS-Seminar by Mike Beaton: The Location of Subjective Information.
• November 10, talk by Isaac Salazar-Ciudad: Genotype-phenotype map models and evolution.
• November 4, talk by Fred Gifford: The Ethics of Randomized Clinical Trials: The Debate about “So-called Clinical Equipoise” and some underlying issues in philosophy of science.
• October 20, talk by James Griesemer: Life cycle models and origins-of-life scenarios: A reproducer perspective.