As part of the Outonomy project, we have organised a seminar on Gaia theory and philosophy, from the 1 to 3 December. See link for full program, participants and registration form.
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6-7 June 2019: IV SLMFCE Postgraduate Conference
City: Donostia-San Sebastián (Spain).
Date: 9 & 10 July, 2019.
Venue: Ignacio María Barriola Building ( Elhuyar Square, 1), University of the Basque Country.
Date: 19-20 November 2018
Location: Faculty of Education, Philosophy and Anthropology (Salón de Grados) [Ibaeta Campus, Donostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain]
Keynote Speakers: William Bechtel (University of California San Diego), James Griesemer (University of California, Davis), Alicia Juarrero (University of Miami), Alvaro Moreno (UPV/EHU), Ana Soto (University of Tufts).
BOUNDARIES AND LEVELS OF BIOLOGICAL ORGANIZATION
The IAS-Research Centre for Life Mind and Society of the University of the Basque Country (EHU/UPV) in collaboration with the Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (IHPST) of the University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne École Normale Supérieure and CNRS will be hosting an international workshop in Philosophy of Biology.
The workshop will discuss the notion of biological organization from a systemic- perspective. In particular it will focus on its intrinsic hierarchical dimension, and on the role organization plays in the understanding of the transition from pre-biotic to minimal living systems and of more complex forms of biological, cognitive and ecological systems.
Dates: July 1-2 2014
Venue: Room B1 – Centro Carlos Santamaria, Universidad del Pais Vasco (EHU/UPV) Campus de Guipuzkoa
Webpage: http://ias-ihpst.ias-research.net/
For more detailed information please contact the organisers Leonardo Bich and Maël Montevil.
No registration and no fees are needed for attending the workshop. Access is free to everybody in the academic community interested in the topics of the workshop. If you intend to come, please send an email to leonardo[dot]bich[at]ehu[dot]es so that we can facilitate your entrance into the building.
PROGRAM
| TUESDAY 1st of JULY | |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Opening |
| Session 1 | |
| 10:15 – 11.15 | Hierarchical thinking in organicist and systems biology
Jon Umerez IAS/Universidad del País Vasco |
| 11:15 – 11:40 | Coffee break and collaboration proposals |
| 11:40 – 12:40 | Levels, orders and boundaries: a look into the architecture of biological organization
Matteo Mossio IHPST/Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne |
| 12:40 – 14:30 | Lunch break |
| Session 2 | |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Protocellular autonomy: getting organized through the construction of open boundaries
Kepa Ruiz Mirazo IAS/Universidad del País Vasco |
| 15:30 – 15:40 | Break |
| 15:40 – 16:40 | Heredity and organization
Gaëlle Pontarotti, with commentaries by Francesca Merlin IHPST/Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne |
| WEDNESDAY 2nd of JULY
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| Session 3 | |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Teleology as a principle
Nicole Perret ENS Paris |
| 11:00 – 11:40 | Coffee break and collaboration proposals |
| 11:40 – 12:40 | Failed intentions, or why adaptive behavior is not sufficient for cognition
Xabier Barandiaran IAS/Universidad del País Vasco |
| 12:40 – 14:30 | Lunch Break |
| Session 4 | |
| 14:30 – 15: 30 | On the origin of autonomy: from chemical to biological organisation
Alvaro Moreno IAS /Universidad del Pais Vasco |
| 15.30 – 15: 40 | Break |
| 15.40 – 16 :40 | Gaïa: what was it about?
Sebastien Dutreuil IHPST/Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne |
| 16: 40 – 16:50 | Closing remarks |
Call for Papers
Workshop “Synthetic Modeling of Life and Cognition: Open Questions” (SMLC 2013)
12-14th September 2013, University of Bergamo, Italy
Organizers:
Luisa Damiano (University of Bergamo)
Vincent C. Müller (Anatolia College/ACT & University of Oxford)
In recent decades researchers in various scientific domains have been working intensely on procedures directed to exploring life and cognition in a “synthetic” way, i.e. through modeling in artificial systems. Research on biological and cognitive processes is thus been increasingly based on implementations in “software” (simulations), “hardware” (robots) and “wetware” (chemical systems) used as scientific models of the processes in question. This scientific development is often seen as the emergence of a new general methodology, a “synthetic methodology”, slated to become a dominant force in science. This synthetic methodology poses a challenge for both science itself and the philosophy of science: to define the possibilities, the limits, and the ways of the synthetic modeling of life and cognition, and its relevance for biological, behavioral, cognitive, and social sciences.
The workshop “Synthetic Modeling of Life and Cognition: Open Questions” will tackle this challenge by creating a strongly interdisciplinary forum that can formulate and address these fundamental questions. The workshop brings together pioneers of the synthetic exploration of life and cognition from different scientific domains (computer science, synthetic biology, cognitive, developmental, social robotics…), and invites them to discuss with philosophers and other specialists studying this emerging form of scientific investigation.
Invited speakers
Call for Papers
The SMLC 2013 workshop adopts an “Open Questions” format. – This means that the SMLC 2013 call for papers contains a list of questions on the synthetic modeling of life and cognition formulated by members of the Program Committee and other selected specialists on the basis of their expertise and in accordance with the topics of the workshop.
Deadline: 30.06.2013
Complete Call for Papers: http://www.pt-ai.org/smlc/2013/calls
Call for Papers
Workshop “Synthetic Modeling of Life and Cognition: Open Questions” (SMLC 2013)
12-14th September 2013, University of Bergamo, Italy
Organizers:
Luisa Damiano (University of Bergamo)
Vincent C. Müller (Anatolia College/ACT & University of Oxford)
In recent decades researchers in various scientific domains have been working intensely on procedures directed to exploring life and cognition in a “synthetic” way, i.e. through modeling in artificial systems. Research on biological and cognitive processes is thus been increasingly based on implementations in “software” (simulations), “hardware” (robots) and “wetware” (chemical systems) used as scientific models of the processes in question. This scientific development is often seen as the emergence of a new general methodology, a “synthetic methodology”, slated to become a dominant force in science. This synthetic methodology poses a challenge for both science itself and the philosophy of science: to define the possibilities, the limits, and the ways of the synthetic modeling of life and cognition, and its relevance for biological, behavioral, cognitive, and social sciences.
The workshop “Synthetic Modeling of Life and Cognition: Open Questions” will tackle this challenge by creating a strongly interdisciplinary forum that can formulate and address these fundamental questions. The workshop brings together pioneers of the synthetic exploration of life and cognition from different scientific domains (computer science, synthetic biology, cognitive, developmental, social robotics…), and invites them to discuss with philosophers and other specialists studying this emerging form of scientific investigation.
Invited speakers
Sponsors
Call for Papers
The SMLC 2013 workshop adopts an “Open Questions” format. – This means that the SMLC 2013 call for papers contains a list of questions on the synthetic modeling of life and cognition formulated by members of the Program Committee and other selected specialists on the basis of their expertise and in accordance with the topics of the workshop.
The SMLC 2013 workshop questions are cutting-edge open questions defining the agenda of the nascent interdisciplinary community dedicated to support the reflected and cooperative development of the synthetic modeling of life and cognition.
We welcome abstracts presenting and critically supporting original approaches directed to tackle the issues defined by the questions, and able to stimulate discussions and the emergence of new research lines in the interdisciplinary community created by the workshop.
The list of the SMLC 2013 workshop open questions can be found below. The questions are divided in three groups on the basis of their contents, and each question has an ID number.
We invite specialists from all the different research fields involved in this highly interdisciplinary forum to submit abstracts. In particular we welcome researchers from biology, synthetic biology, computational biology, AL, cognitive sciences, sciences of complex systems, computer sciences, AI, cognitive robotics, developmental robotics, social robotics, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of biology, philosophy of cognitive science, epistemology.
The Program Committee will select the papers to be presented at the workshop as talks through a double-blind peer review process.
We are planning to publish proceedings of the conference with a reputed publisher.
Information on how to prepare your abstract(s):
Each abstract should be anonymised for blind review and should include:
– the ID number and the short version of the question you are addressing;
– the title of your contribution;
– a text of up to 1000 words (excl. references) in a PDF;
– a short abstract of up to 150 words.
Deadline: 30.06.2013
Submission at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smlc2013
Latest Information at http://www.pt-ai.org/smlc/2013/paper-submission
For any further information, please do not hesitate to contact the organizers.
Thank you for contributing to this emergent research area!
SMLC 2013: Open Questions
This is the list of questions on the synthetic modeling of life and cognition, formulated by members of the Program Committee and other selected specialists on the basis of their expertise and in accordance with the topics of the workshop.
a) Synthetic exploration of life
(1) What are the possibilities and the limits of the synthetic study of the origins of life?
(2) Aiming at a universal biology: what can be the contribution of the synthetic methodology?
(3) Does the synthetic modeling of life need teleology?
(4) How can we test for artificial life?
b) Synthetic exploration of cognition
(5) What can synthetic biology offer to the study of cognition?
(6) What is the role of embodiment in the synthetic exploration of cognition?
(7) How can one build an agent aware of its environment?
(8) How can we model conscious experience?
(9) The extended mind thesis: can it be explored synthetically?
c) Possibilities, limits, ways and impacts of the synthetic modeling of life and cognition:
(10) The “sciences of the artificial” and the “sciences of the natural”: How can we guarantee positive interaction?
(11) What are the characteristics and roles of synthetic models?
(12) Do different forms of the synthetic modeling have different explanatory powers?
(13) Which levels of abstraction are appropriate in the synthetic modeling of life and cognition?
(14) What are the impacts of the synthetic methodology on the dichotomies ‘science/engineering’, and ‘artificial/natural’?
(15) The synthetic methodology: What are the environmental and social impacts?
Explanations of the open questions on
http://www.pt-ai.org/smlc/2013/open-questions
Call for Papers
Workshop “Synthetic Modeling of Life and Cognition: Open Questions” (SMLC 2013)
12-14th September 2013, University of Bergamo, Italy
Organizers:
Luisa Damiano (University of Bergamo)
Vincent C. Müller (Anatolia College/ACT & University of Oxford)
In recent decades researchers in various scientific domains have been working intensely on procedures directed to exploring life and cognition in a “synthetic” way, i.e. through modeling in artificial systems. Research on biological and cognitive processes is thus been increasingly based on implementations in “software” (simulations), “hardware” (robots) and “wetware” (chemical systems) used as scientific models of the processes in question. This scientific development is often seen as the emergence of a new general methodology, a “synthetic methodology”, slated to become a dominant force in science. This synthetic methodology poses a challenge for both science itself and the philosophy of science: to define the possibilities, the limits, and the ways of the synthetic modeling of life and cognition, and its relevance for biological, behavioral, cognitive, and social sciences.
The workshop “Synthetic Modeling of Life and Cognition: Open Questions” will tackle this challenge by creating a strongly interdisciplinary forum that can formulate and address these fundamental questions. The workshop brings together pioneers of the synthetic exploration of life and cognition from different scientific domains (computer science, synthetic biology, cognitive, developmental, social robotics…), and invites them to discuss with philosophers and other specialists studying this emerging form of scientific investigation.
Invited speakers
Sponsors
Call for Papers
The SMLC 2013 workshop adopts an “Open Questions” format. – This means that the SMLC 2013 call for papers contains a list of questions on the synthetic modeling of life and cognition formulated by members of the Program Committee and other selected specialists on the basis of their expertise and in accordance with the topics of the workshop.
The SMLC 2013 workshop questions are cutting-edge open questions defining the agenda of the nascent interdisciplinary community dedicated to support the reflected and cooperative development of the synthetic modeling of life and cognition.
We welcome abstracts presenting and critically supporting original approaches directed to tackle the issues defined by the questions, and able to stimulate discussions and the emergence of new research lines in the interdisciplinary community created by the workshop.
The list of the SMLC 2013 workshop open questions can be found below. The questions are divided in three groups on the basis of their contents, and each question has an ID number.
We invite specialists from all the different research fields involved in this highly interdisciplinary forum to submit abstracts. In particular we welcome researchers from biology, synthetic biology, computational biology, AL, cognitive sciences, sciences of complex systems, computer sciences, AI, cognitive robotics, developmental robotics, social robotics, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of biology, philosophy of cognitive science, epistemology.
The Program Committee will select the papers to be presented at the workshop as talks through a double-blind peer review process.
We are planning to publish proceedings of the conference with a reputed publisher.
Information on how to prepare your abstract(s):
Each abstract should be anonymised for blind review and should include:
– the ID number and the short version of the question you are addressing;
– the title of your contribution;
– a text of up to 1000 words (excl. references) in a PDF;
– a short abstract of up to 150 words.
Deadline: 30.06.2013
Submission at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smlc2013
Latest Information at http://www.pt-ai.org/smlc/2013/paper-submission
For any further information, please do not hesitate to contact the organizers.
Thank you for contributing to this emergent research area!
SMLC 2013: Open Questions
This is the list of questions on the synthetic modeling of life and cognition, formulated by members of the Program Committee and other selected specialists on the basis of their expertise and in accordance with the topics of the workshop.
a) Synthetic exploration of life
(1) What are the possibilities and the limits of the synthetic study of the origins of life?
(2) Aiming at a universal biology: what can be the contribution of the synthetic methodology?
(3) Does the synthetic modeling of life need teleology?
(4) How can we test for artificial life?
b) Synthetic exploration of cognition
(5) What can synthetic biology offer to the study of cognition?
(6) What is the role of embodiment in the synthetic exploration of cognition?
(7) How can one build an agent aware of its environment?
(8) How can we model conscious experience?
(9) The extended mind thesis: can it be explored synthetically?
c) Possibilities, limits, ways and impacts of the synthetic modeling of life and cognition:
(10) The “sciences of the artificial” and the “sciences of the natural”: How can we guarantee positive interaction?
(11) What are the characteristics and roles of synthetic models?
(12) Do different forms of the synthetic modeling have different explanatory powers?
(13) Which levels of abstraction are appropriate in the synthetic modeling of life and cognition?
(14) What are the impacts of the synthetic methodology on the dichotomies ‘science/engineering’, and ‘artificial/natural’?
(15) The synthetic methodology: What are the environmental and social impacts?
Explanations of the open questions on
Madrid, 11th of Jan. 2013 — program.
We are glad to announce the Second official Retecog Workshop on Interaction will take place 17-18 of January 2013 at the Paraninfo Building of the University of Zaragoza, Spain. Many members of IAS-Research will attend the workshop as participants, organizers or invited speakers.
Nos complace anunciar el Segundo Workshop de la red Retecog.Net centrado en la Interacción como tema principal y que tendrá lugar del 17 al 18 de Enero en el Paraninfo de la Universidad de Zaragoza. Varios integrantes de IAS-Research estarán presentes en el workshop, como participantes, organizadores y conferenciantes invitados.
The IAS-Research Center for Life,Mind, and Society organises a workshop on “Autonomy and Individual Biological Organisms“, to be held in San Sebastián on October, 27-28, 2012. You may find all the information about the event at https://aiob.ias-research.net/.
The IAS-Research Center for Life, Mind, and Society organises a workshop on “Autonomy and Individual Biological Organisms“, to be held in San Sebastián on October, 27-28, 2012. You may find all the information about the event at https://aiob.ias-research.net/.
The first summer school of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network TESIS: Toward an Embodied Science of InterSubjectivity will take place in San Sebastián, Spain, May 14 – 18, 2012.