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Welcome to the website of the Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of the Life Sciences. The Chair is a place for philosophical enquiries about contemporary science. It aims, among others, at stimulating interactions between philosophers and scientists.
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Conférence invitée | Charting the Search for Life: Fifty Years of Astrobiology in Texts and Networks | 14-18.7.2026
Communication de Christophe Malaterre intitulée: Charting the Search for Life: Fifty Years of Astrobiology in Texts and Networks Origins 2026 Meeting (ISSOL/IAU-Astrobiology), Paris, 5-10 juillet 2026.
ISHPSSB’25 | The Plurality of Scientific Knowledge: A Text-Mining Study of Epistemic Framings in Astrobiology | 21-25.7.2025
Communication de Christophe Malaterre intitulée: The Plurality of Scientific Knowledge: A Text-Mining Study of Epistemic Framings in Astrobiology (avec I. Atanassova, F. Lareau*, P. Ningrum*). ISHPSSB’25, Porto, Portugal, 21-25 juillet 2025.
DH’25 | Inferring Semantic Social Networks from Scientific Texts: The Case of Astrobiology | 14-18.7.2025
Communication de Christophe Malaterre intitulée: Inferring Semantic Social Networks from Scientific Texts: The Case of Astrobiology (avec F. Lareau*). DH’25, organisé par ADHO, Lisbonne, Portugal, 14-18 juillet 2025.
ISSI’25 | Old but Not Obsolete: Bag-of-Words vs. Embeddings in Topic Modeling | 23-27.6.2025
Communication de Christophe Malaterre intitulée: Old but Not Obsolete: Bag-of-Words vs. Embeddings in Topic Modeling (avec J.C. Lamirel, F. Lareau*). ISSI’25, Erevan, Arménie, 23-27 juin 2025.
ISSI’25 | Is There Life on Mars? Studying the Context of Uncertainty in Astrobiology | 23-27.6.2025
Communication de Christophe Malaterre intitulée: Is There Life on Mars? Studying the Context of Uncertainty in Astrobiology (avec I. Atanassova, F. Lareau*, P. Ningrum*). ISSI’25, Erevan, Arménie, 23-27 juin 2025.
Colloque Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science | Titles, Abstracts, or Full-Texts? A Comparative Study of LDA and BERTopic Performance across Text LevelsWhat is an Origin Explanation? | 2-4.4.2025
Communication de Christophe Malaterre intitulée: Titles, Abstracts, or Full-Texts? A Comparative Study of LDA and BERTopic Performance across Text Levels (avec F. Lareau*). Colloque Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, 2-4 avril 2025.