- Colloque « The Biology of Behaviour »
May| Mai 10 – 11
Université du Québec à Montréal
détails - Conférence « Progress in the Sciences and in the Arts » – Philip Kitcher, Columbia University
March| Mars 22 – 3:00-5:00 pm
Philosophy seminar room #927, 9th floor, Leacock building, McGill University (PLAN/MAP)
Abstract | Résumé : The view that the sciences make progress, while the arts do not, is extremely common. This lecture will challenge it. I begin by distinguishing teleological progress from pragmatic progress. You make pragmatic progress not by coming closer to a goal, but by solving some of the problems of your current state. Scientific progress should be seen as pragmatic. When the point is recognized, it becomes evident that scientific progress has social dimensions. A socially embedded notion of scientific progress then allows for a parallel concept of progress applicable to the arts.
La conférence est co-organisée avec le Réseau montréalais de philosophie des sciences et le Centre de recherche interuniversaire sur la science et la technologie. - 1 décembre / December 1st, 3:30 – 5:30 pm
Anouk Barberousse, Université Paris Sorbonne
“Formalism, mathematical interpretation, and physical theories”
Philosophy seminar room #927, 9th floor, Leacock building, McGill University (PLAN/MAP) Conférence co-organisée avec / Talk co-organized with McGill’s Philosophy DepartmentIn this talk I shall argue in favor of considering formal settings (pieces of mathematical theories that are commonly used in physics or other empirical disciplines) as important units of analysis for understanding scientific achievements, along with theories, models, computer simulations, concepts, etc. I’ll present different examples of formal settings, from calculus to cellular automata. My main examples will be the representation of time in Discrete Mechanics. - Colloque 2017 du Laboratoire étudiant interuniversitaire en philosophie des sciences (LEIPS) « Pensées féministes, philosophie des sciences et épistémologie »
October| Octobre 13 – 9:00 am – 7:00 pm
Université de Montréal
détails - Conférence « Building Theories: Strategies not Blueprints » – Margaret Morrison, University of Toronto
September| Septembre 29 – 3:00-5:00 pm
UQAM, Pavillon Thérèse-Casgrain (W), salle W-5215
455, boulevard René-Lévesque Est, Montréal PLAN / MAP
Abstract | Résumé : Views of theory structure in philosophy of science (semantic and syntactic) have little to say about how theories are actually constructed; instead, the task of the philosopher is typically understood as reconstruction in order to highlight the theory’s essential features. However, if one takes seriously these views about theory structure then it might seem that we should also characterize the practice of building theories in accordance with the guidelines they set out. If we look at examples of some of our most successful theories we see nothing like the practices that conform to our present accounts of theory structure. Instead we have a variety of different approaches, approaches that partly depend on the phenomena we want to account for and the kind of theory we desire. A number of strategies can be identified in high energy physics, two of which are (1) top down using symmetry principles and (2) a bottom up strategy beginning with different types of models and gradually embedding these in a broad theoretical framework. Finally, in cases where methods and techniques cross disciplines, as in the case of population biology and statistical physics, we can see that theory construction was largely based on analogical considerations such as using mathematical methods for treating systems of molecules in order to incorporate populations of genes into the theory of natural selection. Using these various examples I argue that building theories doesn’t involve a blueprint for what a theory should look like, rather the architecture is developed in a piecemeal way using different strategies that fit the context and phenomena in question.
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- Conférence « How interesting is critical naturalism? » – Daniel Andler (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
May| Mai 12 – 3:00-5:00 pm
UQAM, Pavillon Thérèse-Casgrain (W), salle W-5215
455, boulevard René-Lévesque Est, Montréal PLAN / MAP
Abstract | Résumé : Critical naturalism is a position vis-à-vis scientific naturalism which I defend in my recent book, La Silhouette de l’humain, and which supports the ongoing naturalization programs of cognitive science, neuroscience, and evolutionary social science, while denying to them final authority in the understanding of human affairs. As a midway position, it doesn’t sound very exciting, and may seem easy enough to defend. I will first fill it out, and then attempt to show that it is less than obvious but nevertheless correct.
La conférence est co-organisée avec le Centre de recherche interuniversaire sur la science et la technologie. - Conférence « Functions, Agents, and the Global Environmental Crisis » – Gillian Barker (The University of Western Ontario)
24 mars, March 24th, 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Local W-5215, 5eme étage, Pavillon Thérèse-Casgrain (W), 455, Boulevard René-Lévesque Est, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) (PLAN/MAP)
Conférence co-organisée avec / Co-organized talk with Fillosophie - Conférence « The Objectivity of Science » – Peter Galison (Harvard University)
March | Mars 17 – 9:30-11:00 am
Philosophy seminar room #927, 9th floor
Leacock building, McGill University PLAN / MAP
La conférence est co-organisée avec le Philosophy Department of McGill University et le Réseau montréalais de philosophie des sciences. La conférence est ouverte à tous-toutes / All are welcome to attend. - Conférence « Agnotological Challenges: How to Capture the Production of Ignorance » – Martin Carrier (University of Bielefeld)
February | Février 2 – 3:30-5:30pm
Philosophy seminar room #927, 9th floor
Leacock building, McGill University
Organisation: Réseau montréalais de philosophie des sciences. Site internet Affiche
- Colloque « Functional Biodiversity: Conceptual Issues »
Ce colloque interdisciplinaire a pour but de rassembler des philosophes et des écologues dont les recherches portent sur le thème de la biodiversité fonctionnelle en vue de discuter des problèmes conceptuels et théoriques soulevés par cette notion.
UQAM, W-5215
Organization | Organisation: Christophe Malaterre, Frédéric Bouchard Antoine C. Dussault & Sophia Rousseau-Mermans. Affiche - November | Novembre 9
9.00-9.45 | VIRGINIE MARIS (CNRS) Diversity of Biodiversities
9.45-10.30 | ALISON MUNSON (U. Laval) Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function: Sounding the Limits of BEF
COFFEE BREAK | PAUSE CAFÉ
11.00-11.45 | JESSE SHAPIRO (U. de Montréal) Species As Units of Function
11.45-12.30 | CURTIS SUTTLE (U. of British Columbia) Viruses As Cogs in Ecosystem Diversity and Function
LUNCH BREAK | DÎNER
13.30-14.15 | JAY ODENBAUGH (U. of Calgary) Is Biodiversity a Natural Kind?
14.15-15.00 | BEATRIX BEISNER (UQAM) You’re Soaking in It: Aquatic Perspectives on Functional Diversity
COFFEE BREAK | PAUSE CAFÉ
15.30-16.15 | ANTOINE C. DUSSAULT (U. Paris 1, U. of Toronto) Ecological Functions As Contextual Properties of Components of Metabolic Units
16.15-17.00 | TIMOTHÉE POISOT (U. de Montréal) What Do We Learn about Species Roles When We Actually Define Them?
November | Novembre 10
8.30-9.15 | TANYA HANDA (UQAM) Functional Diversity and Soil Nutrient Cycling: Sharing the Dirty Secrets
9.15-10.00 | STEVEN KEMBEL (UQAM) Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function: Sounding the Limits of BEF
COFFEE BREAK | PAUSE CAFÉ
10.30-11.15 | ERIC DESJARDINS
& GILLIAN BARKER (Western U.) Functional Ecology of Microbial Communities
11.15-12.30 BRAINSTORMING | DISCUSSION
With the participation of |Avec la participation de: Marc Ereshefsky (U. of Calgary), Sophia Rousseau-Mermans (U. de Montréal, U. Paris 1), Geneviève Lajoie (UQAM)
LUNCH BREAK | DÎNER
- Inauguration des locaux de la Chaire (LAPS – Laboratoire de philosophie des sciences) et du nouvel “Espace philo” au département de philosophie
En présence de la Vice-rectrice à la Recherche et à la création, madame Catherine Mounier, et de la doyenne de la Faculté des sciences humaines, madame Josée Lafond.UQAM, W-5230, 21 septembre, 16h-18h. - Table ronde “Naturaliser en science” et lancement de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en philosophie des sciences de la vie
Avec la participation de:
– Christophe Malaterre (UQAM, titulaire de la CRC en philosophie des sciences de la vie, CIRST), Naturaliser le vivant
– Molly Kao (Université de Montréal), Naturaliser en physique
– Luc Faucher (UQAM), Naturaliser le mental
– François Claveau (Université de Sherbrooke, CIRST), Naturaliser en sciences économiques
– Vincent Guillin (UQAM, CIRST), Naturaliser en sciences humaines
Président de séance: Frédéric Bouchard (Université de Montréal, CIRST)
UQAM, W-5215, 21 septembre, 15h-16h. Affiche. - Bienvenue à Marc Ereshefsky (University of Calgary), chercheur invité au département de philosophie, UQAM pour le semestre d’automne 2016. Il donnera deux conférences: (1) « Science and Metaphysics: Lessons from Microbiology », le 7 septembre 2016, dans le cadre du séminaire Travaux en cours (TEC), 12h30-13h30 Espace philo (W-5230), (2) « Natural Kinds, Classification, and Scientific Practice », 28 octobre 2016, 15h-17h (W-5215).
- Symposium Coming to life, au Congrès 2016 de la SCHPS
En collaboration avec Carlos Mariscal, Lucas Mix and Kelly Smith
Calgary, 28-30 mai 2016. - Conférence plénière “Facile la vie? Réflexions sur les origines du vivant”, congrès annuel de la Société de Philosophie du Québec (SPQ), ACFAS, Montréal, 13 mai 2016.
- Communication “Misconceptions, Truths and Controversies: Is Origins of Life Research no Different from the Rest of Science?”, COST Action TD1308 Conférence From Star and Planet Formation to Early Life, Vilnius, Lituanie, 25-28 avril 2016.
- Conférence « From Interventions to Mechanistic Explanations: Disentangling the Relationship between Causal Dependence and Productive Mechanisms »
Par Tudor Baetu, Bristol University
CIRST, N-8150, 16 décembre 2015, 12h30-14h. - Symposium Explaining a four billion year old phenomenon: Paradoxes and Theories on the Origins of Life, au congrès 2015 de l’ISHPSSB
En collaboration avec Carol Cleland (University of Colorado)
Montréal, 5-10 juillet 2015. - Communication « Is being alive a bivalent property? »
Par Christophe Malaterre au Congrès annuel 2015 de la Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences (SCHPS)
Ottawa, 30-31 mai 2015. - Communication « More or less alive: How possible? »
Par Christophe Malaterre à la Second Conference on History and Philosophy of Astrobiology,
Höör (Suède), 8-10 mai 2015. - École d’été Nordic-EAC-COST Summer School Life on Earth and Beyond
En collaboration avec Wolf Geppert (Université de Stockholm) et David Duner (Université de Lund)
Ven Island (Suède), 4-6 mai 2015. - Communication « Is chemical evolution Darwinian ? »
Par Christophe Malaterre à la conférence Life-Origins 2015
Porto (Portugal), 23-27 mars 2015. - Entretien radiophonique de Christophe Malaterre aux Années lumière
Sur « Les origines de la vie », à Radio Canada Première
Montréal, 21 mars 2015. - Conférence grand public « Du chimique au biologique : ainsi vint la vie »
Par Christophe Malaterre au Coeur des sciences
Montréal, 19 mars 2015.
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