⭐️Keynote speaker season⭐️ José Antonio Pérez-Escobar (UNED/ @metisuned.bsky.social) Mathematical explanations in biology: A Neo-Aristotelian proposal

Next bio-philosophical academic journey in North Caroline!🧘🏼‍♀️

PaBST (Philosophy and Biology Shop Talks) 2026 Schedule. It’s going to be another great year.

It has been a true pleasure to organize this #PBCS edition! I’m grateful to everyone who made it possible 🌼

Megan H. Todd (Rijeka): Communicating Science Under Uncertainty: Hedging and Epistemic Function in Animal Cognition Research #XIVPBCS

Adex Izquierdo (UV/ @vlc-lab.bsky.social ): Offline information transmission: A teleofunctional hybrid account for mnemonic episodic reference #XIVPBCS

Lucia C. Neco (UM): The prospect of plant sociality #XIVPBCS

Carlos Esteban-Jiménez (UCM): The cognitive dimension of experimental niche construction: an epistemological problem? #XVIPBCS

Tommaso Zorzini (UniMi): Reciprocal causation in EES is still unidirectional and diachronic #XIVPBCS

⭐️Keynote speaker season⭐️ Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (KU Leuven): Ethospaces and comparative study of behavior

Benedetta Cogo (UOW): Keeping it rational in the philosophy of psychiatry #XIVPBCS

James Turner (Umeå): Low mood, proper function and dysfunction: the case against depression as a natural kind #XIVPBCS

Astrid Reng (LMU Munich): Mental health and options for mental action #XIVPBCS

⭐️Keynote Speaker season⭐️ Enara García (SDU): The Path-dependent Mind: Individuation, vulnerability, and the ontogeneis of mental disorder #XIVPBCS

Miguel Gramage (UV/ @vlc-lab.bsky.social ): Specification in use: a modal account of ecological information #XIVPBCS

Ainhoa Rodríguez-Muguruza (EHU): Menstrual health as rhythmic plasticity #XIVPBCS

Andreas T. Pommer (KU): Population-level representations and computations afford causal explanations #XIVPBCS

Elias Cohen (EHESS/Jean-Nicod Paris): Situating mental representation: Perry’s “Thoght without representation” in an enactivist context #XIVPBCS

David Sánchez (UGR): Teleology without representation: meaning and function in ecological physiology #XIVPBCS

📣 The XIV PBCS (Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences) Workshop is next week!!! #philbio #cogsci #hps 🗓️ 18-19 June 2026, at UNED (Madrid). Don't miss it! ℹ️ More info: sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs #pbcs #xivpbcs #14pbcs

🚨 This week!! «Workshop: Functions and Dysfunctions in Medicine and Psychiatry». 📅 June 11-12, 2026 🏛️ Faculty of Philosophy and Education Sciences (Sala de Juntas, Salón de Grados). 🔗More info at: vlclab.blogs.uv.es/event/worksh...

Last week, students from the BioKoinos group, Leyre Celada-Marcén (PhD student) & Emaus Torralba (Master's student), attended the Bordeaux Summer School: Philosophy in Biology and Medicine. Here are a few photos to mark the occasion, with Scott Gilbert 📷✨ Many thanks to @philinbiomed.bsky.social