Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin A hybrid conference bringing together voices old and new to revisit how The Dialectical Biologist still resonates, and reinvigorates, contemporary biology www.dialecticalsystems.eu/events/diale...

#ISHPSSB2925 program booklet is out! Check it out here ishpssb2025.icbas.up.pt/wp-content/u... #hpbio #philsci #histstm #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts

Heading to #ishpssb2025 #ish2025 to present our paper coauthored with @lauramenatti.bsky.social “Homeostasis and Health: from balance to change” recently accepted for publication in Biological Theory

Today we celebrate the new edition of Varela’s Principles of Biological Autonomy (1979) from MIT Press, with a new critical apparatus by Ezequiel Di Paolo & Evan Thompson, reconnecting Varela's legacy in cognitive science to his theoretical biology dialecticalsystems.eu/publications...

Next week, thrilled to go back to #Paris #sciencespo to give a talk about 'Landscapes and medical spaces: psychological and philosophical perspectives' #health #natural and #built #environments #landscape #philosophy #psychology. www.sciencespo.fr/institut-tra...

Embodied & enactive approaches aren’t just about individual cognition — they’re about society. A new Mind & Society special issue brings enactivism into conversation with ethics, social theory & political philosophy. www.dialecticalsystems.eu/publications...

Henry Potter and @wiringthebrain.bsky.social challenge reductive views in neuroscience by introducing richer, temporally extended notions of causality and arguing to re-center cognition and the organism as genuine causal agents in behavior onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Adaptivity is central to life, yet conceptually homeless. While adaptation is tied to selection, adaptivity is an ongoing organismal process—rooted in metabolism, not just evolutionary causation www.dialecticalsystems.eu/contribution...

Asking for a friend: Has it ever happened to you that a manuscript had been ‘awaiting decision’ for 4 months? No replies from the editors. This is problematic especially for non-tenured scholars.

yes, it's me! Also in French #paris #philosophy #ihpst #sorbonne after two months of visiting and becoming associated here 📚✨ ihpst.pantheonsorbonne.fr/actualite/po...

🥳Happy to share I've been appointed as an associate researcher at the Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (IHPST), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne & CNRS. #philsci #science #philosophy #Paris ihpst.pantheonsorbonne.fr lauramenatti.weebly.com/about-me.html

New paper on homeostasis with William Bechtel finally out in Philosophy of Science: " Rediscovering Bernard and Cannon: Restoring the Broader Vision of Homeostasis Eclipsed by the Cyberneticists" @ias-research.bsky.social @dialecticalsys.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Next Tuesday at 11:30, we will have the pleasure of welcoming 𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐞́ (UPF, Barcelona), who will give a talk entitled ❞𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬❞ www.ias-research.net/blog/2025/02...

So happy: for the next 2 months I'll be visiting the Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des sciences et des Techniques (IHPST), Paris 1 Sorbonne. Thrilled to have received a fellowship to work on #environment #health #philosophy of #science in this amazing place. ihpst.pantheonsorbonne.fr

I have finally received the hardcopies of my Element! Dracula is congratulating me after licking the book! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

New OA paper by Charbel El-Hani et al. explores how living beings are individuated as causal systems via biological autonomy, with closure of constraints as a distinctively biological causal regime that defines system boundaries. 🔗 taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

My Element on Biological Organization is finally available in printed version! But if you prefer the electronic version, it is open-access!! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

@leonardobich.bsky.social offers a fresh take on organizational accounts in theoretical biology, tracing their evolution from cybernetics & systems theory to autopoiesis and closure of constraints, with a groundbreaking view on regulation & biological control www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

My Element on "BIological Organization" is finally out! And it is open access! @dialecticalsys.bsky.social #philbio www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Great paper by Yogi Jaeger, Denis Walsh et al. A sweeping overview of the complex adaptive systems approach to organisms, arguing why their behavior & evolution defy computable models, while bridging open research issues in biology, cognitive science & AI frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

My recent talk about #health #environment #evidence at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh is now available to watch on YouTube! Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yskb... 🌐 Or check it out on my website: lauramenatti.weebly.com/news/new-tal...

New special issue just published in Ratio: "Purpose in Biology: New Directions" #philbio onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679329...

A short piece on the concept of ‘dysbiosis’ link.springer.com/article/10.1... #microbiome #philbio

Here the new issue of the Journal of Physiology with our paper on homeostasis physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14697793...

Check out the latest post by Mathilde Tahar discussing her newly published book! She explores how Bergson's concept of creative evolution connects to contemporary developments in evolutionary theory dialecticalsystems.eu/contribution...

New Special Issue published in Ratio on biological teleology: "Purpose in Biology: New Directions" Many contributions, including one by me on organizational teleology 2.0 @dialecticalsys.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679329...

Come work with us at IAS-Research!

Coming soon (open access!) www.cambridge.org/core/element...

New ways of looking at biological functions focus on how an organism’s traits help it meet its current goals, instead of just looking at its evolutionary past. These ideas offer a new way to think about biology and the mind, giving us a better understanding of both.

New contribution by Hanzhe Dong and @gualtiero.bsky.social "Rethinking Biological Functions: A Goal-Contribution Approach and Its Systemic Implications" www.dialecticalsystems.eu/contribution...

physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/... New paper out in the Journal of Physiology. Co-authored with William Bechtel: "Situating homeostasis in organisms: maintaining organization through time"

So proud of this collaborative chapter with @KLIAustria fellows!We propose a framework on #adaptation to #climatechange through #interdisciplinarity. Our work is an example of #philosophy of #science in synergy with #biology and #social #sustainability #sciences. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Lucky week! Just published this article for the great Landezine platform. landezine.com/laura-menatt... #environment #landscape #rights #challenges @KLIAustria

📚 Kevin Lala on how philosophical collaborations shaped his upcoming book 'Evolution Evolving', the story behind it and the future of evolutionary biology🧬 dialecticalsystems.eu/contribution... #EvolutionEvolving #PhilosophyInScience #EvolutionaryBiology #BiologyAndPhilosophy

My Cambridge Element on Biological Organization is now finally in production!!

New paper on minimal cognition published with Bill Bechtel in Biological Theory: "Eating and Cognition in Two Animals without Neurons: Sponges and Trichoplax" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Giving a talk yesterday on my new paper on teleology at the Philosophy and Biology Shop Talks workshop 2024

Ready to go!

@leonardobich.bsky.social on minimal cognition at the QUAD Conference 2024 in #Miamihttps://centerphilsci.pitt.edu/quad-conference-2024-schedule/…#philsci #philbio #cognition #organism #biological #organization #philosophy of #science

@lauramenatti presenting her talk ‘Environment and Health. Integrating Explanations from Philosophy and Psychology’ at the QUAD Conference 2024 www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/quad-confere... #health #environment #philosophy #science

Autonomous systems do more than maintain themselves; they actively respond to environmental affordances by regulating behavior New paper by @leonardobich.bsky.social on organizational teleology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New work on biological teleology: "Organizational Teleology 2.0: Grounding biological purposiveness in regulatory control" The organizational account of teleology reframed and improved! Just published in Ratio onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Tomorrow, 10th of May at 11.00, I will talk about #salutogenesis #health #environment #medicine #philosophy at the 11th International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable, info here: kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n... inscriptions here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/11th-inter...

Excited for @coreybunce.bsky.social presenting our team’s poster at Egenis/Exeter www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen... Ceck out 'Rethinking climate change adaptation by bringing Philosophy into dialogue with Social Sciences and Biology’ #adaptation #philsci #philbio #climate @uniofexeter.bsky.social

Today, aujourd'hui @univ_lille landscape.univ-lille.fr #landscape #environment #Right #rights Talk on line in French

Great talk yesterday at KLIAustria www.kli.ac.at/en/events/ev... by @lauramenatti.bsky.social on #health #environment #philmed #philsci #philbio #salutogenesis. I am happy I could be there!

Today: #KLIColloquium KLI Fellow Laura Menatti! 'Salutogenesis: A New Approach to Understand Health-Environment Interactions? 4th April 3 PM CET KLI or via Zoom (Register in advance) Abstract and Registration at kli.ac.at/en/events/ev... #health #environment

Still time to apply!! Extended deadline (April 7) call for Applications to the 7th European Advanced School in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences (EASPLS): "Explanation and Evidence in Biology and Medicine" kli.ac.at/en/events/kl...

Yesterday I gave the talk 'Understanding the Current Health and Climate Crisis through the Concept of Salutogenesis' at the Institute for Practical Ethics @UCSanDiego ipe.ucsd.edu Great discussion and feedback! #Health #environment #philsci #philmed #salutogenesis

kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n... Tomorrow I will give a talk here at the Institute for Practical Ethics, @UCSanDiego ipe.ucsd.edu. More detail in the KLI link #health #environment #philsci #philmed @KLIAustria