Events

PSBio Reading Group
The reading group meets every second Thursday to discuss central texts in the philosophy of biology. If you want to participate, please contact gry.oftedal at ifikk.uio.no

Some of the texts discussed so far:

Towards Philosophical Foundations of Systems Biology: Introduction (15s) by Boogerd et al 2007. From the book “Systems Biology: Philosophical Foundations” by Boogerd et al 2007.

Preface + General Concepts Kap 1: The role of modelling in Systems Biology (20s). From the book “Systems Modeling in Cellular Biology” edited by Szallasi et al 2006.

Wagner, A. 1999. Causality in Complex Systems. Biology and Philosophy 14: 83-101.

 

“Functional Stability and Systems Level Causation” by Gry and Anders will appear in Philosophy of science (East Lansing) 2009, Volume 76(5)