Gry

 

Anders

 

Claus

 

Matti

 

Core group

 

Gry Oftedal, principal investigator
Gry Oftedal is post doc. researcher at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Arts and Ideas, University of Oslo. Her research interests are mainly within the philosophy of biology, in particular the gene concept and the causal role of genes (PhD thesis: “Conceptualizing genes as causes of phenotypes”). She has recently been working on functional stability of biological systems together with Anders Strand. Gry is also affiliated with the Centre for The Study of Mind in Nature. Gry has a Cand.Scient. degree (MA) in biology from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) and a PhD in philosophy from the UiO. She has published in journals like Philosophy of Science and The British Journal of the Philosophy of Science. She has been a visiting fellow at Harvard University (Dep. Of History of Science) and University of London (Instititute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Studies).

 

 

Anders Strand
Anders Strand is post doc. researcher at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Arts and Ideas, University of Oslo, and is mainly working on the metaphysics of reductions and causal explanations in biological sciences. His research interests are on the boarders of metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind, and he has been focusing on mereology, levels, causation, reduction and functional stability. His PhD period included a visiting fellowship at Rutgers University, USA. Anders has published in journals like Metaphysica and Philosophy of Science. He is also affiliated with the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature.

 

 

 

Claus Emmeche
Claus Emmeche is a theoretical biologist, philosopher of science, and associate professor and centre director at the Center for the Philosophy of Nature and Science Studies, hosted by the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. His research interests are mainly biosemiotics, theoretical biology and complexity studies, as well as philosophy of science, and social and philosophical studies of biology. He is a Danish Citation Laureate in Arts and Humanities, 2005, and had a Mouton d'Or prizewinning article in Semiotica 2006 (with Charbel Niño El-Hani and João Queiroz).

 

 

 

Matti Sintonen
Matti Sintonen is a philosopher of science and professor at the University of Helsinki. He is leading the research project “Modelling Mechanisms – A New Approach to Scientific Understanding and Interdisciplinary Integration” in Helsinki, where the research group uses both philosophical and empirical approaches (e.g. simulations) in the study of models and mechanisms. His main research interests are within general philosophy of science, where he in particular has worked on scientific explanation and understanding, theory structure and theory choice, growth of knowledge, the nature of truth and information content, on ‘aesthetic’ properties such as simplicity and consilience. He has developed a pragmatically oriented interrogative view (I-view) of explanation and enquiry, with papers on the problem solving model of science, scientific discovery, creativity and innovativeness and the nature of applied and interdisciplinary inquiry. More recently he has been engaged in attempts to overcome the limitations of the reigning theory-centred philosophy of science.