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Marc Ereshefsky gave talk in Montreal

Marc Ereshefsky gave a talk, "Natural Kinds, Classification, and Scientific Practice", in the Department of Philosophy at University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada. October 2016.

Marie I. Kaiser begins new position at Bielefeld

Marie I. Kaiser starts her new job at the University of Bielefeld on October 1, 2016.

Marie I. Kaiser gives public lecture in Pittsburgh

Marie I. Kaiser (University of Cologne) gave a public lecture entitled "A Case Study in the Metaphysics of Biological Practice: The Parts of the Human Genome” on September 27, 2016 at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh.

Alyssa Ney gives public lecture in Geneva

Alyssa Ney (Department of Philosophy, University of California, Davis) gave a public lecture entitled "Separability, Locality, and Higher Dimensions in Quantum Mechanics” on September 17, 2016 at the University of Geneva. We are pleased to report that it was attended by about 60-70 people.

Marie I. Kaiser visits Calgary

Marie I. Kaiser (University of Cologne) is visiting University of Calgary for a few weeks in September 2016.

Marc Ereshefsky gave colloquium talk in Montreal

Marc Ereshefsky gave a colloquium talk, "Science and Metaphysics: Lessons from Microbiology" in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada. September 2016.

Alan Love gives departmental colloquium talk "Characterizing Possibilities: Thought Experiments and Exploratory Experimentation in Biology (and Philosophy)" at the University of St Thomas

In September 2016, Alan Love gave a talk titled "Characterizing Possibilities: Thought Experiments and Exploratory Experimentation in Biology (and Philosophy)" at the University of St Thomas Philosophy Department.

Marcel Weber gave a talk in Austria

Marcel Weber gave a talk, "How Objective are Biological Functions", at the 4th European Advanced Seminar in the Philosophy of Life Sciences at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Klosterneuburg, Austria. September 5-9, 2016.

Ken Waters gave project-related talk in Lund

C. Kenneth Waters gave a project-related talk, "No General Structure", at the Eight Quadrennial International Fellows Conference at Lund University in Sweden. July 10, 2016. 

Ken Waters gave keynote lecture in Edinburgh

C Kenneth Waters gave a keynote lecture, "Two Senses of Integration", at the Perspectival Modelling: Pluralism and Integration conference as part of the European Research Councial Project on Perspectival Realism at the University of Edinburgh. July 2, 2016. 

Watch the lecture here: https://vimeo.com/179734306.

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