What is an Individual Organism? Philosophical Problems

What is an Individual Organism? Philosophical Problems

Friday 11.10.2019, Room 25, address: Kraków, Grodzka 52

8:55 Welcome
9:00-10:00 Pierrick Bourrat (Macquarie University & University of Sydney) Making sense of the Fitness-Decoupling Paradox in Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality

10:00-10:30 Coffe break

10:30-11:00 Íñigo Ongay de Felipe (Deusto University) Biological individuality and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
11:00-11:30 Piotr Łukasik (Jagiellonian University & University of Montana) The nature and evolutionary dynamics of unusual symbiotic complexes of cicadas
11:30-12:00 Adrian Stencel (Jagiellonian University) Holobionts and biological individuality

12:00-12:30 Coffe break

12:30-13:30 Dominika Włoch-Salamon (Jagiellonian University) Yeast engineering and evolution of multicellularity
13:30-14:00 Gunnar Babcock (University at Albany) Individuality and binary fission
14:00-14:30 Lalit Saraswat (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur) Are All Organisms Biological Individuals? (Viruses)
14:30-15:00 Piotr G. Nowak (Jagiellonian University) The notion of an organism in a context of brain death debate

15:00-15:30 Coffe break

15:30-16:00 Artur Szachniewicz (Jagiellonian University) Ordinary Objects, Eiminativism and Biological Individuals
16:00-16:30 Ricardo Mona (unaffiliated) Hegel and Plessner on individuality pluralism. Rediscovering old theories for the contemporary debate
16:30-17:00 Ganesh Bharate (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur) Biological contingent identity and transient autonomy

20:00 Conference dinner