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SUMMARY:CEFISES Seminar: Brigitte Falkenbourg\, "The German Copenhagen School: From Heisenberg to Mittelstaedt and Scheibe"
DESCRIPTION:Livestream  https://youtu.be/TES_fBD7OLQ \nSeries: MEPHISTO (MEtaphysics and PHIlosophy of Science: Transcendental Orientations) \nSpeaker: Brigitte Falkenbourg (TU Dortmund) \nTitle: “The German Copenhagen School: From Heisenberg to Mittelstaedt and Scheibe” \nAbstract \nThe group of physicists and philosophers around Werner Heisenberg may be called the German Copenhagen School. Heisenberg developed his epistemic interpretation of quantum mechanics under the influence of Niels Bohr. Later\, his philosophical views shifted to a Neo-Kantian relative a priori. These views and the related approach of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker are the common background of the philosophy of physics developed by Erhard Scheibe and Peter Mittelstaedt\, who dominated German philosophy of physics in the second half of the 20th century. Partly due to a lack of translations\, partly due to a mainly historical significance attributed to Kant’s theory of nature\, Mittelstaedt’s and Scheibe’s work received relatively little attention in the international philosophy of science. \nScheibe and Mittelstaedt took distinct routes into the philosophy of physics. Their approaches to physics substantially differ\, but there are also important parallels. Mittelstaedt elaborated a Kantian approach from the beginnings\, making use of Kant’s conditions of possible experience to investigate the semantics and ontology of modern physics and to understand conceptual change in physics (Mittelstaedt 1964\, 1968\, 2009\, 2013). Scheibe primarily analysed the axiomatic structure of quantum theory\, the problem of its incommensurability with the theories of classical physics\, and the consequences for a philosophical theory of reduction (1964\, 1973\, 1997/99). His Kantianism showed up late\, in a talk Between Rationalism and Empiricism: The Path of Physics that later gave title to the collection of his papers (Scheibe 1994\, 2001). Scheibe claimed that the epistemological attitudes of prominent physicists had much in common with Kant’s views about the relation between theory and experience\, a topic he investigated further in his last book (2007). From a systematic point of view\, it is particularly interesting to compare Scheibe’s many-faceted theory of reduction (1997/99) and Mittelstaedt’s rational reconstruction of physics (2013). \n 
URL:https://cefises.be/en/event/cefises-seminar-6-mar/
LOCATION:Salle Ladrière\, Place du Cardinal Mercier 14 (bâtiment Socrate\, a.124)\, Louvain-la-Neuve\, 1348\, Belgium
ORGANIZER;CN="Danielle Pizzocaro":MAILTO:daniele.pizzocaro@uclouvain.be
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SUMMARY:CEFISES Seminar: Abigail Nieves Delgado\, "Racializing Health: Politics of Well-being in Human Microbiome Research"
DESCRIPTION:Livestream  https://youtu.be/SEOf8H3XHUI \nSeries: HPS \nSpeaker: Abigail Nieves Delgado (Utrecht University) \nTitle: “Racializing Health: Politics of Well-being in Human Microbiome Research” \nAbstract \nPopulation descriptors like race\, ethnicity\, nation\, or genetic ancestry are used in biomedicine to name different populations under study\, to ensure diversity in databases and\, potentially\, to promote an equal distribution of the benefits arising from research. In this presentation\, I introduce some of the main problems that the use of these descriptors has in microbiome research. I argue that economic and technological inequities\, as well as the lasting effects of colonialism\, shape the epistemic and ethical questions investigated in this field. I end by introducing some of the methodologies we are implementing to start a reflective interdisciplinary dialogue and promote the development and use of alternative labels.
URL:https://cefises.be/en/event/cefises-seminar-13-mar/
LOCATION:Salle Ladrière\, Place du Cardinal Mercier 14 (bâtiment Socrate\, a.124)\, Louvain-la-Neuve\, 1348\, Belgium
ORGANIZER;CN="Max Bautista-Perpiny%C3%A0":MAILTO:max.bautista@uclouvain.be
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SUMMARY:CEFISES Seminar: Wen Shichao\, "Types\, Populations and Variance Decomposition: The Case of Johannsen’s Pure Line Experiments"
DESCRIPTION:Livestream  https://www.youtube.com/@CEFISES \nSeries: Work-in-Progress \nSpeaker: Wen Shichao (UCLouvain) \nTitle: “Types\, Populations and Variance Decomposition: The Case of Johannsen’s Pure Line Experiments” \nAbstract \nAt the turn of the twentieth century\, debates over heredity and evolution were shaped by contrasting ways of conceptualizing variation and its statistical treatment. Building on earlier work\, which treats the Mendelism–biometry controversy as an analytic site for showing how thinking in terms of types and thinking in terms of populations could operate in evolutionary reason\, this paper takes up a further question: whether\, and in what sense\, the two ways of thinking can be made compatible. I argue that Wilhelm Johannsen’s pure line experiments (1901–1903) re-specified the relation between type and population by decomposing population variance into distinct levels—fluctuating variability within pure lines and hereditary differences between pure lines. By showing that selection within a pure line does not shift the line’s mean character\, Johannsen reconceived population as a mixture of reproductively stable lines. This intervention transforms an apparent opposition between types and populations into a layered statistical framework in which types are not alternatives to population analysis but components within it. On the reconstruction proposed here\, Johannsen’s experiments make visible a conditional compatibility between type-based and population-based reasoning\, while preserving their differences. This paper closes by identifying two interpretive directions opened by this reorganization: one emphasizing pure lines (and later genotypes) as elementary hereditary units\, the other treating types as descriptors of population structure within a broader statistical account.
URL:https://cefises.be/en/event/cefises-seminar-20-mar/
LOCATION:Salle Ladrière\, Place du Cardinal Mercier 14 (bâtiment Socrate\, a.124)\, Louvain-la-Neuve\, 1348\, Belgium
ORGANIZER;CN="Alexandre Guay":MAILTO:alexandre.guay@uclouvain.be
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SUMMARY:CEFISES Seminar: Pierre Walckiers\, "Reconstructing International Biodiversity Law for Socially Just Futures: Insights from Decolonial and Feminist Approaches"
DESCRIPTION:Livestream  https://www.youtube.com/@CEFISES \nSeries: OLOFOS \nSpeaker: Pierre Walckiers (UCLouvain) \nTitle: “Reconstructing International Biodiversity Law for Socially Just Futures: Insights from Decolonial and Feminist Approaches” \nAbstract\nAccess and benefit-sharing (ABS) mechanisms—where access to genetic resources (generally located in developing countries) is negotiated in exchange for benefits used for conservation actions—were developed to mitigate deep inequalities between countries and biodiversity actors rooted in the colonial history of the collection and use of plant genetic resources. However\, these inequalities are currently being challenged by technological innovations such as Digital Sequence Information (DSI)\, which alter the nature of bio-based R&D. DSI revives long-standing ABS disputes between the Global North and the Global South over the control of genetic resources. It is therefore urgent to unpack the issues at stake by listening to all actors involved in biodiversity conservation and DSI innovation. In response\, DecoLawBiodiv (University of Liège) proposes a novel approach to explore how a decolonial reading of biodiversity conservation law can contribute to achieving the international objectives of biodiversity conservation\, sustainable use\, and fair and equitable ABS. DecoLawBiodiv will dig into the roots of the ABS North–South divide and (1) account for actors’ interactions\, including power dynamics in negotiation arenas; (2) highlight the multiple actor groups’ understandings of key ABS concepts\, rights\, and obligations; and (3) scrutinize negotiation processes through a decolonial lens. DecoLawBiodiv’s theoretical breakthrough lies in the holistic study of DSI within ABS market-based\, legal\, and institutional frameworks using conflict transformation theory. Its methodological originality is to operationalize the decolonial lens through the “circle of dialogue of wisdom” method in three case studies (Bolivia\, India\, and South Africa)\, with the aim of transforming the ABS/DSI conflict into mutual understanding and support between actors and fostering a decolonized co-creation of knowledge for an effective international legal regime for biodiversity conservation.
URL:https://cefises.be/en/event/cefises-seminar-27-mar/
LOCATION:Salle Ladrière\, Place du Cardinal Mercier 14 (bâtiment Socrate\, a.124)\, Louvain-la-Neuve\, 1348\, Belgium
ORGANIZER;CN="Peter Verd%C3%A9e":MAILTO:peter.verdee@uclouvain.be
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