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Livestream https://youtu.be/P9zFMhw0yPc Series: OLOFOS Speaker: Vincent Grandjean (University of Neuchatel) Title: "Indeterminate Personal Identity" Abstract In this paper, I discuss a prominent objection to psychological accounts of personal identity over time: the fission objection. I argue that a specific approach to this objection, involving a type of metaphysical indeterminacy, has been overlooked in previous literature.… Poursuivre la lecture CEFISES Seminar: Vincent Grandjean, « Indeterminate Personal Identity »

Livestream https://youtu.be/TES_fBD7OLQ Series: MEPHISTO (MEtaphysics and PHIlosophy of Science: Transcendental Orientations) Speaker: Brigitte Falkenbourg (TU Dortmund) Title: "The German Copenhagen School: From Heisenberg to Mittelstaedt and Scheibe" Abstract The 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… Poursuivre la lecture CEFISES Seminar: Brigitte Falkenbourg, « The German Copenhagen School: From Heisenberg to Mittelstaedt and Scheibe »

Livestream https://youtu.be/SEOf8H3XHUI Series: HPS Speaker: Abigail Nieves Delgado (Utrecht University) Title: "Racializing Health: Politics of Well-being in Human Microbiome Research" Abstract Population 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… Poursuivre la lecture CEFISES Seminar: Abigail Nieves Delgado, « Racializing Health: Politics of Well-being in Human Microbiome Research »

Livestream https://www.youtube.com/@CEFISES Series: Work-in-Progress Speaker: Wen Shichao (UCLouvain) Title: "Types, Populations and Variance Decomposition: The Case of Johannsen’s Pure Line Experiments" Abstract At 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… Poursuivre la lecture CEFISES Seminar: Wen Shichao, « Types, Populations and Variance Decomposition: The Case of Johannsen’s Pure Line Experiments »

Livestream https://www.youtube.com/@CEFISES Series: OLOFOS Speaker: Pierre Walckiers (UCLouvain) Title: "Reconstructing International Biodiversity Law for Socially Just Futures: Insights from Decolonial and Feminist Approaches" Abstract Access 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… Poursuivre la lecture CEFISES Seminar: Pierre Walckiers, « Reconstructing International Biodiversity Law for Socially Just Futures: Insights from Decolonial and Feminist Approaches »