PROGRAMME

Wednesday, 16th November

9:00 - 9:15

9:15 - 9:45

9:45 - 11:15

11:15 - 11:45

11:45 - 12:30

12:30 - 14:30

14:30 - 16:00

16:00 - 16:15

16:15 - 17:00

19:30

Arrival and registration

Opening comments and introductory remarks

(Jan Baedke)

Session 1: From the history to the sociology of the organism,

or: Animal minds, Nazi biology, and social metaphors

(chair: Saana Jukola)

Christian Köchy

(University of Kassel):

Task-free situations: Investigating organisms in their contexts

Daniel S. Brooks

(Ruhr University Bochum):

The organism as metaphor: Negotiations of standards and adequacy in conceptualizing scientific phenomena

Coffee/tea

Session 1 continued

Jan Baedke

(Ruhr University Bochum):

German Holism and the Organism: Adolf Meyer-Abich's work on symbiosis and teleology

Lunch

Session 2: Organismal agency in development and evolution,

or: Everything you wanted to know but were too afraid to ask about teleology

(chair: Guido I. Prieto)

Daniel J. Nicholson

(George Mason University):

Teleonomy and the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic purposiveness

Daniel W. McShea

(Duke University):

Agency in teleological systems

Coffee/tea

Session 2 continued

Adrian Stencel

(Jagiellonian University):

Evolutionary agents as units of selection? Case study: Holobionts

Workshop dinner

Thursday, 17th November

9:30 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:30

11:30 - 12:15

12:15 - 14:30

14:30 - 16:00

16:00 - 16:15

16:15 - 17:00

19:00

Session 3: Organismality and biological individuality,

or: Three organisms talking about individuality

(chair: Daniel S. Brooks)

Giuseppe Fusco

(University of Padova):

Being an individual: A biologist’s view

Guido I. Prieto

(Ruhr University Bochum):

Organisms vs. biological individuals: The missing demarcation

Coffee/tea

Session 3 continued

Matteo Mossio

(University of Paris):

Organisms as autonomous systems

Lunch and

walk through botanical garden

Session 4: Individuals and populations in the health sciences,

or: Let’s get personal!
(chair: Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda)

Simon Lohse

(Radboud University):

Exploring the Uncertainty Paradox in Precision Medicine

Yael Friedmann

(University of Oslo):

Who is the patient? The mixture between individualistic and anti-individualistic understandings in recent medical trends

Coffee/tea

Session 4 continued

Saana Jukola

(Ruhr University Bochum):

Individualized approaches to nutrition and public health: From population-level guidelines to p-nutrition

Dinner

Friday, 18th November

9:00 - 10:30

10:30 - 10:45

10:45 - 11:30

11:30 - 12:30

13:00 - 16:30

Session 5: Organisms, bodies, and environments in biology and medicine,

or: Relationship status: It’s complicated

(chair: Jan Baedke)

Tatjana Buklijas

(University of Auckland):

Body-environment relationship, collective and intergenerational trauma and epigenetics in Aotearoa, New Zealand

Nicolae Morar

(University of Oregon):

Re-evaluating the extended health hypothesis

Coffee/tea

Session 5 continued

Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda

(Ruhr University Bochum):

Symmetries and asymmetries in the organism-environment relationship

Final discussion

Lunch and excursion at Zeche Zollern