Workshop Conceptualizing the Environment: Contemporary Philosophical Issues
25-26 Juin 2018
IHPST, salle de conférence 13 rue du Four, 75006 Paris
25-26 juin 2018
Organizers
Antoine Dussault (Université de Montréal/CIRST/IHPST)
Francesca Merlin (CNRS/IHPST)
Gaëlle Pontarotti (Université Paris-Diderot/IHPST)
Program
25th June 2018
9:00 – 9:15 am – Introduction to the workshop by the three organizers
Introductory Section: Historical Perspectives
9:15 – 10:00 am
From “milieu” to “environment”. Biology, sociology and political philosophy by Comte and Spencer
Fehrat Taylan (Université de Liège)
Section 1 : Environment in Molecular Biology (Genomics and Post-Genomics)
10:00 -10:45 am
Beyond two common metaphors: towards a better understanding of the environment at the molecular scale
Antonine Nicoglou (Université Paris-Diderot & IJM, LabEx ‘Who Am I ?’)
10:45-11:15 am – Coffee break
11:15 – 12:00 am
The epigenome as an integrator of environmental signals
Jonathan Weitzman (Université Paris-Diderot)
12:00 – 12:45 am
TBA
Michel Morange (ENS Paris)
1:00 – 2:30 pm – Lunch
Section 2 : Environment in Developmental Biology
2:30 – 3:15 pm
For an interdisciplinary study of environment in epigenetics
Francesca Merlin (IHPST, CNRS & Université Paris 1)
3:15 – 4:00 pm
Normal and cancer stem cell niche
Lucie Laplane (IHPST, CNRS & Université Paris 1)
4:00 – 4:30 pm – Coffee break
4:30 – 5:15 pm
Environment and developmental determination : is a more inclusive concept of development possible ?
Karine Prévot (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)
5:15 – 6: 00 pm
How different is the developmental niche from the selective niche?
Paul Griffiths (University of Sydney)
8:00 pm : Conference dinner
26th June 2018
Section 3 : Environment in Evolutionary Biology
9:00 – 9:45 am
Darwin and Kropotkin on the Role of Abiotic Environment in Evolution
Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien (Université du Québec à Montréal)
9:45 – 10:30 am
The Extended Synthesis plus one more thing
John Odling-Smee (Mansfield College, University of Oxford)
10:30 – 11:00 am – Coffee break
11:00 – 11:45 am
Environmental Heredity: Conceptual Ambiguities and Epistemological Issues
Gaëlle Pontarotti (Université Paris-Diderot & IJM, LabEx ‘Who Am I ?’)
11:45 – 12:30 am
Environment as Abstraction
Denis Walsh (Toronto University)
12:30 – 2:00 pm – Lunch
Section 4 : Environment in Ecology and in Earth sciences
2:00 – 2:45 pm
Environment : four versions in Ecology and Earth Sciences?
Denis Couvet (Museum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris)
2:45 – 3:30 pm
Ecological Niche Construction
Antoine Dussault (CIRST & IHPST)
3:30 – 4:00 pm – Coffee break
4:00 – 4:45 pm
Making Sense of Keystone Species-Environment Relationship: How The Ecological Niche Concept Can Help
Sophia Rousseau-Mermans (Université Paris 1 & Université de Montréal)
4:45 – 5:30 pm
Counterfactual, factual, abiotic, biotic, complex, unpredictable: what it’s like to be an environment ?
Philippe Huneman (IHPST, CNRS & Université Paris 1)
5:30 – 6:30 pm – General discussion and conclusion by Antoine Dussault, Francesca Merlin et Gaëlle Pontarotti
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Valérie Burgos (1 janvier 2019). Workshop Conceptualizing the Environment: Contemporary Philosophical Issues. RTP SHS GenMed. Consulté le 17 avril 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/u5kg
