PROGRAMME
Thursday, 24th March
Friday, 25th March
9:00-9:15 // Arrival and registration
9:15-9:30 // Opening comments
Jan Baedke, Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda & Guido I. Prieto
9:30-11:00 Session 1:
Contrasting stances on organismal agency
(Chair: Jan Baedke)
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (Ruhr University Bochum):
Charting contrasting stances on organismal purposiveness and agency in early twentieth-century biology
Samir Okasha (University of Bristol):
The metaphor of agency in biology
11:00-11:30 // Coffee/tea
11:30-12:15 Session 2:
Agency in animal behavior
(Chair: Jan Baedke, RUB)
Gregory Radick (University of Leeds):
Vervetese and its contexts
12:15-14:30 // Lunch & walk through botanical garden
14:30-16:00 Session 2 continued
(Chair: Saana Jukola)
Gregory M. Kohn (University of North Florida):
In defense of the whole: Behavioral novelty as a reflection of organismal agency
Session 3:
Agential capacities and development
(Chair: Saana Jukola)
Bendik Hellem Aaby (KU Leuven):
Agency as a capacity
16:00-16:15 // Coffee/tea
16:15-17:00 Session 3 continued
(Chair: Saana Jukola)
Sonia Sultan (Wesleyan University):
Organismal agency via unscripted developmental response to the environment: A case study in plants
19:00 // Dinner
9:00-10:30 Session 4:
Organizational perspectives on organismal agency
(Chair: Daniel S. Brooks)
Andrea Gambarotto (UCLouvain)
and Matteo Mossio (CNRS):
Enactivism and the Hegelian Stance on Intrinsic Purposiveness
Francesca Michelini (University of Kassel):
Plessner’s philosophical biology and enactivism: Elements for a comparison
10:30-11:00 // Coffee/tea
11:00-11:45 Session 4 continued
(Chair: Daniel Brooks, RUB)
Jan Baedke (Ruhr University Bochum):
Persisters vs. overcomers: Why only organisms are agents and other biological individuals are not
11:45-13:30 // Lunch
13:30-15:00 Session 5:
Metaphysical dimensions of organismal agency
(Chair: Guido I. Prieto)
Denis Walsh (University of Toronto):
Far from the Tangled Bank: Agency, summoning, and sedimentation
Kevin Mitchell & Henry D. Potter (Trinity College Dublin):
Naturalising Agent Causation
15:00-15:15 // Coffee/tea
15:15-16:00 Session 5 continued
(Chair: Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda)
Anne Sophie Meincke (University of Vienna):
A bio-processual metaphysics of agency
16:00-16:45 // Final discussion