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Click here for the extended conference program including abstracts:

April 14-15, 2016

University of Utah Department of Philosophy

Tanner Philosophy Library (Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building 459)

215 S. Central Campus Dr., 4th floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112

 

Thursday, April 14

Aristotelian Themes and Contemporary Biology

9:00-10:15:  Denis Walsh, University of Toronto

“Hylomorphism, Foundationalist Materialism, and Emergence”

10:15-11:15: Melinda Bonnie Fagan and Matt Haber,

University of Utah

“From Stem Cells to Species: Potentiality, Transformation, and Individuality in Contemporary Philosophy of Biology” (Roundtable Discussion)

 

11:30-12:30:   Anne Siebels Peterson, University of Utah

“Organismal Generation Then and Now: The Persistence and Development of Aristotelian Matter”

 

Aristotelian Biology Through the Ages

1:30-2:45:       James G. Lennox, University of Pittsburgh

“Taking Development Seriously: Aristotelian Echoes in the History and Philosophy of Biology”

2:45-3:45:      Diana Quarantotto, Sapienza Università di

Roma

                        “Structures and Processes in Aristotle’s

Genetics and Embryology”

 

4:00-5:00:      Laura Nuño de la Rosa, IAS-Research Center

for Life, Mind, and Society, University of the Basque Country

                        “The Return of Types in Evolutionary Biology:

Back to Aristotle?”

5:00-6:00:      Andrea Falcon, Concordia University, Montreal

                       “Biology and Metaphysics in Aristotle’s

Philosophy”

 

Friday, April 15

Aristotelian Themes and Metaphysics

9:00-10:15:    Michael Loux, University of Notre Dame

                       “Second Thoughts on Aristotle’s Metaphysics”

10:15-11:15:  William Jaworski, Fordham University

                        “The Hylomorphic Worldview: A Twenty-First

Century Rebirth”

 

11:30-12:30:   Michael Peramatzis, University of Oxford

                        “What is a Form in Aristotle’s Hylomorphism?”

 

Aristotle, Biologist and Metaphysician

1:30-2:45:      Sabine Föllinger, Philipps-Universität Marburg

                        “The Differentiation of the Sexes in Aristotle’s

Biology”

 

3:00-4:00:      Klaus Corcilius, University of California,

Berkeley

"Universal Goodness and Zoological Explanation: The Case of Animal Locomotion"

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