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May 14
đź”” IAS Seminar | Upcoming Session
📅 Friday, May 15th · 13:00h
đź“Ť Room 5, Centro Carlos SantamarĂa
Laura Mojica & Ezequiel Di Paolo (UPV/EHU Ikerbasque) will present:
🧠Sensorimotor Incorporation: An Operational Definition
Everyone welcome! #CognitiveScience #Philosophy
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Off year ISH workshop: "Synthesizing Autonomy and New Mechanism in the Philosophy of Biology"
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it's happening - my book *Romantic Empiricism* will be out in German in June!
Watch out for "Romantischer Empirismus" from Königshausen & Neumann.
I'll update with more information as it comes
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The dialectical underpinnings of multilevel selection
Evolution isn’t flat: new levels arise through conflict and then reshape the very dynamics that brought them into being
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CFP: Dialectics and Life (Marxism & Sciences, Issue 10)
Main topics: organism–environment coupling, critical 4E cognition, social metabolism, dialectical approaches to modeling.
Abstracts due 1 June 2026
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Feb 18
đź“Ł Next IAS Seminar | Fri, 20 Feb 2026
🎙️ Marius Werz (IAS Research, UPV/EHU) will present his recent publication: “From function to freedom: enactivism between being and becoming” (Phenom Cogn Sci, 2026).
doi.org/10.1007/s11097-025-1…
#IASSeminar #Enactivism
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17 Dec 2025
With the end of this year, Stuart Newman will step down from his role as Editor-in-Chief.
We sincerely thank Stuart for his outstanding 10 years of service and dedication to Biological Theory!
Read Stuart's Farewell Editorial: link.springer.com/article/10…
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1 Dec 2025
Extending the evolutionary synthesis isn’t enough
Rasmus Haukedal's new book calls for a dialectical biology: from autopoiesis to sympoiesis, from efficient causes to enablement, and an innovative take on plasticity, canalisation & habit.
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21 Nov 2025
➡️New article out⬅️
Open-Ended Control Versus Closed-Ended Control: Limits of Mechanistic Explanation
by Jason Winning
Free reading link:rdcu.be/eQ6ym
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19 Nov 2025
Enaction meets dialectics
New paper out on how sensorimotor agency scales up to social normativity
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14 Nov 2025
Materiality isn’t a backdrop to cognition, but one of its central conditions
The upcoming workshop “Habits, Tools, and Material Environments” examines how cognition is socially distributed, ecologically embedded, and enacted through material engagement
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13 Nov 2025
40 years after The Dialectical Biologist, Richard Lewontin’s legacy still challenges how we think about life
A new report revisits his intertwining of philosophy, biology, and Marxism—and how organisms are subjects of their own evolution
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7 Nov 2025
We’re excited to announce that the Outonomy book —resulting from one of IAS Research’s major projects— is now out! 🎉
It features contributions from many of our members and is Open Access, available in full or by chapters:
🔗 link.springer.com/book/10.10…
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7 Nov 2025
Very nice upcoming workshop at the Center for Philosophical Psychology (University of Antwerp) on how radical embodiment unfolds in complex, “wild” real-world environments.
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6 Nov 2025
Marx as a philosophical biologist?
Chris Shambaugh on young Marx's account of organismal agency, its relation to human life to the critique of capitalism.
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30 Oct 2025
New paper out in @BiolTheory
@Leo_Bich and Laura Menatti argue that health is not about balance or stability, but about adapting and transforming in response to changing circumstances — the capacity for adaptive change.
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16 Oct 2025
➡️New article out⬅️
The Bechtel Approach to the Scope and Limits of Mechanistic Explanation
by Daniel C. Burnston
Free reading link: rdcu.be/eLgQT
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15 Oct 2025
How did regulation and agency arise before genes?
Shirt-Ediss et al. model evolving protocell ecologies with the Araudia platform—showing how simple metabolic systems can “learn” to adapt to changing environments
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14 Oct 2025
➡️New article out⬅️
Homeostasis and Health: From Balance to Change
by Leonardo Bich & Laura Menatti
Open access: link.springer.com/article/10…
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8 Oct 2025
How does life emerge from nonlife?
New special issue of the Royal Transactions brings together leading thinkers on the origins of life—where chemistry meets information, and evolution unfolds through the “adjacent possible.”
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