Facilitating interdisciplinary research on complex living phenomena - agency, cognition, development, function, and goal-directedness - across spatial and temporal scales
CASP: Consortium for Advancing a Science of Purpose
AHA member Alix Genter built a career beyond the “grand academic career” she once imagined, launching an editing business after earning her PhD.
“Helping other scholars refine their writing... is enormously fulfilling.”
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The Sino-Australian Philosophy of Life Sciences Network (SAPoLSN) invites applications for the 2026 Intntl Grad Summer School, “Agents of Evolution,” Macquarie Uni, Aug 17–22. Reg deadline: 5 May (Sydney time, UTC+10). Registration: www.wjx.top/vm/YqwATWz.a...
About: sapolsn.com/event/2026-s...
The deadline for applications is 15 May 2026.
Lots of great summer events coming up!
History and Philosophy of Science: Past, Present, and Future
24 - 26 June 2026
Academic Building, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
www.shanyafeng.com/hps26
Lovely article by Dr. Joshua M. Moritz about one of CASP's projects, "Cognition All the Way Up." www.biologicalpurpose.org/subaward-pro...
PI Pierrick Bourrat - www.kli.ac.at/en/people/cu...
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We are excited to share the good news that the Consortium is fully funded &will run through March 2031. We have now begun work on some of the many activities we have planned for the next five years (for example, interdisciplinary workshops in early 2027). www.biologicalpurpose.org
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Applications invited for three-year postdoctoral position that is part of a new grant-funded project, the "Consortium for Advancing a Science of Purpose" (CASP).
More details, including how to apply, online:
cla.umn.edu/mcps/news-ev...
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Alix Genter is a freelance academic editor. She lives in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, and has been a member since 2019.
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Capacity building of conceptual, theoretical, and empirical resources to facilitate new research configurations across disciplines and foster novel investigative strategies that advance life science i...
Evolution has been marked by a small number of major transitions that explain the emergence of new structures. This idea has been applied to both individuality and cognition. In both cases, a…
