Day 3 kicked off with a fascinating talk from @cmaley.bsky.social and Orsolya Vincze about evolution and species resistance to cancer (plus considerations on what cancer is!).
Jonathan Sholl and I also spoke about various epistemological implications of animal model use across the life sciences.
Christopher J Stevens
Day 2 kicking off with a great talk from Scott Gilbert about holobionts and their implications for organism development.
Had our first group work sessions yesterday. Lisa Roux and I have proposed the open question of how to combine the engram and representational drift concepts in memory.
Christopher J Stevens
Day 1 of Bordeaux philosophy in biology & medicine summer school @philinbiomed.bsky.social
Program includes presentations of open scientific questions, how philosophical tools can be used to address them, plus-most importantly-group work where participants will do philosophy in science themselves.
