lgBIG

The Lake Geneva Biological Interest Group is a forum for discussing biology from a multitude of perspectives, including philosophical, scientific and historical, and was founded in 2012 at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Geneva. Our standing members are based in different institutions at the Universities of Geneva, Lausanne, Bern, and Milan. We consider ourselves to be part of a BIG international movement that includes kindred groups at the University of Minnesota and the University of Exeter.

• William Bausman
• Luis Bordo Garcia
• Silvia de Cesare
• Christine Clavien
• Lucie Cauwet
• Michaela Egli
• Benjamin Genta
• Michal Hladky
• Anatolii Kozlov
• Kyryll Khromov
• Nadine Marachly
• Christian Sachse
• Raphael Scholl
• Marcel Weber

Our meetings take place on Wednesdays from 12:15 to 14:00 in Bâtiment de l'IFAGE in the room IF 401 (19 place des Augustins). We discuss our own research as well as other contemporary philosophical, scientific and historical work that addresses interesting biological issues.

Everyone is welcome!

lgBIG hosts the international conference on 7-8 December.

• 26 Sep Luis Bordo Garcia on Piaget’s philosophy of science
• 3 Oct Marcel Weber, “Mechanisms as complex occurrents”
• 10 Oct Ben Genta on analogies
• 17 Oct Nadine Marachly, “Organisms making choices”
• 24 Oct Caterina Pellò on Pre-Aristotelian theories of sleep
• 31 Oct Kyryll Khromov on trust in science
• 14 Nov Luis Bordo Garcia on causality in social network models
• 21 Nov Jacob Stegenga (Cambridge) on justification and progress
• 28 Nov Caleb Hazelwood (Duke) on TBA
• 5 Dec Ben Genta (UC Irvine) on performative models
• 12 Dec Raphael Scholl on modeling pandemics
• 19 Dec Pierre-Olivier Méthot (Laval) on infectious disease epidemiology

• 27.02.24 Affective basis of reasoning and cognition in non-human Animals, Sanja Srećković Phil 102 (Boulevard des Philosophes 22) 12:15 - 14:00
• 05.03.24 Rational Animals, Nadine Marachly
  Phil 102 (Boulevard des Philosophes 22) 12:15 - 14:00
• 12.03.24 Teleological Explanations and the Falsifiability of Biology José Perez Escobar Phil 102 (Boulevard des Philosophes 22) 12:15 - 14:00
• 19.03.24 Silvia De Cesare on Organic Progress
  Phil 102 (Boulevard des Philosophes 22) 12:15 - 14:00
• 26.03.24 Is there Something It is Like to Be an Octopus Arm? Sidney Carls-Diamante Phil 102 (Boulevard des Philosophes 22) 12:15 - 14:00
• 09.04.24 Are Qualia Intrinsic? Lucie Cauwet Phil 102 (Boulevard des Philosophes 22) 12:15 - 14:00
• 16.04.24 Ryan Miller on Levels in Biology Phil 102 (Boulevard des Philosophes 22) 12:15 - 14:00
• 23.04.24 Kyryll Khromov on Values in Science
  Phil 102 (Boulevard des Philosophes 22) 12:15 - 14:00
• 30.04.24 No Cause for Concern: Even Indefinitely Many Unknown Confounders Do Not Threaten Randomized Controlled Experiments Raphael Scholl
  Phil 102 (Boulevard des Philosophes 22) 12:15 - 14:00
• 07.05.24 Luis Bordo García on Causal Reasoning in Sociology, Phil 102 (Boulevard des Philosophes 22) 12:15 - 14:00
• 14.05.24, Anna Garoflid-Oprescu on Idealization, Truth and Understanding Phil 102 (Boulevard des Philosophes 22) 12:15 - 14:00