• Overview
• Programme

Overview

This group usually meets on alternate Tuesdays at 4pm. It is aimed at philosophers and linguists interested in issues in biology, mind and evolution. All inquiries about this group should be directed to Liz Irvine. This group forms part of the Mind & Cognition research cluster at Edinburgh.

Programme

• Monday 18th January, 3pm, room TBC

  Reading: 'Information in Biology', Peter Godfrey-Smith, in D. Hull and M. Ruse (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 103-119. Available here.

• Tuesday 2nd February, 4pm, room 1.01 DSB

  Readings: 'Biosemantics', Ruth Millikan, The Journal of Philosophy, 1989, 86, pp.281-297 (available here); 'Consumers Need Information: Supplementing Teleosemantics with an Input Condition', Nick Shea, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2007, 75, pp.404-435 (available here).

• Tuesday 16th February, 4pm, room 1.01 DSB
  Readings: 'Consumers Need Information: Supplementing Teleosemantics with an Input Condition', Nick Shea, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2007, 75, pp.404-435 (available here).
• Tuesday 2nd March, 4pm, room 1.01 DSB
  Readings: 'An Input Condition for Teleosemantics? Reply to Shea (and Godfrey-Smith), Ruth Millikan, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2007, 75, pp.436-455 (available here).
• Tuesday 16th March, 4pm, room 1.01 DSB
  Readings: 'Dimensions of Scientific Law', Sandra Mitchell, Philosophy of Science, 2000, 65, pp. 242-265 (available here).
• Tuesday 30th March, 4 pm, room 1.01 DSB
  Reading: 'Law and Explanation in Biology: Invariance is the kind of Stability that Matters', Jim Woodward, Philosophy of Science, 2001, 68, pp. 1-20.

More meetings to be announced soon.

 

Last updated: March 29th 2010 by Duncan Pritchard.