News
2018-04-03
Normative Cognition: A Research Roadmap
KLI Colloquium: Ivan Gonzalez-Cabrera, 12 April, 3.00 pm
2022-04-07
Not over yet: KLI publications on the pandemic
In addition to Diversity Lost to Diversity Regained, KLI fellows covered a range of philosophical, social, and ecological issues.
2018-01-09
Obligate Endosymbiosis in Ants Reveals Developmental Steps to Major Evolutionary Transitions
KLI Colloquium: 16 January 2018, 3.00 pm
2018-03-12
Off-year Workshop: EASPLS Call for Applications
ISHPSSB Off-year workshop, organized by S. Leonelli & T. Reydon:
5th EASPLS:
Interdisciplinarity in the Life Sciences and their Philosophy
10–14 September 2018
Student travel grants available!
Deadline: 31 March
2021-10-05
Old ideas for current challenges: Ecological neo-Narodnism and the peasant economy in the 21st century
What is Ecological neo-Narodnism and how does it contribute to solving contemporary social and environmental challenges? Marco P. Vianna Franco explains.
2018-02-02
On the Origins of Complexity, Stability and Variation: A General Model of Development
KLI Colloquium: Roland ZIMM, 15 February, 3.00 pm
2021-05-18
Opening Up Science in Museums – Experiences and Challenges
Katrin VOHLAND (Natural History Museum, Vienna), 27 May 2021, 3.00 pm. To join our colloquium please register with Zoom.
2020-04-24
Optimal Model Complexity in Sustainability Science
VIRTUAL KLI COLLOQUIUM: Alkistis ELLIOTT-GRAVES (University of Helsinki), 28 April, 5.00 pm. For pre-registered participants only!
2018-04-30
Organismic Constraints on Somatic Evolution of Lymphocytes
KLI Colloquium: Bartlomiej SWIATCZAK (University of Science and Technology of China), 24 May, 3.00 pm
2019-08-20
Part 2 of Wim HORDIK´s article on the history of origin of life research in ORBITER magazine
As a young student in Russia, Alexander Oparin learned about Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. However, even though it was a convincing theory of how life on earth had evolved, it did not have anything to say about how it started.
2020-05-24
Philosophical Aspects of the Species Problem and Their Bearing on Comparative Biology
Virtual KLI Colloquium: Frank ZACHOS (Natural History Museum, Vienna), 2 June 2020, 5.00 pm. [br]
To join our online colloquium please register with Zoom.
2018-10-24
Philosophy Meets Art. On the Encounter between Gaston Bachelard and Albert Flocon
KLI Colloquium: Hans-Jörg RHEINBERGER (Max Planck Institute, Berlin), 30 October, 3.00 pm
2018-11-13
Plasticity, Stress and Evolutionary Novelties
KLI Colloquium: Günter WAGNER (Yale University), Monday 19 November, 3.00 pm
2020-08-31
Pollution is strongly related to COVID-19 deaths in Italy
A new study by KLI Fellow Roberto Cazzolla Gatti (et al.) reveals how prolonged exposure to air pollution (especially to fine particles) has contributed to SARS-CoV-2 mortality and infections in Italy
2018-01-18
Pre-symptomatic Genetic Counselling in Austrian Clinical Practice
KLI Colloquium on Thursday 25 January 2018, 3.00 pm at the KLI. Speaker: Bernhard Hadolt (University of Vienna)
2021-06-17
Pregnant Females as Historical Individuals: An Insight from the Philosophy of Evo-Devo
Mihaela PAVLICEV (University of Vienna), Laura NUÑO DE LA ROSA (Complutense University of Madrid), & Arantza ETXEBERRÍA AGIRIANO (University of the Basque Country),
24 June 2021, 3.00 pm. To join our colloquium please register with Zoom.
2021-01-28
Pregnant females as historical individuals: an insight from the philosophy of evo-devo
Laura Nuño de la Rosa, Mihaela Pavlicev and Arantza Etxeberria propose a solution to the individuality of pregnancy.
2020-09-30
Protect wildlife now to protect us from future pandemics
Four relevant actions should be taken into account to protect and conserve wildlife in this pandemic era.
2020-06-09
Relativism in the Philosophy of Science
Virtual KLI Colloquium: Martin KUSCH (University of Vienna), 16 June 2020, 5.00 pm. [br] To join our online colloquium please register with Zoom. [br]
Deadline for the registration: 3 pm on the day of the talk—no admission in the room after 5:05 pm!