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2018-03-06
Interdisciplinarity in the Life Sciences and their Philosophy
TRAVEL FUNDS AVAILABLE! The 5th EASPLS has been selected as ISHPSSB Off-Year Workshop. Application Deadline is extended to March 31st. Travel funds are available (please contact the ISHPSSB treasurer for further information)!
2019-09-23
Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Challenges and Capacities
KLI Colloquium by Rebecca FREETH (IASS Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Potsdam): 1 October, 2019, 5.00 pm
2020-12-03
Investigation of the History and Philosophy of Cybernetics in Biology, Yields More Than Just a Theory of Machines
Flavia FABRIS (KLI), 10 December 2020, 3.00 pm. To join our colloquium please register with Zoom.
2021-04-02
Is knowledge just another buzzword in the sustainability sciences?
New systematic review by Apetrei, Caniglia, von Wehrden, and Lang analyzes five different entry points by which knowledge is approached by the sustainability sciences.
2019-09-04
Is the cell really a machine?
The latest article by KLI Senior Fellow Dan Nicholson has been highly recommended in F1000Prime as being of "exceptional significance" in its field by two F1000 Faculty Members.
2021-07-01
ISHPSSB 2021 Werner Callebaut Prize awarded to Marina DiMarco
Marina DiMarco's winning paper - (re)Producing mtEve - was presented at ISHPSSB 2019
2021-06-20
Jacob Weger on ontologies of environmental governance
KLI fellow Jacob Weger and colleagues examine the ontological assumptions underlying modern environmental governance and look to other cultures for alternative ways to create a more just and sustainable world.
2021-01-05
Josef Popper-Lynkeus, Otto Neurath, and the Other Austrian Economics: ontology, epistemology, facts, and values
KLI fellow and historian of economics Marco P. Vianna Franco investigates how resource flows and value-based judgements served as inputs to socially-inclusive economic plans
2021-06-01
June issue of Biological Theory
Biological Theory’s June issue (16:2) is now available online.
2019-05-22
Kick-off Meeting of the ATTRACT project at CERN (project coordinator KLI Senior Fellow Wim Hordijk)
We congratulate KLI Senior Fellow Wim Hordijk for being awarded one of the ATTRACT projects funded by the Horizon 2020 program of the EU.
2020-03-27
Kicking off a new KLI Working Group: Evolutionary Theories for Social-Ecological Change
The working group explores the value of evolutionary mechanisms for explaining complex social-ecological change.
2022-07-08
KLI at EuroEvoDevo 2022, Naples
The KLI was present as both a sponsor and as attendees, with fellows and faculty presenting on the historical and philosophical aspects of evo-devo.
2017-08-08
KLI Colloquium: Stuart NEWMAN
Join us for the KLI Colloquium by Stuart NEWMAN on 18 OCTOBER 2017, 4.30 pm!
2020-10-20
KLI Executive Manager Isabella Sarto-Jackson Joins Panel Discussion of Vienna Cognitive Science Hub Symposium
Predictive Processing Symposium: From Concept to Circuits – symposium organized by Vienna Cognitive Science Hub featuring K. Friston and N. Uchida.
Panel discussants: K. Friston, N. Uchida, I. Sarto-Jackson, M. Grosse-Wentrup, M. Zimmer, moderated by R. Sladky
2021-01-18
KLI fellow in The Economist! On making money from sewage in Kolkata
KLI alum Amitangshu Acharya and coauthor Sudipto Sanyal write about Kolkata's "Black Gold."
2021-09-01
KLI fellow Nicole Grunstra part of four new papers on the evolution of the human pelvis
Spring 2021 was an exciting time for pelvis research with four new papers on the evolution of the human pelvis and birth canal.
2021-12-17
KLI fellow Nicole Grunstra to start new postdoc at University of Vienna
She will start a FWF-funded project “Evolvability of inner and middle ears in birds and mammals."
2022-09-28
KLI fellows at the 6th EASPLS
KLI fellows Luana Poliseli, Marco Treven, Elis Jones, Cristina Villegas, Alejandro Villanueva and incoming fellow Alejandro Fabregas-Tejeda attended the 6th EASPLS at University of Bordeaux. Isabella Sarto-Jackson gave an input talk on Complexity and the Tyranny of Scales.
2019-01-31
KLI Postdoctoral Fellow Barbara FISCHER
We welcome KLI postdoctoral fellow Barbara FISCHER back! Barbara returned from maternity leave and will continue to work on her project "Evolvability and Integration of the Human Pelvis."
2019-08-19
KLI Senior Fellow Wim HORDIK´s article on the history of origin of life research has been published in ORBITER magazine
What is life? Where did it come from? Is it all part of a divine master plan, or was it a spectacular chemical “accident”?