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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
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.
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.
2024-06-07
Parametric General Systems Theory and How to Apply It
Ievgeniia IVANOVA (University of Stirling, UK), 2024-06-13 15:00 (CET). To join our colloquium please register with Zoom
2024-09-27
Outreach: The Social Ecology of the Anthropocene
In an invited article for the Boku Magazine, Martin Schmid introduces his lecture “The Social Ecology of the Anthropocene”, which encourages long-term, interdisciplinary thinking by looking back into the past. With the climate crisis, the rapid loss of biodiversity and other global crises, it reveals the Anthropocene as a specific, historically unique way in which human societies relate to nature. (Click on title to read more...)
2024-09-28
Outreach: Solving the Riddles of Inheritance - School Workshop
Barbara Fischer, along with a team comprising of Lynn Chiu, Severin Bachmayer and others created a workshop titled Solving The Riddles of Inheritance, specifically designed to teach school students the different modes of inheritance as well as the interplay between genes and environment on the visible traits of an organism. With emphasis on familiarising students with scientific methods and scientific thinking, this workshop includes hands-on Art-Science Activity, Microscope Laboratory Activity, and a Science Quiz.
2022-12-13
Our KLife Newsletters are now online!
PDF versions of our KLife Newsletters are now available for download.
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
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!
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.
2022-05-24
On the Sustainability of Human Niche Construction
Christian DORNINGER (KLI), 2 June 2022, 3.00 pm. To join our colloquium please register with Zoom.
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
2021-10-05
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.
2018-03-12
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
2018-01-09
Obligate Endosymbiosis in Ants Reveals Developmental Steps to Major Evolutionary Transitions
KLI Colloquium: 16 January 2018, 3.00 pm
2022-07-08
Now out: Biological Theory’s June 2022 issue!
Volume 17, issue 2 introduces a new collection—Critical Concepts in Biological Theory—with the article: Serial Homology.
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.
2018-04-03
Normative Cognition: A Research Roadmap
KLI Colloquium: Ivan Gonzalez-Cabrera, 12 April, 3.00 pm
2019-03-25
New Writing-Up Fellow Christian DORNINGER (Leuphana University)
We welcome Writing-Up Fellow Christian DORNINGER who will work at the KLI on his project "Biophysical Human-Nature Disconnections as a Form of Sociocultural Niche Construction" starting on April 1st, 2019.
2017-10-15
New Writing-Up Fellow at the KLI
We welcome Roland Zimm from the University of Helsinki to the KLI.