Philosophy of biology meets social studies of biosciences. Perspectives on living organisms

Structure of the Aurora A kinase protein. Based on PyMOL molecular visualization system rendering of Protein Data Bank (PDB) 1mq4. Credit: Created by Emw, Wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0

24th May 2016, 1300-1700, Room 7.01, Dugald Stewart Building, 3 Charles Street, EH8 9AD
This workshop is open and everyone is very welcome, but registration is required given room capacity. Please email: perspectival.realism@ed.ac.uk if you would like to attend. 

This workshop is sponsored by the ERC Consolidator grant Perspectival realism. Science, Knowledge, and Truth from a Human Vantage Point (PI: Michela Massimi, Philosophy, Edinburgh) in collaboration with colleagues in Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies at Edinburgh (ERC Consolidator grant Engineering life: ideas, practices, and   promises, PI: Jane Calvert, STIS; and ERC Starting grant: Medical translation in the history of modern genomics, PI: Miguel Garcia-Sancho, STIS).

Programme

13:00 — Sandwich lunch

14:00 – Sandra Mitchell (HPS, Pittsburgh) – Multiple perspectives and model/model integration.

15:00 – Miguel Garcia-Sancho (STIS, Edinburgh) – How to be (and not to be) a proactive historian

15.30: Tea/coffee

15.50 – Jane Calvert (STIS, Edinburgh): Social Studies of Synthetic Yeast

16:20 – Dominic Berry (STIS, Edinburgh): Practice across experimental spaces: HPS by ethnography

 

Please note: this workshop is open and everyone is very welcome, but registration is required given room capacity. Please email: perspectival.realism@ed.ac.uk  if you would like to attend.

A SELECTION OF PHOTOS FROM EVENT CAN BE VIEWED IN THE AV GALLERY

Image credit: By Jawahar Swaminathan and MSD staff at the European Bioinformatics Institute [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons http://bit.ly/1WiJNEW