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Call for Papers
"The Return of the Environment
in Concepts of Heredity, Development and Evolution"
Interdisciplinary Workshop
Division of History and Philosophy of Science,
University of Leeds
Leeds (UK)
15-16 May 2008
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Recent publications such as Jablonka and Lamb's Evolution in
Four Dimensions and West-Eberhard's Developmental Plasticity
and Evolution have demonstrated that in genetics, genomics,
developmental biology and evolutionary biology, the
environment is back on the agenda. This workshop - the first
in a projected series of meetings - aims to place these
recent developments in wider and longer contexts, by
exploring the changing role of the environment in the long
run of concepts of heredity, development and evolution. We
seek a multidisciplinary perspective; contributions of
papers from the sciences, history, philosophy, sociology and
anthropology - or combinations of these - are all welcome.
Questions to be addressed at the workshop may include:
- the diverse conceptions of the inheritance of acquired
characters ("Lamarckism") and their histories
- the importance of national, disciplinary, and other
traditions in conditioning "environmentalist" thinking
- the nature of the challenge of epigenesis/epigenomics and
related developments to old scientific, historical and
philosophical commonplaces
- the cultural politics of the "nature/nurture" debate
Confirmed speakers/participants:
Eva Jablonka (Cohn Institute, University of Tel Aviv),
Marion Lamb (Birkbeck College, University of London), John
Dupre (Egenis, University of Exeter), Jon Hodge (University
of Leeds), Staffan Mueller-Wille (Egenis, University of
Exeter), Greg Radick (University of Leeds), Brain Garvey
(University of Lancaster), Snait Gissis (University of Tel
Aviv), Fern Elsdon-Baker (University of Leeds)
Organisers:
Dr Fern Elsdon-Baker
Dr Greg Radick
Beth Hannon
Submissions of paper abstracts of no more than 300 words
should be sent to Fern Elsdon-Baker by Friday 14th March.
Places will be limited.
Further workshop details can be found at:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/e.m.hannon/ReturnoftheEnvironment.html
Contact:
Dr Fern Elsdon-Baker
Division of History and Philosophy of Science
Department of Philosophy
University of Leeds
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds, LS2 9JT
UK
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.dur.ac.uk/e.m.hannon/ReturnoftheEnvironment.html
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