Dear FIS Colleagues, The new discussion session "Phenomenology, Life, and Information Science" is the interactive continuation of the recently published
2015 JPBMB Special Issue on Integral Biomathics: Life Sciences, Mathematics and Phenomenological Philosophy <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00796107/119/3> (with free access to all articles, incl. those of the following 5 presenters until July 19th, 2016). The announcement is here: http://fis.sciforum.net/fis-discussion-sessions/ As Pedro already mentioned, it is planned to continue for about three months (ending around May 30th), with 2-3 weeks devoted to each theses. Most of the authors of this volume and from a few related projects are joining the FIS list for this series of discussions in the following weeks. All participants are encouraged to provide their feedback to the presenters. Please take care to make thorough and concise statements when commenting and inquiring about details of the authors’ theses, while limiting to the FIS customary *two messages per week*. Depending on the intensity of the exchange traffic a limit of one message per week per user may be established. The responses of the presenters and the moderators are the only exceptions according to the FIS rules. For those who are new in the FIS community I strongly recommend to explore the web site http://fis.sciforum.net before the discussion. Here is again the list of contributors for the particular fields: - Maxine Sheets-Johnstone: from Biology - Louis H. Kauffman: from Mathematics - Soeren Brier: from Bio/Cybersemiotics - Alex Hankey: from Physics - Plamen L. Simeonov: with a challenging subject in integrative medicine I am going to moderate the discussions along with Pedro. We will start now with *Maxine Sheets-Johnstone*’s theme “*Phenomenology and Evolutionary Biology*”. She is an interdisciplinary scholar affiliated with the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon where she taught periodically in the 1990s and where she now holds an ongoing Courtesy Professor appointment. She has a B.A. in French and Comparative Literature, an M.A. in Dance, a Ph.D. in Dance and Philosophy, and an incomplete second doctorate in Evolutionary Biology. Maxine began her career as a choreographer/dancer, professor of dance/dance scholar. She has published near 80 articles in humanities, science, and art journals. Her book publications include The Phenomenology of Dance; Illuminating Dance: Philosophical Explorations; the “roots” trilogy: The Roots of Thinking, The Roots of Power: Animate Form and Gendered Bodies, and The Roots of Morality; Giving the Body Its Due; The Primacy of Movement; The Corporeal Turn: An Interdisciplinary Reader; Putting Movement Into Your Life; A Beyond Fitness Primer, and (forthcoming 2016) Insides and Outsides: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Animate Nature. She was awarded a Distinguished Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University, UK, in 2007 for her continuing research on xenophobia, an Alumni Achievement Award by the School of Education, University of Wisconsin in 2011, and was honored with a Scholar’s Session by the Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy in 2012. Maxine, you have the word. @All: Enjoy your discussion. Best regards Plamen __ ___ ___ Dr. Plamen L. Simeonov mobile: +49.17.37.81.63.37 URLs: www.simeio.org / LinkedIn <http://lnkd.in/aqn39k>
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