May 17, 2022 – Hiphis Conference: "Infravies – Life Without Borders"
Tuesday, May 17,2022, from 5:30 p.m. to7:30 p.m.,UM Polytech, Peytavin lecture hall, free admission
(Triolet campus, building 31) + hybrid Zoom (to receive the link)
Infravies – living without borders
Thomas Heams
Biologist and philosopher of biology, Senior Lecturer at AgroParisTech, UMR GABI “Animal Genetics and Integrative Biology”
Summary:
Understanding life in its most fundamental aspect is an age-old quest. Every era and every school of thought has sought answers that have in turn changed our relationship with the biological world, but consensus remains elusive, at the risk of undermining the life sciences. Part of the difficulty faced by biologists and philosophers lies in the impossible demarcation between living and non-living, which is nevertheless perceived by society, and sometimes by researchers themselves, as a cardinal boundary. The perspective of infravie is a theoretical proposal, based on experimental data (exobiology, synthetic biology, origins of life) and naturalistic observations, to overcome this problem of delimitation and make living things something other than a category. It allows us to continue defining living things and has important epistemological and ethical consequences.
Bibliography:
□ Heams, T. (2019), Infravies – Le vivant sans frontières, Paris, Seuil. ISBN 9782021098198 |publisher's website.
See detailsonline–PDF poster (320 KB)–A4 JPG poster (320 KB)–to receive the Zoom link
Hybrid conference with Zoom videoconferencing:
As an option for those unable to attend due to COVID restrictions, the Zoom broadcast will be carried out "with the means at hand" from the speaker's computer and as far as possible. Depending on the WiFi network, connection continuity and audio/video quality cannot be guaranteed (remote interactivity will be minimal). For the best listening conditions and user experience, we recommend attending in person.
Zoom session information will be posted onthe HiPhiSen website approximatelyone hour before the start of the conference. To receive this information directly by email, please register by May 17 at12 p.m. via this Evento link.
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Upcoming HiPhiS conferences(locations and details to be confirmed as soon as possible)
(see online:https://epistemologie.umontpellier.fr/hiphis/conferences.html)
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–Tuesday, November 15, 2022: Valeria Giardino, C.R. CNRS, ENS Paris Institut J.-Nicod (philosophy of mathematics / title not yet announced)
HiPhiS contacts: Delphine Bellis (delphine.bellis@univ-montp3.fr) / Laurent Boiteau (laurent.boiteau@umontpellier.fr) / Viviane Durand-Guerrier (viviane.durand-guerrier@umontpellier.fr)