Location: Department of Philosophy I, Psychology Building, University of Granada
Thursday 24th April
9:30 Welcome
9:45-11:15 Main Speaker: Laura Nuño de la Rosa, Konrad Lorenz Institute, Vienna. Types and potencies in evolutionary biology. Back to Aristotle?
11:15-11:45 Coffee break
11:45-12:45 Talk: Pablo Rodrigo Grassi, University of Freiburg. “Organisms, artefacts and synthetic biology. An analysis of the concept of ‘living machine’ and the distinction between organisms and machines”
12:45-13:45 Talk: Vicente Raja, Universidad de Murcia. “Preamble to an ecological theory of dispositions”
13:45-15:30 Lunch
15:30-16:30 Talk: Alicia Escalonilla, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. “Saltos funcionales en la evolución del lenguaje”
16:30-17 Coffee break
17-18 Talk: Susana Monsó, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. “Moral emotions in behaviour readers”
Friday 25th April
10-11 Talk: Olivier Lemeire, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. “Why do our best scientific classifications capture natural kinds?”
11 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30 Talk: Hugo Viciana, Universite de Paris1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. “Cultural transmission and biological markets”
12:30 – 13:30 Talk: Víctor Fernández, Universidad de Granada. “Social cognition, language and mindshaping”
13:30 – 15:30 Lunch
15:30-16:30 Talk: Caitlin Hamblin, University of Edinburgh. “Can a minimal theory of mind explain targeted helping in preverbal infants?”
16:30 – 17 Coffee break
17 – 18:30 Main Speaker: David Ward, University of Edinburgh. An enactive explanation of placebo effects.