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SUMMARY:A processual perspective on biology - John Dupré (University of E
 xeter)
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CONTACT:Christopher Clarke
DESCRIPTION:We tend to talk about living systems as if they consisted of a
  hierarchy of things (molecules\, cells\, organisms...) But it is also cle
 ar that these entities are more accurately conceived as processes\, and th
 eir relative stability is maintained by a host of subprocesses. Though thi
 s is not in itself especially controversial\, it is less often noticed tha
 t it has important consequences. It presents serious problems\, for instan
 ce\, for the new mechanism that has recently become very popular among phi
 losophers of the life sciences. More speculatively\, I suggest that the su
 bstance ontology that has dominated scientific thinking since the seventee
 nth century has become an obstacle to thinking about biology.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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