I have finally received the hardcopies of my Element! Dracula is congratulating me after licking the book! cambridge.org/core/elements/…

So happy: for the next 2 months I will be visiting the IHPST at University Paris 1 Sorbonne. Thrilled to have received a fellowship to work on #environment #health in this amazing place #philsci #philbio #philmed ihpst.pantheonsorbonne.fr

Next Friday at 13:00, we will have the pleasure of welcoming 𝐑𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐜𝐚 / 𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐨 𝐂𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨 at the IAS Seminar, who will be giving a talk entitled “Plasticity and goal/s: re-examining the organisational approach”. ias-research.net/blog/2025/02/0…

Next Tuesday at 11:30, we will have the pleasure of welcoming 𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐞́ (UPF, Barcelona), who will give a talk entitled ❞𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬❞ ias-research.net/blog/2025/02/1…

We are thrilled to announce that the IAS Rearch YouTube channel is now open! 🚨🚨📢📢 For all the latest talks from our invited researchers at the IAS Seminar, simply click the link below. IAS Research youtube.com/@iasresearch-u… vía YouTube

🥳Happy to share I've been appointed as an associate researcher at the Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (IHPST), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne & CNRS. #philsci #science #philosophy #Paris ihpst.pantheonsorbonne.fr lauramenatti.weebly.com/about-me.html

Is teleology really obsolete? This special issue explores how goal-directedness remains crucial in biology, mind, and society—despite its exile from analytic philosophy. link.springer.com/article/10.100… #philosophy #teleology

Next Friday at 13:00, we will have the pleasure of welcoming 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢́𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐬 (University of Salamanca) at the IAS Seminar, who will be giving a talk entitled "Experience: The Missing Thread Uniting Organismalism and Pragmatism"

yes, it's me! Also in French #paris #philosophy #ihpst #sorbonne after two months of visiting and becoming associated here ihpst.pantheonsorbonne.fr/actualite/port…

Asking for a friend: Has it ever happened to you that a manuscript had been ‘awaiting decision’ for 4 months? No replies from the editors. This is problematic especially for non-tenured scholars.

Adaptivity is central to life, yet conceptually homeless. While adaptation is tied to selection, adaptivity is an ongoing organismal process—rooted in metabolism, not just evolutionary causation dialecticalsystems.eu/contributions/…

Embodied & enactive approaches aren’t just about individual cognition — they’re about society. A new Mind & Society special issue brings enactivism into conversation with ethics, social theory & political philosophy. dialecticalsystems.eu/publications...

Today we celebrate the new edition of Varela’s Principles of Biological Autonomy (1979) from MIT Press, with a new critical apparatus by Ezequiel Di Paolo & Evan Thompson, reconnecting Varela's legacy in cognitive science to his theoretical biology dialecticalsystems.eu/publications/n…

Heading to Oporto for #ishpssb2025 #ish2025 to present our paper coauthored with lauramenatti “Homeostasis and Health: from balance to change” recently accepted for publication in @bioltheory