Vol 17, Issue 3 (2025) has dropped! And it was worth the wait, with articles on sex/gender, #ecology in context, Darwinizing #Gaia, and theories in #physiology. We are loving the diversity of articles that are sent to us — keep them coming!
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The next session of our transdisciplinary (biology-philosophy) seminar on Agency will take place next Wednesday. Marek Špinka will talk about play in nonhuman animals, and I expect it to be super cool !
More info here :
https://www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar-agency-between-biology-and-philosophy-2025-2026
#ontology of
#time-qualified-objects
#Ingarden
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Ingarden here tries to describe esp. a 'general structure'[formale Aufbau] of say every day macroscopic 'objects of discourse', anticipating them terminologically as "zeitbestimmte, individuelle, seinsautonome Gegenstände" [time-qualified, individual, autonomously existing objects]. And in the light of rather 90 years of "analytical philosophy" later
[ having sharpened our reservations wrt say "Seinsbestimmungen"]
this verbal packaging seems, as said above, unfortunate. But what (from my p.o.v.) Ingarden wants to draw attention to, is kind of an #ontological #generalization of what nowadays in #philbio is habitually discussed under the heading of #homeostatic systems/processes/objects.
#autopoiesis #homeostasis
Tomorrow is the first session of the 2026 edition of our online seminar on animal agency!
This session will be led by Lisa Yon and will explore ways to promote agency in captive animals (especially elephants!).
Hoping to see many of you! 🐘🐘🐘
https://www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar-agency-between-biology-and-philosophy-2025-2026
#agency #elephants #captivity #animalwelfare #animalstudies #philbio
Here, you will find the 2025-2026 programme, and general information about our seminar. The introductory post can be found here.ProgrammeThis year, we will meet each second Wednesday of each month, from 4pm to 5pm (UK time).Upcoming dates: • 12 November: Session on the minimal viable mechanisms of biological agency (session led by Daria Zakharova). (Report available on the Google Drive)* • 10 December: "A good life on their own?" Session led by Angie Pepper on how to conceive of animal interes
The next session of our online seminar is tomorrow !!
Angie Pepper will be presenting, on the topic « A good life or their own life? Rethinking nonhuman animal interests in freedom ».
Relevant information can be found here : https://www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar-agency-between-biology-and-philosophy-2025-2026
You’re welcome to join!
#animalrights #animalethics #animalwelfare #welfare #agency #philbio #animalagency
A new issue of PTPBio has dropped with articles from Marco Casali, Francesca Merlin & Alberto Vianelli; Meghan Barrett, Thomas Raffel & Bob Fischer; and Maja Dorota Sidzinska, Jacqueline Mae Wallis & Kate Nicole Hoffman.
Check them out! https://ptpbio.org/
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Next session is tomorrow !
Come and join us to unveil the mystery of animal agency (or just try to make sense of the concept actually…)! Daria Zakharova will be presenting.
https://www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar-agency-between-biology-and-philosophy-2025-2026
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