Matteo Mossio - Mechanism and Autonomy in the Life Sciences

We are delighted to welcome Matteo Mossio to Lounge.

In this session, Matteo will discuss the main philosophical and theoretical tenets of Autonomy Theory, by showing how it contrasts with the mechanistic conception of the life sciences.

Heir to the organism tradition, which can be traced back to Kant, Autonomy Theory describes living systems as self-determining adaptive agents. As such, they are a specific kind of individual, endowed with irreducible teleological, normative and functional dimensions, which make them both the subject and the object of evolutionary trajectories.

Bio
Matteo Mossio is Directeur de Recherche (tenured) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and a full member of the IHPST, Paris, France. Matteo works mainly in philosophical and theoretical issues related to natural autonomy. He has published several articles in international philosophical and scientific journals as well as chapters in collective volumes. In 2015, he published (together with Alvaro Moreno) Biological Autonomy, a full monograph on the theory of autonomy. Matteo obtained funding for and took part in numerous research projects in France and abroad. He attended or organized over 100 national and international seminars, workshops, symposia and summer schools, and served as a reviewer for many international philosophical and scientific journals. He supervised several PhD and Master students and regularly teaches in the Philosophy Program of the University of Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne.

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This event will be recorded. The event link will be published on meetup.com 1 hour prior.

Please note the time slot- this is an afternoon event for those of you on EST (12:00 noon to 2:00 pm).