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  • NEW! Predictability and the Unpredictable. Life, Evolution and Behaviour (CNR Edizioni, 2018)

    NEW! Predictability and the Unpredictable. Life, Evolution and Behaviour (CNR Edizioni, 2018)

    Segnaliamo la pubblicazione del volume Predictability and the Unpredictable. Life, Evolution and Behaviour (CNR Edizioni, 2018), a cura di David Ceccarelli e Giulia Frezza, che raccoglie gli interventi del Workshop “Sliding Doors. Prediction and Contingency in Biosciences” (Roma, 2-4 febbraio 2017), dedicato al ventennale di ResViva.

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  • International Workshop “Sliding Doors. Prediction and Contingency in Biosciences – 20th Anniversary of RES VIVA”, Sapienza Università di Roma, 2-4 febbraio 2017

    International Workshop “Sliding Doors. Prediction and Contingency in Biosciences – 20th Anniversary of RES VIVA”, Sapienza Università di Roma, 2-4 febbraio 2017

    International Workshop

    Sliding Doors

    Prediction and Contingency in Biosciences

    20th Anniversary of Res viva

    February 2-4, 2017 – Villa Mirafiori (Aula XII), Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

     

    Thursday, February 2

    Welcome Addresses

    14.00 Opening address
    14.10 Stefano Petrucciani (Director of the Department of Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome)
    14.20 Marcello Buiatti (President of Res viva)

    Predictability and contingency in physical and biological sciences

    14.30 Giuseppe Longo (Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris)
    Unpredictable Phase Spaces, or How Future Depends on the Past and on Rare Events in Systems of Life

    15.20 Guido Chelazzi (University of Florence)
    The Claim of Predictability vs Contingency in Ecology

    16.20 Fabio Sterpetti (Sapienza University of Rome)
    On the Nature of Natural Selection

    16.50 Emanuele Coco (University of Catania)
    Harmonies Lost: Philosophy and Delusions in Constructing Nature

    17.20 Philippe Hunemann (CNRS/ Université Paris 1 Sorbonne)
    Making sense of Gould’s Evolutionary Contingency Thesis: issues of Grain and Scales

    Friday, February 3

    Big-Data and predictability in bio-medicine

    9.30 Paolo Vineis (Imperial College of London)
    The Tsunami of New Data: Potential for Bias

    10.10 Giuseppe Novelli (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
    The Bermuda Principles in the Era of Precision Medicine

    11.10 Giulia Frezza (Sapienza University of Rome)
    Old and New Big Data: of Mice and Men

    11.40 Luigi Preziosi (Politecnico di Torino)
    Determinism and Stochasticity in Mathematical Modelling for Cell Migration

    12.20 Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter)
    The Time of Data: Big Data Re-Use and Implications for Predictive Ability in Biology and Biomedicine

    The Evolutionary contingency: past and present

    15.00 Silvia Caianiello (CNR, Naples)
    Seinesgleichen geschieht: Contemporary Challenges to Evolutionary Contingency

    15.40 Sara Campanella (Sapienza University of Rome)
    Synthesis and Behavior: a New Role for Selection

    16.10 David Ceccarelli (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
    Orthogenetic Predictability: Orderliness and Invariance in Early Macro-Evolutionary Explanations

    17.00 Virginie Orgogozo (Institut Jacques Monod, Paris)
    Can we Predict Evolution?

    Saturday, February 4

    Brains and behaviours in ecological frameworks

    9.30 Lamberto Maffei (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa/Accademia dei Lincei)
    Environment as Therapy

    10.10 Carmela Morabito (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
    Epigenetics and Development in Cognitive Functions

    10.40 Mattia Della Rocca (University of Pisa/University of Rome Tor Vergata)
    Prediction Possibility in “Silico-Simulation”?

    11.20 Salvatore Maria Aglioti
    (Sapienza University of Rome/Fondazione Santa Lucia, IRCCS)
    Virtual Worlds for Real People

    11.55 Dario Martinelli (International Semiotics Institute Kaunas University of Technology)
    Estimations, Plans, Narratives: how non-Human Animals Deal with the Future and “Possible Worlds”

    12.40 Elena Gagliasso (Sapienza University of Rome, Director of Res viva)
    Concluding remarks

    Organizing Committee: S. Caianiello, S. Campanella, D. Ceccarelli, G. Frezza, E. Gagliasso
    For information: resviva2016@gmail.com