Second workshop on causation, mechanisms, and evolutionary biology

When:
4 November, 2025 – 5 November, 2025 all-day
2025-11-04T00:00:00+01:00
2025-11-06T00:00:00+01:00

Tuesday and Wednesday, 04-05 November 2025

Room 714 Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, University of Valencia

Tuesday, November 4th

 9:00-10:00 Cristian Saborido (UNED, Spain): Diseases as social problems
10:00-11:00 Pablo García-Barranquero (U. of Malaga, Spain): Are the Hallmarks of Aging an “Hoverfly” After All? Geroscience, Paradigms, and Scientific Progress.
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 Charles Pence (U. of Louvain, Belgium): Evolutionary Theory and Multi-Level Probabilistic Causal Systems
12:30-15:00 Lunch
15:00-16:00 Leonardo Bich (U. of the Basque Country, Spain): Life unbalanced: a dynamic view of physiological homeostasis from autonomy theory”
16:00-17:00 Aida Roige (U. Carlos III, Spain): Beyond Classification: The Role of Mechanisms in Defining Kinds»

Wednesday, November 5th

10:00-11:00 Lorenzo Baravalle (U. of Valencia, Spain):  Trading on Life: Technical Analysis as a Model for Biological Forecasting
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 Víctor J. Luque (U. of Valencia, Spain): Bridging ecological and evolutionary change
12:30-15:00 Lunch
15:00-16:00 Research meeting