Research Directory

This directory lists people and organizations involved in a variety of areas of research of interest to the consortium.

Jeremy Gunawardena
Institution:

Department of Medicine and Life Sciences
Pompeu Fabra University
Barcelona, SPAIN

Project or lab website: https://vcp.upf.edu/index.html
Areas of interest: Adaptation and Adaptationism, Agency and Autonomy, Formal models of agency and cooperation, Mechanism, Vitalism and Organicism
Katrin Hammerschmidt
Institution:

Evolutionary Microbiology, Kiel University

 

Areas of interest: Adaptation and Adaptationism, Agency and Autonomy, Causation in Development and Evolution, Directionality in Development and Evolution, Ecology and Earth System Science, Education / Outreach, Genomics, History of Life and the Fossil Record, Mechanism, Vitalism and Organicism, Transitions in Agency/Individuality
Jacob Hart
Institution:

Recent MA Philosophy graduate from King’s College London. BA Philosophy, University of Reading. Currently developing research at the intersection of philosophy of biology, evolutionary theory, non-equilibrium thermodynamics and ecology. Background also in psychology and philosophy of mind with plans to combine my research into a coherent explanation of life and its moral relevance.

Areas of interest: Adaptation and Adaptationism, Agency and Autonomy, Causation in Development and Evolution, Directionality in Development and Evolution, Ecology and Earth System Science, Function and Teleology, Mechanism, Vitalism and Organicism, Methods, Transitions in Agency/Individuality
abid khan
Institution:

idlewild digital

Areas of interest: Adaptation and Adaptationism, Classification / Taxonomy, Education / Outreach, Function and Teleology
Giuseppe Longo
Project or lab website: https://www.di.ens.fr/~longo/
Areas of interest: Adaptation and Adaptationism, Causation in Development and Evolution, Mechanism, Vitalism and Organicism, Methods
Alan Love
Institution:

University of Minnesota

Areas of interest: Adaptation and Adaptationism, Causation in Development and Evolution, Directionality in Development and Evolution, Function and Teleology, Genomics, History of Life and the Fossil Record, Mechanism, Vitalism and Organicism
Pamela Lyon
Institution:

Adelaide University

Areas of interest: Adaptation and Adaptationism, Agency and Autonomy, Directionality in Development and Evolution, Function and Teleology, Genomics, Mechanism, Vitalism and Organicism, Transitions in Agency/Individuality
Joanna Masel
Institution:

University of Arizona

Project or lab website: https://www.masellab.org/
Areas of interest: Adaptation and Adaptationism, Directionality in Development and Evolution, Function and Teleology, Genomics, History of Life and the Fossil Record

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