This directory lists people and organizations involved in a variety of areas of research of interest to the consortium.
Walter Veit
Institution:
University of Reading
Consortium project title: Developing measures of purpose - platelets, calcium signaling, and model predictive control
Project or lab website: https://www.reading.ac.uk/philosophy/philosophy-staff-profiles/dr-walter-veit
Areas of interest: Adaptation and Adaptationism, Agency and Autonomy, Causation in Development and Evolution, Classification / Taxonomy, Directionality in Development and Evolution, Ecology and Earth System Science, Education / Outreach, Formal models of agency and cooperation, Function and Teleology, Genomics, History of Life and the Fossil Record, Mechanism, Vitalism and Organicism, Medicine, Methods, Physiology, Transitions in Agency/Individuality
Christopher Wiles
Institution:
University of Bristol
Areas of interest: Adaptation and Adaptationism, Directionality in Development and Evolution, Function and Teleology
Ed Wilson
Institution:
I'm an independent consultant but part of the Sociology of the Purpose Project (SoPP) based at UC Davis.
Project or lab website: https://edwilsonconsulting.net/
Areas of interest: Adaptation and Adaptationism, Agency and Autonomy, Directionality in Development and Evolution, Ecology and Earth System Science, Function and Teleology, History of Life and the Fossil Record
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