This directory lists people and organizations involved in a variety of areas of research of interest to the consortium.
Eran Bouchbinder
Institution:
Weizmann Institute of Science
Consortium project title: Cellular decision-making mediated by active sensing of the extra-cellular world
Project or lab website: https://www.weizmann.ac.il/chembiophys/bouchbinder/
Areas of interest: Agency and Autonomy, Directionality in Development and Evolution, Formal models of agency and cooperation, Function and Teleology, Mechanism, Vitalism and Organicism, Medicine, Physiology, Transitions in Agency/Individuality
Pierrick Bourrat
Institution:
Macquarie University
Consortium project title: Cognition all the way up?
Project or lab website: https://pierrickbourrat.com/
Areas of interest: Adaptation and Adaptationism, Causation in Development and Evolution, Function and Teleology, Transitions in Agency/Individuality
Jonathan Bowen
Institution:
Western University
The Rotman Institute of Philosophy
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, Formal models of agency and cooperation, Function and Teleology, Mechanism, Vitalism and Organicism, Methods
Richard Boyle
Institution:
University of Exeter
Consortium project title: Does Earth’s habitability for life exist due to or in spite of Darwinian evolution by natural selection?
Carol Bromer
Institution:
Independent Consultant and team member of Sociology of the Purpose Project (University California, Davis) studying both Agency, Directionality, and Function: Foundations for a Science of Purpose (ADF) and the Consortium for the Advancing a Science of Purpose (CASP).
Project or lab website: https://griesemer.net/sopp-sociology-of-the-purpose-project/
Alex Bye
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/pharmacy/staff/dr-alex-bye
Erica Cartmill
Institution:
Department of Anthropology
Indiana University-Bloomington
Project or lab website: https://anthropology.indiana.edu/about/faculty/cartmill-erica.html
Areas of interest: Adaptation and Adaptationism, History of Life and the Fossil Record, Methods, Transitions in Agency/Individuality
Francois Cinotti
Areas of interest: Adaptation and Adaptationism, Agency and Autonomy, Causation in Development and Evolution, Classification / Taxonomy, Directionality in Development and Evolution, Formal models of agency and cooperation, Function and Teleology, Mechanism, Vitalism and Organicism, Physiology, Transitions in Agency/Individuality
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