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
C. Kenneth Waters
Institution:
Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary
Consortium project title: Using material models to investigate agency, innovation, and directionality in evolution
Project or lab website: http://www.ckennethwaters.com
Richard Watson
Institution:
University of Southampton
Project or lab website: https://www.richardawatson.com/
Areas of interest: Adaptation and Adaptationism, Agency and Autonomy, Causation in Development and Evolution, Education / Outreach, Mechanism, Vitalism and Organicism, Transitions in Agency/Individuality
Tom Williams
Institution:
University of Bristol
Consortium project title: Direction, agency and function in the evolution of symbiotic integration
Project or lab website: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Tom-Williams-09520f33-b160-4776-a3fc-e375215ae687/
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
Haguy Wolfenson
Institution:
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Consortium project title: Cellular decision-making mediated by active sensing of the extra-cellular world
Project or lab website: https://wolfenson.net.technion.ac.il/
Areas of interest: Agency and Autonomy, Function and Teleology, Mechanism, Vitalism and Organicism, Medicine, Methods, Transitions in Agency/Individuality
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