ERC IDEM Events

An interdisciplinary approach

The ERC IDEM project wants to promote the exchange between philosophers and scientists. This is why during the duration of the ERC (2015-2020) we will organize sevreal interdisciplinary events, notably four workshops, one summer school and one final conference.

Modern day science is becoming more and more specialized, which leads to institutional boundaries between the different fields. Philosophers of science can help to overcome these boundaries by investigating the similarities and differences between the way some concepts (for example “symbiosis”) are used in the various fields, and by making connections between approaches or models that seem a priori different. The aim is to integrate the different perspectives into a unified picture.

Workshops

1st Workshop

The Dialectical Biologist Workshop
June 14-16, 2016

2nd Workshop

Interdisciplinary Workshop on Holobionts
November 6-8, 2017

3rd Workshop

The Microbiota and Immunological Recognition
Presumably April, 2020

4th Workshop

Microbiota and Development Workshop
May 5th, 2020

Summer Schools

Summer School I

Microbiota, Symbiosis and Individuality
July 1-5, 2019

Summer School II

Philosophy in Biology and Medicine
May 25-29, 2019

Final Conference

Final Conference

The ERC IDEM project
May 6-7, 2020