NBI TBP

Theoretical Biologists, Philosophers of Biology, Historians of Biology and scholars of Social Studies of Biology

This page provides information about internet resources (persons, institutes, groups and journals) on research into the nature of the biological sciences, their theoretical foundations, general theoretical biology, and related areas of research. Please help to make this site as useful as possible!

Persons Organizations Research groups and institutes

Journals Other resources

Persons

The list is not meant to be complete or to indicate that a web page is a criterion of existence, it is simply meant as a useful information tool within this area. You are welcome to suggest additions to this list.

The categories given for each person are tentative, just to give an idea about main focus of research interests in: Theoretical Biology (T); Philosophy of Biology (P), History of Biology (H), or Social Studies of Biology (S). In most cases there will be considerable overlaps between fields of study so please do not take them too seriously! The sign [&] indicate additional sites.

Research groups and institutes

• The Estonian school in theoretical biology and the Theoretical Biology Group in Tartu.
• PSBio, Philosophical Foundations for Systems Biology, a Nordic research project in philosophy of science.
• The Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group (T-10) at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
• The Simons Center for Systems Biology at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
• Theoretical Biology / Bioinformatics Group at the University of Utrecht
• Philosophy of Biology Research Unit at the Center for Critical Philosophy, University of Ghent, Belgium
• Dept. of Theoretical Biology at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
• Center for Philosophy of Biology at Duke University
• SEE - Semiosis, Evolution, Energy: a research project exploring transformation of energy within evolutionary semiotic or codal organization and related themes.
• Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at COGS (at the University of Sussex at Brighton).
• Der Arbeitsgruppe Methodischer Kulturalismus (Publikationen zur Philosophie der Biologie) (Marburg)
• Innovationskolleg Theoretische Biologie at the Humboldt University, Berlin.
• Konrad Lorenz Institut für Evolutions- und Kognitionsforschung in Altenberg near Vienna.
• The Dept. of Theoretical Biology at the University of Vienna.
• The San Sebastian group of philosophy of biology and theoretical biology, and new related group of Information and Autonomous Systems research.
• The EvAlife project (Complex Systems and the mutual influence between Information Technology and Life Sciences, University of Aarhus).
• The European Systems Biology, and their Philosophy of S.B. meting.
• Leroy Hood's Institute for Systems Biology (bioinformatics and biotechnology)
• The Research Group Philosophy of the Life Sciences and The Dept. of Theoretical Biology at Leiden University.
• The "Theoretische Biologie" group at the "Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik" (at the Ernst-Haeckel-Haus), University of Jena

Organizations

• ISHPSSB, The International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (or briefly, "Ishkabibble").
• ESMTB, The European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology.
• SMB, The Society for Mathematical Biology.
• WESS, The Washington Evolutionary Systems Society
• The Italian Coordinamento Nazionale di Biologia Teorica (CNBT).

Journals

• listed on a separate page, click here.

Other resources

• KLI Theory Lab - A good database in bioscience, biophilosophy and much more
• History and Philosophy of Biology Resources, assembled by Roberta L. Millstein.
• BioScience links.
• IFOMIS - The Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (at Saarland University in Saarbrücken).
• BioCrawler.com, a bioscience search engine
• Neuroscience History Archives
• The writings of Charles Darwin on the web
• Biographies of Biologists
• Some Biogeographers, Evolutionists and Ecologists: Chrono-Biographical Sketches
  • The Mendel Newsletter and Archival resources for the history of genetics.
  • Learn biology on-line, particularly aiming at high school students and their studies.
  • Weblogs: Philosophy of Biology; Sarkar Lab; ...

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