Niels Bohr Inst

Claus EmmecheTheoretical biologist, associate professor, head of the Center for the Philosophy of Nature and Science Studies at the Faculty of Science (CPNSS, hosted by the Niels Bohr Institute), University of Copenhagen.

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CPNSS, Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark

Email address (here). Phone: +45 35 32 53 47 Fax: +45 35 32 50 16. Web: http://www.nbi.dk/~emmeche/

Research interests (and a few related links):

• Philosophy of biology and general philosophy of science
  • ISHPSSB, The International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology.
  • People and research groups within theoretical biology and philosophy of biology.
  • The journal Biology and Philosophy.
  • See King's guide to philosophy on the Web. Here are the pages of The Philosophy of Science Association; The British Society for the Philosophy of Science; and Association for the Foundations of Science, Language and Cognition.
• Theoretical biology (morphogenesis and evolution, developmental systems, complex systems)
  • People and research groups within theoretical biology and philosophy of biology.
  • A virtual library maintained by the Society for Developmental Biology.
  • Bioinformatics and the Theory of Molecular Machines (by Tom Schneider et al.. On this site also stuff on Molecular Computation; Information theory in Molecular Biology, etc.).
  • IAS/Part City Mathematics Institure (PCMI - 2005), June 26 - July 16, 2005: Summer school on Mathematical Biology.
  • The European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology - ECMTB05 (Dresden University of Technology, Germany, July 18-22, 2005).
  • Google Directory's Theoretical Biology page.
  • Complex biosystems can be studied by nonlinear modeling techniques; see, e.g., the Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science edited by Alwyn Scott.
  • See the The San Sebastian group of philosophy of biology and theoretical biology, and the Animal Cognition Group, University of Vienna.
  • Or take a look at the work of Stuart A. Kauffman, Brian Goodwin, and Lynn Margulis.
  • Journals: Journal of Theoretical Biology, BioSystems, and others, see the list with links here.
  • Dansk Selskab for Teoretisk Biologi (home page for a Danish Society for Theoretical Biology).
• Artificial life
  • Info on some of the ECAL (European Conference on Artificial Life) meetings: the 3rd in 1995; the 5th in 1999; the 6th in 2001. And the international Artificial Life meetings: no. VI in 1998; no. VII in 2000; no. VIII in 2002; no. 9 in 2004; and no. X in 2006.
  • See a Philosophy of Artificial Life Bibliography. There is also a Virtual Alife Library with online papers. See also Ezequiel A Di Paolo's comprehensive On-line Publications Bibliography. Or take a look at the Selected List of AI, VR, and Alife links.
  • The International Society for Artificial Life has additional material. And there is MIT AI Lab with its "Living Machines"" group.
  • Visual Models of Morphogenesis by Przemyslaw Prysinkiewicz et al. Check also the home pages of , Craig W. Reynold (with his interesting boids and Henrik Hautop Lund.
  • The Group for Research on Artificial Cognition (GRACo) is an interdisciplinary group dedicated to the synthetic design of cognitive systems.
  • What is the very notion of something artificial? Massimo Negrotti has a theory about that.
• Biosemiotics
  • Gatherings in Biosemiotics, is an entry to the field, and call for papers to the 7th Gatherings in Groningen, summer 2007.
  • See also the Jakob von Uexküll Centre in Tartu and Archive in Hamburg.
  • "I see bees!" (spelled "ICBS", International Community for Biosemiotic Studies) also called The International Society for Biosemiotics. See alsothe biosemiosis blog and Alexei Sharov's Biosemiotics home page.
  • Additional biosemiotic material is located at the web site of Jesper Hoffmeyer.
  • A special issue on biosemiotics (see the contents).
  • Understanding C. S. Peirce is mandatory in biosemiotics. Arisbe is a good Peirce-site, see also the Peirce Discussion Forum, the Digital Encyklopædia of Charles S. Peirce, and the Commens Dictionary of Peirce's terms.
• Philosophy of nature, ontology, metaphysics, theories of world pictures
  • Many possible links could be given, suggestions are welcome. Stephen C. Pepper (1891-1972) represents an attempt to do systematic study of "world hypotheses".
  • John McCrone's pages envisioning an organicist logic for complex systems.
  • An online journal, Cosmos and History.
  • A Process Philosophy page, organized by Johanna Seibt.
  • The Radical Constructivism web site.
  • In the evolution/creationism debate talkorigins is a major pro-evolution source; links to many (also pro-)creationism sites.
  • H-Nilas, for people interested in relationships between human beings and Nature through the mediation of stories, poems, legends, and pictures; totemic literature.
  • Pre-modern conceptions of life, death, and the cosmos are still with us; one place to look is shamanism, see this site for Shamanic Studies.
• Science Studies
  • See CPNSS's list of related links, the Danish science policy blog Forskningsfrihed?, and the international blog University Politics - universities as a public good.

Publications: List of English publications. List of Danish publications.

See also our electronic newsletter HUGIN and MUNIN about activities within the history, sociology and philosophy of science in Denmark.

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