Dr Wahida Khandker (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) – Prehensive Unification and Symbiogenesis: From Whitehead to Margulis

Co-presented by Philosophy & the School of Life Sciences University of Dundee 17th December 2019, 3pm in the Sir Kenneth and Lady Noreen Murray Seminar Room, CTIR Alfred North Whitehead gives us some metaphysical insight into the organic interconnectedness of different levels of process, but how does his discussion of the opposition between a ‘blindly …

Dr Malin Ah-King (Stockholm University, Sweeden) – The ”Female Turn” in Evolutionary Biology – a science study of shifting canonical knowledge 1980-2000

Co-presented by Philosophy & the School of Life Sciences University of Dundee Wednesday 5 June 2019, 3pm in the Sir Kenneth and Lady Noreen Murray Seminar Room, CTIR How have views about females shifted in the international research community of evolutionary biologists? Females were long expected to be coy and to gain no benefit from …

Professor Brett Buchanan (Laurentian University, Canada) – Ethological Extinctions

Co-presented by Philosophy & the School of Life Sciences University of Dundee Wednesday 22 May 2019 3pm in the Sir Kenneth and Lady Noreen Murray Seminar Room, CTIR Day by day, month by month, we are losing species at rates not previously observed by humans, leading a near unanimous chorus of scientists to claim we …