BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID://PSA//200935 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T181346 VTIMEZONE:America/New_York DTSTART:20210115T050000Z DTEND:20210115T050000Z UID:200935 SUMMARY:Call for Abstracts: Philosophy of Plant Biology Workshop LOCATION: DESCRIPTION:Call for Abstracts: Philosophy of Plant Biology Workshop\n\n01/15/21 07:00 PM EST\n - 01/15/21 07:00 PM EST\Details:\nPhilosophy of Plant Biology Workshop\nEgenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, University of Exeter, 5-7 May 2021\nOrganisers: Özlem Yilmaz and John Dupré\n\nPlants are very interesting organisms. They implement unique internal processes and modes of interaction with their environments. Needless to say, as the primary harvesters of solar energy they are vital parts of ecosystems. Serious attention to plants provides novel and interesting perspectives on many topics in philosophy of biology, including individuality, organisation, cognition, and disease. For example, the growth of plants requires us to stretch the concept of organism. If vegetative spread, for example via suckers from roots, is counted as mere growth, a forest can be considered a single organism, as is the case with ‘Pando’, a Populus tremuloides forest in Utah. And although there seems to be no centre of the coordination in a plant body as in animals, there is usually a highly-tuned coordination of the body parts that has led some theorists to attribute cognitive capacities to plants. Plant scientists use diverse methodologies and approaches, some of which are uniquely applicable to these organisms.\n\nA workshop to consider philosophical issues arising in plant science will be held at Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, University of Exeter on May 5-7, 2021.  We hope to hold the meeting in person, but it will also be accessible through Zoom. If the state of the Covid-19 pandemic requires this, the workshop will be held fully online. This workshop is a part of the Plant Phenome Project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie grant agreement No:833353. \n\nWe welcome abstracts from philosophers, historians and biologists. Although we are interested in the full range of topics pertaining to plant sciences, we have a particular interest in topics that bear on plant phenomes. Please send a word file abstract with no more than 600 words to o.yilmaz2@exeter.ac.uk before 15 January 2021. Please include four keywords, name of the author(s), affiliation(s) and email address.\n\nTopics of the talk can be any subject on the philosophy of plant biology, including: Plant individuality; History of plant biology; Data management in plant sciences; Plant biotic and abiotic stress; Plant relations with microorganisms; Plant cognition; Plant nutrition; Plant physiology; Plant evolution; Plant ecology; Plant-soil interactions.\n  X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Call for Abstracts: Philosophy of Plant Biology Workshop

01/15/21 07:00 PM EST - 01/15/21 07:00 PM EST
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Philosophy of Plant Biology Workshop
Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, University of Exeter, 5-7 May 2021
Organisers: Özlem Yilmaz and John Dupré

Plants are very interesting organisms. They implement unique internal processes and modes of interaction with their environments. Needless to say, as the primary harvesters of solar energy they are vital parts of ecosystems. Serious attention to plants provides novel and interesting perspectives on many topics in philosophy of biology, including individuality, organisation, cognition, and disease. For example, the growth of plants requires us to stretch the concept of organism. If vegetative spread, for example via suckers from roots, is counted as mere growth, a forest can be considered a single organism, as is the case with ‘Pando’, a Populus tremuloides forest in Utah. And although there seems to be no centre of the coordination in a plant body as in animals, there is usually a highly-tuned coordination of the body parts that has led some theorists to attribute cognitive capacities to plants. Plant scientists use diverse methodologies and approaches, some of which are uniquely applicable to these organisms.

A workshop to consider philosophical issues arising in plant science will be held at Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, University of Exeter on May 5-7, 2021.  We hope to hold the meeting in person, but it will also be accessible through Zoom. If the state of the Covid-19 pandemic requires this, the workshop will be held fully online. This workshop is a part of the Plant Phenome Project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie grant agreement No:833353. 

We welcome abstracts from philosophers, historians and biologists. Although we are interested in the full range of topics pertaining to plant sciences, we have a particular interest in topics that bear on plant phenomes. Please send a word file abstract with no more than 600 words to o.yilmaz2@exeter.ac.uk before 15 January 2021. Please include four keywords, name of the author(s), affiliation(s) and email address.

Topics of the talk can be any subject on the philosophy of plant biology, including: Plant individuality; History of plant biology; Data management in plant sciences; Plant biotic and abiotic stress; Plant relations with microorganisms; Plant cognition; Plant nutrition; Plant physiology; Plant evolution; Plant ecology; Plant-soil interactions.
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