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Edges and Boundaries of Biological Objects Workshop

Delimiting biological objects cannot be determined by empirical facts alone; which facts are salient depend on theoretical and conceptual context.  This workshop brought together philosophers and biologists working on these conceptual issues, with discussion focused on particular cases drawn from a wide range of the biological hierarchy. 

By highlighting conceptual problems that are common across different fields of biology and philosophy, researchers were encouraged to apply approaches and conceptual frameworks common in one field to analogous problems in other fields. 

The Workshop was a great success, and a lot of fun.  We are currently in the process of publishing the proceedings in a special issue of Biological Theory, hopefully coming out in summer 2009.

Other Stuff About Me

I'm a big baseball fan.  Especially of the Detroit Tigers.  I also like the Oakland A's, whose games I used to watch after work when I was a lab tech about a mile away in Alameda, and again when I was a grad student at UC Davis.  The two best Oakland games I attended include one in which Barry Zito took a no-hitter into the eighth, and a post-season extra inning victory over the Red Sox on a Ramon Hernandez squeeze play.  By far the worst game attended was an interminably long playoff game against the Yankees pitting Orlando Hernandez against Cory Lidle, best remembered for Jermaine Dye breaking his leg by fouling a ball of his shin - shown over, and over, and over on the jumbotron.  The A's lost the game, and to top it off my scalp got sunburned.

Now that the season's started, you can follow the games here.