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Dr David Summers, Head of Genetics Department
Thursday 08 March 2007, 19:30-21:00
Biological Reductionism: Does it describe life or Life?
- 👤 Speaker: Dr David Summers, Head of Genetics Department
- 📅 Date & Time: Thursday 08 March 2007, 19:30 - 21:00
- 📍 Venue: Lloyd Room, Christ’s College
Abstract
The title ‘What is life?’ derives from a book written in 1944 by the physicist Erwin Schr¨odinger which controversially merges physics and biology in order to describe life processes. We want to ask both the sciences and humanities how the phenomenon of life, and human life in particular (but not exclusively) is transformed into understanding and representation in their disciplines. How is the gulf, in Kant’s sense, between actual life and rational understanding of life overcome, if at all? How can materialistic and subjective treatments of ‘life’ be reconciled? Finally, what are the consequences for the ethical human being of any changed conception of life?
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Series This talk is part of the Thinking Society: What is Life? series.
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