• Keynote address: William Bechtel (UCSD): Discovering mechanisms in cell biology

Idealization:

• Paul Griffiths (Queensland): Against 'normality' and 'proper function'
• Mark Colyvan (Sydney): The use of mathematics to describe biological systems
• Rasmus Winther (UNAM): What is a "part"? On idealised structures, processes, mechanisms and functions in biology (not recorded)

Mechanism:

• Keynote address: Marcel Webber (Basel): The coming of age of the mechanical philosophy?
• Discussants on mechanism: James Tabery (Pittsburg) and William Bechtel (UCSD)
• Discussion

Reduction:

• Keynote address: Alexander Rosenberg (Duke): Darwinian Reductionism
• Karola Stotz (Indiana): From genetics to postgenomics: a case for antireductionism (not recorded)
• Stephen Downes (Utah): Reductionism in human biology - when, why, and how much (not recorded)
• Ingo Brigandt (Alberta): Non-reductionism - explanation and methodology in developmental
  biology (not recorded)
  
  

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