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The Tympanic Eclipse (www.tympaniceclipse.org)Sounding out theory Author: Britt Wray
The Tympanic Eclipse is an audio podcast that brings cultural theory out of its stuffy scholarly tomes, and puts it into your ears! Together with established thinkers and makers, it explores wide ranging issues were facing in the 21st century. Without using academic jargon or relying on journalistic sensationalism, The Tympanic Eclipse points out theorys relevance to everyday life. This project received the IdeasTap Innovators Award and is produced by Britt Wray (www.brittwray.com). Please find the real website for the podcast (not the PodOMatic site) at www.tympaniceclipse.org Language: en-ca Genres: Philosophy, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Making Life – exploring the philosophical implications of research that aims to create it from scratch
Wednesday, 23 January, 2013
How do different fields try to get at the nitty gritty of what living systems require in order to fit the definition of “alive”? How have researchers from the areas of artificial life and synthetic biology assumed certain ontologies of life, or, ways of being that life must adhere to, in their research programs? What is top down versus bottom up creation of life? What are protocells? What on earth are emergent properties? And how do these questions depend on if the world a closed or open-ended system? Tune into this episode to find out about some compelling musings on these questions. Dr. Mark Bedau a professor of Philosophy at Reed College in Portland Oregon as well as the editor of the Journal of Artificial Life. He is also the: Co-Founder of the European Center for Living Technology (ECLT) Partner in the EU-funded Programmable Artificial Cell Evolution (PACE) program Co-organizer of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Artificial Life XI) Visiting Professor, Ph.D. Program in Life Sciences: Foundations and Ethics, European School of Molecular Medicine Rebecca Wilbanks is a PhD candidate in the program on Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University. Originally trained as a biologist, she is now interested in the connections between science and literature, synthetic biology, origins of life research, evolutionary biology, systems theories, post-colonial studies, and 20th century literature.
