Benjamin Smart
Conferences/Symposiums
18th November 2019: | Structure and Nature Workshop (Royal Holloway, University of London)Presented conference paper: The epistemic structure of subjectivity, organisation, and individuality for H.R. Maturana and F.J. Varela. |
12th September 2018: | 5th European Advanced School in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences (EASPLS) (Konrad Lorenz Institute)Presented a commentary: Commentary on Ruiz-Mirazo’s ‘Philosophical Problems About the Origins of Life’. |
6th September 2018: | UKKS: The Nature of Freedom and the Freedom of Nature (Cardiff University)Presented conference paper: Teleology and the Striving Character of Organisms: A preliminary comparison of Angela Breitenbach’s and Arthur Schopenhauer’s readings of Immanuel Kant. |
10th May 2018: | SPA PGR Conference (University of Exeter)Presented conference paper: Some points of ambiguity on the causation of evolutionary theory. |
6th June 2017: | ENCAPsulate PGR Student Conference (Cardiff University)Presented conference paper: Organisms and Individuals: The problem of biological individuals for philosophy and science. |
6th June 2016: | ENCAP PGR Student Conference (Cardiff University)Presented conference paper: Nietzsche and Boscovich: Atomism and Individuality. |
18th May 2016: | Literature’s Animals PGR Conference (University of Bristol)Presented conference paper: On the fallacy of anthropomorphism: Two refutations. |
19th February 2016: | Gregynog Student Conference (Jointly Cardiff and Lampter Universities)Presented conference paper: Difficulties with conceptualising the organism. |
Guest Lecture
21st October 2019: | Does your organism exist across time?Lectured on the topics of diachronic identity in biology and ontology: focusing on David Queller's and Joan Strassmann's (2016) conceptual device of 'Theseus Fish', whilst considereing the genidentity theories of Thomas Pradeu (2018) and the process ontology of John Dupré (2012; Nicholson & Dupré, 2018), against the substance ontologies of Jack Wilson (1999) and David Wiggins (2001). |