We are delighted to invite you to the interdisciplinary workshop of @animalinvention.bsky.social on Agency between Biology and Philosophy. It will take place at UCL and online on 22-23 September. All info and registration details can be found here: www.animalinventiveness.com/post/interna...

The next session of our seminar is tomorrow! Christopher Joseph Gonzalez will talk about normative agency in nonhumans ! Info on how to join can be found here : www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar... We are looking forward to discussing this fascinating topic with you!

Seminar Agency between Biology and Philosophy 2025/2026

Here, you will find the 2025-2026 programme, and general information about our seminar. The introductory post can be found here.Next session10 June, 4.15 to 5.15 PM UK timeSession led by Christopher J...

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Hello everyone, The next session of our seminar on Agency between Biology and Philosophy will take place tomorrow 13th of May from 4 to 5 PM (UK time) on Zoom. This session on AI agency will be led by Leonard Dung. Feel free to join us :) www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar...

Seminar Agency between Biology and Philosophy 2025/2026

Here, you will find the 2025-2026 programme, and general information about our seminar. The introductory post can be found here.Next session13 May, 4 to 5 UK timeSession led by Leonard DungTitle: Dist...

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If you want to know more about Bergson, lucky you @emilyherring.bsky.social wrote an amazing book about him. But if you’re still hesitating whether you should put any time into reading about this French philosopher you barely the name of, you can read this short piece I wrote iep.utm.edu/bergson/

Le CNRS poursuit son projet d'agrandir son élevage de primates non humains. Le but est d'y élever au maximum 1 800 primates pour, à partir de 2032, en produire de 250 à 300 par an et les vendre aux laboratoires de recherche publics français à des fins d'expérimentations scientifiques.

« Les primates utilisés à des fins scientifiques sont généralement moins bien lotis que ceux des zoos ou des cirques »

TRIBUNE. Le projet du CNRS d’extension de l’élevage de primates à des fins d’expérimentation à Rousset, dans les Bouches-du-Rhône, va à l’encontre d’une trajectoire de réduction de l’utilisation de ce...

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Save the dates !!

Animal Inventiveness Research Project@animalinvention.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Some fresh news from us! Mathilde Tahar will share the preliminary results of our research: - at the ISAE regional conference 21 April (Nottingham) - at the Common Ground on Animal Ethics Workshop 30 April (London, LSE) www.animalinventiveness.com/post/excitin... We are looking forward to it ! 🐒 🐜

A year ago !!! « I am very happy to share this piece, exploring the link between inventiveness and play in our fellow nonhuman animals. It was written with care and a sincere desire to convey what science and philosophy can teach us about this fascinating topic. » aeon.co/essays/how-e...

Hello everyone ! Our Agency Between Biology and Philosophy seminar is coming back ! I am very happy (and honoured) to say that Denis Walsh will be leading this session, on Ecological Agency. => Zoom => 8 April from 4 to 5 PM, UK time => how to join? Here: www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar...

The next session of our transdisciplinary (biology-philosophy) seminar on Agency will take place this Wednesday on Zoom ! Hugh Desmond will talk about agency and cognitive capacities! More info on how to join us here: www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar...

Seminar Agency between Biology and Philosophy 2025/2026

Here, you will find the 2025-2026 programme, and general information about our seminar. The introductory post can be found here.ProgrammeThis year, we will meet each second Wednesday of each month, fr...

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The next session of our transdisciplinary (biology-philosophy) seminar on Agency will take place next Wednesday. Marek Špinka will talk about play in nonhuman animals, and I expect it to be super cool ! 😎 More info here : www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar...

Seminar Agency between Biology and Philosophy 2025/2026

Here, you will find the 2025-2026 programme, and general information about our seminar. The introductory post can be found here.ProgrammeThis year, we will meet each second Wednesday of each month, fr...

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À paraître cette année chez Vrin ! Le temps du vivant, discussion de Bergson à l’aune de l’histoire de la biologie et des découvertes contemporaines

Tomorrow is the first session of the 2026 edition of our online seminar on animal agency! This session will be led by Lisa Yon and will explore ways to promote agency in captive animals (especially elephants!). 🐘 Hoping to see many of you! www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar...

Seminar Agency between Biology and Philosophy 2025/2026

Here, you will find the 2025-2026 programme, and general information about our seminar. The introductory post can be found here.ProgrammeThis year, we will meet each second Wednesday of each month, fr...

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In 2024, my colleagues and I organized the @evothan symposium, bringing together experts in comparative thanatology from around the world. At the time, a French documentary team captured many of us in action: now available to watch here (w/ Eng subtitles): www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11... #animalgrief

Le chagrin des animaux : mythe ou réalité ? - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE

Que ressentent les animaux face à la mort de leurs congénères, et qu’en comprennent-ils ? À travers des exemples passionnants, une exploration d’un champ d’études en plein essor : la thanatologie anim...

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The next session of our online seminar is tomorrow !! Angie Pepper will be presenting, on the topic « A good life or their own life? Rethinking nonhuman animal interests in freedom ». Relevant information can be found here : www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar... You’re welcome to join!

Seminar Agency between Biology and Philosophy 2025/2026

Here, you will find the 2025-2026 programme, and general information about our seminar. The introductory post can be found here.ProgrammeThis year, we will meet each second Wednesday of each month, fr...

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Next session is tomorrow ! Come and join us to unveil the mystery of animal agency (or just try to make sense of the concept actually…)! Daria Zakharova will be presenting. www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar...

Seminar Agency between Biology and Philosophy 2025/2026

Here, you will find the 2025-2026 programme, and general information about our seminar. The introductory post can be found here.ProgrammeThis year, we will meet each second Wednesday of each month, fr...

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This is a book I am really looking forward to read 😍 : The Arrogant Ape by @christinewebb.bsky.social (spoiler alert: we are the said arrogant apes) Will report once done 📚🤓

As Bonfire Night approaches, new research lnkd.in/epBXK8Tu by @distrustful-dinos.bsky.social and me shows that fireworks significantly disturb urban corvids. OA: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/d... #BonfireNight #Wildlife #AnimalWelfare #Corvids 📸 Photo: @distrustful-dinos.bsky.social

Our seminar on animal agency, between biology and philosophy, is back ! Check out the programme for the next sessions here ! We meet on the second Wednesday of each month, on Zoom, from 4 to 5 PM (UK time). You’re very welcome to join ! :) www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar...

Seminar Agency between Biology and Philosophy 2025/2026

Here, you will find the 2025-2026 programme, and general information about our seminar. The introductory post can be found here.ProgrammeThis year, we will meet each second Wednesday of each month, fr...

animalinventiveness.com

Merci à Renan Strauss et @laviedesidees.bsky.social pour cette généreuse recension de mon livre ! Paru aux PUF et disponible dans beaucoup de librairies : www.puf.com/du-finalisme...

La Vie des idées@laviedesidees.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Peut-on confronter la philosophie bergsonienne aux problèmes de la biologie contemporaine de l'évolution ? Entre finalisme et mécanisme, M. Tahar montre la fécondité toujours actuelle de l'élan vital.

Peut-on confronter la philosophie bergsonienne aux problèmes de la biologie contemporaine de l'évolution ? Entre finalisme et mécanisme, M. Tahar montre la fécondité toujours actuelle de l'élan vital.

L'élan vital aujourd'hui

Peut-on confronter la philosophie bergsonienne aux problèmes de la biologie contemporaine de l'évolution ? Entre finalisme et mécanisme, M. Tahar montre la fécondité toujours actuelle de l'élan vital.

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"Comme l’histoire humaine, celle de la vie est imprévisible et n’offre que rétrospectivement l’illusion d’un enchaînement causal déterministe." À lire aujourd'hui sur @laviedesidees.bsky.social, la recension par Renan Strauss de 'Du finalisme en biologie' de @drmathildetahar.bsky.social ⤵️

La Vie des idées@laviedesidees.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Peut-on confronter la philosophie bergsonienne aux problèmes de la biologie contemporaine de l'évolution ? Entre finalisme et mécanisme, M. Tahar montre la fécondité toujours actuelle de l'élan vital.

« Avec son propos clair et bien documenté d’un point de vue scientifique, Mathilde Tahar a sans conteste réussi à dépoussiérer Bergson. Grâce à son travail, on comprend ce que la philosophie bergsonienne peut avoir de stimulant pour penser l’évolution aujourd’hui. » laviedesidees.fr/L-elan-vital...

L’élan vital aujourd’hui

À propos de : Mathilde Tahar, Du finalisme en biologie, Puf

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Il y a un an, je finissais mon livre… www.puf.com/du-finalisme...

I wrote about the slow death of the French public intellectual app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/138799...

I wonder, if we truly believe we are so much better than other species, why have we spent thousands of years driving home the point?

In a letter drawn from a posthumous collection of correspondence, published in 2019, the neurologist Oliver Sacks argued that society had no immunity to the seductions of digital life. “What we are seeing—and bringing on ourselves—resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale,” he wrote.

The Machine Stops

The neurologist Oliver Sacks on steam engines, smartphones, and fearing the future.

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Great paper on the degrees and levels of innovativeness, contributing to the ongoing debate on how to compare innovations & the ability to innovate !! (Nb. to be distinguished from the propensity to invent, which we are studying in chacma baboons @animalinvention.bsky.social ).

Multilevel innovativeness and cross-species comparisons - European Journal for Philosophy of Science

Behavioral innovativeness—the propensity of an individual organism or higher group to innovate—is frequently invoked as a measurable trait allowing for cross-species comparisons. Individuals or specie...

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The Ramsey Lab@theramseylab.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨What is behavioral innovativeness? And how can we make sense of claims that individuals or taxa are 'more innovative' than others? In their new EJPS paper, Grant Ramsey & @andrameneganzin.bsky.social defend a novel, multidimensional & multilevel account of innovativeness.👇 #philsci #HPbio #evobio

🔥New paper out!🔥 Here, Grant & I defend a novel, multidimensional account of behavioural innovativeness that is multilevel too. This complicates comparative claims, as the links btwn individual & group innovativeness are far from straightforward. Yes, #Neanderthals do pop up in the mix 💀🏺 #philsky

The Ramsey Lab@theramseylab.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨What is behavioral innovativeness? And how can we make sense of claims that individuals or taxa are 'more innovative' than others? In their new EJPS paper, Grant Ramsey & @andrameneganzin.bsky.social defend a novel, multidimensional & multilevel account of innovativeness.👇 #philsci #HPbio #evobio

"L'animal est omniprésent dans l'œuvre de Bergson, apparaissant comme un modèle nécessaire à la fois pour penser l’humanité, et pour la replacer dans le mouvement général de l’évolution." 🐁🦩🐘🐒 Penser l'animal avec Bergson, par @drmathildetahar.bsky.social ⤵️

La Vie des idées@laviedesidees.bsky.social · last yr.

Les découvertes de la biologie contemporaine donnent un contenu empirique à l'idée bergsonienne selon laquelle les animaux insèrent de l'indétermination dans le monde. Bergson apparaît dès lors comme le complément philosophique nécessaire aux avancées de l'éthologie et de la biologie de l'évolution.

Les découvertes de la biologie contemporaine donnent un contenu empirique à l'idée bergsonienne selon laquelle les animaux insèrent de l'indétermination dans le monde. Bergson apparaît dès lors comme le complément philosophique nécessaire aux avancées de l'éthologie et de la biologie de l'évolution.