IAS Research
@ias-research.bsky.social
IAS Research is a group of the University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU), comprising philosophers and scientists, engaged in the investigation of the organisation of living systems.
Live from @kli.ac.at for #EASPLS2026, whose consortium we're part of 🌍 How is human impact reshaping the way organisms reproduce and evolve? Our senior researcher Arantza Etxeberria (UPV/EHU) argues that reproduction is a web of developmental, physiological & ecological relations. #PhilBio
Happening now at our #IASSeminar: Daniel S. Brooks (University of Wuppertal) on ‘Scale Ranges, the Variety of Matter’s Forms, and Levels of Organization as Local Maxima.’ #PhilosophyofBiology #PhilSci
🔔 Join us for the next IAS Seminar session! 📅 Friday, May 15th at 13:00h 📍 Room 5, Centro Carlos Santamaría Laura Mojica (University of the Basque Country) and Ezequiel Di Paolo (Ikerbasque / University of the Basque Country) will present: 🧠 Sensorimotor Incorporation: An Operational Definition
📣it’s today!📣 #Philosophy #PhilosophyofBiology @kli.ac.at
IAS Research@ias-research.bsky.social · 5mo ago📣 IAS Seminar — Friday, April 17 This Friday we’ll have David Cortés-García (Konrad Lorenz Institute) (@kli.ac.at) presenting “The ontology of biological reproduction in evolutionary biology: a philosophical analysis” 📺 The talk will be available on our YouTube channel.
📣 IAS Seminar — Friday, April 17 This Friday we’ll have David Cortés-García (Konrad Lorenz Institute) (@kli.ac.at) presenting “The ontology of biological reproduction in evolutionary biology: a philosophical analysis” 📺 The talk will be available on our YouTube channel.
📣 IAS Seminar — Friday, April 17 This Friday we’ll have David Cortés-García (Konrad Lorenz Institute) (@kli.ac.at) presenting “The ontology of biological reproduction in evolutionary biology: a philosophical analysis” 📺 The talk will be available on our YouTube channel.
👋🎓 PhD defense IAS Researcher Marta Pérez Verdugo successfully defended her PhD on March 20. Huge congratulations! 📝 “Personal Autonomy Through Technology: How Hyperdesigned Digital Environments Structure Human Behaviour.” We’re proud of her hard work, dedication, and valuable contributions. 👏
👋🎓 PhD defense IAS Researcher Marta Pérez Verdugo successfully defended her PhD on March 20. Huge congratulations! 📝 “Personal Autonomy Through Technology: How Hyperdesigned Digital Environments Structure Human Behaviour.” We’re proud of her hard work, dedication, and valuable contributions. 👏
📢🚨 Vincenzo Politi’s talk at the IAS Seminar is now available on our YouTube channel: #philosophy #philosophyofscience #politicalphilosophy #sciencegovernance youtube.com/watch?v=tKf3...
Vincenzo Politi - Science, society, and the normativity of science governance
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📢🚨 Vincenzo Politi’s talk at the IAS Seminar is now available on our YouTube channel: #philosophy #philosophyofscience #politicalphilosophy #sciencegovernance youtube.com/watch?v=tKf3...
Vincenzo Politi - Science, society, and the normativity of science governance
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📣 Next IAS Seminar | Fri, 27 Feb 2026, 13:00 This week we’ll have Vincenzo Politi (University of Seville) with us to talk about “Science, society, and the normativity of science governance”. 📍 Room 4, Centro Carlos Santamaría (San Sebastián) #ScienceGovernance #philosophyofscience
📣 Next IAS Seminar | Fri, 27 Feb 2026, 13:00 This week we’ll have Vincenzo Politi (University of Seville) with us to talk about “Science, society, and the normativity of science governance”. 📍 Room 4, Centro Carlos Santamaría (San Sebastián) #ScienceGovernance #philosophyofscience
🏵️ A warm welcome to our new Postdoctoral Fellow David Cortés García! www.kli.ac.at/en/people/cu... David is a philosopher of biology and will work on his project “Expanding Biological Reproduction: Towards an Organismal and Relational Framework” at the KLI.
📣 Next IAS Seminar | Fri, 20 Feb 2026, 🎙️ Marius Werz (IAS Research, UPV/EHU) will present his recent publication: “From function to freedom: enactivism between being and becoming” (Phenom Cogn Sci, 2026). doi.org/10.1007/s110... #IASSeminar #Enactivism
From function to freedom: enactivism between being and becoming - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences - Enactivism is undergoing a metaphysical shift. In pursuit of a more open-ended account of organismic becoming, several theorists have turned to the...
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🎉 New publication from IAS Research! Marius Werz’s article “From Function to Freedom: Enactivism between Being and Becoming” revisits enactivism’s metaphysical assumptions on normativity and transformation. Published in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
From function to freedom: enactivism between being and becoming - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences - Enactivism is undergoing a metaphysical shift. In pursuit of a more open-ended account of organismic becoming, several theorists have turned to the...
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New open-access publication!📢🚨 A. Etxeberria & A. Rodriguez-Muguruza reframe the significance of menstruation through evolutionary insights from an organismal–relational perspective. Now published in HPLS: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reframing the significance of menstruation: evolutionary insights from an organismal-relational perspective - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Cultural stigma and medical pathologization have long shaped scientific and social perceptions of menstruation, limiting both research and clinical attention. This paper outlines three major sources o...
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Happy to share my new paper w/ @cgershen.bsky.social, just published at @royalsocietypublishing.org Interface! Open Access🔓: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article... Instead of proposing a new theory, we offer a synthesis in theoretical biology. Want to know more? Read the full thread./1 👇🧵
Closing the loop: how semantic closure enables open-ended evolution?
Abstract. This study explores the evolutionary emergence of semantic closure—the self-referential mechanism through which symbols actively construct and in
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👋🎓 PhD defense IAS Researcher David Cortés García successfully defended his PhD on December 11. Huge congratulations! 📝 “Reproduction reconsidered: an organismal and relational approach.” We’re proud of his hard work, dedication, and valuable contributions. 👏
👋🎓 PhD defense IAS Researcher David Cortés García successfully defended his PhD on December 11. Huge congratulations! 📝 “Reproduction reconsidered: an organismal and relational approach.” We’re proud of his hard work, dedication, and valuable contributions. 👏
Join us in Donostia on 12 December 2025 for the one-day workshop “Topics in Philosophy of Biology: Reproduction, Agency & Evolution” — featuring talks by Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo, Mihaela Pavličev, Günter P. Wagner & Vanessa Triviño. Hosted by IAS Research 🌱
Join us in Donostia on 12 December 2025 for the one-day workshop “Topics in Philosophy of Biology: Reproduction, Agency & Evolution” — featuring talks by Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo, Mihaela Pavličev, Günter P. Wagner & Vanessa Triviño. Hosted by IAS Research 🌱
We’re excited to announce that the Outonomy book —resulting from one of IAS Research’s major projects— is now out! 🎉 It features contributions from many of our members and is Open Access, available in full or by chapters: 🔗 link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Congrats to everyone involved! 👏
Outonomy: Fleshing out the Concept of Autonomy Beyond the Individual
This open access book offers an innovative exploration of the concept of autonomy, extending beyond the traditional individualistic perspectives
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New publication by Leo Bich and Laura Menatti in Biological Theory! 🧬 The paper explores homeostasis and health, challenging the view of regulation as stabilization and proposing one focused on the capacity for change. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Homeostasis and Health: From Balance to Change - Biological Theory
All living systems need to regulate themselves and coordinate the activities of their parts to maintain themselves under changing conditions. Historically, homeostasis is one of the central ideas that...
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🚨🗣️ The talk given by Ivar R. Hannikainen at the IAS Seminar is now available to view on our YouTube channel. Please click on the link below to access the video 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐚𝐰 www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7va...
Ivar R. Hannikainen - Morality, coordination and law
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Next Friday at 13:00, we will have the pleasure of welcoming 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐬 𝐎. 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬-𝐆𝐮𝐳𝐦𝐚́𝐧 at IAS Seminar, who will be giving a talk entitled "Trust despite limit situations: Towards an enactive approach to resilience in mental health"
Next Friday at 13:00, we will have the pleasure of welcoming 𝐈𝐯𝐚𝐫 𝐑. 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐤𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐧 (University of Granada) at the IAS Seminar, who will be giving a talk entitled "Morality, coordination and law"
🚨🚨We are pleased to announce that the talk given by @ricardsole.bsky.social at the IAS Seminar is now available to view on our YouTube channel. Please click on the link below to access the video Ricard Solé - Fundamental constraints to the logic of living systems youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-y...
Ricard Solé - Fundamental constraints to the logic of living systems
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Next Friday at 13:00, we will have the pleasure of welcoming 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢́𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐬 (University of Salamanca) at the IAS Seminar, who will be giving a talk entitled "Experience: The Missing Thread Uniting Organismalism and Pragmatism"
We were absolutely delighted to welcome Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda to the IAS Seminar last Friday. We hope you'll enjoy his wonderful talk as much as we did, and you can now watch it on our YouTube channel.👇👀
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda@alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 2y agoLast Friday, I had a lot of fun presenting my joint work with @philosobio.bsky.social on basal cognition research at UPV/EHU. Thanks a lot to @ias-research.bsky.social for the invitation! The recording is available here: youtu.be/GTzaRhwilIM?... 📃👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #cogsky
Last Friday, I had a lot of fun presenting my joint work with @philosobio.bsky.social on basal cognition research at UPV/EHU. Thanks a lot to @ias-research.bsky.social for the invitation! The recording is available here: youtu.be/GTzaRhwilIM?... 📃👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #cogsky
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda - On the Prospects of Basal Cognition Research Becoming Fully Evolutionary
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