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Oradores Peter Taylor
is Associate Professor, and member of the Critical and Creative
Thinking (CCT) Program at the University of Massachusetts. He is also
the Director of the Program on Science, Technology & Values.
He develops research on ecology and environmental studies and social
studies of science and technology. In those fields he focuses on the
complexity of, respectively, ecological or environmental situations and
the social situations in which the environmental research is
undertaken. He seeeks to promote a vision of critical science and
environmental education that extends from improving the teaching of
scientific concepts and methods to involving citizens in
community-based research. Recently, he has begun to take these
interests in a new direction through historical and sociological
analysis of social epidemiological approaches that address the
intersections of environment, health, and development. Books Unruly Complexity: Ecology, Interpretation, Engagement (2005). Changing Life: Genomes, Ecologies, Bodies, Commodities (1997) editor with S. Halfon and P. Edward Scott Gilbert
is Professor of Biology at Swarthmore College, Philadelphia (EUA),
where he teaches developmental genetics, embryology, and the history
and critiques of biology. He has been Chair of the Division of
Developmental and Cell Biology of the Society for Integrative and
Comparative Biology, and he is a member of the education committee of
the Society for Developmental Biology. His research is focused in
evolutionary developmental genetics. He has recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation to work on how the turtle forms its shell, and he continues to do research and write in both developmental biology and in the history and philosophy of biology. Books Developmental Biology (2006, 8th edition). Bioethics and the New Embryology:Springboards for debate (2005). A conceptual History of Modern Embryology (1991), editor. Embryology: Constructing the Organism (1997) co-editor with Anne M. Raunio. Guido van Steendam is Associate Professor of the Institute of Philosophy Centre for Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium where he teaches philosophy of healthcare sciences and ethics of science. He is director of the International Forum for biophilosophy. His research focuses on the link between the internal dynamics of science and the social context, with particular attention to the ethical aspects of science and to how ethical values are embedded in scientific concepts, tools and practices. This research addresses traditional fields like genetics and biotechnology as well as newer fields like brain research and nanotechnologies. He is involved in several European projects and is the author of the Directory and Compendium on Biomedical Ethics in Europe (EC, 1993). Lenny Moss
is Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology and Philosophy
and a Senior Fellow at the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society,
University of Exeter, UK. His research focuses on the understanding of
the self-conception of what it is to be human and what it is
life. His research thus extends from what could be construed as
"technical" philosophy of biology to issues in contemporary continental
philosophy and critical social theory with on-going efforts at bringing
these together. He is the author of What Genes Can't Do (2003). Jane Calvert
She did her doctoral work at Sussex in Science and Technology Studies
on the idea of 'basic research'. Jane started as a research fellow at
Innogen, University of Edinburgh, in July 2007. Previously she was a
research fellow at Egenis, University of Exeter, and prior to that at
SPRU, University of Sussex. Jane's initial work at Egenis was on
genomics and intellectual property, focusing on the implications of
changing ideas about the nature of genes and genomes for the patent
system. Her current research is on the social dimensions and epistemic
aspirations of the emerging field of systems biology. More recently she
has become interested in systems biology's sister discipline: synthetic
biology. At Innogen she will also be working on 'translational
research', which relates to her longstanding interest in the meaning
and use of policy and scientific categories. |