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campbellrider.bsky.social

@campbellrider.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Sydney. Working on philosophy of biology and philosophy of nature, Schelling, organisms, self-organisation

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campbellrider.bsky.social @campbellrider.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Excited to share some details about the upcoming conference “The Natural and the Beautiful” organised by @dalianassar.bsky.social and myself. Submit your abstracts at the link. A great list of speakers already—looking forward to meeting and discussing history of philosophy this November!
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campbellrider.bsky.social @campbellrider.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A few days left to submit abstracts to this workshop for early career researchers! Open to anyone working on marginalised figures in the history of philosophy; join us in November to discuss what it means to ‘close read’ texts by thinkers who sit outside the ‘canon’
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campbellrider.bsky.social @campbellrider.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
My review of Guglielmo Militello's excellent new book on biological individuality is now online in Metascience. "Functional Integration" concretely applies the organisational framework to the evolution of eukaryotic cellularity, agency and autonomy. @gugli-militello.bsky.social #philsci #philbio
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Biological individuality and autonomy: is eukaryote evolution a problem of functional integration?
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Dalia Nassar @dalianassar.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Tuesday June 24: paysgermaniques.fr/atelier-ecologie-philosophie-du-langage-et-naturphilosophie/
paysgermaniques.fr
Atelier Écologie, Philosophie du Langage et Naturphilosophie - Pays Germaniques
Cet atelier qui s’inscrit dans un cycle consacré à l’écologie allemande en 2024 et 2025, se propose d’examiner les liens féconds et multiples entre écologie, philosophie du langage et Naturphilosophie...
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campbellrider.bsky.social @campbellrider.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
In this short article for The Conversation, I look at recent claims of alien life on K2-18b, and suggest that they should be contextualised by astrobiology's long history of inconclusive results. The field’s problems might be both scientific and philosophical. #philbio @usyd-humanities.bsky.social
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Scientists claim to have found evidence of alien life. But ‘biosignatures’ might hide more than they reveal
Looking at the history of ‘biosignature’ discoveries shows why they can be problematic.
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