KLI Colloquia are informal, public talks that are followed by extensive dissussions. Speakers are KLI fellows or visiting researchers who are interested in presenting their work to an interdisciplinary audience and discussing it in a wider research context. We offer three types of talks:
1. Current Research Talks. KLI fellows or visiting researchers present and discuss their most recent research with the KLI fellows and the Vienna scientific community.
2. Future Research Talks. Visiting researchers present and discuss future projects and ideas togehter with the KLI fellows and the Vienna scientific community.
3. Professional Developmental Talks. Experts about research grants and applications at the Austrian and European levels present career opportunities and strategies to late-PhD and post-doctoral researchers.
- The presentation language is English.
- If you are interested in presenting your current or future work at the KLI, please contact the Scientific Director or the Executive Manager.
Event Details
Scientific Pluralism has become a popular position in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of biology in particular. In recent years, debates centering around the extended evolutionary synthesis have also received a pluralist interpretation. While pluralism seems appealing to many philosophers of science, it also has a significant impact on the conduct of research, and thus concerns scientists. However, the question whether scientific pluralism is resonant with researchers’ aims and goals remains unanswered. I therefore attempt a first case study, that combines philosophical and sociological methods in order to “test” scientific pluralism in the sciences. The subject of my case study are alternative trajectories of inheritance, and there bearing on theoretical pluralism in the extended evolutionary synthesis. Through this case-study I aim at contributing a first interdisciplinary approach towards scientific pluralism.
