Lecture

17 Nov 2018 · 9.30 am

Georg Toepfer: Holistic Causality, Reciprocal Determination and System Properties, or How Organisms Were Described as Wholes at the End of the Long Nineteenth Century

Venue: Columbia University in the City of New York, Deutsches Haus, 420 West 116th Street, New York, 10027 (USA)

Research project(s): The Shifting Borders of Biology

Lecture at the interdisciplinary conference System and Fragment: Epistemic Collisions in the Long 19th Century and in its Current Reinterpretations (15–17 Nov 2018) at the Columbia University, New York

Georg Toepfer is a Biologist/philosopher, head of the research area Knowledge of Life and of the projects Life Lessons and the Art of Life. Translating Life into Philosophy and the Arts and The Shifting Borders of Biology.