Tisztelettel hívunk minden érdeklődőt Samuel C. Fletcher (Oxfordi Egyetem) Quantum Biology című előadására, amely az Intézeti szeminárium sorozat keretében kerül megrendezésre.

Az előadás időpontja: 2026. április 14., kedd, 14:00
 
Helyszíne: HTK Filozófiai Kutatóintézet (1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán u. 4., 7. emelet), Trapéz terem (B.7.16)

Absztrakt:

What is quantum biology? It is often taken, in a word, as an interdisciplinary field of research that applies models and concepts from quantum mechanics to explain biological phenomena. But there is a subtlety in this simple description: though necessary, it is not sufficient in itself. After introducing some characteristic examples of quantum biological phenomena, including the ability of robins to navigate during migration, I show how extant accounts of quantum biology have not adequately characterized it—including ones that see it as a kind of quantum engineering by nature—and also why this characterization is important. I propose my own account, arguing not only that it remedies the deficiencies of other proposals, but also that it helps explain some of the history of quantum biology as a field of research and suggests a descriptive and normative research program in the philosophy of interdisciplinary science. The key to these is the failure of a kind of explanatory screening-off between levels of reality that may be of independent interest.

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