Prof. Werner Callebaut

Scientific Director of the KLI for Evolution and Cognition Research

Phone:  +43 2242 32390
Fax:      +43 2242 32390 4

 

werner.callebaut@kli.ac.at
 

Visiting Research Professor of Philosophy of Science, Department of Theoretical Biology, University of Vienna

Research Interests

Theoretical Biology

The interaction of evolution and development

Philosophy of biology as theoretical biology

Reduction and emergence

Evolution

Evolutionary Epistemology

Limits of adaptation

Evolutionarty approaches to culture

Philosophy

Naturalistic approaches

Economics

Bounded rationality

Methodology of economics


Projects

The modularity of complex natural systems

The KLI Theory Lab

Integrating genetic and evolutionary epistemologies

Naturalistic tendencies in the philosophies of the Vienna Circle

The relevance of Bertalanffy´s General Systems Theory for contemporary Theoretical Biology

The complementarity of Anglo-American and German-Austrian evolutionary epistemologies

The social and cultural framing of the new brain sciences


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