KLI Colloquia are invited research talks of about an hour followed by 30 min discussion. The talks are held in English, open to the public, and offered in hybrid format.
Fall-Winter 2025-2026 KLI Colloquium Series
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Meeting ID: 588 186 1923
25 Sept 2025 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
A Dynamic Canvas Model of Butterfly and Moth Color Patterns
Richard Gawne (Nevada State Museum)
14 Oct 2025 (Tues) 3-4:30 PM CET
Vienna, the Laboratory of Modernity
Richard Cockett (The Economist)
23 Oct 2025 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
How Darwinian is Darwinian Enough? The Case of Evolution and the Origins of Life
Ludo Schoenmakers (KLI)
6 Nov (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
Common Knowledge Considered as Cause and Effect of Behavioral Modernity
Ronald Planer (University of Wollongong)
20 Nov (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
Rates of Evolution, Time Scaling, and the Decoupling of Micro- and Macroevolution
Thomas Hansen (University of Oslo)
4 Dec (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
Chance, Necessity, and the Evolution of Evolvability
Cristina Villegas (KLI)
8 Jan 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
Embodied Rationality: Normative and Evolutionary Foundations
Enrico Petracca (KLI)
15 Jan 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
On Experimental Models of Developmental Plasticity and Evolutionary Novelty
Patricia Beldade (Lisbon University)
29 Jan 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
Jan Baedke (Ruhr University Bochum)
Event Details
Biographical note:
Mauricio Suárez (BSc. Astrophysics, Edinburgh, 1991; MSc., PhD. Philosophy, LSE, 1997) has held positions at Oxford, St. Andrews, Northwestern and Bristol Universities and is at present Full Professor (catedrático) in Logic and Philosophy of Science at Complutense University of Madrid. He is a long term affiliate and research associate at the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), London School of Economics. He has also been an honorary research associate at the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London (2015-2018), a Visiting Scholar at the University of Sydney (2003), a visiting scholar at Harvard University (2007, 2009, 2011), and an invited professor at Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2018). In 2011-12 he was a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study (SAS, London University), and during 2013-15 he was a Marie Curie senior research fellow at SAS, working on a project on propensities and statistics. He is one of the founders of the European Philosophy of Science Association, organized its founding conference in Madrid in 2007, and served as its Vice-president in 2009-2011.
Suárez founded the research group Methods of Scientific Representation (MSR) at UCM in 2004 and has been its Director since. His main research interests lie in the philososophy of probability and causality, the history and philosophy of science (particularly physics), modeling and idealization, the aesthetics of scientific representation, and general epistemology and methodology of science, and he has published widely in all these areas.

