Theoretical biologist, associate professor, director of the Center for the Philosophy of Nature and Science Studies at the Faculty of Science (CPNSS), University of Copenhagen. I am a member of a philosophy of science group at the Department of Science Education (IND), organizer of a continuing seminar in science studies (SiV) at the Niels Bohr Institute, and part of the group blog University Politics - universities as a public good.

Danish Homepage here.

Address:
CPNSS, Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Email address (here). Phone: +45 35 32 53 47 Fax: +45 35 32 50 16. Web: http://www.nbi.dk/~emmeche/

The moving target of my research is indicated by these keywords: General philosophy of science, especially biology (I have done work on emergence and levels of organization in biosystems, and on the philosophy artificial life); Biosemiotics (a wildly growing field I desperately try to follow, see links below) as an alternative philosophy of nature; and Science Studies.
     Regarding science studies my focus has increasingly been the institutional framework of research: In recent years the Danish university system has changed radically towards a more entrepreneurial and managerial regime (like in many other countries), with consequences for academic freedom and the traditional ways of securing quality and independence of research. I am interested in the consequences of this shift, not only for academic freedom, but for the whole institutional setting of public, governmental and private research. (A spin-off project is the blog "University Politics - universities as a public good").
     As this is a huge subject, I have recently chosen "science studies of academic dismissals" as a sub-speciality, with Denmark as a case of a nation who had never known genuine tenure at the university, but where one now experiences a decrease of the little employment security there was.

• Philosophy of biology and general philosophy of science
  
  • ISHPSSB, The International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology.
  • People and research groups within theoretical biology and philosophy of biology.
  • The journal Biology and Philosophy.
  • See King's guide to philosophy on the Web. Here are the pages of The Philosophy of Science Association; The British Society for the Philosophy of Science; and Association for the Foundations of Science, Language and Cognition.

• Theoretical biology (morphogenesis and evolution, developmental systems, complex systems)
  
  • People and research groups within theoretical biology and philosophy of biology.
  • A virtual library maintained by the Society for Developmental Biology.
  • Bioinformatics and the Theory of Molecular Machines (by Tom Schneider et al.. On this site also stuff on Molecular Computation; Information theory in Molecular Biology, etc.).
  • IAS/Part City Mathematics Institure (PCMI - 2005), June 26 - July 16, 2005: Summer school on Mathematical Biology.
  • The European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology - ECMTB05 (Dresden University of Technology, Germany, July 18-22, 2005).
  • Google Directory's Theoretical Biology page.
  • Complex biosystems can be studied by nonlinear modeling techniques; see, e.g., the Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science edited by Alwyn Scott.
  • See the The San Sebastian group of philosophy of biology and theoretical biology, and the Animal Cognition Group, University of Vienna.
  • Or take a look at the work of Stuart A. Kauffman, Brian Goodwin, and Lynn Margulis.
  • Journals: Journal of Theoretical Biology, BioSystems, and others, see the list with links here.
  • Dansk Selskab for Teoretisk Biologi (home page for a Danish Society for Theoretical Biology).

• Artificial life
  
  • Info on some of the ECAL (European Conference on Artificial Life) meetings: the 3rd in 1995; the 5th in 1999; the 6th in 2001. And the international Artificial Life meetings: no. VI in 1998; no. VII in 2000; no. VIII in 2002; no. 9 in 2004; and no. X in 2006.
  • See a Philosophy of Artificial Life Bibliography. There is also a Virtual Alife Library with online papers. See also Ezequiel A Di Paolo's comprehensive On-line Publications Bibliography. Or take a look at the Selected List of AI, VR, and Alife links.
  • The International Society for Artificial Life has additional material. And there is MIT AI Lab with its "Living Machines"" group.
  • Visual Models of Morphogenesis by Przemyslaw Prysinkiewicz et al. Check also the home pages of , Craig W. Reynold (with his interesting boids and Henrik Hautop Lund.
  • The Group for Research on Artificial Cognition (GRACo) is an interdisciplinary group dedicated to the synthetic design of cognitive systems.
  • What is the very notion of something artificial? Massimo Negrotti has a theory about that.

• Biosemiotics
  • Gatherings in Biosemiotics, is an entry to the field, and archives of the first Gatherings.
  • See also the Jakob von Uexküll Centre in Tartu and Archive in Hamburg.
  • "I see bees!" (spelled "ICBS", International Community for Biosemiotic Studies) also called The International Society for Biosemiotics. See also the biosemiosis blog and Alexei Sharov's Biosemiotics home page.
  • Additional biosemiotic material is located at the web site of Jesper Hoffmeyer.
  • A special issue on biosemiotics (see the contents).
  • Understanding C. S. Peirce is mandatory in biosemiotics. Arisbe is a good Peirce-site, see also the Peirce Discussion Forum, the Digital Encyklopædia of Charles S. Peirce, and the Commens Dictionary of Peirce's terms.

• Philosophy of nature, ontology, metaphysics, theories of world pictures
  • Many possible links could be given, suggestions are welcome. Stephen C. Pepper (1891-1972) represents an attempt to do systematic study of "world hypotheses".
  • John McCrone's pages envisioning an organicist logic for complex systems.
  • An online journal, Cosmos and History.
  • A Process Philosophy page, organized by Johanna Seibt.
  • The Radical Constructivism web site.
  • In the evolution/creationism debate talkorigins is a major pro-evolution source; links to many (also pro-)creationism sites.
  • H-Nilas, for people interested in relationships between human beings and Nature through the mediation of stories, poems, legends, and pictures; totemic literature.
  • Pre-modern conceptions of life, death, and the cosmos are still with us; one place to look is shamanism, see this site for Shamanic Studies.

• Science Studies
  • See CPNSS's list of related links, the Danish science policy blog Forskningsfrihed?, and the international blog University Politics - universities as a public good.