Rebecca C. Mann

Research

Publications

In Preparation

Mann, Rebecca C.,(Under Review) How an Agential Account of Biological Individuality Can Come Apart from Concepts of the Organism

Mann, Rebecca C., (Under Review) Splitting the Problem of Biological Individuality: A Spatial and Temporal Problem

Commentaries

Mann, Rebecca C., Lynch, Kate E., & Parke, Emily C. (2025). Where Is the Organism Concept? Agential Accounts Might Help. The American Journal of Bioethics, 25(9), 17–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2025.2529943

Talks

(** = Invited Talks)

Upcoming

** Title TBA, Symposium on Biological Individuality, Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo, Japan, 5-7 January 2026

Previous

Metabolic Wholes: The Organism as Having a Centred Metabolic Network

  • 2025 Biennial Meeting of the Australasian Association for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 3-5 December
  • 2025 Biennial Meeting of the International Society for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology, Porto, Portugal, 20-25 July 2025
  • ** IHPST Work in Progress Session, Université Paris 1, Paris, France, 8 July 2025
  • The 2nd Annual Meeting of Philosophy of Biology Australia and New Zealand, Bundanoon, NSW, Australia, 26-28 June 2024

How an Agential Account of Biological Individuality Comes Apart from Concepts of the Organism

  • ** Laplane Group Meeting, Gustave Rousey, CNRS, Paris, France, 11 July 2025
  • ** Evolving Individuality Workshop, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2-9 December 2024
  • The 29th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, New Orleans, LA, USA, 14-17 November 2024
  • ** Department of History and Philosophy of Science Departmental Meeting The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 27 March 2024
  • ** Philosophy of Biology at Dolphin Beach, Moruya, NSW, 13-15 October 2023

Splitting the Problem of Biological Individuality: A Spatial and Temporal Problem

  • The 3rd Annual Meeting of Philosophy of Biology Australia and New Zealand, Mittagong, NSW, Australia, 10-13 June 2025
  • Philosophy and Biology Shop Talks, Greensboro, NC, USA, 9-14 June 2024
  • 2023 Biennial Meeting of the Australian Association of History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 29 Nov – 1 Dec 2023