The Social Lives of Microbes

Speakers

Professor Kevin Foster

Dr Sara Mitri

Professor Maureen O’Malley

Chair

Dr Jonathan Birch

What are microbial societies? In what ways do they resemble human societies and in what ways do they differ? Can the same ideas that explain cooperation in larger animals also explain cooperation in microbes? And what can we learn from microbes about what it is to be human? In this panel discussion, philosopher Maureen O’Malley and microbiologists Kevin Foster and Sara Mitri discuss the social lives of microbes.

Kevin Foster is Professor of Evolutionary Biology, University of Oxford.

Sara Mitri (@saramitri) is Senior Researcher in Microbiology, University of Lausanne.

Maureen O’Malley is Research Professor of Philosophy, University of Bordeaux.

Jonathan Birch is Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method (LSE) and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow.

The Forum for European Philosophy (@ForumPhilosophy) is an educational charity that organises a full and varied programme of philosophy and interdisciplinary events in the UK.

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