What is the importance of academic collaboration across disciplines and lines of difference? How might the academic vocation be served - and better serve the common good - by the restoration of literal and figurative “common tables”? Join Prof. Alan Love and the Octet Collaborative for an evening of stimulating conversation and intellectual hospitality around a table of our own!

Alan C. Love, Ph.D., is a professor in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. He also serves as director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. Love’s research focuses on conceptual issues in biology and has concentrated on evolutionary developmental biology (Evo-devo), developmental biology, molecular biology, and paleontology (among others).  Love uses a combination of approaches to investigate a variety of philosophical questions concerning conceptual change, explanatory pluralism, knowledge structure, reductionism, the nature of historical science, and interdisciplinary epistemology. Other areas of interest include the role of history in philosophical research and the nature of intuitions generated by thought experiments in philosophical inquiry.

This event is by invitation only. If you’re interested in attending, please email comm@octetcollaborative.org