Conference on Foundations of Developmental Biology, Sante FeNM, October 1989

这次会议将汇集20位生物学哲学家， 发展生物学家进化生物学家 理论生物学家研究了一些哲学和 在发育生物学中出现的概念问题及其 对进化的影响。 这三个重点领域将涉及： 1)理论在发育生物学中的地位; 2）自我- 组织和选择作为平衡和协作 发展和演变的过程;以及3） 进化论的发展理论。 其中一些问题 不是新的，其他的从来没有解决过。 特别是， 自我组织和选择的相互交织的作用 构成了物理学中从未遇到过的一个巨大的新问题领域， 在生物学中也没有很好的公式化。即将到来的团队 包括哲学各个领域的专业知识 和生物学的关系。 目的是 制定明确的研究计划，以推进每个 三个领域。 会议的结果将 希望能发表在生物学季刊上， 也可能会出版在一个单一的卷从圣诞老人 菲研究所。

This conference will bring together 20 philosophers of biology, developmental biologists, evolutionary biologists, and theoretical biologists to examine a number of philosophical and conceptual issues which arise in developmental biology and its implications for evolution. The three focal areas will concern: 1) the place of theory in developmental biology; 2) self- organization and selection as balancing and collaborative processes in development and evolution; and 3) implications of a proper theory of development for evolution. Some of these issues are not new, others have never been addressed. In particular, the intertwined roles of self-organization and selection constitute a large new problem area never confronted in physics, nor yet well formulated in biology. The group which will come together includes expertise in a variety of areas of philosophy and biology which bear on the issues raided. The aim is to produce a clear statement of research programs to advance in each of the three domains. The results of the conference will hopefully be published in the Quarterly Review of Biology, and also will likely be published in a single volume from the Santa Fe Institute.