Greg Rupik
@gregoryrupik.bsky.social
History & philosophy of biology | Author- Remapping Biology with Goethe, Schelling, and Herder: Romanticizing Evolution (Routledge) | Chief of Staff and University Secretary, University of St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto | he/him | 🐋🌱🏳️🌈
Next in Dialectical Biology Today: @hylomorphic.bsky.social weaves together historical threads from Hegel, Engels, & others to illustrate how Lewontin's dialectical biology critiques an anti-revolutionary, conservative ideology at the heart of population genetics & evolutionary ecology 🌱🐋
October 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Next in Dialectical Biology Today: @hylomorphic.bsky.social weaves together historical threads from Hegel, Engels, & others to illustrate how Lewontin's dialectical biology critiques an anti-revolutionary, conservative ideology at the heart of population genetics & evolutionary ecology 🌱🐋
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther kicks off day 2 of Dialectical Biology Today, exploring Lewontin's avoidance of "synthesis," identifying the tension between anthropocentric ethics and deep ecology, and wondering how the Ocean might open up a new dialectic in a refreshed Naturphilosophie 🐋🌱
October 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther kicks off day 2 of Dialectical Biology Today, exploring Lewontin's avoidance of "synthesis," identifying the tension between anthropocentric ethics and deep ecology, and wondering how the Ocean might open up a new dialectic in a refreshed Naturphilosophie 🐋🌱
Amazing to have Elliott Sober delivering his keynote "Richard Lewontin - Biologist, Philosopher, and Marxist" at the Dialectical Biology Today Conference! 🌱🐋 @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Amazing to have Elliott Sober delivering his keynote "Richard Lewontin - Biologist, Philosopher, and Marxist" at the Dialectical Biology Today Conference! 🌱🐋 @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social
First up at Dialectical Biology Today: Sonia Sultan illustrates—with great experimental & naturalistic examples—the interpenetration of organisms and environments; identifies three major challenges that emerge for biologists from this datum; and gives us a good reason to eat our broccoli! 🥦 🐋🌱
October 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
First up at Dialectical Biology Today: Sonia Sultan illustrates—with great experimental & naturalistic examples—the interpenetration of organisms and environments; identifies three major challenges that emerge for biologists from this datum; and gives us a good reason to eat our broccoli! 🥦 🐋🌱
The "Dialectical Biology Today" Conference is...Today! Here's @jonothingeb.bsky.social welcoming participants to this gathering considering the legacies of Richard Lewontin. 🌱🐋 @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social
You can see the schedule & join on Zoom here! ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...
You can see the schedule & join on Zoom here! ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...
October 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The "Dialectical Biology Today" Conference is...Today! Here's @jonothingeb.bsky.social welcoming participants to this gathering considering the legacies of Richard Lewontin. 🌱🐋 @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social
You can see the schedule & join on Zoom here! ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...
You can see the schedule & join on Zoom here! ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther's *When Maps Become the World* profoundly inspired my philosophical approach in my book, especially his notions of countermapping, pernicious reification, and contextual objectivity. I'm so grateful for his enthusiastic support of my project to Romanticize evolution! 🐋🌱
September 26, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther's *When Maps Become the World* profoundly inspired my philosophical approach in my book, especially his notions of countermapping, pernicious reification, and contextual objectivity. I'm so grateful for his enthusiastic support of my project to Romanticize evolution! 🐋🌱
An awesome hybrid conference on the legacies of Richard Lewontin is coming to Toronto. Elliott Sober is the keynote! "Dialectical Biology Today" runs from October 10-12. Learn more and register below! #philbio 🐋🌱
@ihpst-uoft.bsky.social
ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...
@ihpst-uoft.bsky.social
ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...
September 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
An awesome hybrid conference on the legacies of Richard Lewontin is coming to Toronto. Elliott Sober is the keynote! "Dialectical Biology Today" runs from October 10-12. Learn more and register below! #philbio 🐋🌱
@ihpst-uoft.bsky.social
ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...
@ihpst-uoft.bsky.social
ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...
September 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Despite being a major antagonist in the early chapters of my book, Michael Ruse provided a gracious and supportive peer review of my book before publication, and penned this early review. Remapping Biology with Goethe, Schelling, and Herder is now available in paperback. Check it out!
#philbio #hps
#philbio #hps
September 2, 2025 at 11:05 AM
DOUBLE #hpbio job alert! The @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social has 2 postings for full-time tenure stream positions in the #Philosophy of Science and/or Tech at the Assistant and Associate prof levels (general #philsci or phil. of race/indigenous knowledge/non-western sci).
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August 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
DOUBLE #hpbio job alert! The @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social has 2 postings for full-time tenure stream positions in the #Philosophy of Science and/or Tech at the Assistant and Associate prof levels (general #philsci or phil. of race/indigenous knowledge/non-western sci).
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August 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Officially on the office door. So lucky to be serving such an amazing set of students, faculty, librarians, staff, alumni/ae, and governors!
#highereducation #chiefofstaff #canadianpse @ustmikes.bsky.social
#highereducation #chiefofstaff #canadianpse @ustmikes.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Officially on the office door. So lucky to be serving such an amazing set of students, faculty, librarians, staff, alumni/ae, and governors!
#highereducation #chiefofstaff #canadianpse @ustmikes.bsky.social
#highereducation #chiefofstaff #canadianpse @ustmikes.bsky.social
July 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Here's philosopher of bio Denis Walsh's endorsement of my book as an integrated HPS project. Remapping Biology with Goethe, Schelling, and Herder is shipping in paperback (finally!) on July 30th! Link below. #booksky #philsky #histbio #philbio #ihps #agency #evolution #biosky
July 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The conversations at ISH didn't end with the closing of the last session! Wonderful to connect with so many in this wonderful society, including Sidney Carls-Diamante! @ishpssb2025.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The conversations at ISH didn't end with the closing of the last session! Wonderful to connect with so many in this wonderful society, including Sidney Carls-Diamante! @ishpssb2025.bsky.social
Enjoyed being part of a *packed* final session of @ishpssb2025.bsky.social where we all witnessed @asmeincke.bsky.social make a compelling case to @kevinlala.bsky.social (in the room!) as to why he should explicitly adopt a process ontology for the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis! 🌱🐋
July 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Enjoyed being part of a *packed* final session of @ishpssb2025.bsky.social where we all witnessed @asmeincke.bsky.social make a compelling case to @kevinlala.bsky.social (in the room!) as to why he should explicitly adopt a process ontology for the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis! 🌱🐋
Susan Hanisch here presenting on her empirical findings—that agency is NOT too complex for high school students—in a dense and rich session on the educational implications of the New Biology at @ishpssb2025.bsky.social.
July 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Susan Hanisch here presenting on her empirical findings—that agency is NOT too complex for high school students—in a dense and rich session on the educational implications of the New Biology at @ishpssb2025.bsky.social.
Beautiful people and rich conversations (in a stunning venue) at yesterday evening's @ishpssb2025.bsky.social final reception in the Palacio da Bolsa!
July 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Beautiful people and rich conversations (in a stunning venue) at yesterday evening's @ishpssb2025.bsky.social final reception in the Palacio da Bolsa!
Andrea Gentili exploring the diverse "tones" of animal subjects' experiences in their Umwelten, and how von Uexküll's idea of nature resists a solipsistic monadology. @ishpssb2025.bsky.social 🐋🌱
July 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Andrea Gentili exploring the diverse "tones" of animal subjects' experiences in their Umwelten, and how von Uexküll's idea of nature resists a solipsistic monadology. @ishpssb2025.bsky.social 🐋🌱
Campbell Rider confirming eloquently that we need more Schelling at ISH! @campbellrider.bsky.social makes a compelling case that Schelling provides more resources to contemporary biology than Kant does, and that Schelling can be thought of as an 'organicist' 🌱🐋
@ishpssb2025.bsky.social
@ishpssb2025.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Campbell Rider confirming eloquently that we need more Schelling at ISH! @campbellrider.bsky.social makes a compelling case that Schelling provides more resources to contemporary biology than Kant does, and that Schelling can be thought of as an 'organicist' 🌱🐋
@ishpssb2025.bsky.social
@ishpssb2025.bsky.social
Christoph Hueck summarizing how Aristotle can help us to illuminate the blind spot faced when cognizing life here on the last day of @ishpssb2025.bsky.social! 🐋🌱
July 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Christoph Hueck summarizing how Aristotle can help us to illuminate the blind spot faced when cognizing life here on the last day of @ishpssb2025.bsky.social! 🐋🌱
Polly Winsor—historian of biology extraordinaire and Emerita Professor of the University of Toronto's IHPST—is the winner of the ISHPSSB's 2025 Hull Prize, the society's highest honour! Polly is the *first Canadian* winner of the prize, and its second female recipient. 🇨🇦 🌱🐋
@ihpst-uoft.bsky.social
@ihpst-uoft.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Polly Winsor—historian of biology extraordinaire and Emerita Professor of the University of Toronto's IHPST—is the winner of the ISHPSSB's 2025 Hull Prize, the society's highest honour! Polly is the *first Canadian* winner of the prize, and its second female recipient. 🇨🇦 🌱🐋
@ihpst-uoft.bsky.social
@ihpst-uoft.bsky.social
Philip Ball, in the plenary address for @ishpssb2025.bsky.social, calls for a philosophy of biology connected to the lab bench talk of practicing scientists AND that keeps the beauty and uniqueness of organisms in view. I'm on board!
@philipcball.bsky.social
@philipcball.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Philip Ball, in the plenary address for @ishpssb2025.bsky.social, calls for a philosophy of biology connected to the lab bench talk of practicing scientists AND that keeps the beauty and uniqueness of organisms in view. I'm on board!
@philipcball.bsky.social
@philipcball.bsky.social
The KLI is a wonderful place with wonderful people! Glad to have reconnected in Porto with Lumila, Flavia, Alejandro, and Christina! 🍷 🐋🌱
July 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The KLI is a wonderful place with wonderful people! Glad to have reconnected in Porto with Lumila, Flavia, Alejandro, and Christina! 🍷 🐋🌱
Walked around Porto this morning and interacted with some "Intertidal Ontology." #ISHPSSB2025
July 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Walked around Porto this morning and interacted with some "Intertidal Ontology." #ISHPSSB2025