In a Franke Program in Science and the Humanities lecture, Alan Love, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, spoke on "Integrating Generic and Genetic Explanations of Development".

The source of order in living systems has been the key question at the boundary of biology and philosophy since the eighteenth century. Today it is widely believed that living systems differ from non-living because they are driven by information, much of which has accumulated during evolution, and much of which is genetically transmitted. But there is at present no specifically biological measure of information that can underpin this vision. In this lecture, I attempt to fill this gap by...