Fourteen international experts in the fields of Systems Biology and the Philosophy of Science will shed light on four themes related to the subject of the symposium "Towards a Philosophy of Systems Biology".

William Bechtel	Alvaro Moreno	Robert Shulman
David Fell	Robert Richardson	Achim Stephan
Evelyn Fox Keller	Sahotra Sarkar	Hans Westerhoff
Jannie Hofmeyr	Kenneth Schaffner	William Wimsatt
Douglas Kell		Olaf Wolkenhauer

Four themes will be discussed:
Theme 1.         Methodology of systems biology
Theme 2.         The role of theory, models and simulation in systems biology
Theme 3.         Organisation in biological systems
Theme 4.         Philosophical foundations of systems biology

The symposium is organized by:
Hans Westerhoff Frank Bruggeman Fred Boogerd Department of Molecular Cell Physiology Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam The Netherlands	Jan-Hendrik Hofmeyr Department of Biochemistry University of Stellenbosch Stellenbosch South Africa
						Contact: F.C. Boogerd