Meeting Program
PSA 2004
Radisson Hotel, Austin Texas
18-20 November
*Indicates student speaker
Papers should already be archived at
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/view/confandvol/90.html
Thursday November 18, 12:00-3:00 pm
Governing Board Meeting: LAKEVIEW
Thursday, November 18, 4:00-6:30 pm
Concurrent sessions A
A1 Symmetries and Transitions
(Symposium): TRAVIS I
Proposer: Chris Smeenk (UCLA)
Chair: Fred Kronz (University of Texas,
Austin)
Elena Castellani
(University of Florence) and Katherine Brading (University of Notre Dame): “Curie’s Principle,
Encore”
Laura Ruetsche (University
of Pittsburgh): “Johnny’s
so long at the ferromagnet”
Chris Smeenk (UCLA): “The Elusive Higgs Mechanism”
Christopher A. Martin (Indiana University): “On Gauge Symmetry, its
Breaking, and Renormalization”
A2 Confirmation and Inductive Logic
(Symposium): TRAVIS II
Proposer:
Branden Fitelson (University of California,
Berkeley)
Chair: Christopher
Hitchcock (California
Technological University)
James Joyce (University of Michigan): “The Varieties of Bayesian Theories of
Evidential Support”
Branden Fitelson (University
of California, Berkeley): “Logical Foundations of Evidential
Support”
Patrick Maher (University of Illinois,
Urbana): “A
Conception of Inductive Logic”
A3 What
Can Philosophy of Science Learn from Archaeology and Vice Versa? Alison Wylie’s Thinking from Things (Workshop): TRAVIS III
Proposer: Lynn Hankinson Nelson (University
of Washington, Seattle)
Chair: Harold
Kincaid (University of Alabama, Birmingham)
William Bechtel (University of California,
San Diego):
“Interconnected Mechanisms and the Unity of Science”
William Krieger (California State
Polytechnic University,
Pomona):
“Interpreting the Interpretative Dilemma: Wylie and Archeological Explanation”
Helen E. Longino (University
of Minnesota): Wylie on
Values in Science”
Elizabeth Potter
(Mills College) “A Wylie Model of Confirmation”
Lynn Hankinson Nelson (University of Washington,
Seattle)
“Philosophy from the Ground Up”
Response: Alison Wylie (Barnard College
and Columbia University)
A4 Experimental Collaborations (Workshop): OLD PECAN STREET
Proposer:
Kent Staley (St Louis University)
Chair: John Forge (Griffith
University, Australia)
Henry Frisch (Fermi Institute, University
of Chicago): “Some
Thoughts on the Evolution of the Collider Detector at
Fermilab”
Kent Staley (St
Louis University) and
William Rehg (St Louis University):
“The CDF Collaboration and Argumentation Theory: the Role of Process in
Objective Knowledge”
Deborah Perron
Tollefsen (University
of Memphis): “Scientific
Collaboration and Collective Epistemic Agency”
A5 Applying Science
(Workshop): THE SKYLINE
Proposers:
Rens Bod (Institute for
Logic, Language and Computation, University
of Amsterdam), Mieke
Boon (University of Twente) and Marcel Boumans (Economics, University of Amsterdam)
Chair: Marcel Boumans
(Economics University
of Amsterdam)
Introduction: Marcel Boumans (Economics, University of Amsterdam)
Susan Sterrett
(Duke University): “Models of Phenomena and
Models of Machines”
Michael Heidelberger (Tubingen
University): “Models in
Fluid Mechanics”
Mieke
Boon (University
of Twente):
“Explaining Basic Sciences in the Engineering Sciences”
Rens Bod (Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam): “FromTheory
to Technology: Rules versus Exemplars”
Discussants: Margaret Morrison (University of Toronto)
and Hans Radder (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
A6 Philosophy
of Biology I: Topics in Philosophy of Biology (Contributed Papers): LAKEVIEW
Chair: Richard Burian
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University)
Marcel Weber (University of Basel, Switzerland):
“Indeterminism in Neurobiology: Some Good and Some Bad News”
Warren Schmaus
(Illinois Institute of Technology): “Evolutionary and Neuroscience Approaches
to the Study of Cognition”
Heather A. Jamniczky*
(Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary): “Biological Pluralism and Homology”
Gry Oftedal* (University
of Oslo): “Heritability and Genetic Causation”
A7 Philosophy
of Physics I: Topics in Philosophy of Physics (Contributed Papers): TREATY OAK
Chair: Larry Sklar
(University of Michigan)
Robert Bishop (University
of Konstanz, Germany
and Wolfson College, Oxford):
“Patching Physics and Chemistry Together”
Axel Gelfert*
(University of Cambridge): “Mathematical Rigor in
Physics: Being Realistic about Exact Results”
Mathias Frisch (University of Maryland,
College Park):
“Causation, Counterfactuals and the Past Hypothesis”
Daniel Parker* (University of Maryland,
College Park):
“Thermodynamic Irreversibility: Does the Big Bang Explain What it Purports to
Explain”
Thursday, November 18, 7:00-8:30 pm
HSS and PSA Opening Reception: Hyatt Regency, Texas Foyer
Friday, November 19, 7:45-8:45 am
LAKEVIEW
Editorial Board Meeting, Philosophy
of Science (Continental Breakfast)
Friday, November 19, 9:00-11:45 am
Concurrent Sessions B
B1 The Semantic View of Theories, Scientific Structuralism and
Structural Realism (Symposium): TRAVIS I
Proposer:
Elaine Landry (University
of Calgary)
Chair:
Elaine Landry (University
of Calgary)
Martin
Thomson-Jones (Oberlin
College), “Models, the
Semantic View, and Scientific Representation”
Bas
C. Van Fraassen (Princeton University),
“All Scientific Representation is Structural Representation”
Steven
French (University of Leeds) and Juha Saatsi* (University
of Leeds), “Realism about
Structure: The Semantic View and Non-linguistic Representations”
Stathis Psillos (University of Athens), “The Structure, the Whole Structure and Nothing but the Structure?”
Katherine Brading
(Notre Dame
University) and Elaine Landry (University of Calgary), “Shared
Structure and Scientific Structuralism”
B2 Simulation,
Instrumentation and Representation at the Nanoscale
(Symposium): TRAVIS II
Proposer:
Alfred Nordmann (Technische
Universität Darmstadt
and University of
South Carolina)
Chair: Alfred Nordmann
(Technische Universität Darmstadt and University
of South Carolina)
Eric
Winsberg (University of South
Florida in Tampa) “Climbing the Multiscale
Ladder: Up and Down the Epistemology of Nano-Science
Simulation”
Paul Humphreys (University of Virginia),
“Observation at the Nanoscale”
Johannes Lenhard
(University of Bielefeld),
“Surprised by a Nanowire: How Simulation is Changing the Mode of Scientific Understanding”
Otávio Bueno (University
of South Carolina),
“Representation at the Nanoscale”
B3 Four Case Studies on Chance in Evolution
(Symposium): TRAVIS III
Proposer: Robert Richardson (University of Cincinnati)
Chair: Lindley Darden (University of Maryland)
John Beatty (University
of British Columbia): “Chance and
History: Darwin
on Orchids (and Especially Twisted Orchids)
Robert C. Richardson (University of Cincinnati): “Chance and the Patterns of
Drift: A Natural Experiment”
Robert A. Skipper (University of Cincinnati): “"Chancy Dynamics and Genetic Draft: The Elimination of Drift?"
Michael R. Dietrich (Dartmouth College): “Nothing Left to Chance? The
Place of Random Drift in the Neutralist/Selectionist
Controversy”
Discussant: Roberta Millstein (California State
University, Hayward)
B4 Individual
and Communal Scientific Knowers (Workshop): OLD PECAN STREET
Proposer: Catherine Hundleby (University of Windsor, Ontario)
Chair: Sharyn
Clough (Oregon State University)
Carla Fehr
(Iowa State University)
“Social Conceptions of Scientific Objectivity: How do we get there from here?”
Heidi Grasswick
(Middlebury College): “Scientific Communities:
What’s left for Individuals?”
Catherine Hundleby
(University of Windsor, Ontario): “Epistemological Affirmative
Action”
Kristina Rolin
(Helsinki School of Economics), “Individuals,
Communities and the Reliability of Testimony”
Commentators: Lorraine
Code (York University),
Helen Longino (University
of Minnesota), Lynn Hankinson Nelson (University of Washington,
Seattle)
B5 Philosophy
of Physics II: Quantum Mechanics (Contributed Papers): THE SKYLINE
Chair: Jeremy Butterfield (Oxford University)
Mario Castagnino
(Department of Physics, Universidad de Buenos Aires) and Olimpia
Lombardi (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid):
“Self-Induced Decoherence and the Classical Limit of
Quantum Mechanics”
Christian Wüthrich*
(University of Pittsburgh): “To Quantize or not to
Quantize: Fact and Folklore in Quantum Gravity”
Joseph Berkovitz
(University of Maryland,
Baltimore County)
and Meir Hemmo (University of Haifa): “How to Reconcile Modal
Interpretations of QM with Relativity”
Jeffrey A. Barrett (University of California,
Irvine):
“Relativistic Quantum Mechanics through Frame-Dependent Constructions”
B6 History of Philosophy of Science
(Contributed Papers): LAKEVIEW
Chair: Gary Hardcastle
(Bloomsburg University)
Thomas Mormann
(University of the Basque Country,
Spain): “Carnap’s Conventionalism versus Differential Topology”
Greg Frost-Arnold* (University of Pittsburgh): “Unity of Science and the
Elimination of Metaphysics in Logical Empiricism”
Laura Snyder (St John’s University):
“Confirmation for a Modest Realism”
B7 General
Philosophy of Science I: Observation and Experiment (Contributed Papers):
TREATY OAK
Chair: Robert Rynasiewicz
(Johns Hopkins University)
Marcel Boumans
(University of Amsterdam): “Measurement Outside the Laboratory”
Maarten
Van Dyck* (Ghent
University, Belgium):
“The Paradox of Conceptual Novelty and Galileo’s Use of Experiments”
Hasok
Chang (University College London):
“A Case for Old Fashioned Observability and a
Reconstructed Constructive Empiricism”
Laura Franklin* (Columbia University):
“Exploratory Experiments”
Friday, November 19, 12:00-1:15
Lunchtime Round Table: LAKEVIEW
Discussion of the Union of Concerned Scientists’ report:
“Scientific Integrity in Policymaking”
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/rsi/page.cfm?pageID=1449
Chair: Sandra Mitchell (University of Pittsburgh)
Discussants: Jane Maienschein
(Arizona State University), Kristin Shrader-Frechette
(University of Notre Dame), James Bogen (Pitzer College), Naomi Oreskes
(University of California, San Diego)
Friday, November 19, 1:30-3:10 p.m.
Concurrent sessions C
C1 Cognitive
Studies of Science: Vision, Models and Agency in Scientific Cognition
(Symposium): TRAVIS I
Proposer:
Ronald Giere (University of Minnesota)
Chair:
Richard Grandy
David Gooding (University of Bath),
“Visual Cognition: Where Cognition and Culture Meet”
Nancy Nersessian
(Georgia Institute of Technology), “Model-Based Reasoning in Distributed
Cognitive Systems”
Ronald Giere
(University of Minnesota), “The Role of Agency in
Distributed Cognitive Systems”
C2 Heisenberg’s
Closed Theories: From Axiomatics to
Incommensurability (Workshop): TRAVIS II
Proposer:
Alisa Bokulich (Boston University)
Chair: Antigone
Nounou (University
of Minnesota)
Melanie Frappier
(University of Western Ontario):
“Heisenberg’s Answer to Quantum Physics’ Completeness Problem”
Alisa Bokulich
(Boston University): “Heisenberg Meets Kuhn:
Closed Theories and Paradigms”
Michela Massimi (Cambridge
University): “Heisenberg,
Pauli and the untranslatability
of the old
quantum theory lexicon: where Kuhnian
incommensurability leaves us”
C3 Evolution and Computation (Workshop):
TRAVIS III
Proposer:
Robert T. Pennock (Michigan State
University)
Chair: Inmaculada
de Melo-Martin (St Mary’s University, Texas)
Robert T. Pennock (Michigan State
University): “Models,
Simulations, Instantiations and Evidence: The Case of Digital Evolution”
Jeffrey C. Shank (Psychology, University of California,
Davis): “From Animats to Animals”
Jeff Clune
(Michigan State
University) and Robert Pennock (Michigan
State University):
“Beyond Kin Selection: How Digital Evolution Can Expand Understanding of
Biological Altruism”
Mark Bedau
(Reed College): “Computational Insights Into the Creativity of Evolution”
C4 The Social Dynamics of Decision Making (Workshop): OLD PECAN STREET
Proposer:
J. McKenzie Alexander (London
School of Economics)
Chair: Brian Skyrms
(University of California,
Irvine)
J. McKenzie Alexander (London School
of Economics): “Social Networks and Multiplayer Games”
Cristina Bicchieri (University of Pennsylvania):
“The Emergence of Fairness in the Ultimatum Game”
Peter Vanderschraaf
(Carnegie Mellon University):
“Local Interaction and Reciprocal Cooperation”
C5 General
Philosophy of Science II (Contributed Papers): Causality, Confirmation and
Inference: THE SKYLINE
Chair: Jim Woodward (California Technological
University)
Robert Northcott*
(London School of Economics): “Pearson’s Wrong Turning: against statistical
measures of causal efficacy”
Laura Perini (Virginia Polytechnic
and State University): “Visual Representations and
Their Role in Confirmation”
Richard Scheines
(Carnegie Mellon University):
“The Similarity of Causal Inference in Experimental and Non-Experimental
Studies”
C6 Philosophy of Social Sciences
(Contributed Papers): LAKEVIEW
Chair: Jane Duran (University of California,
Santa Barbara)
Daniel Steel (Michigan State
University): “Mechanisms
and Functional Explanations in Social Science “
Lawrence Shapiro (University of Wisconsin,
Madison): “Can
Psychology be a Unified Science?”
Julian Reiss (London School
of Economics): “Causal Instrumental Variables and Interventions”
C7 Gender and Science (Contributed Papers):
TREATY OAK
Chair: Mary Domski (California
State University,
Fresno)
Hugh Lacey (Swarthmore College):
“On the Interplay of the Cognitive and the Social in Scientific Practics
Margret Grebowicz (University
of Houston, Downtown):
“Consensus, Dissensus and Democracy: What is at Stake
in Feminist Science Studies?”
Kristen Intemann*
(Coastal Carolina
University): “Feminism, Underdetermination and Values in Science
Friday November 19, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
Concurrent sessions D
D1 Strategies of Modeling in Biology and
Chemistry (Symposium): TRAVIS I
Proposer:
Michael Weisberg (University of Pennsylvania) and Janet Stemwedel
(San Jose State University)
Chair: Peter Godfrey-Smith (Australian National
University and Harvard University)
Jay Odenbaugh
(Lewis and Clarke
College), “A Message in
the Bottle?: The Constraints of Experimentation on Scientific
Reasoning”
Michael Weisberg (University of Pennsylvania),
“Robustness Analysis”
Janet Stemwedel
(San Jose State University),
“Getting More With Less: Experimental
Constraints and Stringent Tests of Model Mechanisms of Chemical Oscillators.”
Anya Plutynski (University
of Utah), “The Molecular
Revolution, Idealization and Population Genetics”
D2 The Dimensions
of Spacetime (Symposium): TRAVIS II
Proposer:
Craig Callender (University
of California, San
Diego) and Nick Huggett (University of Illinois,
Chicago)
Chair:
Frank Artzenius (Rutgers University)
Craig Callender
(University of California,
San Diego): “An
Answer in Search of a Question: ‘Proofs’ of the Tri-Dimensionality of Space”
Sean Carroll (Physics, University of Chicago): “Why three dimensions of space
just aren’t enough”
David Hilbert (University of Illinois,
Chicago) and Nick Huggett
(University of Illinois,
Chicago):
“Groups in Mind”
Bradley Monton
(University of Kentucky) :”Quantum
Mechanics and 3N-Dimensional Space”
D3 Out
of the Ditch: Lessons for Philosophy of Science from the Cold War (Workshop):
TRAVIS III
Proposer:
Heather Douglas (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Chair: Jessica Wang (UCLA)
George Reisch
(Open Court Publishing): “Public Enlightenment in the 1930s: John Dewey,
Logical Empiricism and the Unity of Science”
Don Howard (University of Notre
Dame): “Social Normativity and the Epistemology of
Science: Philosophy of Science in the Public Domain”
Heather Douglas (University of Tennessee,
Knoxville):
“Disentangling Science and Values in the 1950s: The Professionalization
of Philosophy of Science in the Cold War”
Alan Richardson (University of British
Columbia): “Mind the World Order: Liberation
(Anti)Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science”
D4 Experiment and Concept Formation
(Workshop): OLD PECAN STREET
Proposer:
Friedrich Steinle (University of Lyon,
I)
Chair: Ryan Tweney
(Bowling Green State University)
James Lennox (University of Pittsburgh):
“The Experimental Basis of Conceptual Innovation in William Harvey’s De Motu Cordis”
Uljana Feest (Max Planck Institute, Berlin): “Conceptual Presuppositions in
Experimental Psychology: Understanding Discovery via an Analysis of Artifacts”
Friedrich Steinle
(Max Planck Institute, Berlin): “Experiments, Concepts and Laws: The case of
the two electricities”
Commentator: Nancy Nersessian (Georgia Institute of Technology)
D5 Philosophy
of Biology II: Topics in Evolutionary Theory (Contributed Papers): THE SKYLINE
Chair: Jonathan Kaplan (Oregon State
University)
Samir Okasha (University
of Bristol): “Multi-Level
Selection and the Major Transitions in Evolution”
Andrew Hamilton* (University of California,
San Diego) and Matt Haber*
(University of California,
Davis):
“Coherence, Consistency and Cohesion: Clade Selection
in Okasha and Beyond”
Mark Couch* (Columbia University)
“Functional Properties and Convergence in Biology”
Ayelet Shavit (Hebrew University of Jerusalem
and Tel Hai Academic
College): “The Notion of
‘Group’ and Tests of Group Selection”
D6 General
Philosophy of Science III: Realism and Underdetermination
(Contributed Papers): LAKEVIEW
Chair: Sherrilyn
Roush (Rice University)
P.D. Magnus (SUNY Albany): “Background Theories and Total
Science”
Gerald Doppelt
(University of California,
San Diego):
“Empirical Success or Explanatory Success: What does Current Scientific Realism
Need to Explain? What does Current
Scientific Realism Need to Explain?*”
Juha Saatsi* (University
of Leeds, UK):
“On the Pessimistic Induction and Two Fallacies”
Friday November 19, 6:15-8:00 p.m.
Joint Reception at the Harry Ransom
Center for the Humanities,
University of Texas-Austin
Bus transportation will be arranged. Be sure to pay for the reception and
transportation when you register for the conference (an additional $5).
Saturday November 20, 9:00-11:45 a.m.
Concurrent sessions E
E1 Can
Philosophy of Science Offer Help in Resolving Contemporary Biological
Controversies? (Symposium): TRAVIS I
Proposer: Kristin Shrader-Frechette
(Notre Dame University)
Chair: James Griesemer
(University of California,
Davis)
Kevin
Elliott (Pennington Biomedical Research Labs and Louisiana State
University),
"Analysis of Anomaly in Scientific Controversy: Help for the Dispute over
Low-Dose Biochemical Effects"
Deborah
Mayo and Aris Spanos (Virginia
Polytechnic and State
University),"Philosophers
of Science and Statistical Controversies in Ecological Testing"
Kristin
Shrader-Frechette (University of Notre
Dame), “Idealized Models and Endangered Mammals: “Resolving Conflicts over Population Viability
Assessment (PVA)”
Paul Thompson (Michigan State
University), "How
Risky Are Genetically Engineered Crops? How Philosophers Can Help Answer the
Question”
E2 Chemical Substances (Symposium): TRAVIS
II
Proposer: Robin Hendry (University of Durham)
Chair:
Andrea Woody (University of Washington, Seattle)
Paul Needham (University of Stockholm):
“Substance and modality”
Joseph Earley
(Chemistry, Georgetown
University): “The
continuing problem of chemical combination”
Paul Bogaard
(Mount Allison University):
“After Substance: How Aristotle’s Argument Still Bears on the Philosophy of
Chemistry”
Robin Findlay Hendry (University of Durham): “Elements and compounds and
other chemical kinds”
E3 Quantum
Information Theory and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: Is Information the
Way forward? (Workshop) : TRAVIS III
Proposer: Christopher Timpson (Leeds University)
Chair and Moderator:
Christopher Timpson (Leeds
University)
Christopher G. Timpson (Leeds University):
“Opening Remarks: Information talk in quantum mechanics”
Christopher A. Fuchs (Bell Labs)
“Quantum Mechanics as Quantum Information (and only a little more)”
Jeffrey Bub (University of Maryland)
“Why the Quantum?”
Anthony Valentini
(Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ontario) “Hidden Variables and Quantum
Information”
Panel Discussion: Christopher Fuchs
(Bell Labs), Jeffrey Bub
(University of Maryland)
Anthony Valentini (Perimiter
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ontario) Armond Duwell (University of Pittsburgh)
E4 Philosophy
of Biology III: Natural Selection and Evolution (Contributed Papers): OLD PECAN STREET
Chair: Peter Schwartz (Boston University)
Bence Nanay* (University
of California, Berkeley): “Can Cumulative Selection Explain
Adaptation”
Kenneth Reisman*
(Stanford University)
and Patrick Forber* (Stanford University):
“Manipulation and the Causes of Evolution”
Stephen G. Morris* (Florida State University):
“Identifying the Explanatory Weakness of Strong Altruism”
Jessica Pfeifer (University of Maryland,
Baltimore County): “Why the Causes of Selection
and Drift May be Distinct”
E5 Decision Theory (Contributed Papers): THE
SKYLINE
Chair: Maralee
Harrell (Carnegie
Mellon University)
Franz Huber (Centre for Junior
Research Fellows, University
of Konstanz):
“What is the Point of Incremental Confirmation?”
Christoph
Schmidt-Petri (University of Konstanz/London School
of Economics): “Newcomb’s Problem and Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemmas”
Jan-Willem Romeyn*
(University of Groningen,
The Netherlands):
“Theory Change and Bayesian Statistical Inference”
Zachary Ernst (Florida State
University): “Robustness
and Conceptual Analysis in Evolutionary Game Theory”
E6 Race and Science (Contributed Papers):
LAKEVIEW
Chair: David Papineau
(Kings College,
London)
Michael Root (University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis):
“The Number of Black Widows in the National
Academy of Sciences”
Edouard Machery* (University
of Pittsburgh) and Luc Faucher (Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal): “Social
Construction and the Concept of Race”
Alberto Cordero (Graduate Center,
CUNY and Queens College, CUNY): “Nativism,
Scientific Texture and the Moral Limits of Free Inquiry”
Lisa Gannett (St Mary’s University,
Halifax): “Group Categories in Pharmacogenetics
Research”
E7 General
Philosophy of Science IV: Scientific Models (Contributed Papers): TREATY OAK
Chair: Elisabeth Lloyd (Indiana University)
Chris Pincock
(Purdue University): “Overextending Partial
Structures: Idealization and Abstraction”
Tarja Knuuttila (University
of Helsinki, Finland):
“Models, Representation and Mediation”
James Justus* (University of Texas,
Austin): “Qualitative Scientific Modeling and Loop Analysis”
Demetris Portides (University
of Cyprus): “Scientific
Models and the Semantic View of Scientific Theories”
Saturday November 20, 12:00-1:15 p.m.
PSA Business Meeting: LAKEVIEW
All PSA members are invited to attend.
HOPOS: The International
Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Open House Meeting (Location TBA)
Chair: Saul Fisher, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Anya
Plutynski, University of Utah, "Why Philosophers
of Science Ought to Join HOPOS"
Warren Schmaus,
Illinois Institute of Technology, "From the Hills of Virginia to the
Capitals of Europe: The Astonishing Rise of HOPOS"
Alan Richardson, Univesity
of British Columbia, "The Use and Advantage of Trained Historians in 20th
Century History of Philosophy of Science."
Saturday November 20, 1:30-3:45 p.m.
Concurrent sessions F
F1 Reduction,
Emergence and Condensed Matter Physics (Symposium): TRAVIS I
Proposers:
Don Howard (University of Notre Dame) and Margaret Morrison (University of Toronto)
Chair:
Harald Altmanspacher (IGPP,
Germany)
Philip Stamp (University of British
Columbia), “Effective Hamiltonians and Effective Vacua”
Margaret Morrison (University of Toronto), “Reducing Theories and
Emerging Phenomena”
Robert W. Batterman (Ohio State
University), “Limiting
Reductions and Emergence”
Don Howard (University of Notre
Dame), “Entanglement Big and Small: On the Relation between Condensed Matter
Physics and Particle Physics.”
F2 Advances
in Genomics and Its Conceptual Implications for Development and Evolution
(Symposium): TRAVIS II
Proposer: Karola C. Stotz (University
of Pittsburgh)
Chair: Paul
Griffiths (University of Queensland, Brisbane)
Karola C.
Stotz (University of Pittsburgh): “With Genes Like
That, Who Needs an Environment? Genomics Argument Against
Genetic Determinism”
Jeffrey Schwartz (University of Pittsburgh)
and Bruno Maresca (International Institute of
Genetics and Biophysics, Italy): “Decisions, decisions: Heat Shock Proteins and Why Thomas Hunt Morgan
Didn’t Become the Father of Evo-Devo.”
Lenny Moss (University of Notre
Dame): “Redundancy, Plasticity and Detachment: the implications of recent
molecular biology for evolutionary thinking.”
Commentator: C. Kenneth Waters (University of Minnesota)
F3 In Memory of Richard Jeffrey (Symposium):
TRAVIS III
Proposer: Alan Hajek (California
Institute of Technology)
Chair:
Isaac Levi (Columbia
University)
Alan
Hájek (California Institute of Technology): “Reminiscences
on Richard Jeffrey, and Some Reflections on The Logic of Decision”
Persi Diaconis
(Stanford University): “Recent Developments in
Bayesian Statistics”
Brian Skyrms
(University of California
at Irvine): “Radical
Probabilism”
Lyle Zynda
(Indiana University,
South Bend)
“Radical Probabilism Revisited: Are Probabilities and
Desirabilities Enough?”
F4 How
Should Philosophy of Science Be Socially Relevant? (Symposium): TREATY OAK
Proposer: Janet Kourany (University of Notre Dame)
Chair and Commentator: J.L. Heilbron (University
of California, Berkeley,
Oxford University
and Yale University)
Nancy Cartwright (London School
of Economics and University of California, San
Diego): “Evidence for Use”
Janet Kourany (University of Notre Dame): “Getting Philosophy of
Science Socially Connected”
John Dupre
(University of Exeter and ESRC Centre for Genomics in
Society): “The Role of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Research on the
Biosciences”
F5 Philosophy
of Physics III: General Relativity
(Contributed Papers): THE SKYLINE
Chair: Carl Hoefer
(ICREA and Autonomous University of
Barcelona, Spain)
David J. Baker* (Princeton University):
“Spacetime Substantivalism
and Einstein’s Cosmological Constant”
Edward Slowik
(Winona State University):
“On the Cartesian Ontology of General Relativity: Or, Conventionalism in the
History of the Substantival/Relational Debate”
William L. Vanderburgh (Wichita State University):
“The Methodological Value of Coincidences: Further Remarks on Dark Matter and
the Astrophysical Warrant for General Relativity”
Peter Bokulich
(Dibner Institute, MIT): “Does Black Hole Complementarity Answer Hawking’s
Information Loss Paradox?”
F6 General
Philosophy of Science V: Structural Realism (Contributed Papers): LAKEVIEW
Chair: Christopher Eliot (Hofstra University)
Mohamed Elsamahi
(Southeast Missouri State
University): “A Critique
of Localized Realism”
Ioannis Votsis* (University
of Bristol): “The Upward
Path to Structural Realism”
Mark Newman* (University
of California, San Diego): “Ramsey Sentence Realism as an
answer to the Pessimistic Meta-Induction”
Angelo Cei*
(University of Leeds, UK): “Structural Distinctions:
Entities, Structures and changes in science”
Saturday November 20, 4:15-5:30 p.m.
Presidential Address: TRAVIS BALLROOM
Welcome: Miriam
Solomon (Program Chair, PSA 2004, Temple
University)
Presentation: From
George Gale (Secretary-Treasurer of PSA, University of Missouri, Kansas City)
on behalf of PSA to the 2003 winner of the Graduate Student Essay Contest:
Jonathan Tsou (University of Chicago), for an essay
entitled, “The Justification of Concepts in Carnap’s Aufbau”
Introduction to the Presidential Address: President-Elect
Brian Skyrms (University
of California, Irvine)
Address: Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin),
“The Reality of Macro-Probabilitites.”
Saturday November 20, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Presidential Reception
POOLSIDE at the
Radisson Hotel (an indoor location will be announced in case of inclement
weather)
Food, drink and musical entertainment. All those registered for PSA 2004 are
welcome.
Saturday November 20, 10:30-12:00 p.m.
HSS Graduate Student Party
Hyatt, Big Bend Ballroom and Foyer
PSA graduate students are invited to attend.