PSA DRAFT PROGRAM
Parallel Sessions 1: Thursday, 2 to 4 pm.
Workshop: Anomaly in Contemporary Philosophy of Science
Participants: Kevin Elliott (South Carolina), Will Bridewell (Stanford), Lindley Darden (Maryland), Robert Rose (Indiana), Jutta Schickore (Indiana)
Kevin Elliott (South Carolina), Chair
Symposium: The New Biological Essentialism
Michael Devitt (CUNY, Graduate Center), “Species Have (Partly) Intrinsic Essences”
Olivier Rieppel (The Field Museum), “Biological Essentialism in Modern Systematics”
Richard Boyd, (Cornell), “Homeostatic Property Clusters and Higher Taxa: Rethinking Natural Kinds and Monophyly”
Marc Ereshefsky (Calgary), “What Wrong with the New Biological Essentialism”
Symposium: The Janus Face of Symmetry
Richard Healey (Arizona), “A Tale of Two Symmetries”
Hilary Greaves (Rutgers/Oxford), “Think Locally, Act Globally: On the Empirical Significance of 'Local' Symmetries”
David Wallace (Oxford), “Faraday's Cage; Einstein's Lift; Galileo's Black Hole”
Symposium: New Models of the Social Structure of Science, Part One - New Models of Cognitive Labor
Kevin Zollman (CMU), “Parameter Estimation and Social Structure: A Study in Social Epistemology”
Janet Stemwedel (San Jose State), “Attending to the Real Rules of the Game: Honest Cognitive Labor Meets Mimetic Behavior in Science”
Michael Strevens (NYU), “Secrecy and Sharing in Science: Resolving the Tension”
Ryan Muldoon (Penn), “Epistemic Diversity and Epistemic Landscapes”
Michael Weisberg (Penn), “Value and Significance on Epistemic Landscapes”
Contributed Papers: Cognitive Science 1
Annika Wallin, Johannes Persson, Nils-Eric Sahlin (Lund), “Normative Man in Dual Process Theories”
Holly Andersen (Pittsburgh), “Causation and Awareness of Agency”
Erik Angner (Alabama-Birmingham), “Is It Possible to Measure Happiness? The Measurement-Theoretic vs. the Psychometric Approach to Measurement”
Andrea Scarantino (Georgia State), “Is Core Affect a Natural Kind?”
Contributed Papers: (Anti)Realism and the Success of Science
Greg Frost-Arnold (Nevada-Las Vegas), “The Limits of Scientific Explanation and the No-Miracles Argument”
David Harker (East Tennessee State), “Explaining Past Successes in Virtue and Despite Particular Theoretical Commitments”
Maarten van Dyck (Ghent), “Dynamics of Reason and the Kantian Project”
Bence Nanay (Syrcause), “Whatever Happened to Scientific Antirealism?”
P. Kyle Stanford (UC, Irvine), Chair
Contributed Papers: Epistemology and Representation
Henk de Regt (Amsterdam), “The Epistemic Value of Understanding”
Ingo Brigandt (Alberta), “Scientific Reasoning is Material Inference: Combining Confirmation, Discover, and Explanation”
Tarja Knuuttila (Helsinki), “Decoupling the Model-Target Dyad: The Thesis of Indirect Representation and Reverse Reasoning”
Soazig Le Bihan (Illinois Institute of Technology), “Scientific Models or Logical Models: A False Dilemma for the Semantic View”
Davis Baird (South Carolina), Chair
Parallel Sessions 2: Thursday, 4:30-6:45 pm.
Symposim: Pragmatism at the Interface of Science and Politics
Don Howard (Notre Dame), “Progressivism, Pragmatism, and Science: John Dewey's Theory of Science”
Alan Richardson (UBC), “A Neglected Pragmatist Alternative? Edgar Singer, C. West Churchman, Russell Ackoff and 'American Experimentalism'”
Matthew J. Brown (UCSD), “Scientific Significance and Genuine Problems: Fundamental Troubles in Kitcher's Social theory of Science”
Justin Biddle (Bielefeld), “'Science is Not a Quest for Certainty': On James B. Conant's Pragmatic Theory of Science”
Gary Hardcastle (Bloomsburg), Chair
Symposium: (Mis)Representing Mathematical Models in Biology
Joan Roughgraden (Stanford), “The Meaning of Models in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology”
James R. Griesemer (UC, Davis), “What Models in Evolutionary Biology Don't Mean”
Frédéric Bouchard (Montréal), “On Some Explanatory Dilemmas Raised by Construing Evolutionary Populations as Mere Ensembles”
Roberta Millstein (UC, Davis), Robert A. Skipper, Jr (Cincinnati), and Michael R. Dietrich (Dartmouth), “(Mis)nterpreting Mathematical Models of Drift: Drift as a Physical Process”
Symposium: Neural Computation
Carl Craver (Washington University), “Thought Experiments in Vivo”
Gualtiero Piccinini (Missouri-St. Louis), “The Resilience of Computationalism”
Oron Shagrir (Hebrew University), “Computation, UCSD Style”
Jacqueline A. Sullivan (Alabama-Birmingham), “Learning and Its Representation”
Symposium: New Models of the Social Structure of Science, Part Two - The Social Science of the Structure of Science (A Workshop)
Frank Keil (Yale), “Navigating the Terrain of Knowledge”
Elihu M. Gerson (Tremont Research Institute), “Some Problems in the Division of Research Labor”
Thomas L. Griffiths (Berkeley), “Cultural Transmission and Scientific Progress”
Miriam Solomon (Temple), discussant
Contributed Papers: Philosophy of Biology 1
Christophe Malaterre(Sorbonne), “Are Bio-Molecular Networks Emergent?”
William Bechtel(UCSD), “Generalization and Discovery By Assuming Conserved Mechanisms”
Matteo Mossio(CNRS, Paris), Cristian Saborido (University of the Basque Country), and Alvaro Moreno (University of the Basque Country), “An Organizational Account for Functional Attributions in Biological Systems”
Xavier de Donato(Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de Iztapalapa) and Alfonso Arroyo-Santos (UNAM), “The Structure of Idealization in Biological Theories”
Christophe Haufe (Virginia Tech), Chair
Contributed Papers: Philosophy of Physics 1
Roman Frigg (LSE), “Typicality and the Approach to Equilibrium in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics”
Kevin Davey (Chicago), “Technical and Conceptual Problems with Gibbs Canonical Distribution”
Richard Dawid (Pittsburgh and Vienna), “On the Conflicting Assessments of the Current Status of String Theory”
Steve Weinstein (Waterloo), “Anthropic Reasoning in Multiverse Cosmology and String Theory”
Laura Ruetsche (Michigan), Chair
Contributed Papers: Laws, Counterfactuals, Explanation
Kareem Khalifa (Middlebury), “Inference to the Best Explanation: Virtues, Causes and Constrasts”
Jaakko Kuorikoski (Helsinki), “Varieties of Modularity for Causal and Constitutive Explanations”
Julian Reiss (Erasmus), “Counterfactuals, Thought Experiments and Singular Causal Analysis in History”
Patrick McGivern (Alberta), “Fundamental Laws and Counterfactual Stability”
Harvey Siegel (Miami), Chair
Parallel Sessions 3: Friday, 9-11:45 am
Workshop: Questioning the Tree of Life, Part One
Maureen O'Malley (Exeter), Introduction of topic
Bill Martin (Düsseldorf ), “Endosymbiosis, the Tree of Life, and Genomes (the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Evolution)”
Eric Bapteste (UMPC, Paris), “An Alternative to Species or Gene Trees: Process Phylogeny”
Yan Boucher (MIT), “The Variation of Evolutionary Processes across Microbial Diversity”
Jeff Lawrence (Pittsburgh), “Order Out of Chaos”
John Dupré (Exeter), “Do Charismatic Eukaryotes Live in Trees?”
Rob Wilson (Alberta), “How the Microbial World Ruins Everything”
Marc Ereshefsky (Calgary), “Microbiology and the Species Problem”
Laura Franklin (Columbia), “Organisms and Parenthood”
Elliott Sober (Wisconsin), “Concluding Reflections on the Tree of Life”
Richard Burian (Virginia Tech), Chair
Symposium: Phenomena, Data, and Patterns
Paul Teller (UC, Davis), “Signal, Noise, and Information in Imperfect Knowledge”
James Bogen (Pittsburgh), “Noise in the World”
James W. McAllister (Leiden), “The Ontology of Patterns in Empirical Data”
James F. Woodward (Caltech), “Data, Phenomena, Signal, and Noise”
Katherine Brading (Notre Dame), “Autonomous Patterns and the Objects of Physics”
James Robert Brown (Toronto), Chair
Symposium: Analyzing Climate Science
Elisabeth Lloyd (Indiana), “Confirmation of Climate Models”
Wendy Parker (Ohio), “Many Models, Many Simulations: Using Ensembles to Predict Climate Change”
Linda O. Mearns (National Center for Atmospheric Research), “Quantification of Uncertainties of Future Climate”
Naomi Oreskes (UCSD), “Adaptation to Global Warming: Do Climate Models Tell Us What We Need to Know?”
Symposium: Algebraic Quantum Field Theory:Locality, Causality and Correlations between Space-like Separated Systems
Jeremy Butterfield (Cambridge), “On Space-like Correlations in Quantum Field Theory”
Giovanni Valente (Maryland), “Violating the Principle of Separability in Quantum Field Theory”
Stephen J. Summers(Florida), “Subsystems and Independence in Microscopic Relativistic Physics”
Miklos Redei (LSE), “Operational Independence in Quantum Field Theory”
Contributed Papers: Philosophy of Cognitive Science 2
Justin M. Sytsma (Pittsburgh), “Is Phenomenal Consciousness a Problem for the Brain Sciences?”
Alistair Isaac (Stanford), “Prospects for Naturalizing Color or 'What's Blue and Yellow and Green All Over?'”
Adina Roskies (Dartmouth), “Brain-mind and Structure-function Relationships: A Methodological Response to Coltheart”
Matthew Haug (William and Mary), “Realization, Determinations, and Mechanisms: Rethinking the Mental-Physical Relation”
Lawrence Shapiro (Wisconsin), Chair
Contributed Papers: Inference, Abduction, Trials
Ilkka Niiniluoto (Helsinki), “Abduction, Tomography, and Other Inverse Problems”
Gerhard Schurz (Düsseldorf), “Common Cause Abduction and the Formation of Theoretical Concepts”
Jeremy Howick (LSE), “Double-Blinding: The Benefits and Risks of Being in the Dark”
Jan Sprenger (Tilburg), “Evidence and Experimental Design in Sequential Trials”
Contributed Papers: History of Philosophy of Science
David M. Miller (Yale), “Qualities, Properties and Laws in Newton's Deduction”
Matt Hettche (Auburn), “Kant and the Prohibition of Armchair Cosmology”
Laura J. Snyder (St. John's), “'Bold Leaps': Guesses of Inferences? Herschel and Analogy in Scientific Reasoning”
Aaron Cobb (St. Louis), “Michael Faraday's Historical Sketch of Electromagnetismand the Theory-Dependence of Experimentation”
Eric Palmer (Allegheny), Chair
Parallel Sessions 4: Friday, 1:30-3:10 pm
Workshop: Questioning the Tree of Life, Part Two
Discussion featuring all involved in Part One
Symposium: Evidence, Uncertainty, and Risk: Challenges of Climate Science
Kristin Shrader-Frechette (University of Notre Dame), “What Climate Scientists Can Learn from Epidemiologists”
Sandra Mitchell (University of Pittsburgh), “How to Represent, and Act in Contexts of, Deep Uncertainty”
Dale Jamieson (New York University), “Disagreement, Action, and Climate Change”
Symposium: Author Meets Critics: J. McKenzie Alexander's The Structural Evolution of Morality
Peter Vanderschraaf (Boston) and Sarah Taylor, “The Evolution of Norms of Community Standing”
Ken Binmore (LSE), “Fairness Norms or Focal Points?”
Brian Skyrms (UC, Irvine), “Hobbes' Missing Link”
Cristina Bicchieri (Penn), “Reponse to Critics”
J. McKenzie Alexander (LSE), “Reply to Critics”
Symposium: Collective Knowing in Science
Alban Bouvier (Ecole Normale Superieure), “Passive Consensus and Active Commitments in the Sciences”
Kristina Rolin (Helsinki School of Economics), “Epistemic Responsibility in Sciencee: Individual and Collective”
K. Brad Wray (SUNY, Oswego), “Scientific Specialties and the Production of Knowledge”
Contributed Papers: Philosophy of Biology 2
Francoise Longy (IHPST, Paris), “Natural Selection as a Cause: Probability, Chance, and Selective Biases”
Marshall Abrams (Alabama-Birmingham), “The Unity of Fitness”
Joshua Filler (Wisconsin), “Newtonian Forces and Evolutionary Biology: A Problem and Solution for Extending the Force Interpretation”
Andrew Hamilton (Arizona State), “Thermodynamics, Evolution, and the Contingency Thesis: Dissolving the Biology Problem”
Contributed Papers: Philosophy of Physics 2
Fred Kronz (Texas), “Actual and Virtual Events in the Quantum Domain”
Peter Lewis (Miami), “Probability, Self-Location, and Quantum Branching” Jonathan Bain (Polytechnic Institute of NYU), “Quantum Field theories in Classical Spacetimes and Particles”
Arthur Cunningham (Pittsburgh), “Why Other Branches are Unobservable in the Everrett Interpretation”
Roman Frigg (LSE), Chair
Contributed Papers: Formal Epistemology and Semantics
Carl Wagner (Tennessee), “Jeffrey Conditioning and External Bayesianity”
Jacob Stegenga (UCSD), “Robustness, Discordance, and Relevance”
David Etlin (MIT), “The Problem of Noncounterfactual Conditionals”
Phil Dowe (Queensland), “Would-Cause Semantics”
Parallel Sessions 5: Friday, 3:30-5:30
Symposium: Values in Science, Norms in Context
Heather Douglas (Tennessee), “Drawing Lessons from DES: Cognitive, Social, and Ethical Values in their Proper Roles”
Susan Hawthorne (Minnesota), “The Value Valence of ADHD Science”
Moira Howes (Trent), “The Relationship of Ignorance and Value in Functional Analyses of Menstruation”
Kristen Intemann (Montana State) and Inmaculada de Melo-Martín (Cornell), “Social Values and Evidentiary Standards: The Case of the HPV Vaccine”
Symposium: Author Meets Critics: Samir Okasha's Evolution and the Levels of Selection
Elliott Sober (Wisconsin), “The Averaging Argument and the Definition of Group in Multi-Level Selection Theory”
C. Kenneth Waters (Minnesota), “The Plurality of Formal Approaches Analyzed in Okasha's Evolution and the Levels of Selection”
Samir Okasha (Bristol), “Reply to Critics”
André Ariew (Missouri), Chair
Symposium: Thermodynamics in Chemistry
Robin Findlay Hendry (Durham), “Entropy and Chemical Substance”
Robert Deltete (Seattle), “Thermodynamics in the Physical Chemistry of Wilhelm Ostwald”
Paul Needham (Stockholm), “A Mereological Interpretation of the Phase Rule”
G. Krishna Vemulapalli (Arizona), “Thermodynamics and Chemistry: How Does a Theory Formulated without Reference to Matter Explain the Properties of Matter?”
Contributed Papers: Philosophy of Biology 3
Monika Piotrowska (Utah), “What Does It Mean to be 75% Pumpkin? The Units of Comparative Genomics”
James Tabery (Utah), “Interactive Predispositions”
Ulrich Krohs (Hamburg), “Conservative and Nonconservative Models in Molecular Biology and the Concept of Genetic Information”
Robert Northcutt (Missouri-St. Louis), “Genetic Causation and Actual Difference Makers”
Marcel Weber (Basel), Chair
Contributed Papers: Philosophy of Physics 3
Matteo Morganti (CNRS, Paris), “A New Look at Relational Holism in Quantum Mechanics”
Juan Ferret (Texas, El Paso), “Ontological Import of Relational Quantum Mechanics”
Isabelle Drouet (CNRS, Paris), “Is Determinism More Favorable than Indeterminism for the Causal Markov Condition”
Alexandre Korolev (UBC), “The Norton-type Lipschitz-Indeterministic Systems and Elastic Phenomena”
Contributed Papers: Philosophy of Cognitive Science 3
Ulrich Stegmann (Bristol), “A Consumer-Based Teleosemantics for Animal Signals”
Markus Werning (Düsseldorf), “Complex First? On the Evolutionary and Developmental Priority of Semantically Thick Words”
Stephen Morris (Western Missouri), “The Evolution of Co-operative Behavior and Its Implications for Ethics”
Armin Schulz (Wisconsin), “Simulation, Simplicity, and Selection: An Evolutionary Perspective on Human Mindreading”
Contributed Papers: Values, Phenomena; Discovery, Pursuit
Johannes Lenhard (Bielefeld) and Eric Winsberg (South Florida), “Holism and Entrenchment in Climate Model Validation”
Sabine Leonelli (LSE), “On the Locality of Data and Claims about Phenomena”
Kevin Elliott (South Carolina) and Kevin McKaughan (Notre Dame), “How Values in Scientific Discovery and Pursuit Alter Theory Appraisal”
Lisa Gannett (St. Mary's), “Why Discovery Matters: Values All the Way Down”
Evelyn Brister (Rochester Institute of Technology), Chair
Parallel Session 6: Saturday, 9-11:45 am
Symposium: Induction without Rules
Peter Achinstein (Johns Hopkins), “The War on Induction”
John D. Norton (Pittsburgh), “There are No Universal Rules for Induction”
Thomas Kelly (Princeton), “Hume and Induction without Rules”
John Worrall (LSE), “Evidence and General Rules: A Response to Achinstein, Norton, and Kelly”
Fred Kronz (Texas), Chair
Symposium: Extrapolation and Public Policy
Daniel Steel and Karen Chou (Michigan State), “Bayes Nets and Nanotech: A Chain Graph Framework for Extrapolation”
Francesco Guala (Exeter and San Raffaele), “Extrapolation without Process Tracing”
Wendy Parker (Ohio), “Comparative Process Tracing and Climate Change 'Fingerprints'”
Marcel Weber (Basel), commentator
Symposium: Applied Mathematics and Philosophy of Science
Christopher Pincock (Purdue), “The Value of Mathematics for Scientific Confirmation”
Robert Batterman (Western Ontario), “Essential Models and Explanatory Mathematics”
Stathis Psillos (Athens), “What if There are No Mathematical Entities? Lessons for Scientific Realism”
Mark Wilson (Pittsburgh), “Leibniz' 'Possibilities' and Our Own”
Contributed Papers: Philosophy of Biology 4
Gregory Morgan (Spring Hill), “Are there Laws of Biology? A Reply to John Beatty”
Jonathan Kaplan (Oregon State), “The Paradox of Stasis and the Nature of Explanations in Evolutionary Theory”
Yuichi Amitani (UBC), “The Frequency Hypothesis and Evolutionary Arguments”
Rasmus Winther (UC, Santa Cruz) and Fermin Fulda (UNAM), “Prediction in Selectionist Evolutionary Theory”
Contributed Papers: Reduction and Causation
Andreas Huetteman (Münster), “Physicalism and the Whole-Part Relation”
Jiji Zhang (Caltech) and Peter Spirtes (CMU), “Intervention, Determinism, and the Causal Minimality Condition”
Gry Oftedal and Anders Strand (Oslo), “Functional Stability and Systems Level Causation”
Richard Scheines and Stephen Francsali (CMU), “Screening Off, Measurement, and Causal Inference”
Contributed Papers: The Social in Science and Philosophy of Science
Warren Schmaus (Illinois Institute of Technology, “Two Concepts of Social Situatedness in Science”
Benjamin Almassi (Washington), “Conflicting Expert Testimony and the Search for Gravity Waves”
Rose-Mary Sargent (Merrimack), “Philosophy of Science in the Public Interest: Useful Knowledge and the Common Good”
Jason Biddle (Bielefeld), “Advocates or Unencumbered Selves? On the Role of Mill's Political Liberalism in Longino's Sociopragmatism”
Margaret Schabas (UBC), Chair
Contributed Papers: Kinds and Ontologies
Thomas Reydon (Hannover), “How to Fix Kind Membership: A Problem for HPC Theory and a Solution”
Stephanie Ruphy (Provence), “Are Stellar Kinds Natural Kinds? A Challenging Newcomer in the Monism/Pluralism and Realism/Antirealism Debates”
Nicholaos Jones (Alabama-Huntsville), “Against Pluralistic and Inexact Ontologies”
Matthew Slater (Idaho), “Macromolecular Pluralism”
Parallel Sessions 7: Saturday, 1:30-3:45 pm
Workshop: How Can Philosophers of Science Take Up More Socially Relevant Roles?
Discussants: Heather Douglas (Tennessee), John Dupré (Exeter), Don Howard (Notre Dame), Kristin Shrader-Frechette (Notre Dame),Nancy Tuana (Penn State)
Chair/Moderator: Sophia Efstathiou (USCD/LSE)
Organizer: Kathryn Plaisance (Hannover)
Symposium: Evolutionary Theory as a Theory of Forces
Robert Brandon (Duke), “A Non-Newtonian Newtonian Model of Evolutionary Theory: The View from ZFEL”
Elliot Sober (Wisconsin), “Selection and Drift - Forces, Causes, or Epiphenomena?”
Denis Walsh (Toronto), “Not a Sure Thing: Fitness and Causation”
John Beatty (UBC), Chair
Symposium: New Perspectives on the Problem of Old Evidence
Clark Glymour (CMU), “Content and Confusion in Bayesian Epistemology”
Brandon Fitelson (Berkeley), “The Old Evidence Problem: An Opinionated, Historical Survey”
James Joyce (Michigan), “The Probative Value of Old Evidence”
Gabriele Contessa (Carleton), “Knowledge, “Expectedness,” and the Problem(s) of Old Evidence”
Contributed Papers: Philosophy of Biology 5
Peter Gildenhuys (Pittsburgh), “Populationin Population Biology”
Ludavica Lorusso (Padua), “The Justification of Race in Biological Explanation”
Viorel Paslaru (Dayton), “Ecological Explanation between Manipulation and Mechanism”
Yoichi Ishida (Pittsburgh), “Sewall Wright and Gustave Malecot on Isolation by Distance”
Contributed Papers: Philosophy of Physics 4
John Manchak (UC, Irvine), “What is a 'Time Machine' in General Relativity?”
Christian Wuthrich (UCSD), “Challenging the Spacetime Structuralist”
Benjamin Janzen (CMU), “Points and Permutations”
Erik Curiel (Pittsburgh), “General Relativity Needs No Interpretation”
Brad Monton (Colorado), Chair
Contributed Papers: Concept Formation, Representation, and Fruitfulness
William Goodwin (Swarthmore), “How Do Structural Formulas Embody the Theory of Organic Chemistry”
Audrey Yap (Victoria), “Mathematical Methods and Fruitfulness”
Corinne Bloch (Tel Aviv), “The Roles of Definitions in Scientific Concepts”
Uljana Feest (Technische Universität Berlin), “Concepts as Tools in the Experimental Generation of Knowledge in Cognitive Neuropsychology”
Contributed Papers: Psychiatry and Human Kinds
Don Ross (Alabama-Birmingham and Cape Town), “Syndrome Stabilization in Psychiatry: Pathological Gambling as a Case Study”
Jonathan Tsou (UBC), “Psychiatric Kinds, Looping Effects, and Stable Targets: Are Any Mental Disorders Natural Kinds?”
Michael Maleki (Calgary), “Why Human Kinds are Different: In Defense of Hacking”
Muhammad Khalidi (York), “Are All Interactive Kinds Human Kinds?”
Mark Risjord (Emory), Chair