PSA 2000 Program

Thursday 2 November, 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Friday 3 November

9:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.

Business Meeting (12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.)

1:30 p.m. to 3:10 p.m.

3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

President's Address (6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.)

Saturday 4 November

9:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.

Backstage at the Journal (12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.)

1:30 p.m. to 3:10 p.m.

3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Authors of Contributed Papers

Marshall Abrams; University of Chicago
"Short-Run Mechanistic Probability"

Hanne Andersen
"Reference and Resemblance"

Rachel Ankeny
"Model Organisms as Cases: Understanding the 'Lingua Franca' at the Heart of the Human Genome Project"

Theodore Arabatzis
"Can a Historian of Science be a Scientific Realist?"

Paul Bartha
"Probability and Symmetry"

Alisa N. Bokulich; University of Notre Dame
"Maps, Models, and Quantum Chaos"

Peter Bokulich
"Black Hole Remnants and Classical vs. Quantum Gravity"

William F. Brewer and Bruce L. Lambert
"The Theory-Ladeness of Observation and the Theory-Ladeness of the Rest of the Scientific Process"

OtE1vio Bueno; California State University, Fresno
"Application of Mathematics and Underdetermination"

Craig Callender and Nick Huggett
"Why Quantize Gravity (Or Any Other Field For That Matter?)"

Xiang Chen
"Perceptual Symbols and Taxonomy Comparison"

Wayne Christensen; University of Newcastle
C. A. Hooker; University of Newcastle
"Self-Directed Anticipative Learning Processes in Science"

Alberto Cordero
"Realism and Underdetermination: Some Clues From the Practices-Up"

Kim Cuddington; University of Guelph/University of Connecticut
"The 'Balance of Nature' metaphor in population ecology: theory or paradigm?"

Byron Cunningham
"The Reemergence of 'Emergence'"

Erik Curiel
"Against the Excesses of Quantum Gravity: A Plea for Modesty"

James K. Derden Jr; Humboldt State University
"A Different Conception of Scientific Realism: The Case of the Missing Explanandum"

Michael Dickson; Indiana University
"Quantum Logic is Alive (and it is true or it is false)"

Mauro Dorato; University of Rome Three, Italy
"On Becoming, Cosmic Time, and Rotating Universes"

Phil Dowe
"Causal Loops and the Independence of Causal Facts"

Armond Duwell
"Explaining Information Transfer in Quantum Teleportation"

Christopher Eliot; University of Minnesota
"A Field Guide to Reduction in Ecology"

Adam Elga
"Statistical Mechanics and the Asymmetry of Counterfactual Dependence"

Kevin Elliott; University of Notre Dame
"Chemical Hormesis: Assessing the Warrant for Policy-Driven Science"

Don Fallis; University of Arizona
"Measures of Epistemic Utility and the Value of Experiments"

Carla Fehr
"The Evolution of Sexual Reproduction: Pluralism that is More than a Pragmatic Issue"

Branden Fitelson
"A Bayesian Account of Independent Evidence With Applications"

Lisa Gannett
"Racism and Human Genome Diversity Research: the Ethical Limits of 'Population Thinking'"

Ronald N. Giere; University of Minnesota
"The Perspectival Nature of Scientific Observation"

James Guszcza
"On the Information Theoretic Approach to Statistical Mechanics"

Daniel Hausman; University of Wisconsin
"Causal Relations Among Tokens, Types, and Variables"

Robin Findlay Hendry
"Are Realism and Instrumentalism Methodologically Indifferent?"

Robert G. Hudson; Algoma University College
"Evaluating Background Independence"

R. I. G. Hughes; University of South Carolina
"Conceptual Change and the DDI Account of Theoretical Representation"

Kristen Intemann
"Science and Values: Are Value Judgements Always Irrelevant to the Justification of Scientific Claims?"

Tetsuji Iseda; Nagoya University
"Bridging a Gap: A Proposal on Two Approaches in the Philosophy of Science"

Ruth E. Kastner; University of Maryland
"A critical look at time-symmetric quantum counterfactuals"

Stephen Kellert
"Extrascientific Uses of Physics: the case of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory"

I. A. Kieseppa
"Statistical Model Selection Criteria and Bayesianism"

Fredrick M. Kronz; University of Texas, Austin
"Interpretive Issues of Algebraic Quantum Theory"

Michael B. Kruse; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
"Are There Bayesian Success Stories? The Case of the Raven's Paradox"

Marc Lange; University of Washington, Seattle
"The Apparent Superiority of Prediction to Accomodation As A Side
Effect: A Reply to Maher"

Christoph Lehner; California Institute of Technology
"Which Way Does It Cut? Ockham's Razor in No-Collapse Interpretations"

Michelle Little; Northwestern University
"Rethinking 'Experimentation'"

Chuang Liu
"Infinite Systems in SM Explanations: Thermodynamic Limit, Renormalization (semi-) Group, and Irreversibility"

Holger Lyre
"Gauge Theoretic Conventionalism and the Generalized Equivalence Principle"

Patrick J. McDonald; University of Notre Dame
"Simulation by Demonstration: the Central Place of Experiment in Helmholtz's Theory of Perception"

James Mattingly
"Singularities, Scalar Fields, and Quantum Gravity"

Roberta L. Millstein; California State University, Hayward
"Is the Evolutionary Process Deterministic or Indeterministic? An Argument for Agnosticism"

Sam Mitchell; Mt. Holyoke College
"Confirming Theories One Claim at a Time"

Bradley Monton; University of Kentucky
"On Dualistic Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics"

Thomas Mormann; Universidad del PaEDs Vasco
"A Quasianalytical Constitution of Physical Space"

Wayne C. Myrvold; University of Western Ontario
"Einstein's Untimely Burial"

Jay Odenbaugh
"Ecological Stability, Model Building, and Environmental Policy: A Reply to Some of the Pessimism"

Glenn Parsons and Patrick McGivern
"Can the Bundle Theory save Substantivalism from the Hole Argument?"

Osvaldo Pessoa Jr.
"Counterfactual Histories: The Beginning of Quantum Physics"

Anya Plutynski
"Modeling Evolution in Theory and Practice"

Stathis Psillos
"Is Structural Realism Possible?"

Hans Radder; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
"Primitive Rays and Aetherial Air: On the Impossibility of Theory-Free Experiments"

Thanos Raftopoulos
"Reentrant Neural Pathways and the Theory-Ladenness of Perception"

Robert C. Richardson; University of Cincinnati
"Chance and Indeterminism in Evolutionary Explanation"

John T. Roberts
"Undermining Undermined: Why Humean Supervenience Never Needed to be Debugged (Even If It's a Necessary Truth)"

Kristina Rolin; Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration
"Rational Grounds for Trust in Science"

William A. Rottschaefer; Lewis and Clark College
"The Scientific Naturalization of Ethics"

Robert Rynasiewicz
"Definition, Convention, and Simultaneity: Malament's Result and Its Alleged Refutation by Sarkar and Stachel"

Eric R. Scerri
"The Recently Claimed Observation of Atomic Orbitals and Some Related Philosophical Issues"

Kristin Shrader-Frechette; University of Notre Dame
"Radiobiological Hormesis, Methodological Value Judgements, and Metascience"

Sergio Sismondo and Nicholas Chrisman
"Deflationary Metaphysics and the Natures of Maps"

Robert A. Skipper, Jr.
" Warranting Empirical Claims in Evolutionary Biology: Towards a Synthetic Approach"

Edward Slowik; Winona State University
"Descartes' Science, Holism, and the Mechanical Philosophy"

Kyle Stanford
"Fool's Errand, Devil's Bargain: What Kind of Underdetermination Should We Take Seriously?"

Daniel Steel
"Bayesian Statistics in Radiocarbon Calibration"

Alex Viskovatoff; University of Pittsburgh
"Economics and Kant's Philosophy of Science"

Carl G. Wagner
"Uncertain Old Evidence and Probabilistic New Explanation"

Marcel Weber
"Determinism, Realism, and Probability in Evolutionary Theory: the Pitfalls, and How to Avoid Them"

Steve Weinstein; Princeton University
"Remark on the Conventionality of Simultaneity"

Robert Wilson
"Group-Level Cognition"

Eric Winsberg
"Simulations, Models, and Theories: Complex Physical Systems and their Representations"

K. Brad Wray
"Science, Biases, and the Threat of Global Pessimism"

Chairs of the Contributed Paper Sessions

Philosophy of Biology
Chair: Bruce Glymour; Kansas State University

Quantum Mechanics I
Chair: Frank Arntzenius; Rutgers University

Theory-Ladeness and the Neurology of Perception
Chair: Peter Barker; University of Oklahoma

Evolutionary Theory
Chair: Sandra Mitchell; University of Pittsburgh

Bayesian Methodology I
Chair: Allan Franklin; University of Colorado

Foundations of Probability
Chair: Paul Humphreys; University of Virginia

Quantum Mechanics II
Chair: Meir Hemmo

Causation and Causal Loops
Chair: Mauricio Suarez; University of Bristol

Underdetermination of Theories
Chair: Richard Healey; University of Arizona

Statistical Mechanics
Chair: Andrew Wayne; Concordia University

Science and Values
Chair: Phyllis Rooney

Simultaneity, Space, and Spacetime
Chair: David Malament; University of California, Irvine

Science and Public Policy
Chair: Peter Kirschenmann

Theory and Observation
Chair: Sherrilyn Roush; Harvard University

Bayesian Methodology II
Chair: Christopher Hitchcock; California Institute of Technology

Reduction, Emergence, and Metaphysics
Chair: Jane Duran; University of California, Santa Barbara

Individual and Group-Level Cognition
Chair: Mathias Frisch; Northwestern University

Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, and Field Theory
Chair: Robert Bishop; IGPP, Freiburg, Germany

Quantum Gravity
Chair: John Norton; University of Pittsburgh

History and Philosophy of Science
Chair: Richard Grandy; Rice University

Models and Analogy
Chair: Paul Teller; University of California, Davis

Scientific Realism
Chair: Ian Hacking; University of Toronto

Chairs of the Symposium Sessions

Scientific Modeling
Chair: Margaret Morrison; University of Toronto

Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Science
Chair: Peter Godfrey-Smith; Stanford University

Experimentation in Neuroscience
Chair: Richard Burian; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Jeffrey and Bayesian Epistemology
Chair: Carl G. Wagner; University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Error Statistics and Beyond
Chair: Henry E. Kyburg; University of Rochester

Simplicity, Model Selection, and the Akaike Information Criterion
Chair: I. A. Kieseppä; University of Helsinki

Quantum Computation and Information
Chairs: Jeffrey Bub; University of Maryland, College Park;
David MacCallum; Carleton College

What is the Foundational Significance of Category Theory?
Chair: Elaine Landry; McGill University

New Perspectives on Scientific Rationality
Chair: Michael Bishop; Iowa State University

The Gauge Concept in Modern Physics
Chair: Tim Maudlin; Rutgers University

Critical Aspects of the Dutch Book Argument
Chair: Teddy Seidenfeld; Carnegie Mellon University

Experimentation and the Evaluation of Evolutionary Theories
Chair: Elisabeth A. Lloyd; Indiana University

Philosophy of Neuroscience: Current Issues and Meta-Considerations
Chair: Guven Guzeldere; Duke University

Broad Theories and Behavior
Chair: Jonathan Kaplan; University of Tennessee, Knoxville

The Future of the Linnaean Hierarchy
Chair: Elliott Sober; University of Wisconsin, Madison

Science, Evidence, and Evidence-Based Medicine
Chair: Clark Glymour; Carnegie Mellon University

Deconstructing and/or Reconstructing the Gene: Theoretical and Practical Implications
Chair: Stephen M. Downes; University of Utah

Formal Learning Theory in the Philosophy of Science
Chair: Clark Glymour; Carnegie Mellon University

Mechanism: Explanation, Discovery, and Experimentation
Chair: Noretta Koertge; Indiana University