22 Jan 2021 
12:00-13:00 EST Pseudomechanisms
Duke University
Virtual Poster Session
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Poster Forum Committee
- Cailin O'Connor, UC Irvine, Chair
- Janet Kourany, Notre Dame
- Steve Downes, University of Utah
- Arnon Levy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Julia Staffel, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Rory Smead, Northeastern University
- Patricia Palacios, University of Salzburg
- Kerry McKenzie, UC San Diego
- Carlos Santana, University of Utah
- Marta Halina, Cambridge University
- Gualtiero Piccinini, University of Missouri St. Louis
- Evelyn Brister, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Lauren Ross, UC Irvine
- Mara Harrell, Carnegie Mellon University
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Register Join the PSA Access the Event Portal The Poster Forum allows scholars to discuss work in a different format than in regular PSA sessions (which is doubly true for a virtual session) and also offers an opportunity to present a greater diversity of work not included in regular sessions, including teaching and outreach and engagement activities.
The 2021 Virtual Poster Forum occurs over three Fridays (Jan. 22, Jan. 29, and Feb. 5) from 12:00 - 15:00 EST. Each day will feature three sessions organized around a common theme (see schedule below). These sessions will include an introduction by a well-known scholar in the field, followed by breakout sessions with poster participants. In addition to these virtual live sessions, attendees will also have access to a virtual poster exhibit, which showcases posters and short videos.
Registration, which is free for PSA Members, is required for the event. To register and learn more, visit the registration page.
22 Jan 2021
The Workings of Science
12:00-13:00 EST
Introduction by Helen Longino
Moderated by Rebecca Korf
Endorsement, Healthy Inquiry, and Hypothesis Choice
Georgia State University
Scientific Failure: What Is Normal?
London School of Economics and Political Science
University of Minnesota
Theory Choice and Overdetermination of Evidence: The Case of the 1854 London Cholera Outbreak
Carnegie Mellon University
Science Advice: Making Credences Accurate
University of Hamburg
University of Southern California
Experiment as Theseus‘s Ship: Which Experiments Preserve Diachronic Identity?
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Theoretical Virtues: Do Scientists Think What Philosophers Think They Ought to Think?
Aarhus University
Outreach, Teaching, and Policy
13:00-14:00 EST
Introduction by Lisa Lloyd
Moderated by Rebecca Korf
Roles for Philosophers of Science in of Public Engagement with Science
University of Cincinnati
Frameworks from Philosophy of Language for Scientific Communication
University of Washington
Philosophers and Scientists: Collaboration to Improve Climate Science Communication
University of Oslo
Teaching by Building a Wikipedia Page
University of Idaho
Barriers to Increasing Diversity in Environmental Science
Wofford College
The Outreach Model and Its Limitations
Indiana University Bloomington
Values and Ethics in Science
14:00-15:00 EST
Introduction by Heather Douglas
Moderated by Rebecca Korf
Applying Virtue Theory to Research Ethics: Trust and Testimonial Justice in Modern Laboratory Life
University of Notre Dame
We Can‘t Value the Given Because There Is No Given: A Pervasive Bias in Bioethics and How Philosophy of Biology Can Help
Virginia Tech
Models as Dogwhistles
University of Pittsburgh
How the Economic Model Shapes Patients‘ Experiences of Disability
Gonzaga University
When Is It Safe to Edit the Human Germline?
Washington University
Bias in Science: Natural and Social
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Still No Pill for Men? Double Standards and Demarcating Values in Biomedical Research
New Mexico Tech
29 Jan 2021
Philosophy of Biology
12:00-13:00 EST
Introduction by Samir Okasha
Moderated by Jessica Gonzalez
Promiscuous Realism Does Not Entail Polygamist Classification
Durham University
Against a Normative Conception of Species: A New Evolutionary Objection to Foot‘s Neoaristotelian Ethical Naturalism
Georgetown University
Are Substances Really Processes?
University of Tennessee Knoxville
A New Theory of Ecological Role Functions
University of Pittsburgh
Plant Individuality, Source-Sink Balance, Plant Parts
University of Exeter
Diverse Roles, Multiple Meanings: The Concept of Stress in Biological Research
University of Western Australia
University of Minnesota
Cognition as a Facilitator of Nongenetic Inheritance
University of Minnesota
Conservation and Function in Comparative Genomics
University of Minnesota
From the Organism-Environment Dichotomy to a Gradual Conception of the Living Being and Its Exterior
University of Oslo
Epistemic Principles of Astrobiology
Santa Fe Institute
Does Methodological Adaptationism Presuppose a False Dichotomy?
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Social Sciences and Societies
13:00-14:00 EST
Introduction by Kevin Zollman
Moderated by Jessica Gonzalez
Social Structure from Repeated Social Interactions: Network Epistemology, Iterated Learning, and Opinion Dynamics
University of California, Merced
Applying Evidential Pluralism to the Social Sciences
University of Kent, UK
University of Kent, UK
The Tragedy of the Ai Commons
Mila - Québec AI Institute
University of California, Irvine
More Methodology, Less Metaphysics: A Response to Hoover‘s Argument against Microfoundations
University of Kansas
Biomedical Naturalism and Cultural Evolution
The University of Sydney
Tree Thinking and Naturalization of Language
University of Padua
The Greater Truth: A Mixmethod Empirical Study into the Spread of Misleading Scientific Claims on Social Media
Zafat Academic College
The Development of Social Norm Acquisition
York University
Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Mind
14:00-15:00 EST
Introduction by David Danks
Moderated by Jessica Gonzalez
Muscles, Movements, and Mental Representation
Florida State University
Decoding Fear: Philosophical Challenges for Decoded Neurofeedback
Johns Hopkins University
An Advertisement for Philosophers? Attention to Epigenetic Regulation in the Nervous System
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State University/University of Mississippi Medical Center
A Conceptual Framework for Animal Models in Behavioral Neuroscience
University of Pittsburgh, HPS
Leveling with Ruthless Reductionists about Optogenetics
California State University, Long Beach
Cal State Long Beach
Characterizing Cognition
Arizona State University
The Testability of Composite Linking Hypotheses
Yale University
Identity Experiments in Neurobiology
Mississippi State University/University of Mississippi Medical Center
Do You Hear What I Hear?
Simon Fraser University
University of Pittsburgh
05 Feb 2021
Physical Sciences
12:00-13:00 EST
Introduction by Wendy Parker
Moderated by Benjamin Genta
Classical Particle Indistinguishability, Precisely
London School of Economics and Political Science
If a Tree Grows No Rings and No One Is around: Dealing with Paleoclimate Data/model Discrepancies
Indiana University Bloomington
Physical Magnitudes & Physical Concepts: The Correspondence Critique of the Mapping Account of Applied Mathematics
University of Kentucky
Reducing Uncertainty in Multimessenger Astronomy Using Simulation
Indiana University Bloomington
Can Two Uncertainties Make a Dataset? Reflections on the Use of Proxy Measurements in Climate Science
Loyola University Maryland
States of Ignorance and Ignorance of States: Examining the Quantum Principal Principle
Princeton University
Using Temporal Scaling to Establish a Paleoclimate Analogue
Boston University
Models of Data in Astronomical Interferometry
University of Puerto Rico
Models and Modeling
13:00-14:00 EST
Introduction by Steve Downes
Moderated by Benjamin Genta
What Are Scientific Models? Problems with the Fiction View
University of Luxembourg
What Relative Consistency Proofs Do Not Necessarily Mean
University of California, Davis
Building Mechanistic Models in Cancer Immunology: Towards a Complementary Account of Modeling
Charles University & Czech Academy of Sciences
Conceptual Models in Ecology
University of Utah
Collective Representation: Modeling a Phenomenon with Multiple Biological Systems
University of Minnesota
Are the Bayesian Information Criterion (Bic) and the Akaike Criterion (Aic) Applicable in Determining the Optimal Fit and Simplicity of Mechanistic Models?
Witten/Herdecke University
Understanding Mathematical Engineering Models through Practice-Based Accounts
Technische Universität Darmstadt
A Fruitful Starting Point: Hierarchy of Theories, Models, and Problems
University of Calgary
Causation and Explanation
14:00-15:00 EST
Introduction by Jim Woodward
Moderated by Benjamin Genta
Counterparts and Counterpossibles
University of California, Merced
Productive Causation: Against Causal Pluralism
Albright College
Why Narrative Explanations Aren‘t Mechanisms
University of Calgary
Challenging the Ontic Conception of Scientific Explanation
Ohio State University
Emergence without Mathematical Limits within Statistical Mechanics
Nagoya University
Cosmic Inflation Erases Contingency (and why that's worrisome)
University of Western Ontario