| PSA 2006 Program | ||
| Thursday | ||
| Thursday, 1:00-4:00pm | ||
| PSA Governing Board [LORD BYRON] | ||
| Thursday, 2:00-4:00pm | ||
| Concurrent Sessions A | ||
| A1. | Philosophy of Science I (Contributed Papers), CYPRESS | |
| "The Career of Simplicity in Quine's Philosophy of Science" | Richard Creath (Arizona State University) | |
| "A New Solution to the Puzzle of Simplicity" | Kevin Kelly (Carnegie Mellon University) | |
| "The Communication Structure of Epistemic Communities" | Kevin Zollman (University of California, Irvine) | |
| "A Philosopher's Guide to Empirical Success" | Malcolm Forster (University of Wisconsin, Madison) | |
| Chair: David Baker (Princeton University) | ||
| A2. | Philosophy of Biology I: Causation (Contributed Papers), SEYMOUR | |
| "Context Sensitivity in Biological Causation" | Jesse Hendrikse (University of Calgary) | |
| "Neo-Functional Analysis: Phylogenetical Restrictions on Causal Role Functions" | Predrag Sustar (University of Rijeka) | |
| "Can There be Stochastic Evolutionary Causes?" | Patrick Forber (Stanford University) and Kenneth Reisman (Stanford University) | |
| Chair: Uljana Feest (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) | ||
| A3. | Multiple Realizability, Explanation, and the Special Sciences (Symposium), GROUSE | |
| "Memory Consolidation, Multiple Realizations and Modest Reductions" | Jacqueline A. Sullivan (University of Pittsburgh) | |
| "Is the Recipe for Multiple Realization a Recipe for Disaster?" | Lawrence A. Shapiro (University of Wisconsin) | |
| "Autonomy and Multiple Realization" | Robert C. Richardson (University of Cincinnati) | |
| "Two Confusions Concerning Multiple Realizability" | Thomas W. Polger (University of Cincinnati) | |
| Chair: Anastasia Panagopoulos (University of Minnesota) | ||
| A4. | New Foundations for Spacetime Theories (Workshop), STANLEY | |
| "The Dynamical Approach to Space-Time Structure" | Harvey R. Brown (Oxford University) | |
| "Explanation and Relativity for the Regularity Relationist" | Nicholas Huggett (University of Illinois at Chicago) | |
| "What Does It Take to Explain Inertia?" | Carl Hoefer (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) | |
| "Give Spacetime a Chance" | Oliver Pooley (Oxford University) | |
| Chair: Peter Lewis (University of Miami) | ||
| A5. | Judgment Aggregation and Complex Collective Decisions (Symposium), OXFORD | |
| "The Revision of Judgements" | Martin van Hees (University of Groningen, the Netherlands) | |
| "Logic, Metamathematics and the Theory of Social Choice" | Marc Pauly (Stanford University) | |
| "Distance-based Approaches to Aggregation Problems in Judgment Aggregation and Social Choice Theory" | Daniel Eckert (University of Graz, Austria) and Gabriella Pigozzi (King's College, London) | |
| "The Aggregation of Causal Networks" | Richard Bradley (London School of Economics), Franz Dietrich (University of Maastricht) and Christian List (London School of Economics) | |
| Chair: Gabriella Pigozzi (King's College, London) | ||
| A6. | Bayesian Epistemology (Contributed Papers), PRINCE OF WALES | |
| "Putting Expectations in Order" | Alan Baker (Swarthmore College) | |
| "How to Put Self-Locating Information in its Place" | Paul Bartha (University of British Columbia) | |
| "The Epistemic value of Explanation" | Andrs Paez (Universidad de los Andes) | |
| "Does Evidential Variety Depend on How the Evidence is Described?" | Greg Novack (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | |
| Chair: Wolfgang Spohn (University of Konstanz) | ||
| A7. | Economic Models – Isolating Tools or Credible Parallel Worlds? (Symposium), BALMORAL | |
| "Credible Worlds: The Status of Theoretical Models in Economics" | Robert Sugden (University of East Anglia) | |
| "How Do We Get From Model to Policy?" | Nancy Cartwright (London School of Economics, and the University of California at San Diego) | |
| "Credibility Revisited" | Till Gruene-Yanoff (Royal Institute of Technology at Stockholm) | |
| Chair: Jess P. Zamora-Bonilla (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia) | ||
| Thursday, 4:00—4:30pm | ||
| Coffee break, Perspectives level (34th floor) | ||
| Thursday, 4:30-6:45pm | ||
| Concurrent Sessions B | ||
| B1. | Three Epistemological Paradigms in Medical Research (Workshop), CYPRESS | |
| "The Role of Consensus Conferences in an Age of Evidence-Based Medicine" | Miriam Solomon (Temple University) | |
| "The Hierarchy of Evidence and Evidence-Based Medicine" | Robyn Bluhm (University of Western Ontario) | |
| "Epistemic Problems with the Randomized Controlled Trial" | Harold Kincaid (University of Alabama at Birmingham) | |
| "Epistemological Advantages of Randomized Controlled Trials" | David Teira (UNED, Madrid) | |
| "The Shortage of Evidence in Evidence-Based Medicine" | Stefan Timmermans (University of California at Los Angeles) | |
| "Gold, Silver and Bronze: the 'Evidence Hierarchy' and EBM" | John Worrall (London School of Economics) | |
| Chair: Sharin Clough (Oregon State University) | ||
| B2. | Philosophy of Biology II (Contributed Papers), SEYMOUR | |
| "Flowing Genes and Cohesive Species" | Robert A. Wilson (University of Alberta) and Matthew Barker (University of Maryland, College Park) | |
| "Ecological and Lyupanov Stability" | James Justus (University of Texas, Austin) | |
| "Seeing the Forest and the Trees: On the Very Idea of an Ecological Community" | Jay Odenbaugh (Lewis and Clark College) | |
| "What is Biologically Possible?" | Jason Michael Zinser (Florida State University) | |
| Chair: J. McKenzie Alexander (London School of Economics) | ||
| B3. | The Role of Causal Explanations in Understanding Natural Selection (Symposium), GROUSE | |
| "Is There a Plurality of Structures for Explaining Evolutionary Dynamics?" | Robert A. Skipper, Jr (University of Cincinnati) | |
| "The Role of Causal Processes in the Neutral and Nearly Neutral Theories" | Michael R. Dietrich (Dartmouth College) and Roberta L. Millstein (University of California, Davis) | |
| "Causal Processes, Fitness and the Differential Persistence of Lineages" | Frdric Bouchard (University of Montreal) | |
| "Stable Models and Causal Explanation in Evolutionary Biology" | Bruce Glymour (Kansas State University) | |
| Chair: Kyle Stanford (University of California, Irvine) | ||
| B4. | Philosophy of Physics I: Spacetime (Contributed Papers), STANLEY | |
| "Nonlocal Information in Special and General Relativity" | Steven Weinstein (University of Waterloo) | |
| "The Singular Nature of Spacetime" | Vincent Lam (University of Lausanne) | |
| "Logic or Physics?" | Phil Dowe (University of Queensland) | |
| "Spacetime and Structure: Structural Realism, Neo-Kantianism Idealism, or Relativized A Priorism" | Edward Slowik (Winona State University) | |
| "The Anderson-Friedman Absolute Objects Program: Several Successes, One Difficulty" | James Pitts (University of Notre Dame) | |
| Chair: Roman Frigg (London School of Economics) | ||
| B5. | Computational Emergence and its Applications (Symposium), OXFORD | |
| "Diachronic Emergence and Computation" | Jacques Dubucs [IHPST (CNRS / Universit Paris I)] | |
| "Computational and Conceptual Emergence" | Paul Humphreys (University of Virginia) | |
| "Emergence of Properties and Emergent Processes: Refocusing the Computational Approach" | Philippe Huneman [IHPST (CNRS / Universit Paris I)] | |
| "Cellular Automata as Models of Nature" | John Symons (University of Texas at El Paso) | |
| "Emergence, Levels of Description, and the Complexity of Prediction" | Cosma Shalizi (Carnegie Mellon University) | |
| Chair: Philippe Huneman [IHPST (CNRS / Universit Paris I)] | ||
| B6. | Decision and Game Theory (Contributed Papers), PRINCE OF WALES | |
| "Dependency Equilibria" | Wolfgang Spohn (University of Konstanz) | |
| "Initating Coordination" | Paul Weirich (University of Missouri) | |
| "Hierarchy Maintenance, Coalition Formation and the Origins of Altruistic Punishment" | Yasha Rohwer (Florida State University) | |
| "Optimal Judgment Aggregation" | Jess P. Zamora-Bonilla (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia) and David Tiera (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia) | |
| Chair: Brad Armendt (Arizona State University) | ||
| B7. | A New Look at Unification in Science: The Hows and Whys (Symposium), BALMORAL | |
| "Unification and Coherence" | Stephan Hartmann (London School of Economics) | |
| "Unification and Universal Principles" | Margaret Morrison (University of Toronto) | |
| "Bayesianism and Unification" | Wayne C. Myrvold (University of Western Ontario) | |
| "Bayesian Epistemic Unification, the No Miracles Argument and the Base Rate Fallacy" | Paul Teller (University of California at Davis) | |
| Chair: Bas van Fraassen (Princeton University) | ||
| Thursday, 7:00-8:30pm | ||
| Joint reception with PSA, HSS, and 4S in the exhibit hall and Regency Foyer | ||
| Friday | ||
| Friday, 7:45–8:45am | ||
| Editorial Board Meeting, Philosophy of Science | ||
| Friday, 9:00–11:45am | ||
| Concurrent Sessions C | ||
| N.B. Coffee break, 10:00-10:15, in exhibit hall | ||
| C1. | Evolutionary Models and Evolutionary Psychology (Contributed Papers), CYPRESS | |
| "Perverse Engineering" | Chris Haufe (Columbia University) | |
| "Massive Modularity and Brain Evolution" | Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh) | |
| "The Robustness of Signalling" | Simon Huttegger (Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research) | |
| "Prospects for a Dual Inheritance Model of Emotional Evolution" | Stefan Linquist (University of Queensland) | |
| Chair: Andrea Scarantino (University of Georgia) | ||
| C2. | Science and Values (Contributed Papers), SEYMOUR | |
| "Norms for Values in Scientific Belief Acceptance" | Heather Douglas (University of Tennessee) | |
| "Carnap's Logical Empiricism, Values, and American Pragmatism" | Thomas Mormann (The University of Donostia - San Sebastian) | |
| "Why Transient Underdetermination Matters: Values and Social Organization in Kitcher's Science, Truth, and Democracy" | Justin Biddle (University of Notre Dame) | |
| "The Fundamentalist Attack on Science: A Problem That Won't Just Disappear " | Stephen Morris (Missouri Western State University) | |
| Chair: Joseph Pitt (Virginia Tech) | ||
| C3. | Philosophical Issues in Experimental Economics (Symposium), GROUSE | |
| "Inductive Generalisation in Experimental Economics" | Robert Sugden (University of East Anglia) | |
| "External Validity and the Rational Scrutiny of Models of Rationality" | Deborah Mayo (Virginia Tech) | |
| "Social Preferences in Experimental Economics" | Jim Woodward (California Institute of Technology) | |
| "The Role of Paradigmatic Experiments: Testing, Measurement, and Inference" | Francesco Guala (University of Exeter) | |
| Chair: Cristina Bicchieri (University of Pennsylvania) | ||
| C4. | Philosophy in the Trenches: From Naturalized to Experimental Philosophy (of science) (Symposium), STANLEY | |
| "The X-Phi(les): Unusual Insights into the Nature of Inquiry" | Jonathan M. Weinberg (Indiana University) and Stephen Crowley (Indiana University) | |
| "How to Test Philosophical Analyses of a Scientific Concept: Notes from the Field" | Karola Stotz (Indiana University) | |
| "An Empirical Assessment of the Moral – Conventional Distinction: Experimental Philosophy in Action" | Stephen P. Stich (Rutgers University) and Daniel Kelly (Rutgers University) | |
| "The Competition Between Folk Theories and Scientific Theories" | Joshua Knobe (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) | |
| Chair: Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh) | ||
| C5. | New Approaches to Equilibrium in Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (Symposium), LORD BYRON | |
| "Objective Chance in Statistical Mechanics" | Roman Frigg (London School of Economics) | |
| "Reduction and Renormalization" | Robert Batterman (University of Western Ontario) | |
| "Do 'Boxes' of Stars Obey Thermodynamics?" | Craig Callender (University of California at San Diego) | |
| "Boltzmann, Gibbs and the Concept of Equilibrium" | David Lavis (King's College, London) | |
| "Taking Algebra Too Seriously: On the Illusion of Irreversible Behavior in Statistical Dynamics" | Jos Uffink (University of Utrecht) | |
| Chair: Lawrence Sklar (University of Michigan) | ||
| C6. | Philosophy of Physics II: Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics (Contributed Papers), CONSTABLE | |
| "Bohr's Interpretation and the Copenhagen Interpretation – Are the Two Mutually Exclusive?" | Ravi Gomatam (Bhaktivedanta Institute) | |
| "The Problem of Theory Choice for the Interpretation of Quantum Field Theory" | Doreen Fraser (University of Pittsburgh) | |
| "Empty Waves in Bohmian Quantum Mechanics" | Peter J. Lewis (University of Miami) | |
| "Reconstructing Quantum Theory Instead of Interpreting It" | Alexei Grinbaum (LPHS - Archives Henri Poincare) | |
| Chair: Rob Deltete (Seattle University) | ||
| C7. | Philosophy of Science II: Models (Contributed Papers), KENSINGTON | |
| "How Computer Simulations are like Telescopes and Microscopes" | Ryan Muldoon (University of Pennsylvania) | |
| "Imaginary-Constitutives. The Ontology of Scientific Models" | Samuel Schindler (University of Leeds) | |
| "Model Selection and the Multiplicity of Patterns in Empirical Data" | James W. McAllister (University of Leiden) | |
| "Seeking Representations of Phenomena: Phenomenological Models" | Demetris Portides (University of Cyprus) | |
| Chair: David Tiera (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia) | ||
| Friday, 12:00-1:30pm | ||
| Organizational Meeting of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) [KENSINGTON] | ||
| Friday,1:30-3:10pm | ||
| Concurrent Sessions D | ||
| D1. | The Role of Values in Western and Indigenous Science (Workshop), CYPRESS | |
| "A New Look at David Abram's Defense of Animism" | Kevin de Laplante (Iowa State University) | |
| "Beyond Value Neutrality - An Alternative to Monetary Monism in Ecological Economics" | Bryan G. Norton (Georgia Institute of Technology) | |
| "Conservation Biology as Crisis Science; or Should Biologists Be Advocates?" | Jay Odenbaugh (Lewis and Clark College) | |
| "Value, Reality, and the More-Than-Human World" | Gregory M. Mikkelson (McGill University) | |
| Chair: John Huss (Reed College) | ||
| D2. | Philosophy of Psychology (Contributed Papers), SEYMOUR | |
| "Bird Brains and Aggro Apes: Questioning the Use of Animals in the Affect Program Theory of Emotion" | Chuck Stieg (University of Minnesota) | |
| "Two Causal Mistakes in Wegner's Illusion of Conscious Will" | Holly K. Andersen (University of Pittsburgh) | |
| "What is an Umotion?" | Andrea Scarantino (Georgia State University) | |
| Chair: Eric Agner (University of Alabama) | ||
| D3. | Exporting Causal Knowledge in Biology (Symposium), GROUSE | |
| "Realism vs. Projectibility: Tradeoffs in Experimental Ecological Genetics" | Robert Brandon (Duke University) | |
| "Exporting Causal Knowledge in Evolutionary and Developmental Biology" | Sandra D. Mitchell (University of Pittsburgh) | |
| "How Practical Know-how about Experimentation can Contextualize Theoretical Knowledge" | C. Kenneth Waters (University of Minnesota) | |
| Chair: Christopher Eliot (Hofstra University) | ||
| D4. | Structural Realism and the Special Sciences (Symposium), STANLEY | |
| "Structural Realism and the Social Sciences" | Harold Kincaid (University of Alabama at Birmingham) | |
| "Ontic Structural Realism and Economics" | Don Ross (University of Alabama at Birmingham and University of Cape Town) | |
| "Structural Realism and the Relationship Between the Special Sciences and Physics" | James Ladyman (University of Bristol) | |
| Chair: Paul Humphreys (University of Virginia) | ||
| D5. | Philosophy of Chemistry (Contributed Papers), LORD BYRON | |
| "Modelling Molecules: Beyond the Epistemic-Pragmatic Dichotomy" | Henk W. de Regt (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) | |
| "Why Water is Not H2O, and Other Critiques of Essentialist Ontology from the Philosophy of Chemistry" | Holly Vande Waal (University of Notre Dame) | |
| "Reduction and Emergence in Chemistry - Two Recent Approaches" | Eric Scerri (University of California, Los Angeles) | |
| Chair: Ryan Muldoon (University of Pennsylvania) | ||
| D6. | Are There Principles of Rational Choice that Bridge Individual and Cooperative Group Decision Making? (Symposium), CONSTABLE | |
| "Coherent Choice Functions and Cooperative Decision Making" | Teddy Seidenfeld (Carnegie Mellon University) | |
| "Coherent Cooperation" | Robert Nau (Duke University) | |
| "Consensus as Shared Agreement" | Isaac Levi (Columbia University) | |
| Chair: William Harper (University of Western Ontario) | ||
| D7. | Philosophy of Science III: Representation (Contributed Papers), KENSINGTON | |
| "Visual Representations in Science: A Reply to Perini" | William Goodwin (Swarthmore College) | |
| "Scientific Representation, Similarity, and Prediction" | Gabriele Contessa (London School of Economics) | |
| "In Praise of Purposeful 'Misrepresentation': Toward a Productive Understanding of Models" | Tarja Knuuttila (University of Helsinki) | |
| "The Problem of Selection and the Causal Theory of Reference" | Arash Pessian (University of Cambridge) | |
| Chair: Susan Vineberg (Wayne State University) | ||
| Coffee break, 3:10-3:30, in exhibit hall | ||
| Friday,3:30-5:30pm | ||
| Concurrent Sessions E | ||
| E1. | Towards a More Political Philosophy of Science (Symposium), CYPRESS | |
| "Toward a More Political Philosophy of Science: Lessons from the Past?" | John Beatty (University of British Columbia) | |
| "Neutrality, Impartiality, Engagement, Advocacy: Is there a Philosophical Stance?" | Helen Longino (Stanford University) | |
| "Politics as Method: The Case of Medical Research" | James Robert Brown (University of Toronto) | |
| "Philosophy of Science: A Subject with a Great Future" | Janet A. Kourany (University of Notre Dame) | |
| Chair: Noretta Koertge (Indiana University) | ||
| E2. | The Vagaries of Determinism and Indeterminism (Symposium), SEYMOUR | |
| "An Unexpectedly Simple Failure of Determinism" | John Norton (University of Pittsburgh) | |
| "How to Think About John Norton's Dome Example" | David Malament (University of California, Irvine) | |
| "Varieties of Determinism and Indeterminism in Classical and Quantum Mechanics" | John Earman (University of Pittsburgh) | |
| Chair: Harvey Brown (Oxford) | ||
| E3. | Author Meets Critics: Cristina Bicchieri's The Grammar of Society (Symposium), GROUSE | |
| "Ethics & Norms: Surveys and Experiments" | Peter Danielson (University of British Columbia) | |
| "Norms and Games" | Russell Hardin (New York University) | |
| "Fairness and Social Norms" | Daniel Hausman (University of Wisconsin) | |
| "Reply to Critics" | Cristina Bicchieri (University of Pennsylvania) | |
| Chair: Paul Weirich (University of Missouri) | ||
| E4. | Organisms Versus Models in the History of Life (Symposium), STANLEY | |
| "Where The Rubber Meets The Road: The Cambrian Explosion and the Evolution of Life" | Kim Sterelny (Australian National University, and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) and Brett Calcott (Australian National University) | |
| "Gestalt-Switching and the Transitions" | Peter Godfrey-Smith (Harvard University) and Ben Kerr (University of Washington) | |
| "Hierarchical Organization and the Major Transitions: a Rank-free Approach" | Samir Okasha (University of Bristol) | |
| Chair: John Matthewson (Australian National University) | ||
| E5. | Physics: New Solutions to Historical Problems (Contributed Papers), LORD BYRON | |
| "Newton's Method and Mercury's Perihelion before and after Einstein" | William Harper (University of Western Ontario) | |
| "Hypotheses Fingo: Herschel and the Myth of Hypothetical Science in 19th Century Britain" | Laura Snyder (University of Pittsburgh) | |
| "On Force in Cartesian Physics" | John Manchak (University of California, Irvine) | |
| "Indeterminism, Asymptotic Reasoning, and Time Irreversibility in Classical Physics" | Alexandre Korolev (University of British Columbia) | |
| Chair: Kent Staley (Saint Louis University) | ||
| E6. | Philosophy of Mathematics and Physics (Contributed Papers), CONSTABLE | |
| "You Can't Mean That: Yablo's Figuralist Account of Mathematics" | Sarah Hoffman (University of Saskatchewan) | |
| "Mathematical Idealization" | Christopher Pincock (Purdue University) | |
| "A General Conceptual Framework for Decoherence in Closed and Open Systems" | Olimpia Lombardi (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes) and Mario Castagnino (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and Roberto Laura (Universidad Nacional de Rosario) | |
| Chair: Giacomo Sillari (University of Pennsylvania) | ||
| E7. | Philosophy of Science IV: Causation (Contributed Papers), KENSINGTON | |
| "Interventions and Causal Inference" | Frederick Eberhardt (Carnegie Mellon University) and Richard Scheines (Carnegie Mellon University) | |
| "Time-Series, Indeterminism, and the Principle of the Common Cause" | Julian Reiss (Complutense University, Madrid) | |
| "Perceiving Causation via Videomicroscopy" | Megan Delehanty (University of Calgary) | |
| Chair: Stephen Kellert (Hamline University) | ||
| Friday, 6:00-7:30pm | ||
| Joint reception with PSA/HSS, Perspectives level (34th floor) | ||
| Friday, 9:00-11:00pm | ||
| Graduate Student Party (Regency Foyer) | ||
| Saturday | ||
| Saturday, 7:45–8:45am | ||
| PSA Women's Caucus Breakfast [BALMORAL] | ||
| Saturday, 9:00-11:45am | ||
| Concurrent Sessions F | ||
| N.B. Coffee break, 10:00-10:15, in exhibit hall | ||
| F1. | Evolutionary Innovation and Novelties (Symposium), CYPRESS | |
| "Evolutionary Innovations and Developmental Resources: From Stability to Variation and Back Again" | Jonathan Kaplan (Oregon State University) | |
| "Explaining the Origins of Evolutionary Novelty: Criteria of Adequacy and Multidisciplinary Prerequisites" | Alan C. Love (University of Minnesota) | |
| "Evolutionary Novelties: Back to Square One" | Massimo Pigliucci (State University of New York at Stony Brook) | |
| "Does the Concept of Evolutionary Novelties Make Sense?" | Gnter P. Wagner (Yale University) | |
| "Darwins Argument and Cyclic Controversy Regarding the Causes of Evolutionary Innovation" | Mary Jane West-Eberhard (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) | |
| Chair: Karola Stotz (Indiana University) | ||
| F2. | Chemical Bonds (Symposium), SEYMOUR | |
| "Chemical Bonds in Causal Explanations of Chemical Reactions" | Janet D. Stemwedel (San Jos State University) | |
| "Two Concepts of Chemical Bond" | Robin Findlay Hendry (Durham University) | |
| "Resisting Chemical Atomism: Duhem's Argument" | Paul Needham (University of Stockholm) | |
| "Robust Properties of Chemical Bonds" | Michael Weisberg (University of Pennsylvania) | |
| "Chemical Reactions, Non-Kekul Molecules, and Very Weak Bonds" | Jerome A. Berson (Yale University) | |
| Chair: Eric Scerri (University of California, Los Angeles) | ||
| F3. | Mechanisms: Beyond Biology to Psychology and Chemistry (Symposium), GROUSE | |
| "Mechanisms in Biology: Recent Work and Beyond" | Lindley Darden (University of Maryland, College Park) | |
| "Mechanisms and Their Explanatory Challenges In Organic Chemistry" | Jeffry L. Ramsey (Smith College) | |
| "Mechanisms in Psychology: What are the Operations?" | William Bechtel (University of California, San Diego) | |
| Chair: James Tabery (University of Pittsburgh) | ||
| F4. | Naturalistic Metaethics (Symposium), STANLEY | |
| "Reliable Methods of Moral Learning: The Case of Parenting" | William Rottschaefer (Lewis and Clark College) | |
| "Reaching for the Moon: Evolutionary Moral Realism" | John Collier (University of Natal) and Michael Stingl (University of Lethbridge) | |
| "Must Naturalists Be Nihilists? Metaethics and the Evolutionary Dynamics of Moral Norms" | Marion Hourdequin (Brandeis University) | |
| "Rules in Moral Psychology" | Shaun Nichols (University of Utah) | |
| "Stories and Moral Judgment: The Neuroscience of Framing Effects in Moral Cognition (With a Realist Coda)" | William Casebeer (United States Air Force Academy) | |
| Chair: William Rottschaefer (Lewis and Clark College) | ||
| F5. | Philosophy of Physics III: Quantum Information and Computation (Contributed Papers), LORD BYRON | |
| "The Many-Worlds Interpretation and Quantum Computation" | Armond Duwell (University of Erfurt) | |
| "Is Measurement a Black Box? On the Importance of Understanding Measurement Even in Quantum Information and Computation" | Michael Dickson (University of South Carolina) | |
| "On the Efficiency of Quantum Computation" | Jeffrey Bub (University of Maryland) | |
| Chair: Nicholas Huggett (University of Illinois at Chicago) | ||
| F6. | Author Meets Critics: Sandy Zabell's Symmetry and its Discontents (Workshop), CONSTABLE | |
| "Bayesian Frameworks for Induction" | Jim Joyce (University of Michigan) | |
| "Symmetry and Frequencies in Statistics from Mill to Pearson" | Ted Porter (University of California, Los Angeles) | |
| "Reply to Critics" | Sandy Zabell (Northwestern University) | |
| Chair: Brian Skyrms (University of California, Irvine) | ||
| F7. | Author Meets Critics: George Reisch's How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science (Workshop), KENSINGTON | |
| "Ddalus and the Labyrinth of History: Logical Empiricist Unity and American Pluralism" | Alan Richardson (University of British Columbia) | |
| "The Politics of Logical Empiricism" | Thomas Uebel (University of Manchester) | |
| "Pragmatism, Activism, and the Icy Slopes of Logic in George Reischs Portrait of the Philosophy of Science as a Young Field" | David Stump (University of San Francisco) | |
| "Reply to Critics" | George Reisch (Independent scholar) | |
| Chair: Heather Douglas (University of Tennessee at Knoxville) | ||
| Saturday, 12:00-1:00pm | ||
| Meet the Editor: Inside the Journal Philosophy of Science [CYPRESS] | ||
| Saturday, 1:30-3:45pm | ||
| Concurrent Sessions G | ||
| G1. | Can Introspective Reports be Scientific Evidence? (Symposium), CYPRESS | |
| "How to Use Introspection to Measure Happiness" | Anna Alexandrova (University of California, San Diego) | |
| "Introspection as a Source of Public Evidence" | Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri, St. Louis) | |
| "Why Cognitive Scientists Should Trust Introspection (with Caution and Care)" | Alvin Goldman (Rutgers University) | |
| "The Unreliability of Naive Introspection" | Eric Schwitzgebel (University of California, Riverside) | |
| Chair: Holly Andersen (University of Pittsburg) | ||
| G2. | Philosophy of Biology III (Contributed Papers), SEYMOUR | |
| "Patterns, Models, and Predictions: Defending Robert MacArthurs Approach to Ecology" | Yoichi Ishida (University of Nevada) | |
| "The Empirical Inadequacy of Species Cohesion by Gene Flow" | Matthew Barker (University of Maryland, College Park) | |
| "How Do Natural Selection and Random Drift Interact?" | Marshall Abrams (George Washington University) | |
| "Optimality Modeling and Explanatory Generality" | Angela Potochnik (Stanford University) | |
| Chair: Andre Arew (University of Missouri, Columbia) | ||
| G3. | Author Meets Critics: Sherri Roush's Tracking Truth (Workshop), GEORGIA A | |
| "Likelihoods, Counterfactuals, and Epistemology" | Branden Fitelson (University of California, Berkeley) | |
| "Drawing the Right Morals: Tracking Truth and Scientific Realism" | Kyle Stanford (University of California, Irvine) | |
| "Tracking the Evidence" | Brian Weatherson (Cornell University) | |
| "Reply to Critics" | Sherri Roush (University of California, Berkeley) | |
| Chair: Jim Joyce (University of Michigan) | ||
| G4. | Where Neuroscience Meets Physics: Laws, Explanation, and the Hodgkin-Huxley Model of the Action Potential (Symposium), GEORGIA B | |
| "On the Use of Physical Theory in Neurobiological Explanation" | Marcel Weber (University of Basel) | |
| "Theories, Models, and Equations in Systems Biology" | Kenneth F. Schaffner (University of Pittsburgh) | |
| "The Epistemic (not Explanatory) Role of Laws and Mathematical Models at the Interface of Biology and Physics: The Case of the Hodgkin and Huxley Model of the Action Potential" | Carl F. Craver (Washington University, St. Louis) | |
| "The Hodgkin-Huxley Equations and the Concrete Model; Comments on Craver, Schaffner, and Weber" | Jim Bogen (University of Pittsburgh) | |
| Chair: Lindley Darden (University of Maryland, College Park) | ||
| G5. | Philosophy of Physics IV: Quantum Mechanics (Contributed Papers), LORD BYRON | |
| "Structure of Holism" | Brandon Fogel (Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Notre Dame) | |
| "Can Classical Structures explain Quantum Phenomena?" | Alisa Bokulich (Boston University) | |
| "Ostentatiously Extravagant but not Quite Incoherent: On the Many Worlds Approach and the Growth of Imagination" | Alberto Cordero (Queens College, CUNY) | |
| "The Standard Model as a Philosophical Challenge" | Edward MacKinnon (California State University, East Bay) | |
| Chair: Jeff Barrett (University of California, Irvine) | ||
| G6. | Explanation and Reasoning Styles in Mathematics (Symposium), CONSTABLE | |
| "Formal Verification and Mathematical Understanding" | Jeremy Avigad (Carnegie Mellon University) | |
| "Finding the Right Definition in Mathematics, with Consequences for Ontology" | Jamie Tappenden (University of Michigan) | |
| "Explanation and Unification: A Case Study from Real Algebraic Geometry" | Paolo Mancosu (University of California, Berkeley) | |
| "Dedekind, Structural Reasoning, and Mathematical Explanation" | Erich Reck (University of California, Riverside) | |
| Chair: Richard Zach (University of Calgary) | ||
| G7. | Philosophy of Probability and Statistics (Contributed Papers), KENSINGTON | |
| "Symmetry and Probability" | Jill North (New York University) | |
| "Accuracy and Vague Opinion" | Samuel Ruhmkorff (Simon's Rock College of Bard) | |
| "Why Functional Form Matters: Revealing the Structure in Structural Models in Econometrics" | Damien Fennell (London School of Economics) | |
| "The Curve Fitting Problem, Akaike-type Model Selection, and the Error Statistical Approach" | Aris Spanos (Virginia Tech) | |
| Chair: Deborah Mayo (Virginia Tech) | ||
| Saturday, 4:30-6:00pm | ||
| Award Presentation to PSA Essay Contest Winners [GEORGIA A & B] | ||
| Presidential Address, "Signals," Brian Skyrms [GEORGIA A & B] | ||
| Saturday, 6:30-8:00pm | ||
| Presidential Reception, Perspectives level (34th floor) | ||