UCI-UCSD PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE WORKSHOP

JUNE 6-7, 2003

 

Supported by the UCSD Center for the Humanities

 

This workshop brings together active researchers in the various sub-disciplines of philosophy of science for a small conference.  We will hear presentations on scientific method, natural selection, moral psychology, black hole evaporation, mechanisms and neuroscience, and more.  The idea is that such a workshop will provide philosophers of science a sense of what is going on in sub-fields other than their own while at the same time hearing cutting-edge work in their own sub-field.  There will be ample time for discussion with the guest speakers and one another in question periods and informal discussion breaks.

 

 

 

 

Location: UCSD, Department of Philosophy, Philosophy Seminar Room, H&SS 7077

 

 

Schedule

 

Friday, June 6th, 2003

 

1:30-3:15pm

 

Chair: Penelope Maddy, UCI

John Norton, Pittsburgh                                 A Material Theory of Induction

 

3:30-5:15pm

 

Chair: Gerald Doppelt, UCSD

Paul Teller, UC Davis                                     Theory and Truth

 

 

Saturday, June 7th, 2003

 

9:30-11:00am

 

Chair: William Bechtel, UCSD

Carl Craver, Washington University                 A Field Guide to Levels

 

11-12:30

 

Chair: Dana Nelkin, UCSD

John Doris, UC Santa Cruz                              Facing the Facts: Three Case Studies in "Empirically Informed Ethics”

 

12:30-2:00 Lunch

 

2:00-3:30

 

Chair: Kyle Stanford, UCI

Peter Godfrey-Smith, Stanford                       Darwinian Populations and Multi-level Selection

 

3:30-5:00

 

Chair: David Malament, UCI

Tim Maudlin, Rutgers                                      Two Problems about Evaporating Black Holes

 

5:30-  Conference Barbecue

 

 

If you have questions about the conference, please contact the organizer Craig Callender (ccallender@ucsd.ed).  For maps and directions, please go to Directions.