The program committee includes: Robert C. Richardson (U. Cincinnati; [log in to unmask]) Richard Burian (Virginia Tech; [log in to unmask]) Werner Callebaut (Maastricht, Netherlands; [log in to unmask]) Kathy J. Cooke (Quinnipiac College; [log in to unmask]) Marilia Coutinho (Sao Paolo; [log in to unmask]) Joan Fujimura (Stanford; [log in to unmask]) Paul Griffiths (Otago, New Zealand; [log in to unmask]) Yrjo Haila (Tampere, Finland; [log in to unmask]) Michael Lynch (Brunel, England; [log in to unmask]) Cor van der Weele (Utrecht; [log in to unmask]) PROVISIONAL PROGRAM This program is subject to revision. ****Wednesday Evening Reception ****Thursday, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Connections between Philosophy of Biology and Philosophy of Psychology Session One: Innateness 1. William Wimsatt, University of Chicago, "Extending Generative Entrenchment" 2. Andre Ariew, University of Rhode Island, "Wimsatt on Generative Entrenchment." 3. Dan McShea, Duke, "Feeling: the Proximate Cause of Behavior in Mammals" Evolution as an (In-)Deterministic Process Session One 1. Scott Carson, Ohio University, "Bell's Proof and the Stochastic Nature of Evolutionary Processes" 2. Roberta Millstein, University of Minnesota, "Determinism vs. Indeterminism: Either Way, Evolution Is Probabilistic," Commentator: Robert Brandon, Duke University Teaching Darwin and Darwinism Session One: 1. Prof. Robert Hartwig, Department of Business Administration and Economics, Worcester State College, "Darwinian Revolution: An Integrative Approach Featuring Biology and Economics at Worcester State College 2. Prof. Surindar Paracer, Department of Biology, Worcester State College, "Darwinian Revolution: An Integrative Approach Featuring Biology and Economics at Worcester State College" Images of the Brain in History 1. C.U.M. Smith, Aston University, "The Brain A Machine?" 2. A. Edward Manier, University of Notre Dame, "How Does the Expression 'Emotional Thermostat' Work in 'Listening to Prozac'? Language in Science 1. Christine Hine and Michael Lynch, Brunel University, "Bionet Newsgroups: A Hybrid of Formal Protocols and Tacit Knowledge" 2. Steven J. Fifield, University of MinnesotaÐTwin Cities, "A Case Study of the Rhetorical Construction of Biology in an Introductory Undergraduate Course" 3. Eileen Crist, Cornell University, "Science and Rhetoric: The Case of Animal Sociobiology" ****Thursday, 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Connections between Philosophy of Biology and Philosophy of Psychology Session Two: Teleology 4. Karen Neander, John Hopkins, "Teleosemantics and Adaptationism" 5. Denis Walsh, Edinburgh, "The Dormitive Virtues of Teleological Explanation" Evolution as an (In-)Deterministic Process Session Two 3. Leslie Graves, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Barbara L. Horan, Georgia Southern University; and Alexander Rosenberg, University of Georgia, "Is Indeterminism the Source of the Statistical Character of Evolutionary Theory?" 4. Timothy Shanahan, Loyola Marymount University, "Fitness, Drift, and the Omniscient Viewpoint" Commentator: Robert Brandon, Duke University Teaching Darwin and Darwinism Session Two 3. Prof. David Blitz, Department of Philosophy, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut 06050, "Developing a Darwin web-site" 4. Prof. Charles Blinderman, Department of English, Clark University, Worcester, "Natural and Unnatural Selection: Anthology of Darwinian Literature" Sessions on Core-Periphery Relations in Scientific Knowledge Production in the Life Sciences Session One: Theoretical Issues 1. Carlos Lopez Beltran, Unam Ð Mexico, "Epistemological and Ethical Issues in the Core-Periphery Debate in the History and Sociology of Scientific Knowledge" 2. Enrique Martinez Larrechea, Ivic Ð Venezuela, "Dynamic Dimensions of Theoretical Approaches in the Concept of Peripheral Science" 3. Elizabeth Balbachevsky, Tathiana B. Alcantara and Marilia Coutinho, Universidade De Sao Paulo, "Trends in the Internationalization of Scientific Activities in Globalized Economies Ð Examples From the Life Sciences in Brazil" 4. Commentator: Hebe Vessuri, Ivic Ð Venezuela Science & Society Rivers Singleton, Jr., Case Western Reserve University, University of Delaware, "Delft Canals and Iowa Corn Fields: Bacteriology and Biochemistry at Iowa State" Lauro Galzigna, Department of Biochemistry, University of Padua, Italy The Human Genome & Biological Determinism Ph. Goujon, UniversitŽ Catholoque de Lille, "The Secret Dreams of the Human Genome" Lisa Gannett, University of Western Ontario, "H.J. Muller and the 'Normal' Genome" ****Thursday, 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Connections between Philosophy of Biology and Philosophy of Psychology Session Three: Evolutionary Psychology 6. David Buller, Northern Illinois University, "DeFreuding Evolutionary Psychology" 7. Lawrence Shapiro, University of Wisconsin, "Evolutionary Theory Meets Cognitive Psychology: A More Selective Perspective" 8. Todd Grantham & Shaun Nichols, College of Charlestown, "Evolutionary Psychology: Ultimate Explanations and Panglossian Predictions" Going Molecular 1. Lindley Darden, University of Maryland, "From Inheritance of Acquired Characters to Adaptive Mutation" 2. Robert Olby, University of Pittsburgh, "Memory Molecules: A Case Study in the Impact of Molecular Biology on the Neurosciences?" 3. Greg Morgan, University of Pittsburgh, "Emile Zuckerkandl, Linus Pauling and the Molecular Evolutionary Clock" Animal Issues: Studies into Animals, Animal Sciences and Philosophy of Animals Session One: Animals in Paris 1. Louise Robbins, University of Wisconsin, "Zebras in Paris" 2. Philippe Chavot, "The Paris Zoological Park and the Management of A Colonial Fauna" 3. Richard Burkhardt, "Unpacking Baudin: Animal Specimens and Competing Modes of Scientific Practice in Early 19th French Zoology" Sessions on Core-Periphery Relations in Scientific Knowledge Production in The Life Sciences Session Two: Case Studies in the Development of Scientific Specialties 5. Adriana Chiancone, Ivic Ð Venezuela, "Laboratories in Latin America: The Case of Immunology in Venezuela" 6. Marilia Coutinho, Universidade De Sao Paulo Ð Brazil, "The Emergence of Ecology and Environmental Studies in Brazil" 7. Ana Lilia Gaona and Ana Barahona, Unam Ð National University of Mexico, "The Introduction of Genetics in Mexico" 8. Lea Velho, Dpct/Ig/Unicamp, "The Role of American Scientists in the Emergence, Development and Shaping of Botany and Zoology in Brazil" 9. Maria Jesus Santesmases, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, "The Establishment of Molecular Biology in Spain" Adaptation and Selection Session One Dominic Lewin, University of Leeds, "Organic Selection or Stabilizing Selection? The Question of Schmalhausen's 'broader principle'" Michael Bradie, Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University Disciplinary Definitions Sylvia Culp, Department of Philosophy, Western Michigan University, "Explaining the Stability of Molecular Biology as a Laboratory Science" Jill Lazenby, University of Toronto, "The Biologist's Many Selves: Social Identity Theory and Self- Categorization Theory Applied to the Biological Disciplines" ****Thursday, 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Connections between Philosophy of Biology and Philosophy of Psychology Session Four: Biology Informs Psychology 9. Stephen Downs, Utah, "Ontogeny, Phylogeny and the Development of Science" 10. Mark Bedau, Reed, "Supple Ceteris Paribus Laws in Biology and Psychology" 11. Elliot Sober, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Morgan's Canon" Going Molecular 4. Martha Keyes, Independent Scholar, "The Prion Challenge to the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology, 1965-1991" 5. Nathaniel C. Comfort, SUNY Stony Brook, "From 'Controlling Elements' to 'Transposons': McClintock's Transposable Genetic Elements Go Molecular" Commentator: Robert C. Richardson, University of Cincinnati Animal Issues: Studies into Animals, Animal Sciences and Philosophy of Animals Session Two: Animals and Culture 4. Elizabeth Hanson, "Pennies for Elephants: American Zoos and the Popular Meaning of Wildlife, 1870-1940" 5. Gregg Mitman, "True-Life Adventures: Disney's Nature in Cold War American Culture" 6. Jennifer MacCulloch, "Creatures of Culture, Attitudes Towards Native Animals in Australia" Sessions on Core-Periphery Relations in Scientific Knowledge Production in the Life Sciences Session Three: Case Studies in the Institutionalization of Science in Peripheral Countries 10. Diana Obregon, Universidad Nacional De Colombia, "Cultivation of Hansen's Bacillus: The Case of A Latin American Scientist" 11. Ana Barahona and Ismael Ledesma, National University of Mexico, "Herrera and Ochoterena: Discursive and Socioprofessional Incommensurability" 12. Pablo Kreimer, Universidad Nacional De Quilmes, "Laboratory Studies: Social and Political Implications in A Peripheral Context" 13. Commentator: Marcos Cueto, Iep Ð Peru Adaptation and Selection Session Two 1. Arno Wouters, Department of Philosophy, Utrecht University, "Function as Survival Value" 2. William Harms, Bowling Green State University, "Teleonomic Agency: Toward a Proper Functions Theory of Normativity" 3. Glenn M. Sanford, Duke University, "Evolutionary History: The Difference between 'Adaptation' and 'Adaptive'" Gender Maria Trumpler, Yale University, "Reviving Hypatia: Rachel Carson as Scientific Role Model in Contemporary Juvenile Biographies" Christopher Horvath, Illinois State University, "Measuring Gender" ****Thursday Evening Reception ****Friday 7:45 a.m.-8:45 a.m. Council Meeting ****Friday, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Connections between Philosophy of Biology and Philosophy of Psychology Session Five: Biology Informs Philosophy of Mind 12. Thomas Polger & Owen Flanagan, Duke, "Biological Explanations of Subjectivity" 13. Charbel Nino El-Hani & Antonio Marcos Pereira, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, "Supervenience, Reduction, Emergence and Biological Causation: A Reply to Kim" Developmental Systems Theory (DST) Session One: Conceptualizing Developmental Processes 1. Horst Hendrik-Jansen: "Relevance of DST to Recent Trends in Cognitive Science 2. Peter Taylor : "When the Developing 'System' is Not Coherent or Well Bounded: Socio-Environmental Changes and 'Intersecting Processes'" 3. Susan Oyama: "What Do You Do When All the Good Words Are Taken?" A-Life and Foundational Questions in Biology Session One 1. Brian L. Keeley, University of California at San Diego (email: [log in to unmask]), "What's Right And What's Wrong With Artificial Life?" 2. Claus Emmeche, University of Copenhagen, ([log in to unmask]), "Explaining Emergence, Defining Life" Normative Issues in Genetics Session One Chair: Suzanne Holland, University of Puget Sound 1. Diane Paul, University of Massachusetts, Boston, "Informed Consent and Newborn Screening" 2. Glenn McGee, University of Pennsylvania, "The History of Eugenics and Contemporary Reproductive Medicine" 3. Kathy Cooke and David Valone, Quinnipiac College, "Nature and Nurture in Eugenics Past and Present" Animal Issues: Studies into Animals, Animal Sciences and Philosophy of Animals Session Three: Animal Ethics 7. Thijs Visser, "Playing God and Playing Allah" 8. Elmar Theune, "Formative Experience and the Dutch Debate on Animal Biotechnology" Darwin, Spencer, and Owen Daniel Becquemont, UniversitŽ Lille, France, "Spencer's Views on Darwin's Theory" Mark McLaren, University of Pittsburgh, "Categorical Imperative: Richard Owen's Theory of Spontaneous Generation and Its Implications for Historiography of Nineteenth-century Life Sciences" Rasmus Winther, French-American International School, San Francisco, "Darwin on External Sources of Heritable Variation" ****Friday, 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Connections between Philosophy of Biology and Philosophy of Psychology Session Six: Psychology Informs Biology 14. Gary Hatfield, University of Pennsylvania, "Mental Functions as Constraints on Neurophysiology: Biology and Psychology of Color Vision" 15. Valerie Gray Hardcastle, Virginia Tech, "Understanding Functions: A Pragmatic Approach" Developmental Systems Theory Session Two: "What Genes Can't Do" 4. Lenny Moss: "Introduction" 5. Bob Perlman: "What Transgenic Mice Tell Us about Development" 6. Rob Knight & Paul Griffiths: "What Selfish Genes Can't Do" 7. Ron Amundson: "Methodological Preformationism in Evolutionary Biology" A-Life and Foundational Questions in Biology Session Two 3. Alvaro Moreno, University of the Basque Country, ([log in to unmask]), "The San Sebastian Approach To The Philosophy Of AL" 4. Luis Rocha ([log in to unmask]), "The Modeling Relation In AL" Normative Issues in Genetics Session Two Chair: Suzanne Holland, University of Puget Sound 4. Cor Van der Weele, "DNA and Disease: Where Is Control Located?" 5. Robert T. Pennock, The University of Texas at Austin, "Pre-Existing Conditions: Disease Genes, Causation & the Future of Medical Insurance" Animal Issues: Studies into Animals, Animal Sciences and Philosophy of Animals Session Four: Old New Views on Animal Science 9. Susanne Lijmbach, "The Phenomenological View on the Animal Self and Its Implications for Current Debates about Animal Experiences" 10. Kelly Hamilton, "The Organismal Biology of Edward Stuart Russell" 11. Otniel Dror, Princeton University, "The Physical and the Emotional: Separating Psyche From Soma in the Physiologist's Laboratory" Environmental Issues Mags Adams, Lancaster University, "Endocrine Disruption: A Case for Implementing the Precautionary Principle" Uta Eser, Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, University of Tuebingen, Germany, "Ecological and Normative Fundamentals of Value-Judgments in Conservation Biology: The Case of Non-Indigenous Plants in Nature-Conservation Areas" Thomas Potthast, University of Tuebingen, "Evolutionary Theory and Guiding Principles in Conservation Ethics Ð A Critical Survey of the Relationships between Evolutionary Biology, Nature Conservation, and Ethics" Museums and Laboratories Jenny Beckman, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, "Natural History Teaching and the Museum, c. 1900" Christiane Groeben, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrne, "Marine Organisms Preserved in Alcohol, on Paper, in Glass: The Spread of Knowledge on Marine Organisms through the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrne" Heidrun Ludwig, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Germany, "Imitation and Mimesis in 18th Century Natural History Painting" ****Friday, 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Connections between Philosophy of Biology and Philosophy of Psychology Session Seven: The Intersection of Biology and Psychology 16. Peter Godfrey-Smith, Stanford, "On the Continuities of Life and Mind" 17. Rob Wilson, Illinois-Urbana-Champagne, "The Individual in Biology and Psychology" 18. Kim Sterelny, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, "Communication, Function and the Extended Phenotype" Developmental Systems Theory Session Three: Towards A Developmental Conception of Genetics and Evolution 8. Bruce Weber & David Depew, "Developmental Cycles as Units of Evolution" 9. Eva Neumann-Held, "Lets De-Blackbox the Gene!" 10. Lenny Moss, "What is Selecting What?" 11. Russell Gray, Commentary A-Life and Foundational Questions in Biology Session Three 5. John Bragin ([log in to unmask]), "ALife's (Ir)Relevance For The Philosophy Of Sci/Bio" 6. Koichiro Matsuno ([log in to unmask]), "Symbols As Material Structures In Biosystems" 7. Naomi Dar, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ([log in to unmask]), "The Definition Of Life" Normative Issues in Genetics Session Three Chair: Suzanne Holland, University of Puget Sound 6. Kelly C. Smith, The College of New Jersey, "The Concept of A Genetic Disease" 7. David Magnus, "The Concept of Genetic Disease" Animal Issues: Studies into Animals, Animal Sciences and Philosophy of Animals Session Five: The Animal Mind 12. Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, "Consciousness: A Natural History" 13. Edward Andre Nahmias, Duke University, "Why Our Brains Got So Big: Reciprocal Altruism, Deception, and Theory of Mind" A Re-evaluation of W. M. Wheeler (1865-1937) and his Legacy in Biology and Philosophy 1. Surindar Paracer, Department of Biology, Worcester State College, "Wheeler's Concept of Symbiosis, Parasitism, and Evolution" 2. David Blitz, Central Connecticut State University, "Wheeler's Concepts of Emergence, Holism, and Superorganisms" Experimentation Edna Suarez, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM Circuito Exterior, C. U. Mexico, "Satellite-DNA: A Case Study for the Evolution of Experimental Techniques" John Huss, University of Chicago, "The Natural Experiment Concept in Paleontology" Mark Parascandola, National Museum of American History, "Seeing is Believing: Experimental Reasoning and the Role of Epidemiology" ****Friday 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Presidential Plenary: Biology and the Agents without History Adele Clarke, U.C. San Francisco, "Maverick Reproductive Scientists, Issues of Gender, and the Othering of Contraception" Anne Fausto-Sterling, Brown University, "The Standard Rat and the Universal Human" Hebe Vessuri, Ivic, Venezuela, "Core-Periphery Relations and the Social History of Biology" ****Friday 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. General Meeting ****Friday 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Council Meeting Graduate Student Meeting