Society for the Metaphysics of Science Events
2009 Pacific Division APA Meeting
Times: TBA
Topic: New Waves in Metaphysics I
Chair: Allan Hazlett (Fordham University)
Title: "Ontology and the Domain of Metaphysics"
Speaker: Thomas Hofweber, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title: "Quantification, Naturalness, and Ontology"
Speaker: Ross Cameron, University of Leeds
Title: "Real and Ordinary Language Metaphysics"
Speaker: Doug Kutach, Brown University
Title: "No Property is Intrinsic"
Speaker: Alyssa Ney, University of Rochester
Title: "The Prince of Wales Problem for Counterfactual Theories of Causation"
Speaker: Carolina Sartorio, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Topic: New Waves in Metaphysics II
Chair: Alyssa Ney, University of Rochester
Title: "The Metaphysics of Collective Action"
Speaker: Sarah Chant, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Title: "Is Everything Relative? Anti-realism, truth and feminism"
Speaker: Mari Mikkola, Lancaster University
Title: "Another Look at the Reality of Race, by which I Mean RaceF"
Speaker: Joshua Glasgow, Victoria University of Wellington
Title:"Post-Essentialism"
Speaker: Allan Hazlett, Fordham University
2009 Central Division APA Meeting
Thursday, February 19, 5:15-7:15 PM
Group Session: Society for the Metaphysics of Science
Topic: Reduction in the Sciences
Chair: Carl Gillett, Norther Illinois University
Title: "Abstraction and the Shape of Reduction"
Speaker: Colin Klein, University of Illinois, Chicago
Title: "Reductionism Meets Complexity"
Speaker: Robert Bishop, Wheaton College
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Friday, February 20, 5:15-7:15 PM
Group Session: Society for the Metaphysics of Science
Topic: Author Meets Critics: James Ladyman & Don Ross's Every Thing Must Go
Chair: TBA
Critic 1: Andrew Melnyk, University of Missouri, Columbia
Critic 2: D. Gene Witmer, University of Florida
Author: Don Ross, University of Alabama at Birmingham & University of Cape Town)
2008 Central Division APA Meeting
GI-5 Thursday, April 17, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Group Session: Society for the Metaphysics of Science
Topic: Metaphysics, Science, and the Social World
Title: "The Folk Concept of Race"
Speaker: Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh)
Title: "Normalcy and Sociality"
Speaker: Robert A. Wilson (University of Alberta)
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GIII-10 Thursday, April 17, 7:30 PM-10:30 PM
Group Session: Society for the Metaphysics of Science
Title: "Mechanistic Functionalism"
Speaker: Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri, St. Louis)
Title: "Improving Nonreductive Functionalism by Taking Mechanisms Seriously: Causal Versus Total Nomic Roles"
Speaker: Ronald Endicott (North Carolina State University)
Title: "The Third Way for Functionalists"
Speaker: Carl Gillett (Illinois Wesleyan University)
2007 Pacific Division APA Meeting
Thursday, April 5, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Carl Craver (Washington University in St. Louis)
"Mechanisms, Modularity, and Natural Kinds"
Karen Neander (Duke University)
"The New Functionalism"
2007 Central Division APA Meeting
SESSION I: Mechanistic Understanding in the Sciences
Thursday, April 19, 5:15-7:15.
Location: Private Dining Room 8
Ernan McMullin, (University of Notre Dame)
"Inferring to Things Unobserved: Historical Notes"
Jonathan Waskan, (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign)
"Modeling Counterfactual Interventions"
SESSION II: The Investigation of Concepts: Getting Out of the Armchair?
Friday, April 20th, 7:00-10:00
Location: Private Dining Room 5
Andrew Melnyk (University of Missouri-Columbia)
"Conceptual Analysis: A Two-Step Program"
Shaun Nichols (University of Arizona)
"Intuitions about Agency: Experimental Approaches"
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2006 Central Division APA Meeting
Thursday, April 26, 2006, 5:15-7:15
Ken Aizawa, (Centenary College of Louisiana)
"Biochemistry and Multiple Realization"
Robert A. Wilson, (University of Alberta)
"Meaning Making and the Mind of the Externalist"