3:00 PM - 8:00 PM in ROZH Concourse |
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Concurrent with Opening Reception after 6:00 pm |
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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM in ROZH Concourse |
Opening Reception |
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Concurrent with latter half of registration on Wednesday July 13 |
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Thursday, July 14, 2005 |
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM in ROZH Concourse |
Registration |
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8:45 AM - 9:15 AM in ROZH 101 |
Welcome |
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Welcome and opening announcements, including a brief remembrance of Ernst Mayr by Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr. |
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9:15 AM - 10:45 AM in ROZH 102 |
roundtable discussion |
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"Revisiting the Darwinian Revolution: In Memoriam - Ernst Mayr (I and II). Part I: Discussion of April 2005 JHB issue, Revisiting the Darwinian Revolution; Part II: Teaching the Darwinian Revolution. Cosponsored by the Education Committee." Organizer(s): Jane Maienschein, John M. Lynch Chair: Jane Maienschein Discussant(s): Phillip Sloan, Robert Richards, Alan Love, Greg Radick; addressing papers by Michael Ruse, Peter Bowler, Pietro Corsi, Michael Ghiselin, Sandra Herbert, Jonathan Hodge, David Hull, James Lennox, and Betty Smocovitis, with discussion by the authors. |
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9:15 AM - 10:45 AM in ROZH 107 |
multipaper presentation |
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"Parts and Wholes: Organisms, Ecosystems, and Environments" Chair: Rasmus Winther Angela Weil, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Chair of Landscape Ecology "The model of the organism in ecology: possibilities and boundaries for describing synecological units" Ageliki Lefkaditi, Dept of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University "A Discussion on "Part Makes Whole, and Wholes Make Parts"" Brett Buchanan, Department of Philosophy, DePaul University "A Kantian Biologist?: Jakob von Uexküll and the intersubjective life of organisms" |
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9:15 AM - 10:45 AM in ROZH 108 |
multipaper presentation |
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"Theory Testing and its Vicissitudes" Chair: Richard Creath Fiona Miller, Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University Jason Robert, Center for Biology and Society, Arizona State University "Emerging Science in Genetic Testing: Toward a Better Bioethics" Igal Dotan, Max Planck institute for the History of Science, Berlin. "Instruments in Flux" Jennifer Swindell, Michigan State University Department of Philosophy "Empirically Replaying Life's Tape" Derek Turner, Department of Philosophy, Connecticut College "Just Another Drug? A Philosophical Assessment of Randomized, Controlled Studies of Intercessory Prayer" |
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9:15 AM - 10:45 AM in MACK 236 |
multipaper presentation |
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"Knowing, Interpreting and Engaging with New and Old Biocomplexities" Organizer(s): Peter Taylor and João Arriscado Nunes Peter Taylor, Sci Tech Values, UMass Boston "Life course origins of chronic diseases: How to reconcile the contributions of competing epidemiological approaches" João Arriscado Nunes, Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra "The(unruly) complexity of carcinogenicity, or, how Helicobacter pylori 'causes' cancer" Maria Strecht Almeida, University of Porto, ICBAS "Scale Shifts, Complexities and Comprehensive Knowledge: Exploring the Construction of the "Aging Erythrocyte" as a Biomedical Object" |
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10:45 AM - 11:00 AM in ROZH Concourse |
MORNING BREAK |
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Applies to sessions in MCKN and ROZ |
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12:30 PM - 2:00 PM in MACK 132 |
Council Meeting I |
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Lunch will be catered |
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12:30 PM - 2:00 PM in Creelman Creelman |
LUNCH BREAK |
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3 minute walk from ROZ and MCKN |
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM in MACK 236 |
multipaper presentation |
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"Design as Metaphor, Ontology, Metaphysics" Chair: Carol Cleland Ian Ellis, Department of Philosophy, Florida State University "A Criticism of Metaphorical Explanations of Biological Function" Chris Zarpentine, Department of Philosophy, Florida State University "Design and Natural Selection; or, the only good metaphor is a dead metaphor" Dan McShea, Biology Department, Duke University "How to Explain Complexity (Adaptive, Non-Adaptive, and Irreducible)" Arno Wouters, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands "Organization and Autonomy" |
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3:30 PM - 4:00 PM in ROZH Concourse |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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Applies to sessions in MCKN and ROZ |
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM in ROZH 102 |
multipaper presentation |
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"Genomics and Identity Politics (I and II)" Organizer(s): Christine Hauskeller Chair: Christine Hauskeller Christine Hauskeller, University of Exeter, ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society "The Politics of Genomic Identity" Discussant(s): 30 minute panel discussion with all speakers from session I and II followed by an open discussion |
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Friday, July 15, 2005 |
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM in ROZH 108 |
multipaper presentation |
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"Analyzing Research Programs" Chair: Carlos Sonnenschein Joshua Abraham, University of Florida, Department of History "Comparing 'Intelligent Design' and the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis as Research Programs" Karori Mbugua, Philosophy, University of Nairobi, Kenya "Explaining Sexual Orientation: A Lakatosian Appraisal of the Endocrine Research Program" Adelaida Ambrogi, Universidad de las Islas Baleares, Dpt. Filosofía "Reasons to suggest that the genetic research on cancer is a degenerative research program." Ana Soto, Tufts University Carlos Sonnenschein, Tufts University "Reasons to suggest that the genetic research on cancer is a degenerative research program, Part II: SMT or TOFT: May we evaluate and decide according to Lakatos' model?" |
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM in MACK 236 |
multipaper presentation |
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"Levels, Individuality, and Evolutionary Transitions" Organizer(s): Peter Godfrey-Smith Chair: Todd Grantham Peter Godfrey-Smith, Philosophy, ANU and Harvard "Local Interaction, Group Selection, and Evolutionary Transitions" Brett Calcott, Philosophy Program, RSSS, ANU "Selection, Variation, and Development in Major Evolutionary Transitions" Jura Pintar, Biology, Harvard "Strategic Genes and the Individuation of Biological Entities" |
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10:30 AM - 11:00 AM in ROZH Concourse |
MORNING BREAK |
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Applies to sessions in MCKN and ROZ |
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in ROZH 105 |
multipaper presentation |
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"The Politics of Evolution, Race, and Reform" Chair: Mark Largent Matthew Dunn, History and Philosophy of Science Department, Indiana University "Darwin on the Evolution of the Human Races" Regina Horta Duarte, Associate Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerai "Biology, Anti-Darwinism and Society in the 1930’s, Brazil" Rachel Hoffman, Concordia University "Franz Boas, Then and Now: A Historiographical Context for Considering a Scientific Discipline" Susan Rensing, History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota "‘Woman is the race’: Grassroots eugenics in nineteenth-century America" |
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12:30 PM - 2:00 PM in Creelman Creelman |
LUNCH BREAK |
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3 minute walk from ROZ and MCKN |
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12:30 PM - 1:00 PM in ROZH 101 |
GRADUATE STUDENT MEMBER GENERAL MEETING |
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Grad students elect a new student representative to the Council. |
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM in MACK 237 |
multipaper presentation |
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"Scientific Instruments in Natural History: The Case of Insect Collections (I and II)" Organizer(s): Jean-Francois Auger and Kristin Johnson Chair: David Hull Pamela Henson, Smithsonian Institution "Types, Pests, and Endangered Species: A Biography of the US National Entomological Collection" Kristin Johnson, Center for Biology and Society, Arizona State University "Rothschild’s Insect Collection: Moving from Private to Public Spaces" Donald Opitz, General College, University of Minnesota "Collecting Entomological Knowledge: Miss Balfour, the 'Specialists', and East Lothian Butterflies, 1910-1930" |
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3:30 PM - 4:00 PM in ROZH Concourse |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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Applies to sessions in MCKN and ROZ |
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM in ROZH 107 |
multipaper presentation |
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"Using evolution to explain cultural phenomena" Chair: Robert J. Richards Grant Ramsey, Department of Philosophy, Duke University "Why is it good to be cultured?" Maria E. Kronfeldner, Regensburg University, Germany "Objections against creativity as based on blind variation: selective processes, guided variation and cognitive mechanisms in creativity" Snait B. Gissis, Cohn Institute, Tel Aviv University "Biological heredity and cultural inheritance in the two editions of Herbert Spencer’s “The Principles of Psychology”" Paulo Abrantes, University of Brasília, Department of Philosophy *Charbel El-Hani, Federal University of Bahia, Institute of Biology "Darwinism Self-Applied: Gould, Hull, and the Individuation of Scientific Theories" |
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM in ROZH 108 |
multipaper presentation |
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"Intervening in Ecosystems" Chair: Philip Pauly David Brownstein, University of British Columbia, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability "More valuable than the pampered fruit trees of the orchard: British Columbia conifer seed, 1912-1940" Margareta Bergman, Department of Historical Studies, Umeå University, Sweden Sofia Åkerberg, Department of Animal Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden "Levels of acceptance for moose damage on forest in Sweden, 1940-2000" Christine Keiner, STS/Public Policy Department, Rochester Institute of Technology "The New Oyster Wars: Debating the Deliberate Introduction of Non-Native Oysters to the Chesapeake Bay" |
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5:30 PM - 7:00 PM in ROZH 101 |
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP BUSINESS MEETING |
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This is your chance to shape the policies of the Society. PLEASE ATTEND! |
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Saturday, July 16, 2005 |
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM in ROZH 105 |
multipaper presentation |
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"Racial Science and Ideologies, 1930s-1950s: Freud, Reiter, Mayr and Huxley" Organizer(s): Eliza Slavet Chair: Staffan Mueller-Wille Eliza Slavet, Cultural Studies, University of California, San Diego "Subjectively Pseudoscientific: Freud’s Racial Theory of Jewishness" André Mineau, History and Ethics, University of Quebec at Rimouski Gilbert Larochelle, University of Quebec at Chicoutimi "Hans Reiter in France: The Economic Implications of Political Correctness in Science" Brigid Hains, independent scholar, Australia "Population biology as a way forward from racial science: Huxley and Mayr in the late 1940s" |
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM in ROZH 107 |
multipaper presentation |
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"Biology, Philosophy, and the Cultural Authority of Science" Chair: Charles Alt Kevin Amidon, Iowa State, Dept of Foreign Languages and Literatures "Biology contra Public Sphere: Does Habermas Really Help Us With the History of Biology?" Kim Cuddington, Department of Biological Sciences/ Quantitative Biology Institute, Ohio State University Beatrix Beisner, Département des sciences biologiques; Université du Québec à Montréal "Rhetorical appeals to philosophy of science in ecology" Melissa Lammey, Florida State University, Department of Philosophy "Accounting for Difference Within the Scientific Community: Feminist Strategies" Clifford Sosis, Florida State University "Am I A Metaphysical Bigot?" |
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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM in MACK 236 |
multipaper presentation |
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"The Art of Observation" Rebecca Ellis, Research Associate, IEPPP, Lancaster University "The Joy of Pattern Recognition and the Jizz. Embodied appreciation, surveillance and conviviality: an approach to the aesthetics of biological recording in the UK" Jason Tipton, St. John's College, Annapolis "Aristotle and two small, ugly, insignificant fishes" Maria Elice Brzezinski Prestes, Graduate Program on History of Science, PUC, Sao Paolo "Methodological parameters in the work of Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729-1799)" |
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10:30 AM - 11:00 AM in ROZH Concourse |
MORNING BREAK |
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Applies to sessions in MCKN and ROZ |
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in ROZH 105 |
multipaper presentation |
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"Witnessing microscopy" Organizer(s): Jutta Schickore Chair: Michael Lynch Jutta Schickore, History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University Bloomington "They “saw distinctly” – and yet they were deceived: Alexander Monro, Felice Fontana, and the limits of direct witnessing" Nancy Anderson, Université de Genève "Divided Expertise: Biologists, a Physicist, and the Beginnings of Video Microscopy" Aryn Martin, Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University "Counting witnesses and witnessing counts in human cytology, 1900-1956" Discussant(s): Michael Lynch |
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12:30 PM - 2:00 PM in MACK 132 |
Council Meeting II |
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Lunch will be catered |
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12:30 PM - 2:00 PM in ROZH Concourse |
LUNCH BREAK |
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NOTE: Creelman is not available this day and so we are switched to Rozanski Hall (ROZ) |
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM in ROZH 102 |
multipaper presentation |
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"Rebels of Life: Iconoclasts and Innovators in Biology" Organizer(s): Michael Dietrich Chair: Michael Dietrich Nathaniel Comfort, Johns Hopkins University "Rebel without a pause: the self-consciously iconoclastic career of Barbara McClintock" Oren Harman, Bar Ilan University "C.D. Darlington and Methodological Iconoclasm: Cytology, Genetics and Evolution, 1932-1950" Judy Johns Schloegel, Argonne History Project, Argonne National Laboratory "Tracy Sonneborn, Convention, and Unconventionality in Cellular Heredity" Mark Borrello, Program in History of Science and Technology; Dept of Ecology, University of Minnesota "Dogma, Heresy and Conversion:Wynne-Edwards' crusade and the levels of selection debate" |
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM in ROZH 107 |
multipaper presentation |
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"Perspectives on Immunology" Organizer(s): Melinda Fagan Hyung Wook Park, Program in the History of Science, University of Minnesota "Germs, Hosts, and the Origin of Frank Macfarlane Burnet's Concept of "Self" and "Tolerance," 1936-1949" Thomas Pradeu, Philosophy, Sorbonne University "From an Immunological Point of View: the Move From ‘Self’ towards Interactionism to Define Biological Identity" Julio Tuma, University of Chicago, Philosophy "Developmental Sequestration, Variation, and the Vertebrate Immune System" Melinda Fagan, History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University "Shared goals and interdisciplinary interactions in contemporary immunology" |
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3:30 PM - 4:00 PM in ROZH Concourse |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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Applies to sessions in MCKN and ROZ |
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7:30 PM - 12:00 AM in River Run Canada Company Hall |
BANQUET |
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(Payment required with registration) |
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Sunday, July 17, 2005 |
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10:30 AM - 11:00 AM in ROZH Concourse |
MORNING BREAK |
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Applies to sessions in MCKN and ROZ |
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