VMST 2018: 8TH ANNUAL VALUES IN MEDICINE, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE 2018
PROGRAM

Days: Thursday, May 17th Friday, May 18th Saturday, May 19th Sunday, May 20th

Thursday, May 17th

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09:30-09:45 Session 1: Welcome and Introduction: Workshop on Racism and the Disciplinary Differentiation of Science and Philosophy

Workshop co-sponsored by the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies.

Welcoming Remarks and Workshop Introduction by Matthew J Brown (UT Dallas).

09:45-11:15 Session 2: Racism Workshop
Chair:
Peter Park (The University of Texas at Dallas, United States)
09:45
Karin Kuchler (University of Vienna, Austria)
A Genealogy of European Philosophy in the Context of the Darker Side of Enlightenment ( abstract )
10:30
Kevin Harrelson (Ball State University, United States)
Humans and Persons: Some Historical Observations on the Distinction ( abstract )
11:30-12:45 Session 3: Racism Workshop
Chair:
Matthew J. Brown (The University of Texas at Dallas, United States)
11:30
Eric Martin (Baylor University, United States)
Linnaeus, Reason, and Race ( abstract )
12:15
Demetrius Eudell (Wesleyan University, United States)
Response to Kuchler, Harrelson, and Martin ( abstract )
12:45-13:45 Session : Lunch

Courtesy of the Ackerman Center.

13:45-14:30 Session 4: Racism Workshop
Chair:
Peter Park (The University of Texas at Dallas, United States)
13:45
Justin E.H. Smith (University of Paris, France)
What Can We Know about Anton Wilhelm Amo? ( abstract )
14:45-16:15 Session 5: Racism Workshop
Chair:
Demetrius Eudell (Wesleyan University, United States)
14:45
Jameliah Shorter-Bourhanou (Georgia College, United States)
Race in Kant's Philosophy of History ( abstract )
15:30
Stella Sandford (Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University, UK)
Kant, Race and Natural History ( abstract )
16:45-18:00 Session 6: Racism Workshop
Chair:
Matthew J. Brown (The University of Texas at Dallas, United States)
16:45
Jennifer Mensch (Western Sydney University, Australia)
Lines of Descent: German Anthropology from Kant to Girtanner and Humboldt ( abstract )
17:30
Peter K.J. Park (The University of Texas at Dallas, United States)
Reponse to Shorter-Bourhanou, Sandford, and Mensch ( abstract )
Friday, May 18th

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09:45-10:40 Session 8: Feyerabend 2018
Chair:
Matthew J. Brown (The University of Texas at Dallas, United States)
09:45
Kathleen Okruhlik (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Science in a Just Society ( abstract )
11:00-11:55 Session 9: Feyerabend 2018
Chair:
Kathleen Okruhlik (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
11:00
Jamie Shaw (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
The Long and Winding Road of Feyerabend's Pluralism ( abstract )
13:00-13:55 Session 10: Feyerabend 2018
Chair:
Matthew J. Brown (The University of Texas at Dallas, United States)
13:00
Daniel Kuby (Universität Konstanz, Germany)
Why Defend Society Against Science? Understanding Feyerabend's View on the Collision of Scientific Development and Moral Demands ( abstract )
14:15-15:10 Session 11: Feyerabend 2018
Chair:
Eric Martin (Baylor University, United States)
14:15
Matthew J. Brown (The University of Texas at Dallas, United States)
Against Expertise: A Lesson from Feyerabend’s Science in a Free Society? ( abstract )
16:00-17:30 Session 13: Keynote Address
Chair:
Matthew J. Brown (The University of Texas at Dallas, United States)
16:00
Alison Wylie (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
Witnessing and Translating: The Indigenous/Science Project ( abstract )
Saturday, May 19th

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09:30-11:00 Session 14: Publics, Politics, and Science
Chair:
Matthew J. Brown (The University of Texas at Dallas, United States)
09:30
Eric Martin (Baylor University, United States)
Criticizing and inspiring science: the case of Richard Lewontin ( abstract )
09:50
Sharyn Clough (Phronesis Lab, OSU, United States)
Rorty, Science, and Peace Literacy ( abstract )
10:10
Cristian Larroulet Philippi (CU Boulder, United States)
Democratizing Well-ordered Science ( abstract )
11:30-12:15 Session 15: Lightning Talks
Chair:
Matthew J. Brown (The University of Texas at Dallas, United States)
11:30
Marina Dimarco (University of Pittsburgh, United States)
Kareem Khalifa (Middlebury College, United States)
Prediction Tickets: Values, Pursuit, and Underdetermination ( abstract )
11:35
Parysa Mostajir (University of Chicago, United States)
A Pragmatist Reintegration of Science and Ethics ( abstract )
11:40
Sindhuja Bhakthavatsalam (CSUN, United States)
Values in Science Education: A Critical Appraisal of ‘Nature of Science’ in the Next Generation Science Standards ( abstract )
11:45
Frederick Grinnell (UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States)
Insights from Philosophy of Science Fair about the Source of Uncertainty in Practice of Science ( abstract )
11:50
Anna Wani (UT Southwestern, United States)
To Sleep or not to sleep ( abstract )
11:55
Jesse Saloom (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, United States)
The Effect of Medical Progress on the Ethics of Organ Sales ( abstract )
12:00
Daniel Hicks (University of California, Davis, United States)
The Triple Movement of Research Metrics ( abstract )
12:05
Elyse Purcell (SUNY Oneonta, United States)
Animal Research, Interspecies Relationships and the Moral Community ( abstract )
12:10
J Britt Holbrook (New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States)
AAAS Statement on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility ( abstract )
13:30-14:30 Session 16: Health and Medicine I
Chair:
Peter Park (The University of Texas at Dallas, United States)
13:30
Sarah Miller (The Pennsylvania State University, United States)
On the Possibilities and Limitations of Epistemic Collaboration in Maternal-Fetal Medicine ( abstract )
13:50
Benjamin Chin-Yee (University of Toronto, Canada)
Ross Upshur (University of Toronto, Canada)
Jonathan Fuller (University of Toronto, Canada)
On the Very Idea of an Algorithm: Three Problems with Big Data and Machine Learning in Medicine ( abstract )
15:00-16:00 Session 17: Dissertations in Progress
Chair:
Matthew J. Brown (The University of Texas at Dallas, United States)
15:00
Christopher Choglueck (Indiana University Bloomington, United States)
Drug Facts and Value-laden Labels: the Pill, Informed Consent, and the FDA’s New Patient Inserts ( abstract )
15:20
Margaret Greta Turnbull (Boston College, United States)
Dinosaur Bones and Disagreement: What Paleobiologists Can Teach Epistemologists of Disagreement ( abstract )
16:30-17:30 Session 18: Mental Health
Chair:
Elyse Purcell (SUNY Oneonta, United States)
16:30
Susan Hawthorne (St. Catherine University, United States)
Anne Williams-Wengerd (St. Catherine University, United States)
‘Effective’ is a Weasel Word: On Effective Intervention in Serious Mental Illness ( abstract )
16:50
Claudia Murphy (Independent Scholar, United States)
Displacing the Addiction Paradigms--Addiction and Oppression, The Tale of an Alcoholic ( abstract )
Sunday, May 20th

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09:30-11:00 Session 19: Values in Science: Roles, Constraints, Criteria
Chair:
Matthew J. Brown (The University of Texas at Dallas, United States)
09:30
Andrew Schroeder (Princeton University/Claremont McKenna College, United States)
Values in Science, Public Trust, and Transparency ( abstract )
09:50
Samuel Hall (University of Notre Dame, United States)
The Function of Cognitive and Conative Values in Science ( abstract )
11:30-12:30 Session 20: Health and Medicine II
Chair:
Frederick Grinnell (UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States)
11:30
Jake Earl (National Institutes of Health, United States)
Innovative Practice, Clinical Research, and the Ethical Advancement of Medicine ( abstract )
11:50
Laura Cupples (University of South Carolina, United States)
Epistemic Justice, Health State Valuations, and the Quality Adjusted Life Year ( abstract )
13:30-15:00 Session 21: Empirical Approaches to Values in Science
Chair:
Dan Hicks (University of California, Davis, United States)
13:30
Jessey Wright (Stanford University, United States)
Making Images and Interpreting Data in Neuroimaging Research ( abstract )
13:50
Kathleen Connelly (University of California San Diego, United States)
How Philosophers of Moral Responsibility Can Draw on Psychology Morally and Responsibly ( abstract )
14:10
Dan Steel (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
Itai Bavli (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
Aaron McCright (Michigan State University, United States)
Chad Gonnerman (University of Southern Indiana, United States)
Gender and Scientists’ Views about the Value-Free Ideal ( abstract )