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 | A Genealogy of European Philosophy in the Context of the Darker Side of Enlightenment ( abstract ) |
10:30 | 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 | Linnaeus, Reason, and Race ( abstract ) |
12:15 | 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 | 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 | Race in Kant's Philosophy of History ( abstract ) |
15:30 | 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 | Lines of Descent: German Anthropology from Kant to Girtanner and Humboldt ( abstract ) |
17:30 | Reponse to Shorter-Bourhanou, Sandford, and Mensch ( abstract ) |
Friday, May 18th
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09:30-09:45 Session 7: Welcome and Introduction: Feyerabend 2018, Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of Science in a Free Society
Welcoming remarks from Matthew J Brown
09:45-10:40 Session 8: Feyerabend 2018
Chair:
Matthew J. Brown (The University of Texas at Dallas, United States)
09:45 | Science in a Just Society ( abstract ) |
11:00-11:55 Session 9: Feyerabend 2018
Chair:
Kathleen Okruhlik (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
11:00 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Criticizing and inspiring science: the case of Richard Lewontin ( abstract ) |
09:50 | Rorty, Science, and Peace Literacy ( abstract ) |
10:10 | 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 | Prediction Tickets: Values, Pursuit, and Underdetermination ( abstract ) |
11:35 | A Pragmatist Reintegration of Science and Ethics ( abstract ) |
11:40 | Values in Science Education: A Critical Appraisal of ‘Nature of Science’ in the Next Generation Science Standards ( abstract ) |
11:45 | Insights from Philosophy of Science Fair about the Source of Uncertainty in Practice of Science ( abstract ) |
11:50 | To Sleep or not to sleep ( abstract ) |
11:55 | The Effect of Medical Progress on the Ethics of Organ Sales ( abstract ) |
12:00 | The Triple Movement of Research Metrics ( abstract ) |
12:05 | Animal Research, Interspecies Relationships and the Moral Community ( abstract ) |
12:10 | 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 | On the Possibilities and Limitations of Epistemic Collaboration in Maternal-Fetal Medicine ( abstract ) |
13:50 | 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 | Drug Facts and Value-laden Labels: the Pill, Informed Consent, and the FDA’s New Patient Inserts ( abstract ) |
15:20 | 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 | ‘Effective’ is a Weasel Word: On Effective Intervention in Serious Mental Illness ( abstract ) |
16:50 | 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 | Values in Science, Public Trust, and Transparency ( abstract ) |
09:50 | 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 | Innovative Practice, Clinical Research, and the Ethical Advancement of Medicine ( abstract ) |
11:50 | 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 | Making Images and Interpreting Data in Neuroimaging Research ( abstract ) |
13:50 | How Philosophers of Moral Responsibility Can Draw on Psychology Morally and Responsibly ( abstract ) |
14:10 | Gender and Scientists’ Views about the Value-Free Ideal ( abstract ) |