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Society for the History and Philosophy of Science / Société canadienne d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences Annual Meeting / Congrès annuel |
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2002
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Preliminary program / Programme préliminaire
Thursday, 24 May / Jeudi, 24 mai 8:30-10:00 Mind-Body
Problems / Chairman / Président : [To be announced / à confirmer] Mansour-Robaey, Sonia (Université du Québec à Montréal), “Instruction et sélection : deux cadres théoriques concurrents ou complémentaires ?” LeBlanc, André (Université du Québec à Montréal), “Entre Pascal et Hacking : discours concernant la machine” Dempsey, Liam P. (University of Western Ontario), “Mind-Body Identity : Tonic for the Epiphenomic”Nicholas, John (University of Western Ontario), "If Not at the Pineal Gland, Then Where? Consciousness in a Neural Archipelago" Science,
Culture, and Society / Chairman / Président : Jean-François Auger (Université du Québec à Montréal) Levere, Trevor (University of Toronto), “Coffee House Philosophers at Home and Abroad : The Chapter Coffee House Society, 1780-1787” Boily, Caroline (Université du Québec à Montréal), “La science de l’optique et l’invention des machines à communiquer : l’exemple de la lanterne magique entre les XVIIe et XIXe siècles” Lagueux, Olivier (Yale University), “Grandeur et Déclin d’une courtisane : la girafe nubienne du Jardin du Roi”
10:00 –10:15 Coffee Break / Pause Café
10:15 –12:00 Space-time,
Physics and Philosophy / Chairman / Président : [To be announced / à confirmer] Arthur, Richard (Middlebury College), “How Leibniz Got Beyond the At-At Theory of Motion” Frappier, Mellani (University of Western Ontario), “Sur les 'principes de relativité' de Poincaré" Klatt, Carrie (University of Western Ontario), “What’s Does Philosophy Have to do With It ?” Bueno, Otávio (California State University), “Is it Possible to Nominalize Quantum Mechanics ?”Natural
Knowledge and the English Academy, 1600-1800 : From Cloister to Public
Sphere / Chairman / Président : Trevor Levere (University of Toronto) Stewart, Ian G. (University of King’s College), “Cloister and Court, Priests and Gentlemen : Secrets of Nature and Open Conversation in Seventeenth-Century Oxbridge Colleges” Iliffe, Rob, (Imperial College), “A Judicious Assembly or a Censorious Multitude? Newton’s Publics in Late Seventeenth-Century England” Stewart, Larry (University of Saskatchewan), “The Public Culture of Radical Philosophers in Eighteenth-Century London”
12:00 –13:30 CSHPS
Executive Lunch Meeting
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13:30-15:00 Convention
in space-time / Chairman / Président : [To be announced / à confirmer] Gimbel, Steve (Gettysburg College), “The Plane Truth About Reichenbach’s Geometric Conventionality” Boutillier, David (University of Western Ontario), “The A Priori Constitutive Element in Theories of Spacetime” Rynasiewicz, Robert (Johns Hopkins University), “Is Simultaneity Conventional Despite Malament’s Result ?”Music,
Method, and Vision in Early Modern Science / Chairman / Président : [To be announced / à confirmer] Konoval, Brandon (University of British Columbia), “Music and the Book of Nature : Pythagorean Tradition and Empirical Mathematics in the Discourses of Vincenzo Galilei” El-bizri, Nader (University of Cambridge and Nottingham), “Alhazen’s Treatise on Place” Gomez, Jaime G. (independent scholar), “Gomez Pereira 1500-2000 : The Precursor of the Scientific Method”Morris, Kathryn (King's College), "Galileo, Oresme, and Hobbes' Kinematical Mathematics"
15:00 –15:15 Coffee Break / Pause Café
15:15-16:45 The
Philosophy of the Application of Mathematics to Nature / Chairman / Président : [To be announced / à confirmer] Feist, Richard (University of Ottawa), “Weyl and Husserl : Two Transcendental Idealists” Gauthier, Yvon (Université de Montréal), “La logique modulaire : un calcul unifié pour toutes les logiques” Hanson, Philip P. (Simon Fraser University), “Self Organization as Order for Free”Feminism
and Science / Chairman / Président : [To be announced / à confirmer] Shulman, Bonnie Jean (Bates College) “Feminists and Scientists : Can We Talk ?” [Other participants to be announced / autres participants à confirmer]
Friday, 25 May / Vendredi, 25 mai 8:30-10:00 Rethinking the Analytical Tradition in the Philosophy of Science / Repenser la tradition analytique en philosophie des sciences Chairman / Président : [To be announced / à confirmer] Steed, Sheldon (University of British Columbia), “Otto Neurath : Bridging Quine and Carnap in the Analytical Debate” Brown, Derek H. (University of Western Ontario), “A Limit of Rigorization in its Application to Meaning” Leroux, Jean (University of Ottawa), “Bachelard and the Analytic Tradition”Moving
Things Around : Language, Class, and Networks of Exchange in Victorian
Science / Chairman / Président : [To be announced / à confirmer] Anderson, K. (York University), “Building the Language of Science’ McOuat, Gordon (Dalhousie University), “From the Ground Up” McLaughlin-Jenkins, Erin (York University) “Generation V : Radical Youth and Science as Counter Culture in Late Victorian England”9:00 –12:30 Book Symposium : "Unifying Scientific Theories", by Margareth Morrison / Débat autour du livre "Unifying Scientific Theories" de Margareth Morrison Joint
Session with the Canadian Philosophical Association / Topic of The Syposium / Présentation du débat Participants
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10:00 –10:15 Coffee Break / Pause Café
10:15-12:00 Uneasy
Relations : The Social and the Natural Sciences / Chairman / Président : André LEBLANC (Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie) Palmer, Eric (Allegheny College) “Modeling Ethics” Sousa, Maria-Filomena de (Université du Québec à Montréal), “Sciences sociales, économie et idées constitutives” Wray, K. Brad (University of British Columbia), “Do People Really Understand Themselves ?”Looking
to See : Images at Work in Twentieth-Sentury Science / Chairman / Président : Jim Brown (University of Toronto) Abraham, Tara (Dibner Institute), “Styles of Visualization : Representing Neurons in the 1930s” Kroker, Kenton (McGill University), “The Death of the Clinic ? Picturing Viruses Before 1935” Wittmann, Claudia (University of Toronto), “Case Study of the Construction of Photographs by Felice Frankel at MIT, 1992-1999”
12:00 –13:30 CSHPS
Council Meeting
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13:30-15:00 20th Century
Biological and Medical Sciences / Chairman / Président : Pierrick Malissard (Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology) Singh, Siddhartha (Cornell University), “The Origins of AIDS: Through a Contaminated Experimental Polio Vaccine ?” McGivern, Patrick & Francis Jeffry Pelletier (University of Alberta), “Holism in Medecine” Rutherford, Michael (Université du Québec à Montréal), “Développement de la génétique au Québec. Portrait des premiers travaux et enseignements”Author
Meets Critics: Martens meets Voelkl, Bennet, Swerdlow / [Participants to be announced / participants à déterminer ]
15:00 –15:15 Coffee Break / Pause Café
15:15-16:45 Stillman
Drake Lecturer / Franklin, Ursula (University of Toronto), "Of Things and Thoughts: Reflexions, in Memory of Stillman Drake, on the Scientific Study of Artifacts" Saturday, 26 May / Samedi, 26 mai 8:30-10:00 Certainty
and Rules in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge / Chairman / Président : Yves Gingras (Université du Québec à Montréal) Martin, Aryn E. (Cornell University), “Counting Chromosomes : The Social Construction of Certainty in the History of Human Cytogenetics" Trudel, Jean-Louis (Université du Québec à Montréal), “From Doppler Shifts to Paradigms Shifts” Questions
of Evidence in 20th Century Physics / Chairman / Président : [To be announced / à confirmer] Myrvold, Wayne C. (University of Western Ontario), “Why Does Entropy Increase ?” Hudson, Robert G. (Algoma University College), “Novelty and the 1919 Eclipse Experiments”
10:00 –10:15 Coffee Break / Pause Café
10:15-12:00 Aristotle,
Aristotelicians, and the Life Sciences / Chairman / Président : [To be announced / à confirmer] Vinci, Tom & Jason Robert (Dalhousie University), “Aristotle and Genetic Theory” Winsor, Polly (University of Toronto), “Was Linnaeus Really an Aristotelian, and Why Does It Matter ?” Garrett, Brian (York University), “Mechanism and Vitalism : Nehemiah Grew’s Argument Against Mechanism”BYRNE, C. (St. Francis Xavier University), "Aristotle on Physical Necessity"
10: 15-11: 05 Knowledge
in Ancient and Medieval Natural Philosophy / Chairman / Président : [To be announced / à confirmer] Lehoux, Daryn (University of King’s College), “Cicero’s Attack on Divination” Bouchard, Philippe (Université du Québec à Montréal), “La reconstruction du savoir scientifique : le cas de Barthélemy l’Anglais au XIIIe siècle”
11:05-12:00: Geology
and Empire in the 19th Century / Chairman / Président : [To be announced / à confirmer] White, Michael (McGill University), “Charles Lyell’s Gothic Science” Shipley, Brian (Dalhousie University), “Imperial Science for Colonial Lands: William Logan's Practice of Geology in Canada "
12:00 –13:30 Lunch / Dîner
13:30-14:15 Kuhn
Revisited / Winkelman, Paul (University of Calcary), "Evaluating Science Through Engineering Design" Smith, George
14:15-15:45 CHSPS
Annual General Meeting /
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