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Tuesday 28 May / mardi 28 mai  
  

9:00-10:15 Opportunities for Science / Les réseaux de la science
(Victoria College 206)

Trevor Levere (University of Toronto)  
chairman / président

Hannah Gay (Simon Fraser University / Imperial College, London)
Science and Opportunity in London, 1871-1885 : 
The Diary of Herbert McLeod

Sylvia T. Wargon (Satistics Canada, Retired)
The demography of Enid Charles (1894 - 1972) in historical
perspective

 
Experiments / L'expérimentation
(Victoria College 323)

James Brown (University of Toronto)  
chairman / président

Margaret Schabas (University of British Columbia)
Hume on Thought Experiments

Daniela Monaldi (University of Toronto)
The Conversi-Pancini-Piccioni Experiment and the Beginning of Modern Particle Physics

James A. Marcum (Baylor University)
Tempering Nature: Exploring General Features of Experimental Practices in the Natural Sciences

10:15-10:30 Break / Pause
 
10:15-11:45 Environmental Epistemologies / 
Épistémologie de l'environnement
(Woodsworth College, 111 Kruger Hall)

Edward Jones-Imhotep (York University)
Knowing the North: Meteorological Instruments and Malevolent Nature

Neil Evernden (York University)
Nature, Discourse, and the 'Crisis of Imagery'

Lorraine Code (York University)
Knowing Ecologically: Feminist Theory and the Politics of Knowledge

Joint session with the Environmental Studies Association of Canada.
Séance conjointe avec l'Association des études environnementales canadiennes.

  

10:30-12:00 Metaphysics / Métaphysique
(Victoria College 206)

Jean Leroux (Université d'Ottawa) 
chairman / président

Anjan Chakravartty (Cambridge University)
The Structuralist Conception of Objects

P. Kyle Stanford  (University of California)
Selective Confirmation: No Help for Scientific Realism

Jillian Scott McIntosh & 
Christian Lacroix
(University of Western Ontario)

Non-Supervening Emergence?

Biomedical Sciences in Social Context / 
Le contexte social des sciences biomédicales 
(Victoria College 323)

Gordon McOuat (University of King's College)
 chairman / président

Andrew Reynolds (University College of Cape Breton)
Metazoic Polities and Cellular Citizens: The Cell-State Metaphor in 19th Century Cell Biology

Anne-Julie Houle (Université du Québec à Montréal)
The Impact of Molecular Biology on Oncology : The Case of the Montreal Cancer Institute

Ted Everson (University of Toronto)
The Political Economy of Canadian Genomics

12:00-14:00 Lunch / Dîner
 
14:00-15:15 Science, Literature and Popularization
La science dans la littérature et la vulgarisation
(Victoria College 206)

Bernard Lightman (York University)  
chairman / président

Eric Palmer  (Allegheny College)
Pangloss Identified

Jean-Louis Trudel (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Verging on the Vernacular: Technological Dreams in Popular Science and Technology Magazines of the 19th Century

Jean-François Chassay (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Regards croisés: l'écrivain et le physicien face au réel dans Atlas occidental de Daniele Del Giudice

 

19th Century Philosophy of Science / La philosophie des sciences au XIXe siècle
(Victoria College 323)

Margaret Schabas (University of British Columbia) 
chairman / président

Jean Leroux (Université d'Ottawa)
De la vérité en sciences. Considérations sur la tradition épistémologique du 19e siècle

Frederic Bouchard  (Duke University)
An Examination of Peirce's Intuition about the Statistical Character of Evolutionary Theory

Mary Pickard Winsor (University of Toronto)
Whewell's Method of Types, the Very Antithesis of Typology

 
 

15:15-15:30 Break / Pause
 
15:30-17:00 Digging Science / Creuser la science
(Victoria College 206)

Eric Mills (Dalhousie University)
chairman / président

David McGee (Dibner Institute)
A Second Battle of the Pyramids: An Early Episode in the Development of Scientific Archaeology

J. Conor Burns (University of Toronto)
Mountbuilders and Material Culture, 1884-1894: An Alternative Approach for Understanding the History of Prehistoric Archaeology

Rob-Roy Douglas (University of Toronto)
Hiding Dirty Linen: The Geological Survey of Canada, Alexander Galt and the Bow and Belly River Coal Deposits

 

Themes in the Philosophy of Science / Thèmes en philosophie des sciences
(Victoria College 323)

Anjan Chakravartty (Cambridge University)
chairman / président

Zvi Biener & Chris Smeenk (University of Pittsburgh)
Is Gravity at the Heart of the Matter? Mathematics and Philosophy in the Newton-Cotes Correspondence

Ravi Gomatam (Bhaktivedanta Institute)
What is Neils Bohr’s Interpretation?

Gualtiero Piccinini  (University of Pittsburgh)
Computing Mechanism

 

End / Fin 

 


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