| Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
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Cutler/Putnam Ballroom,
Ohio University Inn |
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| 5:00-10:00 pm |
Deli buffet dinner |
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| Monday, 21 July 2008 |
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John W. Galbreath Room,
Ohio University Inn |
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| 7:00-8:30 am |
Breakfast |
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Baker 242
Ohio University Campus |
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| 9:00-9:30 am |
Introductions |
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Phil Ehrlich
Ohio University |
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| 9:30-9:55 |
John D. Norton
University of Pittsburgh |
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How Hume and Mach Helped Einstein Find Special Relativity |
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| 9:55-10:20 |
Nikolay Milkov
University of Paderborn
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Reichenbach’s Method of Analysis of Science |
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| 10:20-10:40 |
Break |
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Baker 242
Ohio University Campus |
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James Lennox
University of Pittsburgh |
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| 10:40-11:05 |
Scott Carson
Ohio University |
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Aristotle's Conception of the Relation between the Science of Geometry and the Ontology of Physical Space |
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| 11:05-11:30 |
Mehmet Elgin
Muğla University
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How Could There Be True Causal Claims Without There Being Special Causal Facts in the World? |
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| 11:30-2:00 pm |
Lunch Break |
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Baker 235
Ohio University Campus |
Baker 237
Ohio University Campus |
Baker 239
Ohio University Campus |
| Chairs |
Peter Machamer
University of Pittsburgh |
Brad Wilson
Slippery Rock University |
Fred Kronz
University of Texas |
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| 2:00-2:50 |
Athanasios Raftopoulos
University of Cyprus |
Paulo Abrantes
University of Brasilia |
Philip Ehrlich
Ohio University |
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Ambiguous Figures in Philosophy of Psychology |
Mindreading and Human Evolution |
A Re-examination of Zeno's Paradox of Extension |
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| 2:50-3:40 |
Rick Grush
University of California, San Diego |
Michael Bradie
Bowling Green State University |
Storrs McCall
McGill University |
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The Objects of Demonstrative Thought |
Karl Popper, Charles Darwin and the Most Impressive 19th century Evolutionary Philosopher |
The Consistency of Arithmetic |
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| 3:40-4:00 |
Break |
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Baker 235
Ohio University Campus |
Baker 237
Ohio University Campus |
Baker 239
Ohio University Campus |
| Chairs |
Demetris Portides
University of Cyprus
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Mehmet Elgin
Muğla University |
Malcom Forster
University of Wisconsin |
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| 4:00-4:50 |
Marion Ledwig
University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
C. Kenneth Waters
University of Minnesota |
Daniel Steel
Michigan State University |
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Common Sense and Folk Psychology |
Beyond Theoretical Reduction and Layer-Cake Antireduction: How DNA Retooled Genetics and Transformed Biological Practice |
Bayes Nets and Nanotech: A Chain Graph Framework for Extrapolation |
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| 4:50-5:40 |
António Zilhão
University of Lisbon |
Giovanni Camardi
University of Catania |
Joseph C. Pitt
Virginia Tech |
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What Is There in Common Between Probability Matching and the Sunk Cost Effect? |
How Reliable Is the Concept of “Genetic Information”? |
The Role of Metaphor in the Discussion of Nanotechnology |
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Cutler/Putnam Ballroom,
Ohio University Inn |
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| 6:00-10:00 |
Dinner |
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| Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
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John W. Galbreath Room,
Ohio University Inn |
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| 7:00-8:30 |
Breakfast |
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Baker 242
Ohio University Campus |
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Gerald Massey
University of Pittsburgh |
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| 9:00-9:25 am |
Víctor Rodríguez
University of Cordoba |
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Interactions Between Simulation and Measurement |
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| 9:25-9:50 |
Neil Tennant
Ohio State University |
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Core Logic |
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| 9:50-10:10 |
Break |
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Baker 235
Ohio University Campus |
Baker 237
Ohio University Campus |
Baker 239
Ohio University Campus |
| Chairs |
Giora Hon
University of Haifa |
Joseph Pitt
Virginia Tech |
Edward Slowik
Winona State University |
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| 10:10-11:00 |
Hernán Pringe
University of Dortmund |
Aristides Baltas
National Technical University of Athens |
Barbara Tuchańska
University of Lodz |
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Bohrian Complementarity and Kantian Teleology |
Paradigm Change as Grammatical Change: Older and Newer Issues |
Historical Contingency and the Stability of Demarcation. From Protoscience to Pseudoscience: The Case of Astrology |
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| 12:00-7:00 pm |
Outing to Ash Cave leaving from Ohio University Inn. |
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| Wednesday, 23 July 2008 |
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John W. Galbreath Room,
Ohio University Inn |
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| 7:00-8:30 |
Breakfast |
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Baker 235
Ohio University Campus |
Baker 237
Ohio University Campus |
Baker 239
Ohio University Campus |
| Chairs |
Nikolay Milkov
University of Paderborn |
Víctor Rodríguez
University of Cordoba |
Ted McGuire
University of Pittsburgh |
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| 9:00-9:50 am |
Jan Woleński
Jagiellonian University
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Jessica Pfeifer
University of Maryland, Baltimore City |
Edward Slowik
Winona State University |
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Philosophy of Science in Poland in the 20th Century |
Lewis, Laws, and Experimentation |
Newton’s Metaphysics of Space: A “Tertium Quid” Betwixt Substantivalism and Relationism, or Merely a “God of the (Rational Mechanical) Gaps”? |
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| 9:50-10:40 |
Gerald Massey
University of Pittsburgh |
Brad Wilson
Slippery Rock University |
Malcolm Forster
University of Wisconsin |
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Some Reflections on the Duhem-Quine Thesis |
On the Priority of Models in Ecology |
Towards a Unification of Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics |
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| 10:40-11:30 |
Dan Nesher
University of Haifa |
Wendy Parker
Ohio University |
Alexander Afriat
University of Urbino |
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Is There Scientific Genius? Criticism of the Kantian Dichotomy Between an Artist–genius’s Productive Imagination Freely Creating Fine Arts and a Scientist Following Mechanical Rules that Determine the Formation of Theories |
What Does It Mean When Climate Models Agree?
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The Relativity of Inertia and Reality of Nothing |
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| 11:30-1:30 pm |
Lunch Break |
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Baker 235
Ohio University Campus |
Baker 237
Ohio University Campus |
Baker 239
Ohio University Campus |
| Chairs |
C. Kenneth Waters
University of Minnesota |
Art Zucker
Ohio University |
George Gale
University of Missouri, Kansas City |
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| 1:30-2:20 |
James Lennox
University of Pittsburgh |
Laura Perini
Pamona College |
Fred Kronz
University of Texas |
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Functions and History |
Images and Abstraction in Biology |
Non-Monotonic Probability Theory for EPR-Correlated Quantum Systems |
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| 2:20-3:10 |
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Demetris Portides
University of Cyprus |
Antigone Nounou
University of Minnesota |
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Idealization and Abstraction in Scientific Modeling |
From Objects to Structure and Back |
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| 3:10-3:20 |
Short Break |
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| 3:20-4:10 |
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Lilia Gurova
New Bulgarian University |
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Models as Inferential Machines |
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| 4:10-4:30 |
Walk to Anderson Auditorium |
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Anderson Auditorium
Ohio University Campus |
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| Chair |
Wendy Parker
Ohio University |
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| 4:30-5:15 |
Nicholas Rescher
University of Pittsburgh |
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From the Spree to the Ohio: Philosophy of Science Crosses the Atlantic |
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Patio,
Ohio University Inn |
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| 7:00-10:00 pm |
Banquet |
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| Thursday, 24 July 2008 |
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John W. Galbreath Room,
Ohio University Inn |
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| 7:00-8:30 |
Breakfast |
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6th Quadrennial Fellows Conference 