Pierre Wagner Philosophy, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Research Fellow, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University

Commentator: Cheryl Chen Philosophy, Harvard University

Morning Session, 9:30am-12:30pm

• From Vienna Circle to Harvard Square and to Boston University

  Gerald Holton Physics and History of Science, Harvard University

   

• Founding the Center and Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science

  Robert Cohen Philosophy and Physics, Boston University

• You Must Remember This: Highlights from the Last 50 Years

  John Stachel Center for Einstein Studies and Physics, Boston University

  PowerPoint | Handout

• Reminiscences

  Abner Shimony Philosophy and Physics, Boston University

  PowerPoint | Paper

Afternoon Session, 2:00pm-5:00pm

• American Philosophers of Science At Work in the 1950s: Philipp Frank, Ernest Nagel, and the Prospects for an Empirical History of Philosophy of Science in America

  Alan Richardson Philosophy, University of British Columbia

• Creating the Disciplinary Space of Philosophy of Science: A History of the PSA before 1970

  Heather Douglas Philosophy, University of Tennessee

  PowerPoint

• Philosophy of Science Breaks Loose: Some Milestones

  Ernan McMullin History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame

  Handout

• Reexamining the Biological Race Debate

  Quayshawn Spencer Philosophy, University of San Francisco

PowerPoint

• Race and IQ in a Genomic Age

  Sarah Richardson History of Science & Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University

• What is the ‘Environment’ in Gene-Environment Interaction?: Implications for Health Disparities Research

  Sara Shostak Sociology, Brandeis University

Afternoon Session, 2:00pm–5:00pm

• Race for Cures: Ethnic Drugs as Public Health?

  Ruha Benjamin Sociology, Boston University

• Excavating Difference: Race and Drugs in the Age of Personal Genomics

  Sandra Soo-Jin Lee Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University School of Medicine

• Race and the Other Possibilities for Personalized Medicine

  David Jones Science, Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• What the Red Sox Can Teach Us about Studying Animal Minds

  Eric Saidel Dept of Philosophy, George Washington University

• Studies on the Cognitive Ethology of Grey Parrots

  Irene M. Pepperberg Dept of Psychology, Harvard University and Brandeis University

• Knowledge of Other Minds: What’s Science Got to Do With It?

  Dale Jamieson Dept of Philosophy, Dept of Environmental Studies and Law School, New York University

Afternoon Session, 2:00pm–5:00pm

• Reflections of Animal Minds

  Diana Reiss Dept of Psychology, Hunter College and the Biopsychology & Behavioral Neuroscience Program, The Graduate Center, CUNY

• Animal Minds and Animal Emotions: What We Know, How We Know It and Why It Really Matters

  Marc Bekoff Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder

• Models, Mechanisms, and Animal Minds

  Colin Allen Dept of History & Philosophy of Science and Program in Cognitive Science, Indiana University, Bloomington

Limits and the Emergence of Special-Science Properties

Peter Bokulich Dept of Philosophy, Boston University

Two Routes to Metaphysical Emergence in the Thermodynamic Limit

Jessica Wilson Dept of Philosophy, University of Toronto

The Limits of Representation

Laura Ruetsche Dept of Philosophy, University of Michigan

Reductionism, Naturalism, and the Thermodynamic Limit

Sorin Bangu Dept of Philosophy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Scientifically Flawed Solutions to Climate Change

Kristin Shrader-Frechette Dept of Philosophy and Dept of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame

What Humanists Need to Know About the Science of Climate Change

Robert K. Kaufmann Department of Geography and Environment & Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Boston University

International Climate Ethics in a Time of Uncertain Climate Policy

Andrew Light Dept of Philosophy, George Mason University and Center for American Progress