2000 HSS/PSA Program 1 - History of Science Society

PSA 2000 Program
Thursday, 2 November
4:00 p.m.—6:30 p.m.
Thursday, 2 November
Philosophy of Biology (Contributed Papers)
(King George)
Kim Cuddington, University of Guelph / University of Connecticut, The
Balance of Nature metaphor in Population Ecology: Theory or Paradigm?
Anya Plutynski, University of Pennsylvania, Modeling Evolution in Theory
and Practice
Rachel␣ A. Ankeny, University of Sydney, Model Organisms as Cases:
Understanding the ‘Lingua Franca’ at the Heart of the Human Genome Project
William␣ A. Rottschaefer, Lewis and Clark College, The Scientific
Naturalization of Ethics
CHAIR: Bruce Glymour, Kansas State University
Quantum Mechanics I (Contributed Papers)
(Seymour)
Michael Dickson, Indiana University, Quantum Logic is Alive (and it is true
or it is false)
Ruth␣ E. Kastner, University of Maryland, A critical look at time-symmetric
quantum counterfactuals
Armond Duwell, University of Pittsburgh, Explaining Information Transfer
in Quantum Teleportation
CHAIR: Frank Arntzenius, Rutgers University
Jeffrey and Bayesian Epistemology (Symposium)
(Oxford Room)
Persi Diaconis, Stanford University, Probability Kinematics at the Millennium
Sandy Zabell, Northwestern University, Finite Additivity and Radical Probabilism
Brian Skyrms, University of California, Irvine, Altruism, Inclusive Fitness,
and ‘The Logic of Decision’
CHAIR: Carl␣ G. Wagner, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Friday, 3 November
9:00 a.m.—11:45 a.m.
Experiment and Confirmation (Contributed Papers)
(Brighton)
Michelle Little, Northwestern University, Rethinking ‘Experimentation’
Samuel Mitchell, Mt. Holyoke College, Confirming Theories One Claim at a Time
Don Fallis, University of Arizona, Measures of Epistemic Utility and the Value of
Experiments
Marc Lange, University of Washington, The Apparent Superiority of Prediction
To Accommodation As A Side Effect: A Reply to Maher
CHAIR: Jason Alexander, University of California, San Diego