2000 HSS/PSA Program 1 - History of Science Society

PSA 2000 Program
Saturday, 4 November
9:00 a.m.—11:45 a.m.
Saturday, 4 November
Simultaneity, Space, and Spacetime (Contributed Papers)
(Seymour)
Robert Rynasiewicz, Johns Hopkins University, Definition, Convention, and
Simultaneity: Malament’s Result and Its Alleged Refutation by Sarkar and Stachel
Steve Weinstein, Princeton University, Remarks on the Conventionality of
Simultaneity
Thomas Mormann, Universidad del Pais Vasco, A Quasianalytical
Constitution of Physical Space
Mauro Dorato, University of Rome III, Italy, On Becoming, Cosmic Time
and Rotating Universes
Glenn Parsons, University of Alberta and Patrick McGivern, University of
Alberta, Can the Bundle Theory save Substantivalism from the Hole Argument?
CHAIR: David Malament, University of California, Irvine
Philosophy of Neuroscience: Current Issues and Meta-Considerations
(Symposium)
(Grouse)
Kathleen Akins, Simon Fraser University, Recent Work in the Neuroscience
of Vision: Some Philosophical Considerations
Murat Aydede, University of Chicago and Guven Guzeldere, Duke University,
Explaining Pain Experience in an Information-Theoretic Framework:
Introspective Mechanisms and Concept Formation
Owen Flanagan, Duke University, Is the Neural Level Privileged in the
Explanation of the Mental?
COMMENTATOR: Patricia Churchland, University of California, San Diego
CHAIR: Guven Guzeldere, Duke University
Science and Public Policy (Contributed Papers)
(Lord Byron)
Kristin Shrader-Frechette, University of Notre Dame, Radiobiological
Hormesis, Methodological Value Judgments, and Metascience
Kevin Elliott, University of Notre Dame, Chemical Hormesis: Assessing the
Warrant for Policy-Driven Science
Lisa Gannett, California State University, Chico, Racism and Human Genome
Diversity Research: the Ethical Limits of ‘Population Thinking’
Jay Odenbaugh, University of Calgary, Ecological Stability, Model Building,
and Environmental Policy: A Reply to Some of the Pessimism
CHAIR: Peter Kirschenmann, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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