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6th Quadrennial Fellows Conference
Sunday, 20 July - Thursday, 24 July 2008
at Ohio University
Athens, Ohio

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Sunday, 20 July 2008
       
  Cutler/Putnam Ballroom, Ohio University Inn  
5:00-10:00 pm Deli buffet dinner    
       
Monday, 21 July 2008
       
  John W. Galbreath Room, Ohio University Inn  
7:00-8:30 am Breakfast    
       
  Baker 242
Ohio University Campus
   
9:00-9:30 am Introductions    
       
Chair

Phil Ehrlich
Ohio University

   
9:30-9:55 John D. Norton
University of Pittsburgh
   
 

How Hume and Mach Helped Einstein Find Special Relativity

   
9:55-10:20 Nikolay Milkov
University of Paderborn
   
  Reichenbach’s Method of Analysis of Science    
       
10:20-10:40 Break    
       
  Baker 242
Ohio University Campus
   
Chair James Lennox
University of Pittsburgh
   
       
10:40-11:05 Scott Carson
Ohio University
   
  Aristotle's Conception of the Relation between the Science of Geometry and the Ontology of Physical Space    
       
11:05-11:30 Mehmet Elgin
Muğla University
   
  How Could There Be True Causal Claims Without There Being Special Causal Facts in the World?    
       
11:30-2:00 pm Lunch Break    
       
  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
       
2:00-2:50 Athanasios Raftopoulos
University of Cyprus
Paulo Abrantes
University of Brasilia
Philip Ehrlich
Ohio University
  Ambiguous Figures in Philosophy of Psychology Mindreading and Human Evolution A Re-examination of Zeno's Paradox of Extension
       
2:50-3:40 Rick Grush
University of California, San Diego
Michael Bradie
Bowling Green State University
Storrs McCall
McGill University
  The Objects of Demonstrative Thought Karl Popper, Charles Darwin and the Most Impressive 19th century Evolutionary Philosopher The Consistency of Arithmetic
       
3:40-4:00 Break    
       
  Baker 235
Ohio University Campus
Baker 237
Ohio University Campus
Baker 239
Ohio University Campus
Chairs Demetris Portides
University of Cyprus
Mehmet Elgin
Muğla University
Malcom Forster
University of Wisconsin
       
4:00-4:50 Marion Ledwig
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
C. Kenneth Waters
University of Minnesota
Daniel Steel
Michigan State University
  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
       
4:50-5:40 António Zilhão
University of Lisbon
Giovanni Camardi
University of Catania
Joseph C. Pitt
Virginia Tech
  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
       
  Cutler/Putnam Ballroom, Ohio University Inn  
6:00-10:00 Dinner    
       
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
       
  John W. Galbreath Room, Ohio University Inn  
7:00-8:30

Breakfast

   
       
  Baker 242
Ohio University Campus
   
Chair Gerald Massey
University of Pittsburgh
   
       
9:00-9:25 am Víctor Rodríguez
University of Cordoba
   
  Interactions Between Simulation and Measurement    
       
9:25-9:50 Neil Tennant
Ohio State University
   
  Core Logic    
       
9:50-10:10 Break    
       
  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
       
10:10-11:00 Hernán Pringe
University of Dortmund
Aristides Baltas
National Technical University of Athens
Barbara Tuchańska
University of Lodz
  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
       
12:00-7:00 pm Outing to Ash Cave leaving from Ohio University Inn.
       
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
       
  John W. Galbreath Room, Ohio University Inn  
7:00-8:30

Breakfast

   
       
  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
       
9:00-9:50 am Jan Woleński
Jagiellonian University
Jessica Pfeifer
University of Maryland, Baltimore City
Edward Slowik
Winona State University
  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”?
       
9:50-10:40 Gerald Massey
University of Pittsburgh
Brad Wilson
Slippery Rock University
Malcolm Forster
University of Wisconsin
  Some Reflections on the Duhem-Quine Thesis On the Priority of Models in Ecology Towards a Unification of Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics
       
10:40-11:30 Dan Nesher
University of Haifa
Wendy Parker
Ohio University
Alexander Afriat
University of Urbino
  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?
The Relativity of Inertia and Reality of Nothing
       
11:30-1:30 pm Lunch Break    
       
  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
       
1:30-2:20 James Lennox
University of Pittsburgh
Laura Perini
Pamona College
Fred Kronz
University of Texas
  Functions and History Images and Abstraction in Biology Non-Monotonic Probability Theory for EPR-Correlated Quantum Systems
       
2:20-3:10   Demetris Portides
University of Cyprus
Antigone Nounou
University of Minnesota
    Idealization and Abstraction in Scientific Modeling From Objects to Structure and Back
       
3:10-3:20 Short Break    
       
3:20-4:10   Lilia Gurova
New Bulgarian University
 
    Models as Inferential Machines
       
4:10-4:30 Walk to Anderson Auditorium    
       
  Anderson Auditorium
Ohio University Campus
   
Chair Wendy Parker
Ohio University
   
       
4:30-5:15 Nicholas Rescher
University of Pittsburgh
   
  From the Spree to the Ohio: Philosophy of Science Crosses the Atlantic    
       
  Patio, Ohio University Inn  
7:00-10:00 pm Banquet    
       
Thursday, 24 July 2008
       
  John W. Galbreath Room, Ohio University Inn  
7:00-8:30

Breakfast

   
       

Program Committee

Philip Ehrlich (Ohio University) and John D. Norton (University of Pittsburgh), Co-chairs
Peter Gildenhuys (University of Pittsburgh)
Wendy Parker (Ohio University)
Arthur Zucker (Ohio University), consultant


Sponsors

The organizers gratefully acknowledge support from the Offices of the Provost, the Dean of Arts and Sciences and the Vice President of Research of Ohio University.

 
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