Past Colloquia

2004-2005

September 17, 2004	"De-idealizing Truth"	Paul Teller Department of Philosophy University of California, Davis
October 4 (Monday)	"The Use of Alchemy to Establish the Limits of Science: From the Middle Ages to the President's Council on Bioethics""	William Newman Department of History and Philosophy of Science Indiana University, Bloomington
October 8	"Eugenics and its Opposition, 1910-1945: What Have We Learned?"	Garland E. Allen Department of Biology Washington University-St. Louis
November 5	"Structure and Perspective: How Far Does Realism Reach?"	Bas C. van Fraassen Department of Philosophy Princeton University
January 21, 2005	"The Emotional Basis of Morals"	Jesse Prinz  Department of Philosophy  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
February 4	"Is Natural Selection a Mechanism?"	Roberta Millstein Department of Philosophy California State University, Hayward
February 11	"Collections or Collectives? Pluralism and Causation in the Group Selection Debate"	Benjamin Kerr  Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior  University of Minnesota
April 1	"The Appropriate Kind of Structure: Putting Science Back into Philosophy of Science"	Elaine Landry  Department of Philosophy  University of Calgary
April 8	"Postgenomic Futures: Translations Across The Machine-Nature Border In Systems Biology"	Joan Fujimura  Department of Sociology  and  Robert and Jean Holtz Center for  Research in Science and Tech. Studies  University of Wisconsin-Madison
April 29	"Preserving Philosophical Polemics for Pedagogical Purposes"	Richard Duschl  Department of Learning and Teaching   Rutgers University