FRIDAY February 23rd
2 PM
Jonathan Kaplan, Ph.D., University of Tennessee, "Scientific Decision-Making: Decision Analysis and Evidence-Based Medicine" Bevill 170
Chair: Fred Gifford, Michigan State University
Lee Zwanziger, Ph.D., Institute of Medicine, "The Value of Science in the Political Arena and Political Values in Science" Bevill 263
Chair: James McClintock, Ph.D., Department of Biology, and Dean, School of Natural Science and Mathematics, UAB
3PM
David Resnick, University of East Carolina, "Financial Interests and Scientific Objectivity" Bevill 170
Chair: Brad Wray, University of British Columbia
David Caudill, J.D., Ph.D., Washington and Lee University, "Expert Scientific Testimony in Courts: The Ideal and Illusion of Value-Free Science" Bevill 263
Chair: Ted Benditt, Ph.D., J.D., Department of Philosophy, UAB
4 PM
Anne Fausto-Sterling, Ph.D., Brown University, "Transforming Social Gender into Biological Fact: The Case of Sex Hormones, 1889-1940" Bevill 170
Chair: Hughes Evans, Ph.D., M.D., UAB
Mark Risjord, Ph.D., Emory University, "Patient's Value and Diagnostic Reasoning" Bevill 263
Chair: Andrew Ward, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
5 PM
Jed Buchwald, Ph.D., MIT, "Personal Animosity, Cultural Disgust and Scientific Discovery" Bevill 170
Chair: Ryoichi Kawai, Ph.D., Department of Physics, UAB
Christian Perring, Ph.D., Dowling College, "The Values of Eclectic Psychiatry" Bevill 263
Chair: Edwin Cook, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, UAB
6 PM Reception Bevill Lobby
SATURDAY
Light breakfast items will be available in Bevill.
9 AM
Wesley Salmon, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, "Values in Science" Bevill 170
Chair: David Stump, Ph.D., University of San Francisco
Alan Baker, Ph.D., Xavier University, "Quantitative Parsimony and Explanation" Bevill 263
Chair: Elliott Sober, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
10 PM
Gerald Doppelt, Ph.D., University of California San Diego, "The Value-Ladenness of Scientific Knowlege" Bevill 170
Chair: David Henderson, Ph. D., University of Memphis
Elliott Sober, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, "The Value of Simplicity in Scientific Inference" Bevill 263
Chair: Prasanta Bandyopadhyay, Ph.D.,
Montana State University
11 AM
John Roberts, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, "Is Logical Empiricism Committed to the Ideal of Value-Free Science?" Bevill 170
Chair: Sherri Roush, Ph.D., Rice University
Prasanta Bandyopadhyay, P.D., Montana State University, "Simplicity: Their View, Our View" Bevill 263
Chair: Alan Baker, Ph.D, Xavier University
A light lunch will be available in the Bevill lobby
12 PM
Hugh Lacey, Ph.D., Swarthmore College, "Impartiality, Neutrality and Autonomy: Three Components of the Idea that Science is Value Free" Bevill 170
Chair: Erika Mattila, University of Helsinki
Adam Kovach, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, "The Facts of Conceptual Relativity" Bevill 263
Chair: Fred Kronz, Ph.D., University of Texas
1 PM
Lynne Hankinson Nelson, Ph.D., University of Missouri St. Louis, and Alison Wylie, Ph.D., Washington University, "Coming to Terms with the Value(s) of Science: Insights from Feminist Science Scholarship" Bevill 170
Chair: Heather Douglas, Ph.D., University of Puget Sound
Chase Wrenn, Ph.D., Washington University, "Is It Rational to Pursue the Truth?" Bevill 263
Chair: Dominic Murphy, Ph.D., Cal Tech
2 PM
Kristen Intemann, Ph.D., University of Washington, "Moral Judgements and Theory Justification" Bevill 170
Chair: Todd Grantham, Ph.D., College of Charleston
John Dupre, Ph.D., University of Exeter, "Is There a Fact/Value Distinction?" Bevill 263
Chair: Robert McCauley, Ph.D., Emory University
3 PM
Kristina Rolin, Ph.D., Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, "Gender and the Cognitive Goals of Science" Bevill 170
Chair: Alison Wylie, Ph.D., Washington University
Sherri Roush, Ph.D., Rice University, "Constructive Empiricism and the Role of Social Values in Science" Bevill 263
Chair: John Roberts, Ph.D., University of North Carolina
4 PM
P.D. Magnus, University of California San Diego, "Underdetermination and the Inference Against Value Freedom" Bevill 170
Chair: Jitse van der Meer, Ph.D., Redeemer University College
Robin Hendry, Ph.D., University of Durham, "Truth and Other Epistemic Values" Bevill 263
Chair: John Dupre, Ph.D., University of Exeter
5 PM
Janet Kourany, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, "The Role of Science in the Struggle for Equality" Bevill 170
Chair: Anne Fausto-Sterling, Ph.D., Brown University
Sharyn Clough, Ph.D., Rowan University, "Crossing the Great Divide: A Naturalized Prescription for Re-fusing the Fact/Value Split with Contemporary Science and Science Studies" Bevill 263
Chair: Ed Fried, Rice University
6 PM Reception Bevill Lobby
SUNDAY
A light breakfast will be available in the Bevill Lobby
9 PM
Helen Longino, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, "Could Values Be Good for Science?" Bevill 170
Chair: Jennifer McKitrick, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, UAB
Aviezer Tucker, Ph.D., Trinity College, "Values and Historiographic Knowlege: The Historian as A Judge" Bevill 263
Chair: Alex Flynt, Ph.D., Center for the Study of Ideas and Culture
10 PM
Michael Root, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, " Reconstructing People" Bevill 170
Chair: Zahra Meghaniz, Ph.D., Michigan State University
K. Brad Wray, Ph.D., University of British Columbia, "Evaluating Scientists" Bevill 263
Chair: Harold Kincaid, UAB
11 PM
Ronald Sundstrom, Ph.D., University of Memphis, "Values and Race in the Social Sciences: Residential Segregation as an Example" Bevill 170
Chair: Michael Root, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Robert Hollinger, Ph.D., Iowa State University, "Concerning the Political Aims of Science" Bevill 263
Chair: Lee Zwanziger, Ph.D., Institute of Medicine
12 PM
Esther-Mirjam Sent, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, "Interactions Between the Ideology of Scientific Neutrality and the Economics of Science" Bevill 170
Chair: Harold Kincaid, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, UAB
Guillermo Barron, Ph.D., University of Alberta, " A Not-So-Sober Look at Scientific Bias" Bevill 263
Chair: George Graham, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, UAB