Volume 12 U N I V E R S I T Y OF P I T T S B U R G H B U LAUGUST L E T 2004 I N

NOTES FROM THE DIRECTOR on the concepts and methods of This past year has been an ex- Ancient Greek mathematics citing one for the Center. When (Reviel Netz) through the natu- I was composing these notes for ral philosophy of the Middle last year’s Bulletin I had just Ages (Ed Grant) to up-to-the- returned from our 4th Athens- minute lectures on Realism Pittsburgh collaboration. As I (Ruetsche), Computability began this year’s notes I had (Sieg), Group Selection just returned from our 5th Inter- (Godfrey-Smith) and Truth national Fellows Conference in (Gibbard). (See p. 20) Rytro, Poland, a truly wonder- BULLETINBULLETIN ful meeting about which I will In February Paul Griffiths and have more to say presently. Karola Stotz organized the sec- Table of Contents This past August Wenceslao ond ‘Representing Genes’ Gonzalez visited Pittsburgh for workshop, and we timed the 3 Visiting Fellows 2003-04 a formal ceremony celebrating HPS Alumni Lecture to coin- 6 VF Program Impact Jim Lennox the signing of an agreement of cide with it. We took advantage 7 Alan Chalmers cooperation between his Uni- of my former student and col- year from now, I will versity, A Coruna, and the Uni- league Rachel Ankeny being 8 Neuroscience Workshop be passing on the re versity of Pittsburgh. The first back from Australia as a Dibner 9 5th Fellows Conference Asponsibility of direct- event to be held under the aus- Fellow to invite her to be this 10 Representing Genes ing the Center for Philosophy pices of that agreement will year’s Alumna lecturer. Rachel, of Science to my mate and HPS take place in March of 2005, a as many of you will know, is a 11 News from Visiting Fellows colleague John Norton. It is conference entitled ‘Evolution- specialist on the Human Ge- 16 News from Resident Fellows gratifying to know the Center ary Theory: Present Ap- nome Project and in particular 17 The Center & Hillman Library will be in such good hands proaches’ at which I will deliver on the history and philosophy when I step down in August of two lectures, one on Darwin’s of the use of model organisms 18 Lunchtime Colloquium 2003-04 2005. use of thought experiments and within that project, and thus it 19 Photos from Poland another on the use of thought was a real plus to be able to in- 20 Annual Lecture Series I will leave the director’s post experiments in contemporary clude her in the Representing with mixed emotions. On the evolutionary biology. Genes workshop. Her visit was 21 Special Events 2003-04 one hand, it has given me un- also the occasion for an inter- 22 Fellows and Scholars 2004-05 paralleled pleasure to befriend We had an outstanding group esting coincidence—with Alan 23 Calendar of Events 2004-05 so many members of our world- of Visiting Fellows with us this Chalmers here as a Visiting wide fellowship, especially year (see p. 3). In December Fellow, Paul Griffiths as a Cen- those Fellows who visited dur- we took advantage of strong ter Officer, and Rachel as our ing the past seven years; and to interests in the neurosciences Alumna lecturer, we had all the be involved in the planning of on the part of three of them directors of the Unit in History so many wonderful confer- (Grush, Schaffner and Keeley) and Philosophy of Science at ences, workshops, lecture se- to organize a workshop on neu- the University of Sydney from ries, and publications. I’ve told roscience and consciousness, to 1986 to the present at the Cen- many of you that being direc- coincide with Jesse Prinz’s visit ter simultaneously! tor of the CPS is extremely to give an Annual Lecture Se- gratifying because nearly every- ries presentation on conceptual Speaking of Paul Griffiths, by thing you do in that role fur- development entitled ‘Are In- now the grapevine will have thers the goals of our discipline. fants Little Scientists?’. And informed many of you that Paul On the other hand I am eager speaking of the ALS lectures, has taken a position at the Uni- to pursue those goals myself, this year their historical scope versity of Queensland as Aus- and let someone else feel that was outstanding, with lectures tralian Research Fellow in gratification. 1 CENTER FOR PHILOSOPHY U N I V E R S I T Y OF P I T T S B U R G H OF SCIENCE

Biohumanities and will be leav- upgrading, and updating the tirelessly to garner support from MISSION ing us to return whence he Center’s Web site. I encourage Jagiellonian University, the came. Paul served the Center all of you who haven’t looked State Committee for Scientific OF well not only as a Resident Fel- recently to browse around Research of Poland, the Fritz THE ENTER low but as a Center Associate www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr/. And as Thyssen Stiftung of Germany C Director, and we will miss him with Brian’s project, please feel and the Institut Wiener Kreis. very much—but wish him the free to let us know about any We at the Center were able to The Center for Philoso- very best. errors you find or to suggest rely on the generous support of phy of Science exists to improvements. the Harvey and Leslie Wagner Speaking of former Associate Endowment, and the promote scholarship and Directors, in 1962, shortly af- I shall close with a few words University’s Center for Russian research, to encourage ter Nicholas Rescher joined the regarding our wonderful week and East European Studies gen- scholarly exchanges, and Philosophy Department here, in southern Poland. The pic- erously contributed to the event. to foster publications in he was invited to become Asso- tures you will see on pp. 9 and And perhaps most significantly, the philosophy of science ciate Director of the then two 19 tell part of the story. The through the kind efforts of Col. as well as in philosophi- year old Center for Philosophy location was beautiful, the ho- Merle Addams, President of the cally informed history of of Science. He also served as tel facilities very comfortable, Polish Cultural Council, we re- science and related fields. Director from 1981-88, after the meals excellent, and the ceived generous support not The Center is dedicated to which he was appointed Vice wonderful banquet in an au- only from his organization, but bridging the gulf between Chairman. Now, as of Septem- thentic mountain lodge, com- also the Polish Falcons Alliance the sciences and the hu- ber 1, 2004, I am pleased to re- plete with roast suckling pig, of America, the Polish National manities, and to helping port that he has been appointed live folk music and dancing all Alliance, and the Kosciuszko to develop and dissemi- by the Provost to join Adolf as were wonderful. And those Foundation. The interest these Co-chair of the Center. who braved the cool weather to Polish-American cultural orga- nate a philosophical un- go rafting on the Dunajec River nizations showed in this con- derstanding and apprecia- Since becoming Center direc- were rewarded with spectacu- ference was impressive, and tion of the sciences. The tor I have had the goal of col- lar vistas, to which no camera deeply appreciated Center pursues its mission lecting statistics that would can really do justice. not only locally and re- measure the impact of the Cen- gionally, but also nation- ter on the Philosophy of Science But these images are only a ally and internationally. in a concrete way. A number small part of the story. The Like other centers at of former Center staff worked quality of the lectures was out- the University of Pitts- on collecting the data; and now standing, and the warmth and burgh, the Center for Phi- Brian Hepburn has achieved camaraderie that permeated our losophy of Science is a some preliminary, but nonethe- days in Krakow and Rytro un- unit for research rather less very impressive, results. forgettable. Thanks to the ap- Please take a look at them on parently inexhaustible energy than teaching. Neverthe- p. 6—and feel free to add to, or of Kasia and Tomasz Placek less, through its many un- suggest corrections to, the da- and Brian Hepburn, the rest of dertakings and initiatives, tabase at any time. A second us were able to act as if there the Center substantially idea I have is to do a citation were absolutely no problems to enriches the graduate pro- search on articles initially pub- worry about. grams in the Department lished by the Center—many of of History and Philosophy the classics of our field first saw Of course the event would never of Science and in the De- the light of day as Annual Lec- have happened if Jan Wolenski partment of Philosophy. ture Series lectures or lectures had not agreed to host the event. Some of these Center ac- at Center conferences. He and the rest of the program tivities also enrich the un- committee (Zofia Rosinska, dergraduate programs of While Brian has been working Tomasz and Kasia Placek, the University. on that project, Carol Weber has Miklos Redei, Gereon Wolters been hard at work redesigning, and Frederich Stadler) worked 2 B U L L E T I N

2003-2004 VISITING FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS

Alexander Afriat Daniela Bailer-Jones Mark Colyvan Vana Grigoropoulou

Alexander was born in Indiana, Daniela Bailer-Jones is inter- Mark Colyvan is Professor of Vana Grigoropoulou taught at in fact on the banks of the ested in, among other things, Philosophy at the University of the University of Athens from Wabash, which makes him one cognitive aspects of science and Queensland in Brisbane, Aus- 1996 to 2003 and currently of the world’s few genuine Hoo- recent history of philosophy of tralia. He has held visiting ap- teaches Modern Philosophy at siers. But he soon left the coun- science. Her work centers on pointments in the Department the University of Crete. From her try and headed first to the fro- scientific models and she is cur- of Logic and Philosophy of Sci- childhood until the end of her zen North, in due course to the rently writing a book on the 20th ence at the University of Cali- studies in the Faculty of Philoso- banks of the Isis, the Seine, the century treatment of scientific fornia, Irvine, and in the Divi- phy of the University of Cam, the Thames, etc. and only models in philosophy of sci- sion of Humanities and Social Thessaloniki she loved to paint, made it back to America in ence. She came to Pittsburgh Sciences at the California In- but for many years now she has January. He’s now back in together with her husband stitute of Technology. He works been concentrating on research, Urbino, where there’s no river, Coryn, an astronomer, and her on philosophy of mathematics, writing and teaching the philoso- the truffles are unusually good, four-year-old son Ezra. Coryn philosophy of logic, decision phy of the Enlightenment. Her the Duke’s profile is every- is affiliated with the Depart- theory, metaphysics, and phi- master’s thesis focused on the where, and he teaches things ment of Physics at Carnegie losophy of science (especially philosophy of Hobbes and her like methodology of natural sci- Mellon University and Ezra philosophy of ecology and the Ph.D. on the philosophy of ence, philosophy of physics, works on perfecting his Ameri- role of mathematics in science). Spinoza. Her first book entitled The Indis- history of science, Duhem and can accent at The Children’s He is the author of Knowledge, Passions and Poli- pensability of Mathematics axiomatics. Alexander some- Center of Pittsburgh. Daniela , tics in the Philosophy of Spinoza how got to the foundations of received her Ph.D. from Cam- (Oxford University Press, 2001) appeared in 1999. She was the physics from classics: he began bridge, UK, in 1998 and has and (with Lev Ginzburg) Eco- editor of Spinoza’s Treatise on logical Orbits: How Planets with a rather general BA—with since been teaching at the Uni- the Emendation of Intellect and Move and Populations Grow courses in Greek literature & versities of Paderborn and Bonn has published a study on Educa- philosophy, mathematics, and in Germany. She has been ac- (Oxford University Press, tion and Politics in Rousseau. Italian literature (from Dante to cepted into the Emmy-Noether 2004). While at the Center for She is the co-editor of Spinoza. Tasso)—at McGill, then went Program of the German Re- Philosophy of Science he Towards Freedom: Ten Greek to Paris (IV Sorbonne), did a search Council with a project worked on the role of natural- Studies and the editor of Maîtrise in Lettres classiques called “How Scientific Models ism in various debates in the Rousseau’s On the Social Con- (Greek, Latin, French) with a Represent: Towards a Cognitive philosophy of science and in tract. She has published a dozen thesis on Aristotle, and got in- Account,” and her research metaphysics. (Although he is papers on Descartes, Hobbes, terested in history and philoso- visit to Pittsburgh took place too easily distracted by other Spinoza, Rousseau and Locke. phy of science. Then an M Phil under the auspices of this pro- interesting topics, so while at Her visit to Pittsburgh was very in HPS at Cambridge, and a gram. And in her spare time … the Center he also found him- stimulating for her next project Ph.D. on the philosophy of she frequents the local play- self working on decision theory on Identity and Diversity in quantum mechanics at the Lon- grounds. and philosophy of logic.) As for Descartes, Spinoza and Locke don School of Economics. life outside philosophy, he en- and she wishes to be able to re- joys watching movies and lis- turn soon. tening to 1960s pop music. 3 CENTER FOR PHILOSOPHY U N I V E R S I T Y OF P I T T S B U R G H OF SCIENCE

Rick Grush Tetsuji Iseda Brian Keeley Janet Kourany Janet Kourany was born and While a visitor at the Center for Tetsuji’s research interests in- Stemming from his graduate raised in New York City (traces Fall of 2003, Rick Grush clude confirmation theory, so- work at UCSD in the go-go of a New York accent remain), worked on constructing infor- cial epistemology and philoso- nineties, Brian Keeley is still and earned her B.S. and Ph.D. mation processing models of phy of social science. He is now pursuing interests in the phi- degrees at Columbia University. the neural mechanisms under- working on socialization of losophy of neurobiology. In par- She taught at Rutgers University writing the temporality of our analytic epistemology and its ticular, he’s interested in un- and the University of Utah be- perception and consciousness. implication for the philosophy usual (from an anthropocentric fore joining her husband (Jim The results will play a signifi- of science, especially for con- perspective) sensory modalities, Sterba, a Pitt alumnus) at the cant role in a book he is cur- firmation theory. The as well as the concept of a “sen- University of Notre Dame, where rently writing on the topic. internalist/externalist distinc- sory modality” itself. What pre- she is a Faculty Fellow of the Grush received a joint doctor- tion in epistemology does not cisely is being claimed when John J. Reilly Center for Science, ate in philosophy and cogni- address the social aspect of neuroethologists claim that they Technology, and Values and an tive science in 1995 from UC knowledge, and Tetsuji thinks have discovered that some fish Associate Professor of Philoso- San Diego, and after various that having a socialized episte- have an electrical sense? What phy. Her current research focuses academic stints at Washington mology at this level is an im- evidence is required to settle the on science and social values and University in St Louis, the Uni- portant step toward a full- debate over whether humans feminist philosophy. While at the versity of Aarhus (Denmark), fledged social epistemology. possess a pheromone-sensing Center she worked on two and the University of Pitts- Another research interest of his modality (a vomeronasal sen- projects: to replace the ideal of burgh, he returned to UCSD in is the disintegration of sociol- sory system)? While visiting at value-free science with one that 2000, where he is currently ogy in terms of subject matter, the Center this fall, he was able is as epistemically and politically Associate Professor of Philoso- theory and methodology. In to get more deeply into evolu- powerful as the old ideal aspired phy, and where he has recently other fields of philosophy, he is tionary criteria for the predica- to be; and finding ways to shift taken up surfing. working on methodological/ tion of sensory modalities. theoretical issues related to ap- When Brian’s not thinking the unit of analysis within phi- plied ethics. There, his interest deeply about fish, he continues losophy of science from (an is in making utilitarianism to contemplate fish in the deep; historicized, socialized) science- more useful for practical pur- although he’s not sure he’s ever in-a-vacuum to science-in-soci- poses. In his personal life, he going to be able to top last ety, so as to make philosophy of loves watching old movies. summer’s 5-day scuba adven- science more socially relevant. Since he came to Pittsburgh, ture on the outer Great Barrier Her most cherished experience Tetsuji started going to opera Reef. The cuttlefish gets his at the Center: listening to phi- and ballet performances. He is vote for Earth’s most alien life- losophy of science talks in a ca- impressed by the quality of the form! thedral while eating bagels and performances in Pittsburgh. cream cheese—a real treat for a New York-bred philosopher of science from Notre Dame. 4 B U L L E T I N

Visiting Fellows Fund

We are deeply grateful and pleased to acknowledge the following people, who have contributed to the Visiting Fel- lows Fund in the past year. Each dollar of each donation goes directly toward support- ing the Visiting Fellows Pro- gram to ensure its continued growth and stability. Support of the Center’s programs by Sherri Roush Kenneth Schaffner members of its fellowship is essential to maintaining the Sherri’s recent interests are the Kenneth F. Schaffner, M.D. (Pitt, Center’s position as a preemi- questions of what knowledge is, 1986), Ph.D. (Philosophy; Co- nent nexus of research in is- what evidence is, and whether we lumbia, 1967) is University Pro- sues in the philosophy of sci- should be realists or anti-realists fessor of Medical Humanities ence. about scientific theories. A belief and Professor of Philosophy at is not knowledge merely in virtue the George Washington Univer- • Rolf George of coinciding with the truth—that sity. Before moving to GWU, he • Paul Griffiths could be accidental. It must coin- was University Professor of His- • Gürol Irzik cide with the truth because it is ‘fol- tory and Philosophy of Science • Scott Kleiner lowing’ the truth. A fact is evidence and Research Professor of Medi- • James & Patricia Lennox for a hypothesis when it is a dis- cine at the University of Pitts- • Gerald Massey criminating indicator of that hy- burgh, where he also served as • Peter Michael pothesis, thus, also when it pro- Co-Director for the Center for • Massimo Pauri vides a way of ‘following’ the hy- Medical Ethics. His most recent • Ken and Jan Schaffner pothesis. These are the intuitions book is Discovery and Explana- • Warren Schmaus behind the tracking accounts of tion in Biology and Medicine. He • William Stark knowledge and evidence devel- has been a Guggenheim Fellow • Manfred Stöckler oped in her forthcoming book and has published extensively on Tracking Truth: Knowledge, Evi- ethical and conceptual issues in dence, and Science. Consider- science and medicine. His recent This year’s pledge card is en- ations about evidence lead also to work has been on philosophical closed in the Bulletin along with a return envelope. All a mixed realist-anti-realist view of issues in behavioral and psychi- donations are tax deductible. scientific theories, according to Behav- atric genetics. His book, Any donor wishing to remain which we should be realists about ing: What’s Genetic and What’s anonymous may so indicate on low-level hypotheses, including Not, and Why Should We Care? their pledge. To those of you some about unobservable entities, will soon be published. He re- who have donated, not only and anti-realists about high-level cently began a NSF-supported this year but in years past, we theories. Sherri is currently work- project to write a history of be- wish to express our profound ing on how to model havioral and psychiatric genet- appreciation for your generos- surprisingness of evidence, and ics covering the period 1960 to ity and support. also on what knowledge is and how the present day. Avocations in- it might have evolved in the frame- clude an eclectic taste in music, work of evolutionary game theory. long walks along the Potomac in In her spare time Sherri reads a lot Washington, and martini of newspapers and watches big tastings in Pittsburgh. birds on the Gulf Coast.

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RESEARCH IMPACT OF THE VISITING FELLOWS PROGRAM: THE BEGINNINGS OF AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

ander in to the small Fellows and contains the con- But was this simply the predict- tered in a database. After this, library here at the tributions of 25 more, or per- able result of our former Fel- the number crunching will pro- WCenter and you haps one of the dozens of other lows sending us their publica- ceed quickly and the results will might pick up a copy of, say, books written or edited by Fel- tions (which we greatly appre- be linked to the Center Web site. Philosophy and the Many lows. Or even pick up a random ciate, by the way!) or does it All of this information will Faces of Science (Rowman and issue of Philosophy of Science. have wider significance? Since eventually be compiled into a Littlefield, 1998), which was I did and found contributions becoming Center director, Jim more detailed history of the re- edited by three Center Visiting from 12 Center Fellows. Lennox has been trying to search carried out by Center gather objective data on the Fellows. impact of the Center’s support Summary of Publication Data for Center for research in philosophy of Because project descriptions Visiting Fellows science on the field at large. have only been required for the most recent eight years these The number of Visiting Fellows included in the study thus The methodology was “brute data represent less than half of far is 217 from 33 countries. force” but effective: a list was the Visiting Fellows. compiled of every publication Summary of all Contributions of CPS Fellows to Scholarship: 158 books 256 contributions to edited volumes Filtered Data 1533 journal articles representing 103 of the 217 Fellows Data reflect only post-visit publications closely related with articles appearing in 108 journals, including to projects worked on while at the Center. These Leading journals: publications often bear the same title as the related · Philosophy of Science: 151 project. So far, we have identified: · Foundations of Physics, Physics Letters,Phys Rev: 6 534 total publications · Synthese: 96 14 books · Biology and Philosophy: 48 184 contributions to volumes · The British Journal for the 336 articles Philosophy of Science: 86 · Canadian Journal of Philosophy: 14 produced by a Center Fellow, The filtering crew was on hia- · Deutsche Zeitschrift either international or resident. tus while arrangements for the fur Philosophie: 15 Then some further “filtering” Fellows Conference were going · Erkenntnis: 45 was done based on the relation on but with the return of sum- · Mind: 19 of each publication to the mer work will begin again. · Nous: 18 Fellow’s research topic while at Look for an updated summary · Studies in History and the Center. This second phase of the data on the Center’s Web Philosophy of Modern Physics: 30 is ongoing but a summary of the site in early Fall. The results · Studies in History and results thus far is given in the should be surprising and im- Philosophy of Science: 29 smaller box above. pressive.

Number of collaborations between We hope to give further refine- Resident and Visiting Fellows: 45 ments once the data has all been gathered in a sufficiently com- Last updated 9 December 2003 plete and robust form and en-

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VISITING FELLOW PROFILE: ALAN CHALMERS Project: An Epistemological History of Atomism

fairly reliable way of dominate by that time, and af- visit us in Pittsburgh. His im- in the Classical world by assuring oneself of the ter two years of teaching math portance to the development of Democritus and Epicurus in Areality of something is and physics he entered the His- History and Philosophy of Sci- Greece and Lucretius in Rome; to use your senses; even when tory and Philosophy of Science ence in Australia has not gone and during the Renaissance at- they seem to deceive you (as program at the University of unnoticed. In 1998 Alan was omism, like so many other ideas when your eyes seem to con- London to write a dissertation elected a Fellow of the Austra- with classical origins, had vince you of the convergence of on the electromagnetic theory lian Academy of the Humani- many defenders. But how does railroad tracks in the distance of the 19th century physicist ties and awarded a Centenary one turn an interesting meta- or that a stick bends when it James Clerk Maxwell. Upon Medal by the Australian Gov- physical speculation about the enters the water), you use your graduating in 1971 he took a ernment, on behalf of the nature of matter into a well- senses to check the appear- confirmed physical or chemical ances. But one of the most theory? amazing things about the natu- Chalmers’ previous research on ral sciences is that some of their this topic led him to conclude most powerful theories, those that before the 19th century with the most explanatory physicists and chemists some- power and the widest applica- times paid lip service to atom- tions, are fundamentally about ism—or ‘the corpuscular phi- things that are beyond the reach losophy’ as it was sometimes of our senses. How have sci- called—but their experimental ences such as physics and work owed little to it and cer- chemistry acquired and vali- tainly provided no special con- dated knowledge about atoms, firmation for it. And even in the the molecules they compose and late 19th century some philo- the sub-atomic particles that sophically astute physicists compose them? This is clearly found claims about the corpus- a question that needs to be ex- cular nature of matter unsup- plored by someone who is at ported by the best experimen- once a historian and a philoso- tal evidence. So how, and pher of science—someone like when, did that change take this year’s Visiting Fellow Alan place? Chalmers research at the Chalmers. Center leads him to believe His background seems to have post-doctoral Fellowship at the Queen, for ‘Services to the Hu- that, contrary to received opin- been designed so that he could University of Sydney in Austra- manities in the area of History ion, nineteenth-century atomic work on his Center research lia and liked it so much he and Philosophy of Science’ in chemistry was ill-confirmed project, ‘An Epistemological stayed, beginning as a Lecturer 2003. and unproductive and that the History of Atomism.’ Born and in Philosophy in 1973, eventu- The theme that fascinates him, considerable progress in chem- raised in Bristol, England, he ally moving to the Science fac- and to which he returns regu- istry made during that period began his academic career there ulty in 1986 as Director of, and larly, is the precise ways in in fact owed little to specula- as a physics student, earning his Professor in, Sydney’s Unit for which evidence provides con- tions about atoms. When we B.Sc. from the University of History and Philosophy of Sci- firmation for physical theories. realize that a dime contains Bristol before taking an M.Sc. ence, a position he held until The atomic theory seems an something of the order of a mil- at Manchester. But his fasci- his retirement in 1999. Upon ideal object for such a topic. As lion, million, million, million nation with the historical and retiring he became a Senior a philosophical approach to molecules, it is perhaps not sur- philosophical foundations of Research Fellow in the Philoso- understanding the nature of the prising to learn that nineteenth- physics had already come to phy Department at Flinders physical world, it was defended University, whence he came to Continued on page 8 7 CENTER FOR PHILOSOPHY U N I V E R S I T Y OF P I T T S B U R G H OF SCIENCE

APPEALS TO FEELINGS IN CONTEMPORARY NEUROSCIENCE WORKSHOP

he coincidental pres chiatry), Jonathan Schooler tury because of the method- at least on the shape of out- ence of a number of dis (Psychology), Horacio Arlo- ological concerns of the behav- standing issues and priority ar- Ttinguished visiting Costa (Philosophy, CMU), iorists and others struggling to eas for research. scholars in the philosophy of Edda Thiels (Department of show that psychology was a le- neuroscience in early Decem- Neuroscience and Cognitive gitimate science. Which raises For more information, or to see ber of last year provided the Neuroscience, CMU), as well as the obvious question of whether the archive of the listserv dis- opportunity to organize a na- graduate students of Pittsburgh those concerns are still valid. cussion, you can visit the tionally significant workshop at and Cincinnati. This workshop brought to- workshop’s homepage directly the University of Pittsburgh. gether a remarkable group of through the link www.pitt.edu/ Visiting Fellows of the Center Reference to feelings as ex- researchers with expertise in ~pittcntr/Programs/ at the time were Brian Keeley planatory factors in the sciences relevant areas of philosophy, Other_Conferences_and_Workshops/ of Pitzer College and Kenneth of the mind have become in- neuroscience or both to assess Neuro_Sci_Workshop_2003/ Schaffner, Professor of Medical creasingly prominent in recent this question. neuro_sci_index.html or navi- Humanities, George Washing- years, not only in the new field gate your way there through the ton University, School of Medi- of ‘consciousness studies’, but The one and one-half day work- Center’s Web site, cine. Also visiting as part of also in mainstream cognitive shop consisted of four two-hour www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr, under the Center’s Annual Lecture and biological neuroscience, sessions, prepared by discussion the list of archived events. Series was Jesse Prinz of Uni- and especially in ‘affective neu- between participants via a versity of North Carolina roscience.’ The best-known in- listserv in the two months pre- Workshop Organizers: Chapel Hill. stance of this is the ‘somatic ceding the conference. Each Paul E. Griffiths, Department marker’ theory of emotion and session opened with position of HPS Invited attendees were Steven consciousness advocated by statements on an agreed issue Peter K. Machamer, Depart- Harnad (UQAM) and John neuroscientist Antonio by two participants, followed by ment of HPS Bickle (Cincinnati) while the Damasio. responses from the rest of the German Barrionuevo, Depart- long list of local experts in the participants and discussion. ment of Neuroscience field included Paul Griffiths Substantive reference to con- Extensive discussion online Edda Thiels, Department of (HPS), Peter Machamer (HPS), scious states of feeling in psy- before the meeting allowed the Neuroscience German Barrionuevo (Depart- chological theory became unac- participants to reach a consen- ments of Neuroscience and Psy- ceptable early in the 20th cen- sus, if not on conclusions, then

Chalmers Continued from page 7 century science lacked the theo- so; Alan is also the author of a study with historical texts. He fact that Sandra was able to retical and experimental re- one of the most popular and admits to a passion for ‘bush- visit with Alan in Pittsburgh sources to detect and learn widely read introductions to walking’ (hiking as we call it during part of his fellowship, about them. our field, What Is This Thing in America), one easily we at the Center are better able Called Science? translated into indulged whilst he taught in to understand why an ex-pat However interesting and 19 languages including Sydney, since his home was in historian and philosopher of important answering this Estonian and Indonesian and the nearby Blue Mountains. science developed an interest in question may be, what I have now into its third edition. Now For many years he also cattle ranching! said so far might paint you a that’s globalization! occasionally could be found picture of a narrow specialist, working on a cattle ranch in the unable or at least unwilling to Alan Chalmers doesn’t spend Hunter Valley, owned by one address a wider audience. Not all his waking hours locked in Sandra Grimes. Thanks to the 8 B U L L E T I N

5TH QUADRENNIAL INTERNATIONAL FELLOWS CONFERENCE The Legacy and Present Day Contributions of Middle European Philosophers and Scientists

stitute and focused on banquet later that night, Polish support from the rest of the Pol- The Vienna Circle Highlanders or Mountaineers ish-American organizations. and its influences, treated us to folk music and while the program as dancing while we feasted on lo- This conference was co-orga- a whole was a broad cal cheeses, breads, soups and nized and sponsored by the survey of philosophy roast sausages and finally, just Center for Philosophy of Sci- of science. As with when we thought we could eat ence and the Jagiellonian Uni- conferences in the no more, two roast suckling versity with support of: The past, paper topics il- pigs arrived. The meal began Vienna Circle Institute, The lustrated both the with hot “Highlander tea” Fritz Thyssen Foundation, State depth and breadth of (spiked with Polish Vodka) and work being done by was accompa- Fellows. Fifty-two nied by Polish papers in parallel ses- beer. sions over four days were presented cover- The Center ing analytic philoso- would like to ex- phy to hermeneutics, tend its gratitude Leibniz to Meinong, to the staff at the he 5th International mathematics to biology, induc- Hotel who were Fellows Conference tion, realism...and many points friendly, efficient Twas a huge success. in between. and most accom- The program was held in the modating—and comfortable and modern con- Extracurricular activities in- they didn’t go on ference facilities of the beauti- cluded a mostly serene rafting strike! (Remem- ful Perla Poludnia in Rytro, Po- trip down the picturesque ber Bariloche?) land. Dunajec River gorge. Through The facilities our guide and interpreter we were excellent. The first day featured a series were treated to descriptions of of sessions which were spon- local flora and fauna and the Thanks also to sored by the Vienna Circle In- four riddles of the river. At the all the Polish Ameri- can asso- ciations that were kind Committee for Scientific Re- enough and visionary search (Poland), Szczecin Uni- enough to support this versity, The Harvey and Leslie important event in Pol- Wagner Endowment, Center for ish-International cul- Russian and East European tural relations. Special Studies, Polish Cultural Coun- thanks to Col. Merle cil, Polish Falcons Alliance of Addams of the Polish America, Polish National Alli- Cultural Council who ance, and The Kosciuszko wholeheartedly threw Foundation. his support behind the conference and facili- More photos from Poland on page 19. tated our garnering 9 CENTER FOR PHILOSOPHY U N I V E R S I T Y OF P I T T S B U R G H OF SCIENCE

REPRESENTING GENES PROJECT AND WORKSHOPS

huge amount of re data collection, and data analy- group of professional science search is currently be sis. A series of papers derived communicators. Aing carried out in a from this workshop was pre- number of different fields on sented at the July 2003 confer- Beside finding out if a gene is genes. But how does one know ence of The International Soci- a gene is a gene, the project whether all of this research is, ety for History, Philosophy, and heads foresee benefits to the re- in fact, on the same thing? Social Studies of Biology search of all workers in the field Chemists, biologists, patholo- (ISHPSSB) in Vienna, Austria by providing a large body of gists, philosophers, neuroscien- and will appear as a special is- freely available data, through tists, bioengineers, and on and sue of the journal History and understanding how various on, all use the same word but Philosophy of the Life Sciences. gene concepts contribute to the does it denote the same con- The second workshop brought forms of biological research in cept? Would it be a problem if the same group of researchers which they figure, or possibly it didn’t or is this yet another together to consider the initial even revealing deficiencies in version of the old qualia in the data from the questionnaire and current gene concepts. The in- schoolyard nugget “what if plan further analysis and pub- novative methodology prom- what you call red doesn’t look lications. ises to bring to timely light a the same as what I call red?” better understanding by the Phase 2 of the project is a study public and by the scientist of The Representing Genes of the interaction between what we mean when we say Project aims at answering these conceptualizations of genetic ‘gene.’ questions by testing claims elements and the process by made by philosophers and his- which the results of genomics In addition to support of the torians about the concept of the are disseminated to wider au- Center for Philosophy of Sci- gene against responses of work- diences. This part of the project ence, the Representing Genes ing biologists on a web-based is being conducted by Drs. Stotz Project has also received the survey. The project is headed by and Griffiths in collaboration generous support of: The Sci- Karola Stotz (P.I., University of with the ESRC Center for ence and Technology Studies Pittsburgh) and Paul Griffiths Genomics in Society (Egenis) and Societal Dimensions of (formerly of Pitt, now an ARC at the University of Exeter, UK. Engineering, Science and Tech- Federation Fellow in It is expected that representa- nology programs of the Na- Biohumanities at the University tions of the same findings based tional Science Foundation and of Queensland), with a large on different conceptualizations the Faculty of Arts and Sci- group of collaborators in the US of genetic elements and their ences, University Center for In- and overseas. action will result in signifi- ternational Studies, University cantly different understandings Center for Social and Urban Re- Phase 1 of the project included on the part of those wider audi- search, and the Department of two workshops which took ences. It is further expected that History and Philosophy of Sci- place at the University of Pitts- the process of dissemination ence of the University of Pitts- burgh on 17-19 January 2003 will have systematic effects on burgh. and 20-24 February 2004. The which conceptualizations of ge- first workshop brought together netic elements and their activi- www.pitt.edu/~kstotz/genes/ major contributors to the litera- ties are used to communicate genes.html ture on the concept of the gene, findings to wider audiences. A including philosophers and his- third workshop will take place torians of biology and biolo- at the University of Exeter in gists. The workshop arrived at May 2005, involving some of the research questions and the researchers who took part operationalizations, along with in Phase 1 of the project and a plans for subject recruitment, 10 B U L L E T I N

NEWS FROM PAST VISITING FELLOWS March 2003 to March 2004 Myrdene ANDERSON special way of establishing a Presentations: “Personal Free- John FORGE Purdue University “final” cosmological theory. dom: Objections to certain Griffith University Books: Ed. et al, Semiotic Per- compatibilism”, XIV Confer- Articles: “Sharp and Blunt Val- spectives on Mathematics Edu- Eduardo FLICHMAN ence on Epistemology and His- ues,” Journal of Philosophy of cation: From Thinking to Inter- National University of General tory of Science, National Uni- Education, 12, 2003; “The preting to Knowing, Ottawa: Sarmiento versity of Cordoba, La Falda, Moral Status of the Embryo,” Legas Publishing, 2004; ed., Articles: With Guillermo Cordoba (Argentina), 25 Sep- Social Alternatives, March Cultural Shaping of Violence: Boido, “Historiographic Cat- tember 2003; “Mechanics or 2003 Victimization, Escalation, Re- egories and Scientific Biogra- Statistical Mechanics?” Collo- Current project: Science and sponse, West Lafayette, Indi- phies: An Inevitable Tension?” quium of Philosophy Argentine Responsibility: This concerns ana: Purdue University Press, Natural Philosophy and Moral Society of Philosophical Analy- the moral responsibility that 2004 Philosophy in Modernity, Laura sis 2003, Buenos Aires, 30 Oc- scientists, ‘pure scientists’, Articles: “Ethnography as Benitez, Zuraya Monroy and tober 2003; “Two Streams in have for the applications of Translation,” Translation, Su- Jose Antonio Robles, eds., Na- Mechanistic Tradition: The their work. san Petrilli, ed., Amsterdam: tional Autonomous University Case of Newton, related to Rodopi, 2004 of Mexico, 2003; “The Func- seeming anachronisms,” XII Maria Carla GALAVOTTI tion of Perplexity,” Teaching National Congress of Philoso- University of Bologna Daniela BAILER-JONES and Learning in the University, phy (Argentine Philosophical Books: Ed., Observation and University of Bonn Al Margen, ed., National Uni- Association and National, Uni- Experiment in the Natural and Articles: “When Scientific versity of General Sarmiento; versity of Comahue, Argen- the Social Sciences, Kluwer, Models Represent,” Interna- “Duration in Classical Phys- tina), Neuquen (Argentina), 3 2003 tional Studies in the Philosophy ics,” Epistemology and History December 2003 Articles: “Harold Jeffreys’ of Science, 17, 2002; “Scien- of Science - Selection of Works Awards: Grant from the Na- Probabilistic Epistemology: be- tists’ thoughts on scientific of the XIII Conference, Victor tional Agency of Scientific and tween Logicism and Subjectiv- models,” Perspectives on Sci- Rodriguez and Luis Salvatico, Technological Research (Ar- ism,” British Journal for the ence, 10, 2002 eds., Cordoba National Univer- gentina), February 2004-2007 Philosophy of Science, 54, Current project: How scien- sity (Argentina) Current project: Causalidad, 2003; “Kinds of Probabilism,” tific models represent: A cog- determinismo y libre albedrio Logical Empiricism, P. Parrini, nitive approach

Aaron BEN-ZE’EV University of Haifa Books: Love Online: Emotions on the Internet, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, This book is now being translated into Hebrew and Ko- rean. Articles: “Emotions Are Not Mere Judgments,” Philosophi- cal and Phenomenological Re- search, 68, 2004; “Privacy, Emotional Closeness, and Openness in Cyberspace,” Computers in Human Behavior, 19, 2003; “Emotions as a Gen- eral Mental Mode,” Thinking about Feeling: Contemporary Philosophers on Emotion, R. Solomon, ed., New York: Ox- ford University Press, 2004 Awards: The European Union - Network of Excellence Project - “Emotion-Sensitive Systems,” 2004-2007

Werner DIEDERICH University of Hamburg Current project: Kepler’s cos- mology: In this continuing project I investigate Kepler’s

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W.C. Salmon, M.H. Salmon, proach,” Observation and Ex- prediction and prescription Michael HEIDELBERGER eds., University of Pittsburgh periment in the Natural and So- when the “designs” are made University of Tubingen Press, 2003 cial Sciences, M. C. Galavotti, in the sciences of artificial. The Books: Nature from within: Presentations: “Wesley ed., Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2003; models of those sciences, espe- Gustav Theodor Fechner and Salmon’s Epistemology be- “Rationality and Economics: cially if they are applied sci- His Psychophysical Worldview, tween Realism and Pragma- From the Rationality of Eco- ences, require prediction about University of Pittsburgh Press, tism,” Workshop on “Causality nomics as a Science to the Ra- its viability and prescription 2004, Cynthia Klohr, Transla- and Explanation: Homage to W. tionality of the Economic about what should be done to tor; ed. with Friedrich Stadler, Salmon,” Barcelona, 4-5 Au- Agents,” Rationality, Historic- resolve the concrete problem. In Philosophy of Science and gust 2003; “Ramsey’s ‘On ity and Prediction in Herbert both cases, prediction and pre- Politics/Wissenschafts- Time’ - an Unpublished Manu- A. Simon, W. J. Gonzalez, ed., scription, there is a need of philosophie und Politik, script,” Workshop on “Cam- Netbiblo, A Coruña, 2003; “The deepening in the epistemo- Veröffentlichungen des Instituts bridge and Vienna - Frank Moderate Empiricism in Ana- logico-methodological base of Wiener Kreis, vol. 11, Wien/ Ramsey and the Vienna Circle,” lytic Philosophy: A Reply to P. bounded rationality, instead of New York: Springer 2003 28-29 Vienna, November focusing towards a maximizing Articles: “The Mind-Body 2003 rationality (like it is done in the Problem in the Origin of Logi- Current project: Manipula- mainstream in applied sci- cal Empiricism: Herbert Feigl bility and mechanicism in ences). and Psychophysical Parallel- probabilistic causality ism,” Logical Empiricism: His- Stephan HARTMANN torical and Contemporary Per- Ronald GIERE London School of Economics spectives, Paolo Parrini, Wesley University of Minnesota Books: With Luc Bovens, C. Salmon, and Merrilee H. Articles: “The Role of Com- Bayesian Epistemology, Oxford Salmon, eds., University of putation in Scientific Cogni- University Press, 2004 Pittsburgh Press, 2003; “Der tion,” Journal of Experimen- Articles: With Luc Bovens Gesetzesbegriff bei Émile tal & Theoretical Artificial In- “Solving the Riddle of Coher- Boutroux”, Workshop “Ges- telligence, 15, 2003; “Compu- ence,” Mind, 112, 2003; “Arti- chichte des Naturgesetz- tation and Agency in Scien- ficial Intelligence and its Meth- begriffs,” Universität Bielefeld, tific Cognition,” Proceedings odological Implications,” In- 7 November 2003 of the 25th Annual Conference duction and Deduction in the Presentations: “Measurement of the Cognitive Science So- Sciences, Friedrich Stadler, ed., as Representation and as Cor- ciety, Boston: Erlbaum, 2003 Kluwer, 2004 relation: From Maxwell and Presentations: “Scientific Presentations: “Bayesian Helmholtz to Fechner and Perspectivism. Research Coherentism,” William Bennett Mach,” Conference “La Mesure Seminar in the Philosophy of Munro Memorial Seminar, au croisement de la physique, Natural Sciences,” Centre for California Institute of Technol- de la physiologie et de la the Philosophy of the Natural ogy, Pasadena, March 2003; psychologie,” Université Paris and Social Sciences, London “Parameterizing the Atomic 7 Denis Diderot, 2 April 2003; School of Economics and Po- Nucleus: Explanation, Predic- “The concept of natural law in litical Science, 28 May 2003 tion and the Role of Emile Boutroux,” Conference Current project: Scientific Intertheoretic Coherence,” “The history of the concept of Perspectives: I argue that both Symposium “Models, Simula- a natural law,” University of experimental and theoretical tions, and the Application of Bielefeld, 6-8 November 2003 scientific knowledge is per- Mathematics,” Center for Inter- Current project: The rise of spectival rather than objec- disciplinary Research (ZiF), philosophy of science in Ger- tively realist or simply socially Bielefeld, Germany, June 2003; many and France from about constructed. “Varieties of Spaces,” Work- 1870 to 1930: A Comparison shop “Spaces and Constraints” Wenceslao GONZALEZ of the Strategy Institute of Bos- Giora HON University of la Coruña ton Consulting Group, Oxford, University of Haifa Books: Ed., Rationality, His- December 2003 Articles: “Gödel, Einstein, toricity and Prediction in F. Strawson, “Words and Current project: Bayesian Mach: Casting Constraints on Herbert A. Simon, Netbiblo, A Thoughts: An Analytical View,” Networks in Philosophy: I am All-embracing Concepts,” Coruña, 2003; Ed. with G. Falguera, Zilhão, Martínez, and interested in the application of Foundations of Science, 9, Marques and A. Avila, Objec- Sagüillo, eds., Publicaciones probabilistic methods to prob- 2004; “From Propagation to tivity, Realism and Rhetoric: Universidad de Santiago, lems from the following parts Structure: The Experimental New perspectives in Methodol- Santiago de Compostela, 2003 of philosophy: confirmation Technique of Bombardment as ogy of Economics, FCE, Current project: Bounded Ra- theory, scientific theory change, a Contributing Factor to the Madrid, 2003 tionality and Design Sciences: voting theory, quantum me- Emerging Quantum Physics,” Articles: “Rationality in Ex- The Role of Prediction and Pre- chanics and quantum field Physics in Perspective, 5, 2003; perimental Economics: An scription: This project has a theory. “Does a Living System Have a analysis of R. Selten’s ap- main aim: to clarify the role of State?” Philosophical Dimen- 12 B U L L E T I N

sions of Logic and Science, ture, British Society for the Phi- Information, Luciano Floridi, Current project: I am cur- Jacek Cachro, Gabriel losophy of Science, Annual ed., Blackwell Publishing, Ox- rently working on a survey ar- Kurczewski and Artur conference, Queens College, ford, 2004; “Dynamical Sys- ticle on the foundations of rela- Rojszczak, eds., Synthese Li- Belfast, UK, 17 July 2003; “In- tems, Artificial Intelligence, tivity theory for a volume to be brary, vol. 320, Kluwer Aca- ter-, Multi- or Trans- Cellular Nonlinear Networks, edited by Jeremy Butterfield demic Publishers, Dordrecht, disciplinarity?” Keynote at the CNN, Encyclopedia of Nonlin- and John Earman. 2003 5th International Symposium, ear Science, Alwyn Scott, ed., Presentations: “The status of Nursing Science in an Interdis- Fitzroy Dearborn, London, Barry MAUND errors in experimental studies ciplinary Context, Zürich, 8 2004; “In the Age of Thinking University of Western Australia of biological systems: the au- November 2003 Machines,” Technology Re- Books: Perception, Chesham: tomaton view,” Going Wrong Awards: Research Professor- view. The M.I.T. Journal of In- Acumen Press, April 2003 and Making it Right: Error as ship from the Volkswagen novation (German Edition), Articles: “Tye: Consciousness, a crucial feature of concept ad- Stiftung for the project: Number 2, February 2004 Color and Content,” Philo- justment in experimental con- “Systematicity as the core of the Presentations: “Challenges of sophical Studies, 113, 2003 texts, Aegina, Greece, April concept of science”, October Complexity: Information and 2003; “Living extremely flat: 2003 - September 2004 Computational Dynamics in Nicholas MAXWELL the life of automaton, John von Nature and Society,” Guest lec- University College of London Neumann’s conception of simu- Aharon KANTOROVICH tures at the Department of Article: “Science, Knowledge, lating life,” Models, Simula- Tel Aviv University Computer Sciences, University Wisdom and the Public Good,” tion, and the Application of Articles: “The priority of inter- of California, Berkeley and the Scientists for Global Responsi- Mathematics, Bielefeld, Ger- nal symmetries in particle phys- Center for Philosophy of Sci- bility Newsletter, no. 26, 2003; many, June 2003 ics,” Studies in History and ence, University of Pittsburgh, “Do Philosophers Love Wis- Awards: Alexander von Philosophy of Modern Physics, Berkeley and Pittsburgh, Sep- dom?” The Philosophers’ Humboldt Foundation, MPI for vol. 34, no. 3, December 2003 tember 2003; “Natural and Ar- Magazine, Issue 22, 2003; “Art the History of Science, Berlin, Current Project: Platonic On- tificial Intelligence,” Key as Its Own Interpretation,” In- July 2003; German-Israeli tology of Structures: An onto- speaker at the 25th anniversary terpretation and Its Objects: Foundation (GIF,) University of logical model is suggested of the International Business Studies in the Philosophy of Haifa, Haifa and MPI for the which demonstrates the rela- School ZfU, Zurich, November Michael Krausz, Adreea Ruvoi, History of Science, Berlin, tions between structures and 2003; “Time in Dynamical Sys- ed., Rodopi, December 2003 January 2004 till December their instantiations in the para- tems,” Invited lecture of the Presentations: “Does Scientific 2006 digmatic case where the struc- Cultural Foundation of German Method Make Metaphysical Current project: A history of ture is an internal symmetry Economy, Berlin, House of Ger- Assumptions? Towards a New the concept of symmetry and and the individuals are elemen- man Economy, January 2004 Conception of Science, 12th In- the nature of conceptual revo- tary particles. Current project: Information ternational Congress of Logic, lution in science, co-authored and Computational Models Methodology and Philosophy of with Professor Bernard R. Patrick MAHER (Project with the Department of Science; Oviedo, Spain, 8 Au- Goldstein, University of Pitts- University of Illinois Computer Science at the Tech- gust 2003; “The Problem of burgh Articles : “Probability Captures nical University of Munich): Unity of Theory in Physics and the Logic of Scientific Confir- Computer science and empiri- Its Solution,” 12th Interna- Paul HOYNINGEN-HUENE mation,” Contemporary De- cal sciences are growing to- tional Congress of Logic, Meth- University of Hannover bates in the Philosophy of Sci- gether. Thus, computational odology and Philosophy of Sci- Books: Formal Logic. A philo- ence, Christopher Hitchcock, models become a central issue ence, Oviedo, Spain, 12 August sophical approach, Translated ed., Blackwell, January 2004 of an interdisciplinary method- 2003; “What Kind of Inquiry by Alexander T. Levine, Pitts- Presentations: “Reasoning by ology which must be analyzed can Best Help us Create a Bet- burgh University Press, August Analogy in the Ravens and by philosophy of science. ter World? Popper, Science and 2004 Grue Paradoxes,” International Enlightenment,” Philosophy of Articles: Co-author, “Incom- Congress of Logic, Methodol- David MALAMENT Science Research Seminar, mensurability of Knowledge: ogy, and Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine Oxford University, UK, 27 No- Theories and Values,” Unity of Oviedo, August 2003 Articles: “On Orbital Rotation vember 2003 Knowledge in Trandisciplinary in Relativity Theory,” Revisit- Current project: Is Science Research for Sustainability, Klaus MAINZER ing the Foundations of Relativ- Neurotic?: Neurosis is reinter- Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn, ed., in University of Augsburg istic Physics, Ashtekar et al, preted as a methodological con- Encyclopedia of Life Support Books: Computational Phi- eds., Kluwer, 2003 dition arising whenever prob- Systems (EOLSS), Eolss Pub- losophy, Junius Verlag, Ham- Presentations: “David Albert lematic aims are misrepre- lishers, Oxford, UK, 2003, burg, 2003; Thinking in Com- on the (Non) Time Reversal In- sented. Science is neurotic in www.eolss.net plexity. The Computational variance of Classical Electro- this sense because of unac- Presentations: “Kuhn, Dynamics of Matter, Mind, and magnetic Theory” presented at knowledged metaphysical, Feyerabend, and Incommensu- Mankind, Springer, New York, the Memorial Conference for value and political assumptions rability,” Collège international 4th enlarged edition 2004 Rob Clifton, American Insti- in its aims. de Philosophie, Paris, France, Articles: “System: An Intro- tute for Physics, College Park, 17 March 2003; “The Nature of duction to Systems Science,” Maryland, 4 May 2003 Science,” Invited plenary lec- Philosophy of Computing and 13 CENTER FOR PHILOSOPHY U N I V E R S I T Y OF P I T T S B U R G H OF SCIENCE

Storrs MCCALL Jesus MOSTERIN Theorist,” Croatian Journal of Analytic Philosophy, University McGill University Institute of Philosophy, CSIC Philosophy, 3, no. 7, 2003; of Bielefeld, 22-26 Sept 2003 Articles: With E.J. Lowe, “3D/ Articles: “La insuficiencia de “Naked Before Reality, Skinless Awards: Executive Secretary of 4D Equivalence, the Twins los paradigmas metafóricos en Before the Absolute: A Critique the International Society for the Paradox and Absolute Time,” psicología,” Revista de la of the Inaccessibility of Reality History of Philosophy of Sci- Analysis, 63, 2003; “Review of Asociación Española de Argument in Constructivism,” ence (HOPOS) Nancy Cartwright, The Neuropsiquiatría, vol. XXIII, Science & Education, 12, no. Current Project: Truth and Dappled World: A Study of the no. 85, 2003; “How Set Theory 2, 2003 Proof in Courts of Law Boundaries of Science,” Mind, Impinges on Logic,” Alterna- Awards: Completed in 2003, 112, 2003 tive Logics: Do Sciences Need the third year of a Marsden Beth PRESTON Current Project: The implica- Them?, Paul Weingartner, ed., Fund Grant from The Royal University of Georgia tions of Wiles’ proof of Fermat’s Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Society of New Zealand Articles: “Of Marigold Beer: A last theorem for the theory of Springer, 2004 Current project: A book on Reply to Vermaas and Houkes,” physical determinism philosophy, science education, British Journal for the Philoso- and culture, jointly authored phy of Science, 54, December Ernan MCMULLIN with Gurol Irzik of Bogazici 2003 Notre Dame University University Articles: “Van Fraassen’s un- Warren SCHMAUS appreciated realism,” Philoso- Carlo PENCO Illinois Institute of Technology phy of Science, 70, 2003; University of Genoa Books: Rethinking Durkheim “Anthropic reasoning in cos- Books: Introduzione alla and His Tradition, Cambridge mology,” International Sympo- filosofia del linguaggio, University Press, 2004 sium on Astrophysics Research, Laterza, Roma, 2004 Articles: “Kant’s Reception in 2003 Articles: “Frege, sense and lim- France: Theories of the Catego- Presentations: “Evolution as a ited rationaity,” The Review of ries in Academic Philosophy, Christian theme,” Reynolds Modern Logic, vol.9, issue 29, Psychology, and Social Science, Lecture at Baylor University, 2003; “Frege: two theses, two Perspectives on Science, vol 11, 2004 senses,” History and Philoso- no. 1, Spring 2003; “Is phy of Logic, vol.24, no.2, Durkheim the Enemy of Evo- Jurgen MITTELSTRASS 2003; “Sensi fregeani, proce- lutionary Psychology?” Phi- University of Konstanz dure e limiti computazionali,” losophy of the Social Sciences, Books: Transdisziplinarität - La filosofia di Gottlob Frege, vol 33, no. 1, March 2003; wissenschaftliche Zukunft und Nicla Vassallo, ed., Franco “Durkheim as a Teacher of Re- institutionelle Wirklichkeit, Angeli, Milano, 2003 ligion,” Teaching Durkheim, Konstanz: Universitätsverlag Current project: Mistakes and Terry Godlove, ed., Oxford Konstanz, 2003 contextual dependence: A study University Press, 2004 Articles: “Griechische Anfänge on the condition to treat an act Current project: Evolutionary des wissenschaftlichen Den- or an utterance as a mistake and Neuroscience Approaches kens,” Platon und Aristoteles - Presentations: “Anthropic Ex- to the Study of Cognition: sub ratione veritatis, G. Dam- planations in Cosmology,” 12th Cassandra PINNICK Biosemanticists who emphasize schen et al., eds., Göttingen: International Congress of Western Kentucky University the adaptive functions of our Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Logic, Methodology and Phi- Books: Ed. with Noretta concepts need to look at the 2003; “Philosophy or the losophy of Science, Oviedo, 7- Koertge and Robert Almeder, neurosciences as well as evolu- Search for Anthropological 13 August 2003; “Metaphors of Scrutinizing Feminist Episte- tionary theory in working out Constants,” Understanding the Brain,” 21st International mology: an Examination of what these functions may be. Human Development: Dia- Symposium of Ecoethica, Gender in Science, Rutgers logues with Lifespan Psychol- Kyoto, 2-7 November 2003 University Press 2003 Laszlo SZABO ogy, U. M. Staudinger and U. Articles: Chinese translation of Eotvos University Lindenberger, eds., Boston etc., Robert NOLA “What’s Wrong with the Strong Articles: “Formal Systems as Kluwer Academic Publishers, University of Auckland Programme’s Case Study of the Physical Objects: A Physicalist 2003; “Sterben in einer hu- Books: Rescuing Reason, Bos- ‘Hobbes-Boyle Dispute’?” by Account of Mathematical manen Gesellschaft oder: Wem ton Studies in the Philosophy Professor Zhongcai Cai, De- Truth,” International Studies in gehört das Sterben?” Klinische of Science, Volume 230, partment of Philosophy, the Philosophy of Science, vol. Sterbehilfe und Menschen- Dordrecht Kluwer, 2003 Nanjing University, Jiangsu, 17, no. 2, July 2003; “From würde, V. Schumpelick, ed., Articles: With Gurol Irzik, “In- P.R. China (originally pub- Theory to Experiments and Freiburg etc., 2003 credulity Toward Lyotard; A lished in A House Built on Back Again ... and Back Again Awards: Membership in the Critique of a Postmodernist Sand, Noretta Koertge, ed.) ... - Comments to Patrick Austrian Acadamy of Sciences; Account of Science and Knowl- Presentations: “Fundamental Suppes: From Theory to Ex- honorary doctorate from the edge,” Studies in History and Epistemology: How the Femi- periments and Back Again,” University of Tartu/Estonia Philosophy of Science, 34, no. nist Project Fares,” GAP.5 Observation and Experiment in 2, 2003; “Nietzsche as Anti- Meetings, German Society for the Natural and Social Sci- Semitic Jewish Conspiracy ences, M.C. Galavotti, ed., 14 B U L L E T I N

Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003; Distinguished University (Hrsg.), Mathematik verstehen. 2003 Scholar, The Ohio State Uni- Semiotische Perspektiven, Presentations: “Does special versity, 2004 Hildesheim: Verlag Franzbecker, relativity theory tell us anything Current project: A compre- 2003; German translation of new about space and time?” hensive book on the philosophi- “Review article: The strange case presented in Utrecht, 11 De- cal, mathematical, and compu- of the missing body of math- cember 2003 tational aspects of logic ematics,” Semiotica, 112, 3/4, Awards: Fellow-in-Residence 1996 in the Netherlands Institute for Kazuhisa TODAYAMA Presentations: “The creative Advanced Study (NIAS), Nagoya University growth of mathematics,” De- Wassenaar, The Netherlands, 1 Books: Introduction to Engi- partment of Mathematics of the September 2003 - 30 June 2004 neering Ethics, Kazuhisa University Adam Mickiewicz of Current project: I am writing Todayama, Tetsuji Iseda et al, Poznan, on invitation of Prof.dr. a short book entitled (tenta- eds., Nagoya University Press, Roman Murawski, Poznan, Po- tively) A physicalist account of March 2004; Sciences and Phi- land, 24 November 2003 mathematical truth. My physi- losophy of mind: The possibil- Current project: What-if sto- calist approach – including the ity of connectionism, Kazuhisa ries in mathematics: Little at- physicalist account of the men- Todayama et al, eds., Showa- tention is paid to the question tal – completes the formalist do Press, July 2003 how mathematics could have foundation of mathematics and Articles: “Substitutional developed instead of how it ac- removes the last residues of Theory and what we have not tually did. Such alternative sto- Platonism. The physicalist on- known about Russell’s philoso- ries might shed light on the tology of mathematical truth phy of mathematics,” Philoso- necessity of mathematical makes it completely pointless in phy of Science Society Japan, knowledge. mathematics to introduce a con- 36-2, November 2003 cept of truth different from that Current project: Philosophy of Paul WEINGARTNER of being proved. Beyond some applied mathematics University of Saltzburg important epistemological con- Books: Evil: Different kinds of sequences, such a radical physi- Soshichi UCHII evil in the light of a modern calist-formalist approach has Books: Reasoning and Logic: theodicy; Peter Lang Publisher, interesting and important con- Sherlock Holmes and Lewis Frankfurt-New York, 2003; ed., sequences in the philosophical Carroll, Minerva, Kyoto, Feb- Alternative Logics: Do Sci- analysis of Goedel’s theorems ruary 2004 ences Need Them? Springer, and other foundational ques- Articles: “Darwin’s Demon,” Heidelberg-Berlin-New York, tions of mathematics. It also Sekaishiso, 30, April, 2003; 2004 throws new light upon the re- “What do Darwin and Einstein Articles: Ed., “Reasons from lation of reality and formal have in common?” Joy of Science for Limiting Classical theories like logic, probability Knowledge, Pleasure of Re- Logic,” Alternative Logics: Do theory, and geometry. search, Faculty of Letters, Sciences Need Them? Springer, Kyoto University, eds., 2004 Neil TENNANT Iwanami, Tokyo, March 2003 Ohio State University Presentations: “Tracing Articles: “A General Theory of Einstein’s Thinking: from spe- Abstraction Operators,” The cial to general relativity,” 10th Philosophical Quarterly, vol. Anniversary Lecture, Depart- 54, no. 214, 2004; “Theory- ment of Philosophy and History Contraction is NP-Complete,” of Science, Kyoto University, 16 Logic Journal of the IGPL, vol. March 2003 11, no. 6, 2003; “Frege’s Con- Current project: History of tent-Principle and Relevant quantum mechanics Deducibility,” Journal of Philosophical Logic, vol. 32, Jean Paul VAN BENDEGEM 2003 Articles: “Classical Arithmetic Presentations: “Abstraction is Quite Unnatural,” Logic and Operators,” Philosophy Collo- Logical Philosophy, vol. 11, no. quium at UCSD, March 2003 11-12, 2003 (special issue: Pro- and Philosophy Colloquium at ceedings of Logico-Philosophi- the University of Florida, Oc- cal Flemish-Polish Workshops tober 2003 II-IV); “Die Grenzen der Awards: Humanities Distin- Mathematik sind die Grenzen guished Professor in Philoso- ihrer Darstellbarkeit,” In: phy, The Ohio State University, Michael H.G. Hoffmann 15 CENTER FOR PHILOSOPHY U N I V E R S I T Y OF P I T T S B U R G H OF SCIENCE

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Paul GRIFFITHS Articles: “The Poverty of the Presentations: “The Place of Watson and the Age of DNA,” Articles: “Beyond the Baldwin Semiotic Turn in Psychoana- Zoology in Aristotle’s Natural Science, 25:6, 2003 Effect: James Mark Baldwin’s lytic Theory and Therapy,” Be- Philosophy,” Keeling Confer- Presentations: “Going Mo- Social Heredity, Epigenetic In- tween Suspicion and Sympathy, ence on Ancient Philosophy, lecular in the Life Sciences: heritance and Niche-Construc- Paul Ricoeur’s Unstable Equi- University College, London, 7 Rhetoric or Reality?” Golden tion,” Learning, Meaning and librium, a Festschrift in Honor November 2003; “Getting a Jubilee of the Double Helix, Emergence: Possible Baldwinian of Paul Ricoeur’s 90th Birth- Science Going: Aristotle on Royal Institution, London, UK, Mechanisms in the Co-Evolution day, International Institute for Entry Level Kinds,” Invited 28-29 April 2003; “On Becom- of Language and Mind, B.H. We- Hermeneutics, Hermeneutic Lecture, Central European Uni- ing a Molecular Biologist: The ber and D.J. Depew, eds., Cam- Series, A. Wiercinski, ed., The versity, Budapest Hungary, 3 Early Career of Dr. Francis bridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003; Hermeneutic Press, 2003 June 2004 Crick,” Au-delà de l’ADN, “Is Emotion a Natural Kind?” Phi- Presentations: Leibniz Lecture Current project: William British-French Colloquium, losophers on Emotion, R. C. I: “The Poverty of Theistic Cos- Harvey: the metaphysics, epis- Institut Pasteur, Paris, 18-19 Solomon, ed., Oxford and New mology: Why Is There Some- temology and science of animal September 2003; “The Path to York: Oxford University Press, thing Rather Than Nothing?” generation: I am investigating the Double Helix,” Postgradu- 2004; with R.D. Gray, “The Leibniz Lecture II: “ The Pov- William Harvey as a natural ate Program in the History of Developmental Systems Per- erty of Theistic Cosmology: Do philosopher by focusing on his Science, 24 March 2003 – 16 spective: Organism-environ- the Most Fundamental Laws of Exercitationes de Generatione April 2003; Casa de Oswaldo ment systems as units of evolu- Nature Require a Theistic Ex- Animalium. Cruz/Fiocruz, Rio de Janiero, tion,” The Evolutionary Biol- planation?” Leibniz Lecture III: Brazil ogy of Complex Phenotypes,” “Does Psychoanalysis Deserve Peter MACHAMER Awards: Supplement to Na- K. Preston and M. Pigliucci, a Second Century of Influ- Articles: With Lisa Osbeck, tional Science Foundation eds, Oxford and New York: ence?” Leibniz-Vorlesungen “Scientific Normativity as Non- award for “Sources for a biog- Oxford University Press, 2004 2003, University of Hannover, Epistemic: A Hidden Kuhnian raphy of Dr. Francis Crick,” Presentations: “What is In- Germany, 25-27 June 2003; Legacy,” Social Epistemology, 2001-2003, for 2004 nateness?” and “Conceptual Plenary Lecture, 26th Interna- 2003; “Activities and Causa- Analysis and the History of tional Wittgenstein Sympo- tion: The Metaphysics and Nicholas RESCHER Science,”Austin and Hempel sium, Knowledge and Belief, Epistemology of Mechanisms,” Books: Imagining Irreality: A Lectures, Dalhousie University, Kirchberg, Austria, 5 August International Studies in the Study of Unreal Possibilities, Canada, September 2003; “In- 2003 Philosophy of Science, 2004; Chicago and La Salle: Open stinct in the 1950s,” Interna- Awards: Election to two related “El éxito de Kuhn, 40 años Court, 2003; Cognitive Ideali- tional Society for History, Phi- international presidencies: después,” and “Las zation: On the Nature and Util- losophy and Social Studies of President for 2004-2005 of the revoluciones de Kuhn y la ity of Cognitive Ideals, London: Biology, Vienna Austria, July Division of Logic, Methodol- Historia ‘real’ de la Ciencia: El Cambridge Scholars Press, 2003; Chair of session ‘The ogy, and Philosophy of Science, caso de la revolución 2003; Sensible Decisions: On Concept of the Gene,’ Ameri- one of the two Divisions of the galileana,” Análisis de Thomas the Ways and Means of Ratio- can Philosophical Association International Union of the His- Kuhn: Las revoluciones nal Decision, Totowa, NJ.: (Eastern Division), Washington tory and Philosophy of Science, científicas, W.J. Gonzalez, ed., Rowman & Littlefield, 2003 DC, December 2003 the other being the Division of Trotta, Madrid, 2004 Articles: “Nonexistents Then Awards: 2003-2005 (Co-PI K. History of Science; also, Presi- Presentations: “Mechanisms, and Now,” The Review of Meta- Stotz) National Science Foun- dent for 2006-2007 of the In- Production and Information,” physics, 2003,vol. 57; “Imme- dation, Science and Technology ternational Union of the History 2nd Annual Reichenbach Con- diate Experience and Ontology: Studies Program and Societal and Philosophy of Science. ference, Washington Univer- A Pragmatic Perspective on Dimensions of Engineering, Current project: Philosophy of sity, St. Louis, November 2003 Philosophical Realism,” Jour- Science and Technology Pro- Science in Action, vols. 1 and Awards: NEH Summer Insti- nal of Philosophical Research, gram, “Conceptual Issues in the 2, in preparation for publication tute Grant, co-Director with 2004, vol. 29; “Pragmatism and Dissemination and Reception by the Oxford University Press, Sandra Mitchell, “Science and Practical Rationality,” Contempo- of Genomics” New York Values,” Center for Philosophy rary Pragmatism, 2004, vol. 1 Current project: A study of the of Science, University of Pitts- Current Project: A book on interaction between conceptu- James LENNOX burgh, Summer 2003 thought experiments in phi- alizations of genetic elements Articles: “Darwinism,” Stanford losophy and the process by which the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Ed- Robert OLBY results of genomics are dissem- ward N. Zalta, ed., The Metaphys- Articles: “A Quiet Debut for inated to wider audiences, in ics Research Lab, Stanford Univer- the Double Helix,” Nature Spe- collaboration with the ESRC sity, 2004; “The Place of Zool- cial Jubilee Supplement,421, Center for Genomics in Soci- ogy in Aristotle’s Natural Phi- 2003; “Why Celebrate the ety (EGenIS) at the University losophy,” Philosophy and the Golden Jubilee of the Double of Exeter, UK. Sciences in Antiquity, R.W. Helix?” Endeavour, 27:2, 2003; Sharples, ed., Ashgate, 2004 “Too Young for Gardening: Jim Adolf GRÜNBAUM 16 B U L L E T I N

he Center’s collabora resources, is Center Associate tions with the and Carnegie Mellon Univer- THE CENTER AND HILLMAN LIBRARY TUniversity’s Hillman sity Professor Steve Awodey. Library began many years ago The series is overseen by a nine- with the founding of the Ar- member editorial board headed chives of Scientific Philosophy. by the Center director. Volume While the Center has played an 1 is entitled Frege’s Lectures on important role in virtually ev- Logic: Carnap’s Student Notes, ery acquisition of the Archives, 1910-1914 (eds. Erich Reck the relationship between the and Steve Awodey); Volume 2, Center and the Archives has the proceedings of a conference remained a close but informal held in Jena in 2001, is entitled one. During my years as direc- Carnap Brought Home: The tor there have been a number View from Jena (eds. Steve of important acquisitions—in Awodey and Carsten Klein). particular the papers of Carl This Spring Lance Lugar, who Hempel, Wesley Salmon, and is library bibliographer for HPS Richard Jeffrey. And this year and Philosophy, was appointed the first two volumes will be as Archivist, filling a vacancy published in an Open Court se- left when Gerald Heverly re- ries entitled Full Circle: Publi- signed. The Center looks for- cations of the Archive of Sci- ward to working with Lance in entific Philosophy, Hillman Li- continuing the warm collabora- brary, University of Pittsburgh. tion between the Center and The general editor of the series, Hillman Library. which will publish important unpublished materials and re- search based on the Archives’

EINSTEIN CELEBRATION Einstein’s annus mirabilis was 1905. He was a little known clerk in a patent office in Bern, Switzerland, four years past completion of his doctoral studies in physics and in that year only finally able to submit a passing doctoral dissertation. In that same year, he sent three ground breaking papers to the journal Annalen der Physik. One gave a successful account of Brownian motion in terms of invisible molecular collisions; another proposed the special theory of relativity; and a third advanced the notion of the light quantum. This year and these papers mark the beginning of modern physics.

To mark the centenary of Einstein’s achievement, we will host a one day conference on February 12, 2005, devoted to historical analysis of Einstein’s work of 1905. Four speakers with special Einstein expertise will address different aspects of Einstein’s work of 1905. Speakers Robert Rynasiewicz John Stachel Jos Uffink John D. Norton Johns Hopkins University Boston University Utrecht University University of Pittsburgh

Sponsors: Center for Philosophy of Science; Office of the Provost; Office of the Dean of Arts and Science; Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh

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LUNCHTIME COLLOQUIUM 2003-2004 September 2003 October 2003 December 2003 Vana Grigoropoulou, Univer- “Brain Time and Phenomeno- “The Tracking View of Scien- “What is a Photon, Really?” sity of Athens logical Time” tific Evidence” David Snoke, University of Tuesday, 3 February 2004 Rick Grush, University of Cali- Sherri Roush, Rice University Pittsburgh fornia, San Diego Friday, 3 October 2003 Tuesday, 2 December 2003 “Instinct in the ‘50s: The Brit- Tuesday, 9 September 2003 ish Reception of Konrad “Partial Knowledge” “Philosophical Perspectives of Lorenz’s Theory of Instinctive “The Use and the Study of Sci- Daniel Andler, Université de Fuzzy Set-theoretic Models of Behavior” entific Analogies” Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) Causality” Paul Griffiths, University of Daniela Bailer-Jones, Univer- & Ecole normale supérieure Jordi Cat, Indiana University Pittsburgh sity of Bonn Tuesday, 7 October 2003 Tuesday, 9 December 2003 Tuesday, 10 February 2004 Friday, 12 September 2003 “Genes, Behaviors, and the January 2004 “The Developmental Challenge “Leibniz at Work” Brain” “Natural Laws and the Risks of to Genetic Determinism: A Nicholas Rescher, University of Kenneth Schaffner, George Empiricism” Model Explanation for Sexual Pittsburgh Washington University Nicholas Rescher, University of Attraction” Tuesday, 16 September 2003 Tuesday, 14 October 2003 Pittsburgh Christopher D. Horvath Tuesday, 13 January 2004 Illinois State University “How to Peel an Apple? On “The Imperfect Universe” Friday, 13 February 2004 modeling continuous action” Ofer Gal, Ben Gurion University “There’s No Easy Road to Thomas Müller, University of Friday, 17 October 2003 Nominalism” “The Metaphysics of Rest in Bonn (co-sponsored by HPS Dept) Mark Colyvan, University of Cartesian Physics” Friday, 19 September 2003 Queensland Tad Schmaltz, Duke University “Non-individualistic Internalism Tuesday, 20 January 2004 Friday, 27 February 2004 “The Notion of ‘Dedicated’ and its Applicability to Science” Neural Systems: A Work-in- Tetsuji Iseda, Nagoya University “Duhem, Quine and the Other March 2004 Progress” Tuesday, 28 October 2003 Dogma” “Ontology Without Tears: A Brian Keeley, Pitzer College Alexander Afriat, University of Solution to the Problem of Ab- Tuesday, 23 September 2003 November 2003 Urbino stract Objects (That Even a “Pictorial Evidence” Friday, 23 January 2004 Naturalist Could Love)” “Challenges of Complexity: Laura Perini, Virginia Tech Edward Zalta, Stanford University Information and Computa- Tuesday, 4 November 2003 “New Directions in Philosophy Tuesday, 2 March 2004 tional Dynamics in Nature and of Science” Society” “How Causal Probabilities Janet Kourany, University of “Dissenting Voices: Divergent Klaus Mainzer, University of Might Fit Into Our Objectively Notre Dame Conceptions of the Continuum Augsburg Indeterministic World” Tuesday, 27 January 2004 in 19th and Early 20th Century Friday, 26 September 2003 Nuel Belnap, University of Mathematics and Philosophy” Pittsburgh “How Many Universes ARE John L. Bell, University of “An Epistemological History of Tuesday, 11 November 2003 There, Anyway?” Western Ontario Atomism” George Gale, University of Mis- Friday, 5 March 2004 Alan Chalmers, Flinders Uni- “What’s Wrong with the Easy souri, Kansas City versity Route to the Definition of Sub- Friday, 30 January 2004 “Defining Fitness: A Measure- Tuesday, 30 September 2003 jective Probability?” ment Theoretical Approach” Jason Grossman, University of February 2004 Günter P. Wagner, Yale University Sydney “Method and Freedom in Tuesday, 16 March 2004 Tuesday, 25 November 2003 Spinoza’s System”

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MORE PHOTOS FROM POLAND “Formal Teleology, Modality or Structural Realism? On What We Can Still Learn from the Principle of Least Action” Michael Stöltzner, University of Bielefeld and Notre Dame Tuesday, 23 March 2004

“The Evolution of the Platonic Toolkit” Thomas Forster, University of Cambridge Tuesday, 30 March 2004

April 2004 “The Rise of non-Archimedean Mathematics and the Roots of a Misconception I: the Emer- gence of non-Archimedean Grössensysteme” Philip Ehrlich, Ohio University Friday, 2 April 2004

“Geometrical Aspects of Local Gauge Symmetry” Alexandre Guay, University of Pittsburgh Tuesday, 6 April 2004

“No, Really—the Problem of Time” Gordon Belot, University of Pittsburgh Tuesday, 13 April 2004

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44TH ANNUAL LECTURE SERIES 45TH ANNUAL LECTURE SERIES 2003-2004 2004-2005

What’s Necessary and a posteriori and What Was Natural Philosophy Flies South for the Winter? in the Late Middle Ages? Jerry Fodor, Rutgers University, Philosophy Edward Grant, Indiana University Friday, 8 October 2004, 3:30 p.m. History and Philosophy of Science Frick Fine Arts Auditorium Friday, 10 October 2003, 3:30 p.m.

Concepts and Results in It’s Not That They Couldn’t: “Real” Mathematics Mathematics, Ancient and Modern Denis Des Chene, Washington University, Philosophy Reviel Netz, Stanford University, Classics Friday, 3 December 2004, 3:30 p.m. Friday, 14 November 2003, 3:30 p.m. Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

Are Infants Little Scientists? Is Natural Selection a Mechanism? Rethinking Domain-Specificity Roberta Millstein, California State University, Hayward, in Conceptual Development Philosophy Jesse Prinz, University of North Carolina, Philosophy Friday, 21 January 2005, 3:30 p.m. Friday, 5 December 2003, 3:30 p.m. 2500 Posvar Hall

Realism About What? Realism About What? Why Does Space Have Three Dimensions Laura Ruetsche, University of Pittsburgh, Philosophy (If It Does)? Friday, 16 January 2004, 3:30 p.m. Craig Callender, University of California, San Diego, Philosophy Friday, 11 February 2005, 3:30 p.m. Beyond Church’s Canons: 2500 Posvar Hall Axioms for Computability Wilfried Sieg, Carnegie Mellon University, Philosophy Friday, 6 February 2004, 3:30 p.m. Philosophy of Mathematics Meets Philosophy of Science John Burgess, Princeton University, Philosophy Darwinian Populations and Group Selection Friday, 18 March 2005, 3:30 p.m. Peter Godfrey-Smith 2500 Posvar Hall Australian National University and Harvard University, Philosophy Friday, 19 March 2004, 3:30 p.m. Galileo’s Roman Agenda William Shea, University of Padua, History of Science Epistemic Warrant and the Value of Truth Friday, 1 April 2005, 3:30 p.m. Allan Gibbard, University of Michigan, Philosophy 2500 Posvar Hall Friday, 16 April 2004, 3:30 p.m.

Locations of lectures are subject to change. For updated details visit: www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr

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CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, AND SPECIAL EVENTS

October 2003 March 2004 Concepts and Conceptual Knowledge in Aristotle Robert Bolton, Rutgers University Eudaimonism, Rationality, and Divinity in Greek Site: University of Pittsburgh Ethics Date: Friday, 24 October 2003 A. A. Long, University of California, Berkeley Presented by the Program of Classics, Philosophy and Ancient Science Site: University of Pittsburgh Date: Friday, 26 March 2004 Presented by the Program of Classics, Philosophy and Ancient Science November 2003

Hellenistic Philosophers on the Phenomenon of 6th Annual CMU-Pittsburgh International Changing Color Graduate Philosophy Conference Katerina Ierodiakonou Site: University of Pittsburgh National Technical University of Athens Date: Saturday-Sunday, 20-21 March 2004 Site: University of Pittsburgh Keynote Speaker: Stephen Yablo Date: Friday, 21 November 2003 Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT Presented by the Program of Classics, Philosophy and Ancient Science www.pitt.edu/~phildpt/conference/info.html Sponsored with the Carnegie Mellon University Department of Philosophy and the University of Pittsburgh Departments of Philosophy and History and Phi- February 2004 losophy of Science

HPS/Bioethics Colloquium Competition and Progress in a Survey of Evolu- May 2004 tionary Metaphors th Brendon M. H. Larson, UC-Santa Barbara 5 Quadrennial International Visiting Fellows Site: University of Pittsburgh Conference Date: Thursday, 19 February 2004 Site: Rytro, Poland Co-sponsored with the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Date: 26-30 May 2004 the Center for Bioethics and Health Law

HPS Alumni Lecture Reasoning from the Case Book: What Do Cases in the Biomedical Sciences Explain? Rachel Ankeny, University of Sydney Site: University of Pittsburgh Date: Friday, 20 February 2004

Representing Genes, Second Workshop Testing Competing Philosophical Analyses of the Gene Concept in Contemporary Molecular Biology Site: University of Pittsburgh Date: Friday, 20 February 2004 Paul Griffiths, Investigator & Karola Stotz, Research Assistant www.pitt.edu/~kstotz/genes/genes.html

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VISITING FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS Academic Year 2004-2005

Aristides Baltas Tomasz Placek National Technical U. of Athens, Greece Jagellion University, Poland Spring Term Academic Year On the Grammatical Aspects of Science Branching Space-Times

Anjan Chakravartty Oron Shagrir University of Toronto, Canada Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Fall Term Fall Term Foundations of Scientific Realism: Structuralism, Causation, Varieties of Computation: Effective Computation in the 1930s Laws, and Kinds

Martin Thomson-Jones Radu Dudau (HPS Visiting Scholar) Oberlin College, USA Al. I. Cuza University, Romania Spring Term Fall Term Things and Their Properties: The Metaphysics of Quantum Theory Social Ontology: The Constructivist Approach

Daniel Steel Jason Grossman Michigan State University, USA University of Sydney, Australia Spring Term Fall Term Causality and Heterogeneity: Extrapolation in Biology and So- Why Bayesian Statistical Inference is Nearly Right cial Science

Pawel Kawalec (Visiting Scholar) Jos Uffink Catholic University of Lublin, Poland Utrecht University, the Netherlands Academic Year Fall Term Empiricist Methodology and Causality Entropy, Entanglement and Irreversibility: Foundations of Ther- modynamics, Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Theory

Dominic Murphy California Inst. of Technology, USA António Zilhão Fall Term Lisbon University, Portugal The Significance of Introspection Spring Term Weakness of the Will and Fast and Frugal Heuristics

Laura Perini Virginia Tech, USA Fall Term Pictorial Evidence: Naturalism and Convention

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Apply Now SCHEDULED CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS for Academic Year 2004-2005 2005-06 Visiting Fellowships

Conference Honoring Allan Gotthelf (HPS) he Center for Philosophy of Science supports Topic: Being, Nature, and Life: A Conference Celebrating Allan Gotthelf’s research in the philosophy of science and re Contirbutions to the Study of Classical Philosophy and Science Tlated areas. The Center hosts about a dozen Site: University of Pittsburgh visiting scholars each year. Visiting Fellows have no for- Date: 1-3 October 2004 mal duties, but their research involves them in the intel-

HPS Workshop lectual life of the Center and so affords them the opportu-

Topic: Foundations of Physics nity for extended contact with scholars and scientists of Site: Pittsburgh similar interests and the freedom to pursue their scholar- Date: 29-31 October 2004 ship and research in a philosophically stimulating envi- HPS Mini-Conference ronment. The Pittsburgh philosophical community, com-

Topic: Einstein 1905 – A Centenary Celebration prising the Center, the University of Pittsburgh’s Depart- Site: Pittsburgh Date: 12 February 2005 ments of Philosophy and of History and Philosophy of Science, and Carnegie Mellon University’s Department Evolutionism: Present Approaches Topic: Evolutionism of Philosophy, provides an active and collegial atmosphere Site: Universidad a Coruna as well as many seminars, lectures, colloquia, workshops, Date: 10-11 March 2005 and conferences throughout the year, in a city reborn as a Annual Meeting of the American Meta- nexus for information technology and scientific research. physical Society (Sponsored by the AMS)

Topic: Science and Ontology Site: Pittsburgh Those interested in applying for a Fellowship for the Fall Date: 11-13 March 2005 Term (September through December) or for the full Aca-

7th Meeting of the Pittsburgh-Konstanz demic Year (September through April) must submit a com- Colloquium plete application to the Center before 15 December 2004.

Topic: Causation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Applications for the Spring Term (January through April) Site: Konstanz, Germany must be received before 15 March 2005. For more infor- Date: 25-29 May 2005 mation and details on applying, visit the Center’s Web

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