Volume 11

U N I V E R S I T Y O F P I T T S B U R G H B U L AUGUSTL E T 2003I N

NOTES FROM THE DIRECTOR

by a gala reception attended by the details of a collaborative representatives of all the spon- agreement between the Center soring organizations. Provost for Philosophy of Science and James V. Maher accepted my the University of A Coruña in invitation to represent the Uni- Spain. I am happy to report that versity of Pittsburgh at this gala just last month we secured all event, and to my delight man- the appropriate signatures on aged to join us in Delphi a few the documents that formalize days earlier and partake in the this agreement. Its purpose is BULLETIN symposium itself. For readers to provide a framework to fa- BULLETIN who know Jim Maher this cilitate future collaborations won’t be surprising—a con- and exchanges between the two densed matter physicist work- Universities. Table of Contents ing in the statistical physics of 3 In Memoriam Robert Clifton disorderly systems, Maher be- I had last seen Wenceslao in Jim Lennox came a Resident Fellow of the November when many of us 4 Visiting Fellows 2002-03 Center long before taking on were gathered at the biennial 6 Daniela Bailer-Jones The last major event of the the job of Provost. This year’s meeting of the Philosophy of 7 Adolffest Center’s 2002-2003 year, the 4th Symposium was on the theme Science Association in Milwau- Athens-Pittsburgh Symposium of Proof and Demonstration in kee, Wisconsin. My depart- 8 Gene Workshop; NEH Summer in History and Philosophy of Science and Philosophy, and ment played a particularly Institute Science and Technology, took the program committee, co- prominent role in this year’s 9 Collaborations with the Arts PSA meetings, with Center As- place 1-6 June at the European chaired by Peter Machamer of 10 Pittsburgh-Konstanz; Fellows Cultural Center of Delphi, near the Center and Aristides Baltas sociate Director Sandra Conference that town’s magnificent archeo- of the Joint Program in Athens, Mitchell chairing the program 11 News from Visiting Fellows logical site in the mountains had put together an exciting committee, and University Pro- overlooking the Gulf of program. For a look at the full fessor of History and Philoso- 18 News from Resident Fellows Corinth. As far as I know the program, see page 23. phy of Science John Earman 19 Future Conferences & Workshops Oracle was silent about the giving the keynote address as 20 Calendar of Events 2002-03 Center’s future, but I will close Another of our long-standing outgoing President of the PSA. with some good news on that international collaborations During the three days I spent 25 Annual Lecture Series subject. First, however, I will produced the first major event there, I realized that current and 26 Lunchtime Colloquium 2002-03 review some of the highlights of the year, the 6th Pittsburgh- former Resident and Visiting 27 Fellows and Scholars 2003-04 of our past year. Konstanz Colloquium in the Center Fellows constituted a Philosophy and History of Sci- significant percentage of the This year’s Athens-Pittsburgh ence, this time on the topic of gathering. And I was treated Symposium was co-sponsored Science, Values and Objectiv- to a vivid reminder of the life- by the European Cultural Cen- ity, held in Pittsburgh 3-6 Oc- time bonds that are often forged ter, the Center for Philosophy tober. For a recounting of this at the Center when I dined with of Science, the University of event see page 10; the full pro- members of the self-styled Athens, the National Technical gram of the conference appears ‘Class of ‘83’—George Gale, University of Athens, and the on p. 21. Ron Giere, Tom Nickels, James Ministry of Culture of Greece. Woodward and John Worrall— The conference closed with a Before leaving the topic of in- and listened as they swapped keynote address by Michael ternational collaborations, I am stories about their year at the Frede entitled “Aristotle on the pleased to announce the cre- Center. Origins of Philosophy,” deliv- ation of a new one. Wenceslao ered in the beautiful Aula of the González and I have for more Closer to home, the Center con- University of Athens, followed than a year been working out tinues to expand its ties with the 1 CENTER FOR PHILOSOPHY U N I V E R S I T Y O F P I T T S B U R G H OF SCIENCE

arts community in Pittsburgh. 6 - 7 December 2003. Both of April. It was truly a joyous oc- hosted by former Polish Fellows We collaborated with the Mat- these colleagues died in the casion, a detailed accounting of Jan Wolenski, Barbara tress Factory’s yearlong cel- early stages of exciting, inno- which can be found on p. 7; the Tuchanska and Zofia Rosinska, ebration of the art of James vative careers in their respec- full program, and many photo- and the organizing committee Turrell, and once again collabo- tive fields. graphs, can also be found in the also includes Tomasz Placek of rated with the Bayer Founda- Archived Events page of the Poland, Gereon Wolters of Ger- tion in sponsoring a lecture by For the past two years, as many Center website. many, Miklós Rédei of Hungary the director of Pitt’s Asian Stud- of this Bulletin’s readers know, and Freidrich Stadler of Aus- ies Center, musicologist Bell Jim Bogen has been ably assist- I mentioned in the process of tria. Mark your calendars and Yung. For the details of this ing me as a part-time Program discussing the 4th Athens-Pitts- plan to attend and renew your past year’s efforts to transform Coordinator at the Center. burgh Symposium that Provost ties to the fellowship. Pat and people’s views about the rela- When he agreed to do this two James Maher had attended the I look forward to seeing you all tionship between art and sci- years ago he indicated to me conference and represented the there! ence, see p. 9. that it would be a 1-2 year com- University of Pittsburgh at the mitment. So it was with regret gala event that closed the con- Not all news of the past year but not surprise that I accepted ference. A month earlier I had was good news, however. The Jim’s resignation from that po- met with him to report on the Center Fellowship suffered two sition this spring. I take this Center’s activities, as I do regu- tragic losses during this past opportunity to thank him for the larly during the year. At the end year. Rob Clifton passed away good ideas and the good humor of that meeting, he stunned me on 31 July 2002, at the age of that he brought to the Center, by announcing his intention to 38, after a valiant struggle with both of which we will miss. We provide sufficient additional intestinal cancer. Rob had been have redesigned this position funding to the Center’s perma- one of the Center’s Associate for a graduate assistant, and on nent operating budget to Directors until illness forced 1 September 2003 Brian achieve my goal of funding the him to resign. In May the Cen- Hepburn, a Ph.D. candidate in Visiting Fellows program from ter joined in sponsoring “New History and Philosophy of Sci- the Center’s permanent budget. Directions in the Foundations ence, will take over as the This has been a top priority of Physics: A Memorial Confer- Center’s part-time Program since becoming Center director, ence for Rob Clifton (1964 - Coordinator. And while on the and I take the opportunity these 2002),” held at the American subject of the Center Staff, I am notes afford me both to an- Institute of Physics, College pleased to announce that Joyce nounce this wonderful news to Park, MD , 2 - 4 May 2003, or- McDonald was promoted to an the fellowship and to publicly ganized by Rob’s close friend Administrator I position this thank the Provost for this most and Center Associate Jeffrey year. All of you who have had recent example of his unstint- Bub. We remember Rob in this Joyce solve your problems with ing support for the Center. issue of the Bulletin on p. 3. cheerful efficiency over the Another Resident Fellow of the years will agree with me that Let me conclude by looking for- Center, Heda Segvic of the Phi- this promotion is both richly ward. Three years ago, the 4th losophy Department, passed deserved and overdue. Quadrennial International Fel- away on 12 March 2003 at the lows Conference took place age of 45, after a long struggle As most of you are no doubt south of the Equator for the first with a rare neurological condi- aware, on May 15th of this year time, in San Carlos de tion. She was a graduate of Adolf Grünbaum celebrated his Bariloche, Argentina. In 2004, Princeton’s Classics and Phi- 80th birthday, shortly before go- the 5th will take place in East- losophy program and a special- ing off to give the 2003 Leibniz ern Europe for the first time, ist in Ancient Philosophy. A lectures at the University of near Krakow, Poland, 26-30 memorial service in her honor Hannover in Germany, 25-27 May 2004. We are very ex- is planned in conjunction with June. The Center couldn’t wait cited to contribute in our own the annual Princeton Collo- until May 15th, so we had a small way to the unification of quium in Ancient Philosophy, celebratory ‘Adolffest’ on 12 Europe. The event will be 2 B U L L E T I N

IN MEMORIAM ROBERT KENNETH CLIFTON

The Center Fellowship suffered Professor of Philosophy, with a nity, the founding subject edi- Rob is survived by his wife a tragic loss this past year with secondary appointment in HPS. tor for philosophy of physics for Marilyn and their children Ben the passing of our dear col- Soon thereafter he accepted an the on-line Stanford Encyclo- and Clare. Memorial donations league Rob Clifton on 31 July invitation to become a Resident pedia of Philosophy, and edi- may be made to: “Marilyn 2002, at the age of 38, after a Fellow of the Center for Phi- tor of Studies in History and Clifton in trust for Ben and valiant struggle with intestinal losophy of Science, and upon Philosophy of Modern Physics, Clare Clifton,” c/o Mr. Jack cancer. Born in Fort Erie, becoming director of the Cen- the leading journal in its field. Walsh, 268 Maple Ave, Pitts- Ontario, Canada to Mary and ter in 1997 I invited Rob to be- As one of the Center’s team of burgh PA 15218 (412-760- Ken Clifton in July of 1964, come an Associate Director, a Associate Directors and an Of- 8282; [email protected]). Rob took his first degree in role he played, with character- ficer of the Center, Rob brought physics at the University of istic energy and good humor, his creativity, enthusiasm, and For a detailed overview of Rob Waterloo (1986) where he met until illness forced him to step good humor to many Center Clifton’s career, I recommend his future wife, Marilyn. They down in 2001. functions, and was eagerly the obituary published in Stud- went to Cambridge University looking forward to working on ies in History and Philosophy where she received an M.Phil. Rob will be remembered as a its publishing mission. The day of Modern Physics 34 (2003) in Divinity while Rob com- leading contributor to the field that he and John Norton burst pp. 1-3. In early May the Cen- pleted his Ph.D. (1991), in His- of the philosophy of quantum into my office to sell me on the ter co-hosted a Memorial Con- tory and Philosophy of Science, theory. He had a talent for col- idea of establishing our field’s ference for Rob at the Univer- under the supervision of former laborative research, as evi- first web-based, pre-print server sity of Maryland. You can view Center Fellow Michael Red- denced in his many co-authored is one of my fondest memories the conference program on the head. After a two year research publications. He took special of Rob. As always, his enthu- University of Maryland’s Foun- fellowship at Christ’s College, pleasure in working with stu- siasm was infectious—the sale dations of Physics website: Cambridge he was appointed as dents, and he inspired them to took about 30 seconds. And http://carnap.umd.edu/ an assistant professor of phi- their own best work. thus The PhilSci Archive was philphysics/calendar.html. losophy at the University of born. He brought creativity, JGL Western Ontario. He moved to He was also an extremely ac- good judgment, and good fel- the University of Pittsburgh in tive and creative member of the lowship to the Center, and we January of 1997 as Associate philosophy of science commu- miss him deeply.

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2002-2003 VISITING FELLOWS

Donald Ainslie Andreas Blank Phil Dowe Thomas Forster Donald Ainslie is an Associate Andreas Blank earned his Phil Dowe is a senior lecturer Thomas Forster was born in a Professor of Philosophy and Ph.D. in 1998 at the Center for in Philosophy at the University famous haunted house in Cam- Member of the Joint Centre for Philosophy and Philosophy of of Queensland and formerly of bridge (England) in 1948. He Bioethics at the University of Science at the University of the University of Tasmania. His read music and philosophy at Toronto. His current research Konstanz. Since then, he has book, Physical Causation, was UEA, trained as an EEG techni- explores David Hume’s concep- held Visiting Lecturer positions published in 2000 by Cam- cian in New Zealand (in tion of the science of man and at the Humboldt University of bridge University Press. His re- Dunedin and Auckland, where its connection to his scepticism. Berlin and the Free University search interests, besides causa- he also studied composition at A second research project is an of Berlin. His research interests tion, include chance, identity, the Auckland Conservatorium) investigation of the philosophi- focus on seventeenth century time and the interaction be- and did a Ph.D. in mathematics cal foundations of bioethics. metaphysics and philosophy of tween science and religion. He at Cambridge where he now Donald is an avid swimmer, science and on the history of is currently writing a book on teaches mathematics, philosophy and has recently started weight- early analytic philosophy. He is Time Travel. and computer science, and these training in an attempt to lower the author of a monograph areas are spanned by his research his time for the 100 meter but- about the logical structure of interests. An introductory text- terfly. He is also the proud Leibniz’s metaphysics (Der book, Logic, Induction and Sets, owner of a golden retriever and logische Aufbau von Leibniz’ and a monograph on the logic of was happy to trade dog stories Metaphysik, Berlin-New York: reductionism, Reasoning about with Karen during his time at De Gruyter, 2001), as well as virtual entities, are coming out the Center in the fall of 2002. numerous articles on the phi- this year. He spent his time at the losophy of Leibniz and the Center writing a book with Piers early Wittgenstein. His current Bursill-Hall on the history and research projects concern the logic of imaginaries in math- role of the Stoic conception of ematics, and a book on BQO pneuma in the development of theory (don’t ask). He is a keen Leibniz’s theory of matter, and (though not very competent) pia- the influence of the nist, and although no athlete has constructivism in Neo-Kantian played cricket regularly for the philosophy of science on Computer Laboratory team in Wittgenstein’s early philoso- the Cambridge University league phy of logic. for many years (no 10 bat, bowls wrist-spin) and once did two bungy jumps. He is married and has two grown-up stepdaughters. Ambition: to write a good Janneke van Lith, photo and text not available. locked-room murder. 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 Joke Meheus Drakoulis Nikolinakos John Roberts growth and stability. Support of the Center’s programs by Joke Meheus is a Postdoctoral Drakoulis Nikolinakos’s central John T. Roberts is an alumnus members of its fellowship is academic interests are in phi- of the Pitt Philosophy Depart- Fellow of the Fund for Scientific essential to maintaining the Research – Flanders (Belgium). losophy of mind, philosophy of ment and is now Assistant Pro- Center’s position as a preemi- She obtained her Ph.D. in 1997 psychology, and cognitive sci- fessor of Philosophy at the Uni- nent nexus of research in is- at the Centre for Logic and Phi- ence. Topics of interest are the versity of North Carolina at sues in the philosophy of sci- losophy of Science of Ghent problem of consciousness, re- Chapel Hill. To date, most of ence. University where she is still pur- ductive and non-reductive ma- his work has been on laws of suing her research. terialism, and the nature of self- nature. While at the Center, he • Lindley Darden worked on a series of connected Having dreamed of becoming a consciousness. Minor academic (University of Maryland) papers concerning general is- professional musician in a interests are in philosophy of • Adolf Grünbaum sues in the philosophy of phys- former life, Joke still loves be- art, theory of art, and eastern (University of Pittsburgh) ics: how the theoretical con- ing on stage, whether to give medical/psychological theories. • James Lennox cepts of fundamental physical talks or to teach. Her work cen- His non-academic interests are (University of Pittsburgh) theories get endowed with con- ters on the design of non-stan- mostly in contemporary paint- • Patricia Lennox tent; what one must do in order dard logics and on their appli- ing, sculpture, and experimen- to produce an intelligible inter- • Peter Michael cations in the philosophy of sci- tal music. He is also involved pretation of such a theory; what • Sandra Mitchell ence. She is fascinated by the per- in the making of art objects role is played by physical laws (University of Pittsburgh) spectives some recently devel- such as paintings, mixed me- within such theories; and what • Warren Schmaus oped logics open for the formal dia constructions, and digital constraints should be imposed (Illinois Institute of Technology) study of reasoning and by the art. on philosophical accounts of William Stark problems they generate for the • physical laws. His cat Tina is foundations of logic. Having a • Kazuhisa Todayama constantly trying to get him to strong need to be creative, she (Nagoya University) spend more time working on considers herself lucky to be the history of early modern phi- This year’s pledge card is working in one of those rare pe- losophy. Though he resists her enclosed in the Bulletin along riods of ‘revolutionary science.’ nagging most of the time, he with a return envelope. All During her stay in Pittsburgh, did complete a paper on donations are tax deductible. Joke was finishing a book on the Leibniz’s views of space and Any donor wishing to remain anonymous may so indicate on methodological study of scien- time during his stay at the Cen- their pledge. To those of you tific discovery. She will remem- ter. When the philosophizing ber the Center as one of the most who have donated, not only day is done, he enjoys contra this year but in years past, we friendly and stimulating places dancing (which has nothing to wish to express our profound she ever visited and secretly do with Nicaraguan rebels) and appreciation for your generos- hopes that, one day, she will be Cajun dancing (which has ity and support. able to return for a second term. something to do with Cajuns). 5 CENTER FOR PHILOSOPHY U N I V E R S I T Y O F P I T T S B U R G H OF SCIENCE

DANIELA BAILER-JONES Visiting Fellows Profile: A Model Fellow

versity in 1998, during which She is especially hopeful that even when we are well aware time she met and married her recent work in cognitive psy- that the events being modeled husband Dr. Coryn Bailer- chology on visual representa- happen simultaneously! Riding Jones. She, Coryn, and their tions and on child development a bike is a useful model! You four-year-old son Ezra were will have more or less direct ap- push down the pedal, and as originally scheduled to join us plication to her work. This has you do the back wheel starts from University of Bonn a year a possibly paradoxical conse- moving. Nevertheless we often earlier, but a heroic battle with quence, since a quick look at describe such events by telling cancer forced Daniela to post- that work reveals that it makes a mechanical story—you push pone her fellowship. It is thus pervasive use of…models! down the pedal, it (then) turns a very special pleasure for us to the cogwheel that (then) moves hear her infectious laugh in the Like all models, scientific mod- the chain. The chain (then) halls of the Center this year. els are often incomplete and turns the axle of the back wheel highly idealized, i.e. offering us of the bike that (then) starts Some of the most iconic images Bailer-Jones’s interest in scien- incomplete and stylized repre- turning. Unlike a model such of our age are models of scien- tific models stems from a de- sentations of the phenomenon as the static, three-dimensional tific phenomena—the three-di- sire to grasp their roles in help- that is modeled. Mathematical double helix, these causal me- mensional multi-colored ing us to understand the world models, for example, can be chanical models are intended to double-helix model of DNA; around us. She sees the use of highly abstract and idealized by help us better understand the the solar system models repre- models as a particularly system- comparison with the phenom- causal relationships among the senting the structure of the atic way of capturing and de- ena they are intended to model. components of a natural system. atom; and models of the human scribing natural phenomena. Moreover, there are often This way of thinking is so in- brain that look like wiring dia- She is suspicious of philosophi- known inconsistencies between grained in the modern scientific grams. Computer models of the cal accounts of scientific mod- two models in a single area of worldview that it desperately earth’s weather systems are a els that are not in contact with science. What intrigues Dr. needs the critical reflections of regular feature of the evening actual scientific practice, and Bailer-Jones is that, despite a philosopher of science. It is a news. Yet as familiar as they thus focuses on the concrete de- these apparent shortcomings, source of pride at the Center are, models are very puzzling. velopment of models, for ex- models nevertheless continue to that we were able to give And as Dr. Daniela Bailer- ample by astrophysicists trying be crucial tools in the tool kit Daniela Bailer-Jones the time Jones can attest, they don’t be- to understand radio sources. In of the working scientist. She to reflect on scientific models. come less so after you have addition to looking at published speculates that it is not only in Her enthusiasm has proved in- studied them intensely. But uses of such models, she also areas of science where there are fectious as her laugh. having spent a semester at the interviews scientists in order to serious gaps in our understand- JGL Center for Philosophy of Sci- find out what they think mod- ing that models play an impor- ence doing so, she feels she has els are and what they use them tant role; they allow us to think made significant progress. She for. fruitfully both where we lack a is also spreading the word. coherent and detailed account Early on in her visit she orga- Before they are publicly acces- of nature and where we have nized an informal reading sible in journals or on the one. group looking at various philo- Internet, Bailer-Jones reminds sophical discussions of scien- us, scientific models are cogni- Looking ahead, she plans to tific models attended by both tive tools, aids in helping us study, within the context of de- faculty and graduate students. think about the difficult and velopmental psychology, mod- complicated world around us. els that describe causal-me- Having previously taken an Bailer-Jones is thus also sys- chanical relations. Certain M.Phil. degree in radioas- tematically investigating re- models often seem to develop tronomy, Daniela continued in search in the cognitive sciences, narratives about how one thing history and philosophy of sci- and especially cognitive psy- brings about another, and this ence. In this subject she received chology, to see if it sheds light seems somehow to help us un- a Ph.D. from Cambridge Uni- on the scientific use of models. derstand what is going on— 6 B U L L E T I N

ADOLFFEST: A CELEBRATION OF ADOLF GRÜNBAUM’S 80TH BIRTHDAY

losophy of Natural and Social of the Center website at http:// limiting case of the theory that Sciences; Professor Philip www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr. removes the anomalies. Quinn, a former student of In his opening presentation, Quinn defended the theistic Adolf’s from the University of Worrall proposed an answer to cosmologists’ question of why Notre Dame’s Philosophy De- questions raised by Adolf’s there is something rather than partment; and Professor Jeremy refutation of Sir Karl Popper’s nothing against Adolf’s insis- Wakefield of the Philosophy account of the difference be- tence that the question is spu- Department at Rutgers Univer- tween ad hoc and progressive rious. Adolf’s extensive reply sity delivered talks on subjects treatments of anomalies. Adolf argued in part that Quinn’s de- fense places an unbearable bur- den of proof on the theistic cos- mologist. Wakefield, who was present- ing a paper co-authored with Professor Morris Eagle of On April 12th, forty-three Adelphi University (who due to years after Adolf Grünbaum illness regretfully could not be came to Pittsburgh and a month present), argued that far from shy of his 80th birthday, Jim saving psychoanalytic theory Lennox convened a memorable from Adolf’s criticisms, the so- birthday celebration sponsored called New View in Psycho- by the Center, HPS, the Depart- analysis actually concedes ment of Philosophy, and the Grünbaum’s objections and Office of the Provost. The af- makes psychoanalytic theory ternoon opened with accolades vulnerable to new ones. from Chancellor Mark The intellectual feast was fol- Nordenberg; reminiscences of lowed by a gustatory one of the early years of the Center from longtime friend and col- to which Adolf has made last- laborator Professor emeritus Al ing contributions and on which Janis; the presentation of a he continues to work. Adolf’s scrapbook of greetings from vigorous responses stimulated absent friends around the lively discussions that contin- world; and most appropriately, ued through the official pro- an afternoon-long philosophi- gram and on into the evening. cal feast. Professor John The full program (see p. 22) Worrall of the London School and more pictures of the event of Economics’ Center for Phi- can be seen on the Events page

began discussion by question- food, drink, and fellowship at ing whether Worrall’s attempt a reception/birthday celebra- to revive the distinction was an tion, during which Provost improvement over the tradi- James Maher led a toast to tional idea that the original Adolf. theory should be preserved as a JBB 7 CENTER FOR PHILOSOPHY U N I V E R S I T Y O F P I T T S B U R G H OF SCIENCE

GENES WORKSHOP

The weekend of 18-19 January about change and diversifica- saw the first of two workshops tion in the concept of the gene organized by Center Associate as a result of the rapidly chang- Director Dr. Paul E. Griffiths ing understanding of the ge- and Dr. Karola C. Stotz as part netic material emerging from of the “Representing Genes” molecular biology. Participants project funded by the STS divi- worked in focus groups to de- sion of the National Science sign specific sections of the Foundation and by the Univer- questionnaire and will meet for sity Center for International a further workshop in 2004 to Studies. Twelve biologists, his- review and analyze the results torians, and philosophers from of the study. More information Pittsburgh and 13 from other about the meeting is available institutions in the US and over- on the project website: http:// seas gathered to design a ques- www.pitt.edu/~kstotz/genes/ tionnaire study to test claims genes.html#Workshops. PEG

NEH SUMMER INSTITUTE: VALUES AND SCIENCE

Peter Machamer and Sandra lege; Michael Ruse, Florida science as a body of special rected at solving specific prob- Mitchell were awarded an NEH Sate University; Dominick methods uniquely well-suited, lems of social and economic Grant to host a summer insti- Murphy, California Institute of because of their objectivity, to import. Scientific work is tute for university and college Technology; Alison Wylie, produce knowledge that could funded by nations and firms teachers on Science and Values Barnard College; and Kristin improve the human condition. with ideologies and profit mo- at the University of Pittsburgh, Shrader-Frechette, Notre Dame. tives. Science is embedded in 23 June – 25 July 2003. The Various critics of science - so- a worldview that is riddled with event had local sponsorship Many people, though not all, cial constructivists, feminists, value-laden assumptions. from the Center for Philosophy take science to be the most re- postmodernists, and multi- of Science and the Faculty of liable means for understanding culturalists – have questioned The institute participants im- Arts and Sciences. Thirty par- the world. Because its meth- the objectivity of science and mersed themselves in the ques- ticipants from around the coun- ods are supposed to be objec- challenged its authority. Sci- tion of the role and impact of try were selected from a pool of tive, science claims to offer an entists are socially located in a values on scientific activity. applications to spend five weeks accurate representation of our culture as consumers, mothers, SDM debating the content and roles world. This is the source of the fathers, men, women, members of values in science. In addi- authority of science and war- of ethnic minorities, émigrés, tion to Machamer and Mitchell, rants its use in shaping our per- and the like. And though the five distinguished lecturers sonal and collective decisions. pursuit of knowledge for its lead the discussions. They were Enlightenment philosophers own sake is admirable, much, Hugh Lacy, Swarthmore Col- strongly advocated a view of if not most, of science is di- 8 B U L L E T I N

THE CENTER’S COLLABORATIONS WITH THE ARTS MISSION OF In 1998 the Center for Phi- ebration of Turrell’s work. and Self); Emory University THE CENTER losophy of Science, the Bayer Turrell’s art, which uses light physicist Sidney Perkowitz Foundation’s “Making Science as its material, owes a great deal (Embodied Light: Visions and Make Sense” program, and the to the “ecological” approach to Reality); and Pitt’s new Andrew The Center for Philoso- Carnegie Science Center initi- visual perception originated by W. Mellon Professor of Con- phy of Science exists to ated an annual series of public his teacher, James J. Gibson. temporary Art History and promote scholarship and lectures focusing on the ways And since Center Associate Theory, Terry Smith (Art into research, to encourage in which the study of the his- Director Peter Machamer and Light: Turner to Turrell). scholarly exchanges, and tory and philosophy of science I have long-standing interests (For more on this year-long to foster publications in does, indeed, help make sci- project see www.mattress.org/ the philosophy of science ence make sense. The fol- contact/index.html.) as well as in philosophi- lowing year these lectures Our collaboration with the cally informed history of became an integral part of Bayer Foundation program science and related fields. the CSC’s Sci-Tech Fest, a continued as well. This The Center is dedicated to week-long celebration of year, the Sci-Tech Fest bridging the gulf between science and technology sup- theme was “Science and the sciences and the hu- ported by Bayer. During the Sound.” As part of this manities, and to helping 2001 series, we chose to fo- theme, on 14 April the Cen- to develop and dissemi- cus on the science of light, ter co-sponsored a lecture at nate a philosophical un- in order to expand our col- the Carnegie Music Hall by derstanding and apprecia- laboration to include the the head of Pitt’s Asian tion of the sciences. The Carnegie Museum of Art, Studies Center, Professor Center pursues its mission then hosting their highly ac- Bell Yung. His presentation not only locally and re- claimed exhibition, Light! actually tied our programs gionally, but also nation- In the Industrial Age. In ad- of the last two years to this ally and internationally. dition to two lectures at the year’s theme, for he de- Like other centers at Science Center, we thus or- scribed a fascinating per- the University of Pitts- ganized two lectures at the sonal odyssey from the study burgh, the Center for Phi- Museum of Art on the links of the physics of light to the losophy of Science is a between the sciences of op- study of the classical music of unit for research rather tics and astronomy, on the China—his current passion. than teaching. Neverthe- one hand, and photography and in Gibson’s ideas I quickly ac- All of these collaborations less, through its many un- painting, on the other. cepted. A videotape of an in- put into action one of the dertakings and initiatives, In 2002, Pittsburgh’s inno- terview with Turrell which I Center’s goals, breaking down the Center substantially vative art gallery Mattress Fac- conducted became part of the the artificial barriers between enriches the graduate pro- tory had taken notice of this col- exhibition, and a printed tran- the humanities and the sci- grams in the Department laboration. They were mount- scription became part of the ences, restoring the classical of History and Philosophy ing a year-long series of events exhibition catalogue. On 29 ideal of the “liberal arts” (which of Science and in the De- in conjunction with their exhi- September, the Center and the of course included the math- partment of Philosophy. bition, James Turrell: Into the Mattress Factory co-presented ematical sciences, which of Some of these Center ac- Light. MF Education Director a forum at the Mattress Factory course included harmonics and tivities also enrich the un- Jennifer Baron invited the Cen- entitled Seeing Yourself See, optics!). dergraduate programs of ter for Philosophy of Science to featuring presentations by Pe- JGL the University. collaborate with MF in this cel- ter Machamer (Objects, Light

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6TH MEETING OF THE PITTSBURGH-KONSTANZ COLLOQUIUM Science, Values, and Objectivity 3 - 6 October 2002

Co-organized by the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh and the Zentrum Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie, University of Konstanz

Scholars from around the world met in Pittsburgh in October 2002 social science. The Pittsburgh-Konstanz format, involving as it to debate the role and legitimacy of varying types of values in does a mix of European and North American scholars, promoted scientific practice. Broadly speaking, the sessions at the confer- both a diversity of philosophical approaches and a range of dis- ence dealt with three distinct questions regarding the role of val- tinct political and legal contexts within which the role of values in ues in science: Are there distinctively cognitive or “epistemic” scientific practice and application could be examined. The pro- values that play a role in the choice of scientific theories, and if so gram of the conference can be seen on p. 21, and papers based on are these values objective, in some sense?; Are there other sorts of the presentations at PK-6 will be published by The University of values—moral, social, cultural—that play a role in science?; And Pittsburgh Press. if there are, does the presence of these types of values always, SDM never, or sometimes lead to “bad” science? One aim of the confer- ence organizers was to invite speakers representing a wide spec- trum of different answers to these questions—defenders and crit- ics of “social objectivity,” defenders and critics of the distinction between cognitive and social values, defenders and critics of “nor- mative naturalism,” and so on. Another was to have a balance between presentations focused on the philosophical debate over such questions and presentations that focused on the practice and application of science in specific areas of public policy, law, and

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

26-30 May 2004 Rytro, Poland

a picturesque town in the beautiful Poprad River Valley in the Beskidy mountain range near the Slovakian border, just south of Kraków

Past and present Fellows who wish to participate should fill out the conference forms which were e-mailed to you.

For further information, contact Joyce at [email protected]

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NEWS FROM PAST VISITING FELLOWS March 2002 to March 2003

Evandro AGAZZI gress of Technoethics, Barcelona, Piper, Midwife, Mentor: Obituary versity Press, 2003 (University of Genoa) November 2002; “La pauvreté dans for Thomas A. Sebeok,” Annual Presentations: “Humor in Online Books: ed. with E. Weber, le contexte de la dignité humaine,” meeting of Semiotic Society of Romantic Relationships,” The Philosophie et tolérance/Philoso- Philosophy day of UNESCO, Paris America, San Antonio, October April Fools’ Day Workshop on phy and Tolerance - Actes des (UNESCO), November 2002 2002 Computational Humor, Trento, Entretiens de Rabat, Philosophica, Current project: The axiological Awards: Fulbright, Department of Italy, 2002; “Happiness in 2002; ed. with L. Montecucco, context of science: Values enter in Semiotics, University of Tartu, Cyberspace,” International Society Complexity and Emergence, World the constitution of science: Not Estonia, 2003 for Research on Emotions, Cuenca, Spain, 2002; “Emotions on the Net,” ETHICOMP 2002, Lisbon, Portugal, November 2002 Current project: Emotions in Cyberspace

Thomas BONK (University of Munich) Books: Ed., Truth, Language, and Knowledge. Contributions to the Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002/3 Articles: “Scepticism Under New Colors? Stroud’s Criticism of Carnap,” Truth, Language, and Knowledge. Contributions to the Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap, T. Bonk, ed., Kluwer Academic Pub- lishers, 2002/3 Presentations: “Conceptions of Reality: Schilck, Carnap, Neurath,” Workshop on Otto Neurath’s Work, Cracow, 6 Octo- ber 2002; “Skepsis und Verifikation,” Lecture at the Uni- versity of Munich, Munich, 6 Oc- tober 2002 Current project: Scepticism, Epistemology

Bryson BROWN (University of Lethbridge) Articles: “Paraconsistent Classical Scientific, 2002 only cognitive values (that are com- Current project: Continuing Logic,” Paraconsistency: The Articles: “La tolérance en tant monly recognized especially as ethnoecological research among Logical Way to the Inconsistent- qu'enjeu éthique fondamental de theory comparison is concerned), Saami reindeer-breeders in Norwe- Proceedings of the II World Con- notre époque,” Philosophica, 65, but also social, ethical, political, gian Lapland gress on Paraconsistency 2000, 2002; “El desafío de la interdis- religious values. They concern the W.A. Carnielli, M.E. Coniglio, and ciplariedad: dificultades y logros,” "doing" of science and its global Aaron BEN-ZE’EV I.M.L.D Ottaviano, eds., Marcel Revista Empresa y Humanismo, V "sense." The chief problem is that (University of Haifa) Decker, New York, 2002; “Ap- 2/2, 2002; ed. with L.Montecucco, of taking them in due account with- Books: Love Online: Emotions on proximate Truth,” Inconsistency in “What is Complexity?”, Complex- out jeopardizing scientific objectiv- the Internet, Cambridge University Science, J. Meheus, ed., Kluwer: ity and Emergence, World Scien- ity. Press, 2003 Dordrecht,/Boston/London, 2002; tific, 2002 Articles: “Emotions Are Not Feel- “On Paraconsistency,” Part XII, en- Presentations: “Sciences Myrdene ANDERSON ings,” Consciousness & Emotion, try 39, A Companion to Philo- cognitives et anthropologie (Purdue University) 3, 2002; “Emotions as a General sophical Logic, Dale Jaquette, ed., philosophique,” Meeting of the In- Books: ed. with A. Saenz-Ludlow, Mental Mode,” Thinking about Blackwell Publishers, Malden, ternational Academy for Philoso- S. Zellweger, and V. Cifarelli, Edu- Feeling: Contemporary Philoso- Massachusetts and Oxford, UK, phy of Science, Paris (Sorbonne), cational Perspectives on Math- phers on Emotion, R. Solomon, 2002 June 2002; “How can the problems ematics as Semiosis: From Think- ed., Oxford University Press, 2003; Award: Principal Fellow in the De- of an ethical judgment on science ing to Interpreting to Knowing, “The Logic of Emotions,” Philoso- partment of Philosophy, University and technology be correctly ap- Ottawa: Legas Publishing, 2003 phy and the Emotions,” A. of Melbourne, Melbourne VIC, proached?,” 2nd International Con- Presentations: “Trickster, Pied Hatzimoysis, ed., Cambridge Uni- January-July 2002 11 CENTER FOR PHILOSOPHY U N I V E R S I T Y O F P I T T S B U R G H OF SCIENCE

Current project: Designing Ex- nomical instruments in al- and time: inertial frames,” The Kompetenzmessung,” planations: A critical examination Andalus: Ali b. Jalaf’s universal Stanford Encyclopedia of Arbeitsprozessintegriertes Lernen, of design explanations in cosmol- plate: Edition and analysis of the Philosophy (online); “Newton’s Münster, New York, München, ogy and biology only text preserved on this highly Philosophical Analysis of Space Berlin (Waxmann), 2002; interesting instrument: the and Time,” The Cambridge “Kompetenzentwicklung in Daniel BURSTON castillian translation made under Companion to Newton, I.B. selbstorganisierten (Duquesne University) Alfoso X the Wise (13th C.) of the Cohen and G. Smith, eds., Netzwerkstrukturen,” Vernetzte Articles: “Scheler, Nietzsche & arabic text on its construction and Cambridge University Press, Kompetenzentwicklung. Alterna- Social Psychology,” Journal of the use May 2002 tive Positionen zur Weiterbildung, Society for Existential Analysis, Presentations: “Mathematical Berlin (edition sigma), 2002 14.1, January 2003; “Erik Erikson Giovanni CAMARDI structure, ‘world structure,’ and the and the Impossible Profession,” (University of Catania) philosophical turning-point in Brigitte FALKENBURG The Psychoanalytic Review, 89.4, Book: Bioinformatica e Teorie modern physics,” Conference on (University of Dortmund) August 2002; “Psychoanalysis & della Probabilita, Edizioni The Interaction between Math- Presentations: “Die Grenzen Subjectivity in Erich Fromm,” Centrografico, Catania, 2002 ematics, Physics, and Philosophy, physikalischer Erklaerung,” XIX Understanding Experience: Psy- 1850-1940, sponsored by the Dan- Deutscher Kongress fuer chotherapy & Postmodernism, Peter DAVSON-GALLE ish Network for the History and Philosophie, University of Bonn, Roger Frie, ed., Routledge: Lon- (University of Tasmania) Philosophy of Mathematics, 23-27 September 2002; “How don, 2003 Articles: “2002, ‘Science, Copenhagen, Denmark, 28 Classical and Quantum States re- Current project: Ego, Ethics, and Values, and Objectiv- September 2003; late: Cartwright’s views of Quan- Evolution: Erik Erikson & The ity,’” Science and “Structure and In- tum Mechanics,” Workshop on Impossible Profession Education Vol. terpretation in Nancy Cartwright’s Philosophy of 11, No. 2, 2002 the History of Science, University of Konstanz, Emilia CALVO Current Modern Phys- 16-17 December 2002 (University of Barcelona) project: ics,” Dibner Awards: J.J. Becher-Preis 2002 Books: “Ibn al-Kammad’s astro- whether one Institute for der Johann Joachim Becher nomical work in Ibn al-Ha’im’s al- can coher- the History of Stiftung zu Speyer, for the prize- Zij al-Kamil,” Science and Tech- ently state Science and essay: “Wem dient die Technik? nology in the Islamic World. Pro- the theses Technology, Eine wissenschaftstheoretische ceedings of the XXth International that all truth is Cambridge, Analyse der Ambivalenzen Congress of History of Science, to be under- MA, 12 Novem- technischen Fortschritts” (Liège, 20-26 July 1997) vol. XXI, stood as per a ber 2003 S.M. Razaullah Ansari, ed., pragmatic theory of Awards: Senior Fel- Eduardo FLICHMAN Turnhout Brepols, 2002 truth and that all truth low, The Dibner Insti- (National University of General Presentations: “La labor de is but relative truth tute for the History of Science Sarmiento) difusión de la cultura árabe por and Technology, 2002-2003 Articles: “Degrees of Determinism Alfonso X y su contribución a la Werner DIEDERICH Current project: Conceptual and Indeterminism,” Philosophy formación del lenguaje científico: (University of Hamburg) Analysis and the Conceptual De- and History of Science in the South Los Libros del Saberde Articles: “The Heritage of Con- velopment of Physics: A study of Cone, National University of Astronomía,” International ventionalism,” Dialogos, 79, 2002 the evolution of theories of space Quilmes (Argentina), 2002; “Re- Coloquium “La civilización Presentations: “Poincare, Quine, and time from Newton to Einstein, sponsibility and Free Will: a Com- islámica en al-Andalus y los and the Semantic Approach,” 21 reconsidered in light of concerns plex Relation,” Epistemology and aspectos de tolerancia,” organized Feb 2003, Department of Philoso- about conceptual analysis, concep- History of Science - Selection of by the Centro de Estudios phy, University of California at tual change, and a priori knowl- Works from the XII Meeting, Vol. Andalusíes y diálogo entre Irvine edge. 8, National University of Cordoba Culturas, Rabat, 12-14 March Current project: Kepler’s Final (Argentina), 2002 2002; “La permanence des Traités Theory of the Cosmos: In this book John ERPENBECK Presentations: “Randomness vs. de Miqat au Maghrib : VIIIe - project I mainly deal with Kepler’s (QUEM, Berlin) arbitrariness in classical statistical IXe siècles H. /XIVe - XVe siècles Platonic synthesis of astronomy, Books: Kompetenzprofiling. mechanics,” Internacional Con- J.C.,” 7ème Colloque Maghrébin astrology, and harmonic theory in Weiterbildungsbedarf und Lernfor- gress: Causation and Explanation d’Histoire des Mathématiques one comprehensive system of the men in Zukunftsbranchen, in Natural and Social Sciences Arabes, Marrakech, Marruecos, 30 world, one focus being on his im- Münster, New York, München, (CENSS) 2002, Center for Logic May - 1 Juin 2002; “En torno a los agery. Berlin: Waxmann, 2002; with V. and Philosophy of Science, Ghent inicios de la actividad científica en Heye and L. Michel, Handbuch University (Belgium), 15-18 May lengua árabe,” VII trovades de la Robert DISALLE Kompetenzmessung. Erkennen, 2002; “Length in Classical Phys- Societat Catalana d’Història de la (University of Western Ontario) bewerten, verstehen von Kompe- ics,” III Meeting in Philosophy and Ciencia i de la Técnica, Barcelona, Articles: “Reconsidering Kant, tenzen in der betrieblichen, History of Science of the South 14-17 November 2002 Friedman, Logical Positivism, pädagogischen und psycho- Cone, Aguas de Lindóia (San Awards: Elected member of the and the Exact Sciences,” logischen Praxis, Stuttgart: Pablo, Brazil), 27-30 May 2002; Académie Internationale Philosophy of Science 69, June Schäffer & Poeschel, 2003 “Ontology and Free Will,” Sixth d’Histoire des Sciences 2002; “Conventionalism and Articles: “Erfahrungslernen, Bariloche International Philosophy Current project: Universal astro- Modern Physics: A Re-Assess- Kompetenzentwicklung und Colloquium 2002, San Carlos de ment,” Nous, 36:2, 2002; “Space 12 B U L L E T I N

Bariloche (Argentina), 18-20 Sep- ing committee: A. Baltas, D. Books: With Joseph E. Harmon, Presentations: “La psychologie tember 2002 Gillies, T. Kuipers, I. Niiniluoto, and Michael Reidy, Communicat- expérimentale à la fin du XIX: ce Awards: Grant from University of M. Paty, M. Redei, F. Stadler, G. ing Science: The Scientific Article que la philosophie des sciences lui Buenos Aires, Division Science Wolters) from the 17th Century to the doit,” Pour connaître le XIXe, Sci- and Technology to continue re- Present, Oxford University Press, ence et philosophie des sciences à search “Causality and its projec- Dimitri GINEV 2002; With Ray Dearin, Chaim la fin du siècle, Genève, Novem- tions,” Buenos Aires, 2001/2003 (University of Sofia) Perelman, SUNY Press, 2002 ber 2002; “Les racines de la théorie Current project: Causality and its Books: Bulgarian Studies in the de l’identité de Feigl dans la projections: Related with deter- Philosophy of Sciences, Kluwer Stephan HARTMANN philosophie et dans la minism, causality, and free will Academic Publishers, 2003 (University of Konstanz) psychophysiologie du 19ème Current Project: Hermeneutic Articles: With Luc Bovens, “Baye- siècle,” Université Nancy 2, Allan FRANKLIN Fore-Structuring of Scientific Re- sian Networks and the Problem of Colloque; “H. Feigl, De la phy- (University of Colorado) search, Effective-Historical Con- Unreliable Instruments,” Philoso- sique au mental”, May 2002; Books: Selectivity and Discord: sciousness in the Natural Sciences phy of Science, 69, March 2002; “Theoriebeladenheit der Beobach- Two Problems of Experiment, Uni- “On Correspondence,” Studies in tung und wissenschaftliche versity of Pittsburgh Press, Novem- Wenceslao GONZÁLEZ History and Philosophy of Mod- Instrumente im Experiment (nebst ber 2002 (University of La Coruña) ern Physics, 33B, March 2002; einem Anhang zur Psychologie),” Articles: “William Wilson and the Books: Ed., Diversity of Scientific with Luc Bovens, Branden Working group “Philosophisches Absorption of Beta Rays,” Phys- Explanation, Ariel, Barcelona, Fitelson, and Josh Snyder, “Too Denken und philosophische ics in Perspective, Volume 4, Num- 2002; Ed. with G. Marques and A. Odd (Not) to be True: A Reply to Praxis” of the Berlin-Brandenburg ber 1 2002; “Fisica Y y Avila, Philosophic-methodologi- Olsson,” British Journal for the Academy of the Sciences, March Experimentacion,” Theoria, Vol- cal approaches in Economics, Philosophy of Science, 53, Septem- 2002 ume 17, Number 44, May 2002 FCE, Madrid, 2002 ber 2002 Presentations: “CP Violation, An Articles: “A Characterization of Presentations: “Explanation, Re- Giora HON Example of a Convincing Experi- ‘Scientific Explanation’ and Kinds duction and Fundamental Physics,” (University of Haifa) ment,” Seven Pines Symposium, of Scientific Explanations,” Diver- Annual Philosophy of Science Con- Articles: “Gödel, Einstein, Mach: 16 May 2002; “The Rise and Fall sity of Scientific Explanation, W.J. ference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, April Die Vollständigkeit physikalischer of the Fifth Force,” Heiland Lec- Gonzalez, ed., Ariel, Barcelona, 2002; “Explanatory Pluralism Theorien,” Kurt Gödel Wahrheit ture, Colorado School of Mines, 5 2002; “An Analysis of Rationality Made Coherent,” International und Beweisbarkeit; Band 2: September 2002 and Approach on Prediction in Ex- Congress “Causation and Explana- Kompendium zum Werk, B. Buldt, Current project: The Truth About perimental Economics,” Philo- tion in Natural and Social Sci- E. Köhler, M. Stöltzner, P. Weibel, Science: A book intended for a gen- sophic-methodological ap- ences,” Ghent, Belgium, May C. Klein, and W. Depauli- eral audience, which will include proaches in Economics, Gonzalez, 2002; “Parameterizing the Atomic Schimanovich-Göttig, eds., case studies from modern physics Marques, and y Avila, eds., FCE, Nucleus: Explanation, Prediction, Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 2002; including the discovery of parity Madrid, 2002; “Towards a New and the Role of Intertheoretic Co- “The Idols of Experiment: Tran- nonconservation and the early Foundation of Documental Analy- herence,” PSA 2002, Milwaukee, scending the ‘Etc. List’,” The Phi- searches for gravity waves sis,” Theoretical Basis of Docu- WI, USA, November 2002 losophy of Scientific Experimenta- mental Analysis: The Quality of Current project: Philosophical tion, H. Radder, ed., University of Maria Carla GALAVOTTI aims, processes and results, A. Applications of Probability Pittsburgh Press, 2003 (University of Bologna) Bereijo, ed., Ediciones Boletín Theory: The project applies the Presentations: “Gödel, Einstein, Articles: “Harold Jeffreys’ Proba- Oficial del Estado-Publicaciones method of probabilistic modeling Mach: Constraining completeness bilistic Epistemology,” British Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, to problems in the philosophy of of physical theory,” Sixth Interna- Journal for the Philosophy of Sci- 2002 science, epistemology, and social tional Conference on the History ence, 54, 2003; “On Discovery and Presentations: “The many faces of choice theory. of General Relativity, Amsterdam, Justification,” La Nuova Critica, Popper’s methodological approach the Netherlands, June 2002 38, 2001 (published 2002); “Per to prediction,” Popper Centenary Michael HEIDELBERGER Awards: Alexander von Humboldt un’epistemologia probabilistica,” Conference, Congress organized by (University of Tübingen) Fellowship, Max Planck Institute Logica e Politica. Per Marco the University of Canterbury, Articles: “The Mind-Body Prob- for the History of Science, Berlin, Mondadori, M. D’Agostino, G. Christchurch, New Zealand, 13 lem in the Origin of Logical Em- June - September 2002 Giorello and S. Veca, eds., Il July 2002 piricism: Herbert Feigl and Psycho- Current project: Generating ex- Saggiatore, 2002 Current project: Bounded ratio- physical Parallelism,” Logical perimental knowledge: experimen- Presentations: “Towards a Bot- nality in economics: the improve- Empiricism: Historical and Con- tal systems, concept formation, tom-up Epistemology,” Rationality ment of Reinhard Selten’s concep- temporary Perspectives, Paolo and the pivotal role of error: Seek- and Pragmatism: Workshop in tion in comparison of Herbert Parrini, Wesley C. Salmon, and ing novel approaches to the prob- Honour of Patrick Suppes, Bolo- Simon’s approach: It seeks to offer Merrilee H. Salmon, eds., Univer- lem of scientific experimentation gna, 22-23 March 2002 several aspects of the improvement sity of Pittsburgh Press, 2003; by focusing on the very role of ex- Current project: European Sci- on bounded rationality of experi- “Theory-Ladenness and Scientific periment as a knowledge-generat- ence Foundation Scientific Net- mental economics in comparison Instruments in Experimentation,” ing procedure work on “Historical and Contem- with behavioral economics. The Philosophy of Scientific Ex- porary Perspectives of Philosophy perimentation, Hans Radder, ed., Paul HOYNINGEN-HUENE of Science in Europe” (main leader Alan GROSS University of Pittsburgh Press, (University of Hannover) Maria Carla Galavotti; coordinat- (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) 2003 Books: Science, Traditional 13 CENTER FOR PHILOSOPHY U N I V E R S I T Y O F P I T T S B U R G H OF SCIENCE

Knowledge, and Sustainable De- of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage Awards: Invitation (April 2002) for The Problem of Realism, Michele velopment, ICSU and UNESCO, as the book making the most out- the Editorial Board of the Interna- Marsonet, ed., Ashgate, 2002 ed., International Council for Sci- standing and original contribution tional Journal of Bifurcation and Current project: Scientific real- ence, 2002 to the history of the neurosciences Chaos in Applied Sciences and ism and the common sense view of Articles: “Paul Feyerabend und in the period between 1999 and Engineering, edited at UC Berke- the world Thomas Kuhn,” Journal for Gen- 2001, 2002; Visiting Fellow, ley (Dept. of Electrical Engineer- eral Philosophy of Science, 33(1), McDonnell Centre for the Cogni- ing and Computer Sciences), pub- Nicholas MAXWELL 2002; “Philosophie im tive Neurosciences, Oxford Uni- lished by World Scientific (University College London) Gartenbau?,” Erwerbsobstbau, versity, March to June 2002 Singapore. Books: Ed., The Comprehensibil- 44(5), 2002; “Über einige Current project: William Current project: Evolutionary ity of the Universe: A New Con- Megatrends in der Philosophie des Macewen’s use of localising signs and Intelligent Vehicle Architec- ception of Science (paperback edi- 20. Jahrhunderts,” Rise and Fall in brain surgery: I am using archi- tures (Project with the tion), Oxford University Press, 15 of Megatrends in Science, M. val material to investigate the DaimlerChrysler Competence January 2003 Leuthold, H. Leuenberger, E.R. claim that William Macewen used Center): In order to manage the Articles: “Is Science Neurotic?” Weibel, eds., Schwabe, 2002 localising signs to plan his brain increasing complexity of future Metaphilosophy, vol 33, no. 3, Presentations: “The Legacy of surgery before the famous opera- vehicle architectures, procedures April 2002; “Science and meaning: Thomas Kuhn in the History and tion of Bennett and Godlee in 1884. from biology, socionics, and artifi- why science can coexist with con- Philosophy of Science,” Sympo- cial intelligence are transferred to sciousness,” The Philosophers’ sium: The Legacy of Thomas Kuhn, Patrick MAHER solve problems in the field of au- Magazine, Issue 18, Spring 2002, University of East Anglia, Nor- (University of Illinois) tomotive electronics. “Two Great Problems of Learn- wich, UK, 28 Aug 2002; “The Articles: “Joyce’s Argument for ing,” Teaching in Higher Educa- Legacies of Thomas Kuhn,” HSS Probabilism,” Philosophy of Sci- David MALAMENT tion, vol. 8, January 2003 annual conference, Milwaukee, ence, v. 62 #1, 2002 (University of California, Irvine) Presentations: “A possible solu- USA, 9 Nov 2002 Presentations: “What is Probabil- Books: Editor, Reading Natural tion to a part of the hard problem ity?,” Philosophy Department col- Philosophy (Essays Dedicated to of consciousness,” Toward a Sci- Andrew IRVINE loquium, University of Alberta, Howard Stein on His 70th Birth- ence of Consciousness Conference, (University of British Columbia) June 2002 day), Open Court Press, 2002 Books: On Enlightenment, An- Current project: Foundations of Articles: “A No-Go Theorem drew Irvine, ed., New Brunswick probability About Rotation in Relativity (USA) & London (UK): Transac- Theory,” Reading Natural Philoso- tion, 2003 Klaus MAINZER phy, D. Malament, ed., Open Court (University of Augsburg) Press, 2002 Aharon KANTOROVICH Books: AI Artificial Intelligence. Current project: I am currently (Tel Aviv University) Foundations of Intelligent Systems, writing a paper on the notion of Book: From the Amoeba to Wissenschaftliche time reversal invariance. Einstein, University of Haifa Press, Buchgesellschaft: Darmstadt, 2003 2002 Articles: “Cellular Neural Net- Diego MARCONI Current project: Symmetries and works and Visual Computing,” (University of Piemonte Orientale) Structures - Dematerialization of International Journal of Bifurca- Articles: “Verificationism and the Matter: I discuss the ontological tion and Chaos in Applied Sciences Transition,” Wittgenstein and the status of internal symmetries in and Engineering, Volume 13 Num- Future of Philosophy, R.Haller and particle physics. I introduce the ber 1, January 2003; “Cellular K.Puhl, eds., Wien, 2002; notion of physical structure as a Neural Networks and the Evolution “Verificationism in the Tractatus?” system encompassing a network of of Complex Information Systems Tractatus logico-philosophicus: interrelated laws of nature. in Nature and Society,” Cellular Sources, Themes, Perspectives, P. Neural Networks and their Appli- Frascolla, ed., Università della Malcolm MACMILLAN cations, Ronald Tetzlaff, ed., Basilicata, Italy, 2002 (Deakin University) World Scientific Singapore, 2002; Presentations: “Two-Dimensional Articles: “Phineas Gage,” Ency- “Time in Complex Systems,” Bild Semantics and the Articulation clopedia of the Human Brain Vol. der Wissenschaft,12/2002, Decem- Problem,” IV European Confer- 3, V. M. Ramachandran, ed., Aca- ber 2002 ence of Analytic Philosophy, Lund demic Press (San Diego, CA), Presentations: “Complexity: A (Sweden), 14 June 2002 2002; “Charcot, Jean-Martin New Paradigm of Nanoscience,” Current project: Wittgenstein and (1835-1893),” The Freud Encyclo- invited lecture at USC Columbia, Verificationism: A study of pedia: Theory, Therapy, and Cul- Columbia (USA), August 2002; Wittgenstein’s attitude to and use ture, E. Erwin, ed., Garland (New “Future View of Life and Technol- of different forms of York), 2002; “Janet, Pierre (1859- ogy,” invited lecture at the German verificationism through his philo- 1947),” The Freud Encyclopedia: Center of Air- and Space-Flight sophical career Theory, Therapy, and Culture, E. (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Erwin, ed., New York: Garland, Raumfahrt), Cologne, May 2002; Michele MARSONET 2002 “Time in Dynamical Systems,” in- (University of Genoa) Awards: International Society for vited lecture at the Berlin- Books: Ed., The Problem of Real- the History of the Neurosciences Brandenburg Academy of Science, ism, Ashgate, 2002 inaugural prize for An Odd Kind Berlin, November 2002 Articles: “The Limits of Realism,” 14 B U L L E T I N

Tuscon, Arizona, 8 April 2002; of volume I of the Enzyklopaedie works, and that our feeling of the the editon of the 1903 Lowell-Lec- “The Enlightenment Programme Philosophie und Wissenschafts- beauty of aesthetic works is the in- tures on Logic as vol. 25 of the and Karl Popper,” Karl Popper theorie. dication that they are the aestheti- “Writings of C.S. Peirce” 2002 Centenary Congress, Vienna, cally true representation of reality. Austria, 4 July 2002; “The Prob- Jesús MOSTERÍN The problem is to explain episte- Paolo PARRINI lem of Theoretical Unity in the (Institute of Philosophy, CSIC) mologically how this feeling of (University of Florence) Philosophy of Physics,” The 11th Books: With Roberto Torretti, beauty indicates the truth of the Books: Sapere e interpretare. Per UK Conference on the Conceptual Diccionario de Lógica y Filosofía aesthetic representation of reality. una filosofia e un’oggettività senza Foundations of Physics, Oxford, de la Ciencia, Alianza Editorial, fondamenti, Guerini e Associati, UK, 13 September 2002 2002; Epistemología y racionali- Robert NOLA Milano, 2002; L’empirismo logico. Current project: A book entitled dad, Editorial UIGV, Lima, 2002 (University of Auckland) Aspetti storici e prospettive Is Science Neurotic?: Neurosis is Articles: “Examen del principio Books: Rescuing Reason: A Cri- teoriche, Carocci editore, Roma, reinterpreted as a methodological antrópico en cosmología,” tique of Anti-Rationalist Views of 2002; Ed., Conoscenza e condition arising whenever prob- Diálogos (Puerto Rico), no.79, Science and Knowledge, Kluwer cognizione. Tra filosofia e scienza lematic aims are misrepresented. 2002; “Acceptance and Belief,” Academic Publishers, January cognitiva, Guerini e Associati, Science is neurotic in this sense Acta Institutionis Philosophiae et 2003 Milano, 2002 because of unacknowledged meta- Aestheticae (Tokyo), vol. 19, Articles: “Realism Through Ma- Articles: “Incompreso, o quasi, physical, value, and political as- 2002; “Kolmogorov Complexity,” nipulation, and by Hypothesis,” dagli Americani [K. R. Popper: “Il sumptions in its aims. Complexity and Emergence, Recent Themes in the Philosophy più grande epistemologo mai Agazzi & Montecucco, eds., World of Science: Scientific Realism and esistito”?],” Reset (Karl Popper Juergen MITTELSTRASS Scientific Publishing Co., 2002 Common Sense, S. Clarke and T. oggi. A cento anni dallanascita), (University of Konstanz) Presentations: “Beyond meta- Lyons, eds., Dordrecht, Kluwer Luglio-Agosto 2002, Numero 72; Books: Wissenschaft und ethische phors of thinking,” International Academic Publishers, 2002 “Popper e Carnap su marxismo e Maße, Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Symposium of the IAPS on Cogni- Awards: Marsden Fund Grant, socialismo,” Nuova Civiltà delle Kirjastus, 2002; Die Modernität tive Science, Paris, 19-23 June New Zealand, 2001-3 Macchine, 20, n. 2, 2002 der klassischen Universität, 2002; “Genetic Homology and Current project: A book with Presentations: “Crisi dell’evi- Marburg: Universität Marburg, Human Singularity,” V Interna- Gurol Irzik entitled: Science Edu- denza e verità: due modelli 2002; Die Geisteswissenschaften tional Ontology Congress, San cation in Philosophical and Cul- epistemologici a confronto,” work- und die Zukunft der Universität, Sebastián, 2-6 October 2002 tural Aspects shop “La questione della verità. Köln: Dr. Otto Schmidt, 2002 Filosofia, teologia, scienze,” Bolo- Articles: “Oskar Becker und Paul Dan NESHER Helmut PAPE gna, 10-11 May 2002; “Preti Lorenzen: die Begegnung zwischen (University of Haifa) (University of Bamberg) filosofo dei valori,” international Phänomenologie und Konstruk- Books: On Truth and the Represen- Books: C. S. Peirce: Das Denken workshop “Giulio Preti a trent’anni tivismus,” Die Philosophie und die tation of Reality: A Collection of und die Logik des Universums, dalla scomparsa,” Castiglioncello Wissenschaften. Zum Werk Oskar Inquiries from a Pragmatist Point translation and edition of Peirce‘s (LI), 17-19 October 2002; “Preti Beckers, eds. with A. Gethmann- of View, University Press of “Reasoning and the Logic of nella cultura filosofica italiana Siefert, Munich: Wilhelm Fink, America, October 2002 Things,” Cambridge Conference della seconda metà del 2002; “Die Aristotelische Meta- Articles: “Peirce’s Essential Dis- Lectures von 1898, (English edi- Novecento,” workshop “Giulio physik,” Klassische Werke der covery: ‘Our Senses as Reasoning tion by H. Putnam und K.L. Ketner, Preti (1911-1972). Un filosofo Philosophie. Von Aristoteles bis Machines’ Can Quasi-prove our Harvard UP 1992), Suhrkamp europeo,” Firenze, 14 November Habermas, R. Brandt and T. Sturm, Perceptual Judgments,” Transac- Verlag, 2002 2002. ed. Leipzig: Reclam, 2002; “The tions of Charles S. Peirce Society, Articles: “What Indexical Signs Future of Aging,” European Re- Vol. XXXVIII, No. 1/2, Winter/ Really Do: Categories, Self-Simi- Massimo PAURI view. Interdisciplinary Journal of Spring 2002 larity, and Relations in Peirce’s (University of Parma) the Academia Europaea 10 (2002); Presentations: “The Pragmatic Account of Indexicality,” Articles: “Dynamical Body “Leibniz-Welten. Leibniz zur Conceptions of ‘fact,’ ‘true propo- Indexicality and Idealism II: The Frames, Orientation-Shape Vari- Hermeneutik von Konstruktion sition,’ and ‘truth-conditions’: Our Self in Philosophical Perspective, ables, and Canonical Spin Bases und Deutung,” Nihil sine ratione. Knowledge of External Reality,” P. Ulrich et.al., eds., Mentis for the Non-Relativistic N-Body Mensch, Natur und Technik im Fourth European Congress for Ana- Verlag, Paderborn, 2002; “Wovon Problem,” Journal of Mathemati- Wirken von G. W. Leibniz (VII. lytic Philosophy, Lund University, war eigentlich die Rede? cal Physics, 43, 3, March 2002; Internationaler Leibniz-Kongress), Sweden, 14-18 June 2002; “Aes- Missverstehen als Scheitern von “Centers of Mass and Rotational ed. H. Poser, Berlin: Technische thetic Beauty is a True Represen- Identitätsunterstellungen,” Kinematics for the Relativistic N- Universität Berlin, 2002 tation of Reality,” Israeli Philo- Übersetzung als Medium der Inte- Body Problem in the Rest-Frame Awards: In 2002 I became a mem- sophical Association Conference, gration und des Kulturverstehens, Instant Form,” Journal of Math- ber of the Pontifical Academy of Tel-Aviv University, Israel, 13 Feb- J. Renn, J. Straub, S. Shimada, ematical Physics, 43, 4, April Sciences (Pontificia Academia ruary 2003 eds., Campus Verlag, Frankfurt, 2002; “Ephemeral Point-Events: Is Scientiarum) in the Vatican and Current project: The Epistemol- 2002; “What Thought is For. The There a Last Remnant of Physical President of the Academia ogy of Art and Literature: Aesthetic Problematic Identity of Mental Pro- Objectivity?” DIALOGOS, 79, Europaea, the European Academy Beauty is a True Representation of cesses with Chance Events in (Festschrift in Honor of the 70th of Sciences (London). I also be- Reality: My general thesis is that Peirce’s Idealistic Metaphysics,” Birthday of Roberto Torretti), Sep- came the Chairman of the Board any human cognition is a meaning- Transactions of the C. S. Peirce tember 2002 of Trustees of the Schering Foun- ful representation of reality through Society, Vol. XXXVIII, Nr. 1/2 Current project: General Cova- dation. the confrontation with it, includ- Awards: Three year Deutsche riance and the Objectivity of Current project: Second edition ing artistic and literary aesthetic Forschungsgemeinschaft-grant for Space-Time Point-Events: The 15 CENTER FOR PHILOSOPHY U N I V E R S I T Y O F P I T T S B U R G H OF SCIENCE

Physical Role of Gravitational and Baker, ed., Greenwood Press, 2002 Howard SANKEY December 2002; “On Fine’s Inter- Gauge Degrees of Freedom in Gen- Presentations: “Logic, Law, and (University of Melbourne) pretation of Quantum Mechanics: eral Relativity: Main result (al- Science,” Invited lecture and semi- Articles: “Qu’est-ce que le GHZ experiment,” Modality, ready partially in draft): utilization nar, Faculty of Philosophy and Let- realisme scientifique?” Reseaux, Probability and Bell’s Theorems, of the Bergmann-Komar pseudo- ters, University of Guanajuato, 94-6, 2002; “Book Reconsidered: NATO Science Series, II, Vol. 64, coordinates as intermediate gauge- Mexico, February 2002 T.S. Kuhn, The Structure of Sci- T. Placek and J. Butterfield, eds., fixings to the superhamiltonian and Awards: 2002 Faculty Recipient, entific Revolutions,” Australian Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2002 supermomentum constraints. This Sasakawa Fellowship for Japanese and New Zealand Journal of Psy- Current project: A radically for- procedure embodies the physical Studies chiatry, 36:6, 2002; Book Review: malist and physicalist approach to individuation of space-time points Current project: Modernizing A. Bird, Thomas Kuhn, The Philo- mathematics and logic: A brief for- in terms of the intrinsic degrees of Japan’s Criminal Code c. 1900 sophical Quarterly, 52: 209, 2002 mulation of my thesis has been re- freedom of the gravitational field Presentations: “Why is it rational cently published in L.E. Szabó, (Dirac observables). Fritz ROHRLICH to believe that scientific theories Formal Systems as Physical Ob- (Syracuse University) are true?” Center for Philosophy jects: A Physicalist Account of Carlo PENCO Articles: “Causality, the Coulomb and Ethics of Science, University Mathematical Truth, International (University of Genoa) field, and Newton’s law of gravi- of Hannover, Germany, 24 October Studies in the Philosophy of Sci- Books: Editor, La scolta tation,” Amer. Journal of Physics, 2002; Department of Philosophy, ence (forthcoming). Such a radical contestuale, McGraw Hill Italiana, 70, April 2002; “The validity lim- University of Bielefeld, Germany, approach has interesting and im- 2002 its of physical theories,” Physics 13 November 2002; Belgian Soci- portant consequences in the philo- Articles: “Holism, Strawberries, Letters, A 295, April 2002; “Dy- ety for Logic and Philosophy of sophical analysis of Gödel’s theo- and Hairdryers,” Topoi, 21, 2002; namics of a classical quasi-point Science, Brussels, Belgium, 23 rems and other foundational ques- “Olismo e molecolarismo,” charge,” Physics Letters, A 303, November 2002 tions of mathematics. Olismo, Massimo Dell’Utri, ed., 2002 Quodlibet, Roma, 2002; “Contesto, Current project: Cognitive Scien- Laszlo SZABO Neil TENNANT normatività e contrattazione tific Realism II: continues and con- (Eotvos University) (Ohio State University) semantica,” Conoscenza e cludes a previous paper by the Books: The problem of open future: Articles: “Ultimate Normal Forms Cognizione, tra filosofia e scienza same title published in POS 68 chance, causality, and determinsm for Parallelized Natural Deduc- cognitiva, Paolo Parrini, ed., (June 2001). Defines ‘truth of a in physics (in Hungarian), Typotex tions, with Applications to Rel- Guerini, Milano, 2002 scientific theory’, argues for reten- Kiadó, Budapest, October 2002 evance and the Deep Isomorphism Presentations: “Dummett on tion of mature theories and against Articles: With Arthur Fine, “A lo- between Natural Deductions and idiolects,” Visiting, Columbia Uni- reductionism, exhibits examples of cal hidden variable theory for the Sequent Proofs,” Logic Journal of versity, March 2003; “Idiolect and ‘theory coherence’ between differ- GHZ experiment,” Physics Letters, the IGPL, vol. 10, no. 3, May 2002; Context,” Erasmus visiting, Lon- ent levels, and gives reasons for A 295, April 2002; With G. Hofer- “Deflationism and the Godel-Phe- don, at King’s College, 29 May belief in scientific realism rather Szabó and M. Rédei, “Common- nomena,” Mind, vol. 111, 443, July 2003; “Sense and context,” Italo- than instrumentalism. causes are not common common- 2002; “The Emperor’s New Con- german meeting in analytic phi- causes,” Philosophy of Science, 69, cepts,” Philosophical Perspec- losophy, Heidelberg, 23-25 Janu- ary 2003 Awards: Visiting Professor, Reykjavik, September 2002; Presi- dent of Italian Society of Analytic Philosophy, Italy, October 2002 Current project: Mistake and context: What is considered “mis- take” depends on context. On the other hand a mistake refers to a norm. Some theories of dialogue context are based on the idea that misunderstandings depend on mis- takes about the objective context and the goals of the discourse. However I want to point out the consequences of two facts: (i) not all misunderstandings can be con- sidered “mistakes” (ii) the recog- nition of a mistake is given inside a process of (semantic) bargaining.

Cassandra PINNICK (Western Kentucky University) Articles: “Nicholas Malebranch,” Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution 1600-1720: A Bio- graphical Dictionary, Christopher 16 B U L L E T I N

tives, vol. 16, November 2002 Study of Language and Informa- Presentations: “The Emperor’s tion, Stanford University, Stanford, New Concepts,” NYU Seminar in CA, 2002; “Why the largest num- Mind and Language, New York, ber imaginable is still a finite num- March 2002; “A General Theory ber,” Logique et Analyse, 42, 1999 of Abstraction Operators,” Archê (date of publication: 2002); “Incon- International Conference in Phi- sistencies in the history of math- losophy of Mathematics, St. ematics: The case of Andrews, Scotland, August 2002 infinitesimals,” Inconsistency in Current project: A Computational Science, Joke Meheus, ed., Theory of Belief-Revision: An in- Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Pub- vestigation of the epistemological, lishers, 2002 mathematical, and computational Current project: What if anything issues involved in a general ac- is alternative mathematics?: Is it count of how best to contract and imaginable that mathematics in revise systems of belief, especially western culture could have been when these are conceived as developed entirely differently from finitary systems for the purposes of what we know today? The project’s algorithmic processing. Important aim is to defend a positive answer. features: an argument that there is no loss of generality in concentrat- Alex VISKOVATOFF ing on the finitary; a precise expli- (University of Pittsburgh) cation of minimal mutilation; and Articles: “Searle’s Background: the NP-completeness of the deci- Comments on Runde and sion problem for contraction Faulkner,” Journal of Economic Methodology, 9/1, March 2002; Soshichi UCHII “Critical Realism and Kantian (Kyoto University) Transcendental Arguments,” Cam- Books: The Ethics of Science, bridge Journal of Economics, 26/ Maruzen, April 2002 6, November 2002; “Searle, Ratio- Articles: “From the Origin of Mo- nality, and Social Reality,” The rality to the Evolutionary Ethics,” American Journal of Economics Evolutionary Games and Their De- and Sociology, 62/1, January 2003 velopment, Y. Saeki and T. Presentations: “Rationalism and Kameda, eds., Kyoritsu, October Mainstream Economics,” Pre- 2002 sented at the Biennial Meeting of Presentations: “Is Philosophy of the International Network for Eco- Science Alive in the East? A Re- nomic Method, Stirling, Scotland, port from Japan,” Center for Phi- September 2002; “Hayek and Kant losophy of Science, 40th Anniver- on Liberty and Autonomy,” South- sary Lecture Series, University of ern Economic Association Annual Pittsburgh, 14 March 2002; “The Meeting, New Orleans, November Ethics for the Scientist,” Kyoto Fo- 2002; “Three Philosophical Pre- rum, Warin-an, Kyoto, 20 Septem- suppositions of Mainstream Eco- ber 2002; “Tracing Einstein’s Road nomics,” Faculty of State Sciences, from Special to General Relativ- The University of Erfurt, Erfurt, ity,” Autumn Lecture Series, Germany, 12 December 2002 Kyoto University, 16 October 2002 Awards: Maria Sibylla Merian Current project: Philosophy of Research Fellowship, University of Space and Time: I have finished a Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany, July-Au- book on Einstein’s construction of gust, December 2002. general relativity and on its criti- Current project: Book project cal appraisal from the absolutist Critique of Economic Reason: Cri- and the relationalist positions. tiques the main philosophical pre- suppositions of mainstream eco- Jean Paul VAN BENDEGEM nomics from the point of view of (Free University of Brussels) Kantian philosophy of science and Articles: “Finitism in Geometry,” Hegelian political philosophy. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Phi- losophy (Spring 2002 Edition), Ed- ward N. Zalta, ed., url = http:// plato.stanford.edu/entries/geom- etry-finitism/, The Metaphysics Research Lab at the Center for the 17 CENTER FOR PHILOSOPHY U N I V E R S I T Y O F P I T T S B U R G H OF SCIENCE

NEWS FROM RESIDENT FELLOWS March 2002 to March 2003

German BARRIONUEVO Wesley C. Salmon’s Intellectual Peter MACHAMER tions: Lessons from Biology,” Articles: With N.N. Urban, G.. Odyssey and Enduring Achieve- Articles: Editor with Michael Akteure, Mechanismen, Modelle. Gonzalez-Burgos, D. A. Henze, ments,” Wesley C. Salmon 1925- Silberstein, Blackwell’s Guide to Zur Theoriefähigkeit makro- and D.A. Lewis, “Selective Reduc- 2000, A Symposium Honoring His Philosophy of Science, Basil sozialer Analysen, Renate Mayntz, tion by Dopamine of Excitatory Contributions to the Philosophy of Blackwell, 2002; with Lisa Osbeck ed., Campus Verlag, Frankfurt, Synaptic Inputs to Pyramidal Neu- Science, 2002 Biennial Meeting of “Perception, Conception, and the 2002 rons in Primate Prefrontal Cortex,” the Philosophy of Science Associa- Limits of the Direct Theory,” The Presentations: “Life is not so Journal of Physiology (London), tion, 8 November 2002, Milwau- Philosophy of Marjorie Grene, The Simple,” 43rd Annual Lecture Se- 539.3, 2002; with D. McMahon, kee, WI Library of Living Philosophers ries, Center for Philosophy of Sci- “Short and Long-Term Plasticity of Awards: “The Adolf Grünbaum XXIX, Randall E. Auxier and Lewis ence, University of Pittsburgh, 21 the Perforant Path Synapse in Hip- Symposium in Honor of the Works Edwin Hahn, eds., Open Court February 2003 pocampal Area CA3,” Journal of of Professor Adolf Grünbaum,” 2002; “17th Century Demonstra- Awards: Program Chair for The Neurophysiology, 88, 2002; with G. held at the Center for Philosophi- tions”, Ideal and Culture of Knowl- Philosophy of Science González-Burgos, S. Kröner, L.S. cal Education, 18-19 October 2002, edge in Early Modern Europe. Association’s Eighteenth Biennial J. Krimer, K. Seamans, N.N. Ur- Santa Barbara, CA Concepts, Methods, Historical Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, ban, D. A. Henze, and D. A. Lewis, Current Project: Philosophy of Conditions, and Social Impact, 7-9 November 2002; with Peter “Dopamine Modulation of Neu- Science in Action, two volumes to Wolfgang Detel, & Klaus Zittel Machamer, NEH Summer Insti- ronal Function in Prefrontal Cor- be published by Oxford University eds., Akademie-Verlag Berlin, Ber- tute, Values and Science , a 5-week tex,” Physiology and Behavior, 77, Press lin 2002 seminar for 30 college and univer- 2002 Presentations: “Kuhn’s Achieve- sity teachers (see: www.pitt.edu/ Awards: National Alliance for Re- Anil GUPTA ment, After 40 Years” and “Kuhn’s ~pkmach/valuesci.htm), Univer- search on Schizophrenia and De- Articles: “Partially defined predi- Revolutions and the ‘real’ history sity of Pittsburgh, 23 June – 25 July pression Independent Investigator cates and semantic pathology,” of science: The case of the Galilean 2003 Award, Calcium Dynamics Evoked Philosophy and Phenomenological revolution,” keynote lectures and Current project: Emergence: I am by “Natural” Long-range Synap- Research, vol. 65, no. 2, Septem- symposium, Universide Da Coruña working on the history and content tic Activity in Local Circuits of ber 2002 (Spain), 7-8 March 2002; “Inter- of the concept of ‘emergence’ in Monkey Prefrontal and its Modu- Awards: National Endowment for pretation in Art; Interpretation in both scientific and philosophical lation by Dopamine, 15 Septem- the Humanities Fellowship for Science, and the Perception of discussions. What counts as an ber 2002 - 15 August 2004 University Teachers Both,” public lecture, Bayer Art emergent property? Are emergent Current Project: Dr. Current Project: A book on em- and Science Series, Carnegie Sci- properties necessarily irreducible Barrionuevo’s laboratory investi- piricism and experience ence Center, 14 April 2002; Ob- to the activities of their component gates the properties of electrophysi- jects, Light and Self,” The Mat- parts? What challenge does emer- ological, biophysical, and use-de- James LENNOX tress Factory, Pittsburgh, in con- gent order in complex systems of- pendent plasticity of glutamatergic Articles: “Che bene è un junction with James Turrell ex- fer to the standard notions of cau- synaptic transmission in two corti- adattamento?” Iride, vol. XV, n. hibit, September 2002 sality and law? cal regions: (1) the rodent hippoc- 37, September-December 2002 Awards: With Sandra Mitchell, ampus, and (2) the primate pre- Presentations: “Physics II. 2: NEH Summer Institute on Values Nicholas RESCHER frontal cortex. what is the problem?” Werkmeister and Science; with J.E. McGuire, Books: Rationality, Wissenschaft, Conference on Aristotle, March Hewlett International Small Grant, und Praxis, Wuerzburg, Koenig- Adolf GRÜNBAUM 2003; “The roles of hypotheses in UCIS, University of Pittsburgh hausen & Neumann, 2002; Fair- Articles: “Critique of Psycho- Aristotle’s science,” Athens-Pitts- Current Project: Descartes’ ness: The Theory and Practice of analysis,”The Freud Encyclope- burgh Symposium, Delphi, Greece, Epistemic Stance: a book with J.E. Distributive Justice, New dia, Edward Erwin, ed., Routledge, June 2003; “Posterior Analytics I. McGuire on how Descartes’ theo- Brunswick & London: Transaction New York and London, 2002; 13: the mathematician and the ries of God, mind and nature Press, 2002; Imaging Irreality: A “Theological Misinterpretations of physicist,” Paris Workshop on change over time, and how his Study of Unreal Possibilities, Chi- Current Physical Cosmology,” The Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics, mature thought is found only after cago: Open Court, 2003 Existence of God, Richard M. Gale June 2003 publication of The Principles of Presentations: Stanley Grean Lec- and Alexander R. Pruss, eds., Current project: The conceptual Philosophy tures, Ohio University, Spring Dartmouth and Ashgate Publishing and explanatory structure of 2002 Companies, Hants (U.K.) and Aristotle’s natural science: The Sandra MITCHELL Awards: Dr. Phil. honoris causa, Burlington, VT, February 2003 goal of this research project is to Books: Ed. with John Earman and Fernuniversitaet Hagen, July 2002 Presentations: Keynote Address: determine how Aristotle’s different Clark Glymour, Ceteris paribus Current Project: A book on cog- “Autobiographical-Philosophical natural investigations are related in Laws, Kluwer Academic Publish- nitive idealization and one present- Narrative” at “Adolf Grünbaum terms of conceptual and explana- ers, February 2003 ing a series of studies on the phi- Symposium in Honor of the Works tory structure in practice; and to Articles: “Ceteris Paribus An In- losophy of G. W. Leibniz of Professor Adolf Grünbaum,” compare this with his strictures on adequate Representation for Bio- held at the Center for Philosophi- interdisciplinary explanatory con- logical Contingency,” Erkenntnis, Jeffrey SCHWARTZ cal Education, 18-19 October 2002, nections in the Posterior Analytics. Volume 57, Issue 3, December Books: Series ed. and co-author Santa Barbara, CA; “A Précis of 2002; “Contingent Generaliza- with I Tattersall, The Human Fos-

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sil Record, volume 1: terminology and craniodental morphology of Genus Homo (Europe), Wiley-Liss, SCHEDULED CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS 2002, J. H. Schwartz and I. Tatter- sall, (co-authors and series editors) Academic Year 2003-2004 Articles: “Is paleoanthropology science? Naming new fossils and Neuroscience Workshop control of access to them,” Ana- Topic: Consciousness Explaining tomical Record (New Anatomist), Site: Pittsburgh 269, 2003; “What is evolution and Dates: 5-6 December 2003 can we decipher it?” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 24, 2002; “Bodo and the concept of Genes Workshop II Homo heidelbergensis,” 25 years (Sponsored by HPS) of Bodo, Proceedings of the 4th Phillip V. Tobias Lecture on Hu- Topic: Representing Genes: Testing Competing man Evolution, H. Seidler and K. Philosophical Analyses of the Gene Concept in Begashaw, eds., National Museum, Contemporary Molecular Biology Addis Ababa, 2002 Site: Pittsburgh Presentations: “Conceptualizations of time and interpretations of the Dates: 20-22 February 2004 fossil record,” International Work- shop: Space & Time in Cosmology 5th Quadrennial International Fellows and Biology, University of Salerno, Conference Italy, September 2002; “On the re- ality of Homo heidelbergensis,” Topic: The Legacy and Present Day Contributions of International Atapuerca Workshop Middle European Philosophers and Scientists on Human Evolution, American to the Philosophy of Science Museum of Natural History, NYC, January 2003; “On the reality of Site: Krakow (Rytro), Poland Homo erectus and Homo Dates: 26-30 May 2004 heidelbergensis,” Invited lecture, National Museum of Natural His- tory (Smithsonian Institution) and Academic Year 2004-2005 George Washington University, Washington DC, February 2003 HPS Graduate Student Workshop (Tentative) Awards: Chancellor’s Senior Re- Topic: 17th Century Philosophy of Science search Award, University of Pitts- burgh, 2003; Best Single Reference Site: Pittsburgh work in the Sciences award in the Date: Fall 2004 annual American Association of Publishers of Professional and Scholarly Book awards of 2002 for The Human Fossil Record, volume HPS Mini-Conference 1, 2003; Grant from the American (Co-sponsored by the Center) Museum of Natural History to Topic: A Celebration of Einstein – 1905 study human fossils, Kenya and Site: Pittsburgh South Africa, 2003 Current Project: The Human Fos- Dates: April 2005 sil Record, the first systematic study of virtually the entire human fossil record, done with the same th descriptive and photographic pro- 7 Meeting of the Pittsburgh-Konstanz tocols. Volume 1 (Homo: Europe) Colloquium is published; volume 2 (Homo: Af- Topic: Causation in historical and contemporary rica and Asia) is in press; and vol- perspective ume 3 is expected to be completed by the summer. Site: Konstanz, Germany Dates: May 2005

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CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, AND SPECIAL EVENTS

April 2003 September 2002 Adolffest - Celebration of the 80th Forum: Seeing Yourself See Birthday of Adolf Grünbaum co-sponsored by the Center Site: University of Pittsburgh Site: Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA Date: 12 April 2003 Date: 29 September 2002 Presentations: See complete program on p. 22 Led by guest speakers from a variety of disciplines, this engag- ing forum explored the intersection of perception and light in Bayer Science of Sound Lecture the work of James Turrell and the visual arts. Co-sponsored by the Center Site: Carnegie Museum of Art Lecture Hall, Oakland, PA Objects, Light, and Self Date: 14 April 2003 Peter Machamer Presentation: From the Science of Light to the Science of Music: University of Pittsburgh A Personal Odyssey Bell Yung, Professor of Music, Director, Asian Studies Center Embodied Light: Visions and Reality University of Pittsburgh Sidney Perkowitz, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Physics Emory University May 2003 A Memorial Conference for Rob Clifton Art Into Light: Turner to Turrell (1964 – 2002) Terry Smith, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory New Directions in the Foundations of Physics University of Pittsburgh Site: American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD Dates: 2-4 May 2003 October 2002 6th Meeting of the Pittsburgh- June 2003 The 4th Meeting of the Athens-Pittsburgh Konstanz Colloquium: Science, Values, Symposium in the History and Philosophy and Objectivity Site: University of Pittsburgh of Science and Technology: Proof and Dates: 3-6 October 2002 Demonstration in Philosophy and Science Presentations: See complete program on p. 21 Site: European Cultural Center, Delphi, Greece Dates: 1-6 June 2003 January 2003 Presentations: See complete program on p. 23 Representing Genes, First Workshop Site: University of Pittsburgh Dates: 17-19 January 2003 (P. Griffiths, Investigator & K. Stotz, Research Assistant)

March 2003 HPS Lecture Einstein Between Mozart and Schopenhauer co-sponsored by the Center Michel Janssen University of Minnesota Site: University of Pittsburgh Date: 21 March 2003

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6TH PITTSBURGH-KONSTANZ COLLOQUIUM Science, Values, and Objectivity 3-6 October 2002

Thursday, 3 October:

1:00-2:30 “Social” Objectivity and the Objectivity of Value 11:00-11:30 Break Speaker: Tara Smith (University of Texas at Austin) Comm.: Wolfgang Spohn (University of Konstanz) 11:30-1:00 Science–Policy and the Place of Professional Chair: James Lennox (University of Pittsburgh) Ethics in Political Decision Making Speaker: Felix Thiele (Europaeische Akademie Bad Neuenahr) 2:30-3:00 Break Comm.: Mauro Dorato (University of Rome III) Chair: Merrilee Salmon (University of Pittsburgh) 3:00-5:30 Symposium Speaker: Hugh Lacey (Swarthmore College) 2:30-4:00 Law and Science Is There a Significant Distinction Between Cognitive and Speaker: Eric Hilgendorf (University of Wuerzburg) Social Values? Comm.: Lawrence Frolik (University of Pittsburgh) Speaker: Larry Laudan (National University of Mexico) Chair: Gereon Wolters (University of Konstanz) The Epistemic, the Cognitive, and the Social Comm.: Peter Machamer (University of Pittsburgh) 4:00-4:30 Break Chair: Karin Boxer (University of Pittsburgh) 4:30-6:00 Sociology of Values Speaker: Peter Weingart (University of Bielefeld) Friday, 4 October: Comm.: Nick Rescher (University of Pittsburgh) Chair: Andrea Westlund (University of Pittsburgh) 9:30-11:00 How Values Can Be Good for Science Speaker: Helen Longino (University of Minnesota) Comm.: David Hyder (University of Konstanz) Evening: Banquet Chair: Laura Ruetsche (University of Pittsburgh)

11:00-11:30 Break Sunday, 6 October:

11:30-1:00 Objectifying Values in Science: A Case Study 10:00-11:30 Transcending the Discourse of Social Influences Speaker: Mark Bedau (Reed College) Speaker: Barry Barnes (University of Exeter) Comm.: James Lennox (University of Pittsburgh) Comm.: Peter McLaughlin (Max Planck Institute) Chair: Kieran Setiya (University of Pittsburgh) Chair: Jeffrey Schwartz (University of Pittsburgh)

11:30-12:00 Break Afternoon: Tour of Frick Mansion, Estate, and Art Museum 11:00-1:30 Knowledge and Control: On the Bearing of Epistemic Values in Applied Science Saturday, 5 October: Speaker: Martin Carrier (University of Bielefeld) Comm.: Ted McGuire (University of Pittsburgh) 9:30-11:00 Border Skirmishes Between Science and Policy: Chair: John Earman (University of Pittsburgh) Autonomy, Responsibility, and Values Speaker: Heather Douglas (University of Puget Sound) Comm.: Sandra Mitchell (University of Pittsburgh) Chair: Joan Leach (University of Pittsburgh)

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ADOLFFEST PROGRAM

Saturday, 12 April 2003 Posvar Hall, 2P56

12:30 Opening Remarks Mark Nordenberg, Chancellor

12:45 Adolf and the Center's Early Years Al Janis

1:00 Adhocness and Content-Increase: Is There Life After Grünbaum? John Worrall

2:15 Coffee

2:30 Cosmological Contingency and Theistic Explanation Phil Quinn

3:45 The “New View” in Psychoanalysis: A Critique Jerome Wakefield

5:15 Closing Remarks DOLFFEST 6:00-8:00 Reception A

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THE 4TH MEETING OF THE ATHENS-PITTSBURGH SYMPOSIUM IN THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: PROOF AND DEMONSTRATION IN PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE 1- 6 June 2003 Delphi, Greece

This conference was dedicated to the memory of Pantelis Nicolacopoulos

Saturday, 31 May 2003 Wednesday, 4 June 2003 Arrival in Athens Morning: Transcendental Arguments Sunday, 1 June 2003 Chair: Stavroula Tsinorema, Crete Ancient: David Charles, Oxford Morning: Bus to Delphi Early Modern: Patricia Kitcher, Columbia Contemporary: John McDowell, Pittsburgh Afternoon: Axiomatics Commentator: Stelios Virvidakis, Athens Chair: Vassilis Karasmanis, NTUA Ancient: Richard McKirahan, Pomona Afternoon: Reasoning by Models or Analogy Early Modern: Edwin Curley, Michigan Chair: Ioli Patellis, Patras Contemporary: Kenneth Manders, Pittsburgh Ancient: Patricia Curd, Purdue Commentator: Aristides Arageorgis, Patras Early Modern: Daniel Garber, Princeton Contemporary: Richard Burian, Virginia Tech Monday, 2 June 2003 Commentator: Panagiotis Theodoru, Patras

Morning: Mechanisms Thursday, 5 June 2003 Chair: Aristophanes Koutoungos, NTUA Morning: Hypothetical Demonstration Ancient: Aryeh Kosman, Haverford Chair: Gerald Massey, Pittsburgh Early Modern: Peter Machamer, Pittsburgh Ancient: James Lennox, Pittsburgh Contemporary: Stathis Psillos, Athens Early Modern: Roger Ariew, Virginia Tech Commentator: Kostas Pagondiotis, Patras Commentator: Theodore Arabadjis, Athens

Afternoon: Bus to Athens Afternoon: Examples and Exemplars Chair: John Cooper, Princeton Friday, 6 June 2003 Ancient: Katerina Ierodiakonou, NTUA Early Modern: Paolo Palmieri, Pittsburgh Afternoon: Olympiad Gala Event Contemporary: John Dupre, Exeter Public Lecture Commentator: Vasso Kindi, Athens Aula, Athens Chair: Dionysios Anapolitanos, Athens Tuesday, 3 June 2003 Speaker: Michael Frede, Oxford

Morning: Graduate Student Session Saturday, 7 June 2003 Chair: J.E. McGuire, Pittsburgh Departure from Athens Speakers: 8 students

Afternoon: Tourism

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43RD ANNUAL LECTURE SERIES 44TH ANNUAL LECTURE SERIES 2002-2003 2003-2004 What Was Natural Philosophy The Probabilistic Foundation in the Late Middle Ages? of Evolutionary Theory Edward Grant, Indiana University Robert Brandon, Duke University (History and Philosophy of Science) (Philosophy and Biology) Friday, 10 October 2003, 3:30 p.m. Friday, 11 October 2002, 3:30 p.m. Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

It’s Not That They Couldn’t: Outer Space and Inner Space: Mathematics, Ancient and Modern The New Epistemology Reviel Netz, Stanford University (Classics) Paul Churchland, University of California, San Diego Friday, 14 November 2003, 3:30 p.m. (Philosophy) 2P56 Posvar Hall Friday, 6 December 2002, 3:30 p.m. Are Infants Little Scientists? Rethinking Domain-Specificity in Conceptual Development The Contribution of Experience Jesse Prinz, University of North Carolina (Philosophy) to Knowledge Friday, 5 December 2003, 3:30 p.m. Anil Gupta, University of Pittsburgh 2P56 Posvar Hall (Philosophy) Friday, 17 January 2003, 3:30 p.m. Realism About What? Laura Ruetsche, University of Pittsburgh (Philosophy) Friday, 16 January 2004, 3:30 p.m. Life Is Not So Simple 2P56 Posvar Hall Sandra Mitchell, University of Pittsburgh (History and Philosophy of Science) Beyond Church’s Thesis: Axioms for Computability Friday, 21 February 2003, 3:30 p.m. Wilfried Sieg, Carnegie Mellon University (Philosophy) Friday, 6 February 2004, 3:30 p.m. 2P56 Posvar Hall Naturalism Penelope Maddy, University of California, Irvine Darwinian Populations and Group Selection (Logic and Philosophy of Science) Peter Godfrey-Smith, Australian National University and Friday, 14 March 2003, 3:30 p.m. Harvard University (Philosophy) Friday, 19 March 2004, 3:30 p.m. 2P56 Posvar Hall From Hydrophones to Hydrothermal Vents: The Military Roots of Basic Science Epistemic Warrant and the Value of Truth Naomi Oreskes, University of California, San Diego Allan Gibbard, University of Michigan (Philosophy) (History) Friday, 16 April 2004, 3:30 p.m. Friday, 4 April 2003, 3:30 p.m. 2P56 Posvar Hall

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

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LUNCHTIME COLLOQUIUM 2002-2003 September 2002 November 2002 Keith Benson 18 March 2003 National Science Foundation “Bettering Cabernet: Science, 13 September 2002 15 November 2002 Tradition, and Money in the “On a Common Fallacy in Ana- “Rehabilitating Enumerative February 2003 French Campaign to Eradicate lytic Philosophy of Science” Induction” Hybrid Wine Grape Research” Nicholas Rescher John Norton 4 February 2003 George Gale University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh “Copernicus Revisited” University of Missouri, Kansas Bernard R. Goldstein City 17 September 2002 22 November 2002 University Professor Emeritus “Wittgenstein and Neo-Kantian “Prospects for Discovering University of Pittsburgh 21 March 2003 Philosophy of Science” Gene Regulatory Networks” “How to Choose a Logic for Andreas Blank Peter Spirtes 7 February 2003 Confused Concepts” Free University Carnegie Mellon University “On Questions and Dialogues: Joe Camp Formal Explications of Their University of Pittsburgh 20 September 2002 December 2002 Dynamics” “What Interpretation Might Be” Joke Meheus 25 March 2003 John Roberts 3 December 2002 Ghent University “The Philosophy of Suppres- University of North Carolina “The Electrophysiological Ba- sion at the Edge of Biology: sis of Pattern Separation in the 11 February 2003 Panbiogeography and the Mon- 24 September 2002 Area Ca3 of the Hippocampus” “Reasoning About Virtual Entities” astery of Evolutionary Biology” “Hume’s Perceptions” Germán Barrionuevo Thomas Forster John Grehan Donald Ainslie University of Pittsburgh University of Cambridge Buffalo Museum of Science University of Toronto Director of Science and Collec- January 2003 14 February 2003 tions 27 September 2002 “Appraisal and Machiavellian “Leibnizian Simultaneity and 14 January 2003 Emotion” 28 March 2003 Locality” “What EEGs Really Do” Paul Griffiths “Relations Among Fields: Phil Dowe Thomas Forster University of Pittsburgh Mendelian, Cytological and University of Tasmania University of Cambridge Molecular Mechanisms” 18 February 2003 Lindley Darden October 2002 21 January 2003 “On Becoming a Molecular Bi- University of Maryland, Col- “Having it All: Naturalised ologist: Dr. Francis Crick’s lege Park 15 October 2002 Normativity in Feminist Sci- Early Career” “Entropy and Levels of De- ence Studies” Robert Olby April 2003 scription” Sharyn Clough University of Pittsburgh Janneke van Lith Rowan University 1 April 2003 Utrecht University 25 February 2003 “Science as a Guide to Meta- 24 January 2003 “‘Brownshirt Biology’ and physics?” 18 October 2002 “Science and Common Sense” ‘American Behaviorism’: In- Katherine Hawley “Skeptical Challenges to Self- Nicholas Rescher stinct in the ’50s” University of St. Andrews consciousness” University of Pittsburgh Paul Griffiths Drakoulis Nikolinakos University of Pittsburgh 8 April 2003 University of Athens 28 January 2003 “Kinds, Consilience, and Cau- “Representation in Scientific March 2003 sality in Whewell’s Philosophy 22 October 2002 Modelling” of Science” “Is Science Representation?: Daniela Bailer-Jones 11 March 2003 Laura J. Snyder Some Reflections on Bas van University of Bonn “The Conception of Matter in St. John’s University Fraassen’s Empiricism” Leibniz’s Hypothesis physica Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou 31 January 2003 nova” University of Thessaloniki “American Morphology and Andreas Blank American Pragmatists: The Devel- Free University opment of a Pragmatic Biology” 26 B U L L E T I N

VISITING FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS Apply Now Academic Year 2003-2004 for 2004-05 Visiting Fellowships Alexander Afriat Tetsuji Iseda (Visiting Scholar) U. of Utrecht, Netherlands Nagoya University, Japan Spring Term Academic Year Project: From Fermat’s Prin- Project: Social Epistemological The Center for Philosophy of Science supports research ciple to Quantum Teleportation Study on Confirmation Theory in the philosophy of science and related areas. The Center

Daniela Bailer-Jones Brian Keeley hosts about a dozen visiting scholars each year. Visiting University of Bonn, Germany Pitzer College Fellows have no formal duties, but their research involves Fall Term Fall Term Project: How Scientific Mod- Project: The Prehistory of them in the intellectual life of the Center and so affords els Represent: Seeking a Cog- Neurophilosophy and Other Is- nitive Account sues them the opportunity for extended contact with scholars and scientists of similar interests and the freedom to pur- Alan Chalmers Janet Kourany Flinders University, Australia University of Notre Dame sue their scholarship and research in a philosophically Academic Year Spring Term stimulating environment. The Pittsburgh philosophical Project: An Epistemological Project: Philosophy of Science History of Atomism After Feminism community, comprising the Center, the University of

Mark Colyvan Sherri Roush Pittsburgh’s Departments of Philosophy and of History and University of Queensland, Rice University Philosophy of Science, and Carnegie Mellon University’s Australia Fall Term Spring Term Project: Tracking: Knowledge, Department of Philosophy, provides an active and colle- Project: The Role of Natural- Evidence, and Science ism in Ontology and Scientific gial atmosphere as well as many seminars, lectures, col- Method Ken Schaffner loquia, workshops, and conferences throughout the year, George Washington University Vasiliki Grigoropoulou Fall Term in a city reborn as a nexus for information technology and (Visiting Scholar in HPS) Project: Behaving: What’s Ge- scientific research. University of Athens, Greece netic and What’s Not Spring Term Project: Identity: Persons and Self in Locke Those interested in applying for a Fellowship for the Fall Term (September through December) or for the full Aca- Rick Grush U. of California, San Diego demic Year (September through April) must submit a com- Fall Term plete application to the Center before 15 December 2003. Project: Other Points of View: The Neural and Psychological Applications for the Spring Term (January through April) Mechanisms of “Theory of Mind” Phenomena must be received before 15 March 2004. For more infor- mation and details on applying, visit the Center’s web site at http://www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr.

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Chairman: Director: The board consists of the Center Adolf Grünbaum James Lennox officers and four ex officio mem- Vice Chairman: Assistant Director: bers: the chair of the History and Nicholas Rescher Karen Kovalchick Philosophy of Science Department (John Norton); the chair of the Phi- Director: Program Director: losophy Department (Stephen James Lennox James Bogen Engstrom); the chair of the Philoso- Associate Directors: Administrative Assistant: phy Department at Carnegie Paul Griffiths Joyce McDonald Mellon University (Wilfried Sieg); Peter Machamer Administrative Assistant/ and the most recent past director Sandra Mitchell Bulletin Editor: of the Center (Gerald J. Massey). Carol Weber 28