1982 PSA Program Source: PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Vol. 1982, Volume One: Contributed Papers (1982), pp. xi-xvii Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Philosophy of Science Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/192649 . Accessed: 19/06/2014 22:54
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29
MORNING
Symposium: High Energy Physics
Speakers: James Cushing, Notre Dame Michael Redhead, Chelsea College, London
Commentator: Paul Teller, Illinois-Chicago Circle
Symposium: Philosophy of Social Science
Speaker: Alexander Rosenberg, Syracuse
Symposium: Discovery, Heuristics, and Artificial Intelligence
Speakers: Bruce Buchanan, Stanford Lindley Darden, Maryland-College Park
Commentator: Paul Thagard, Michigan-Dearborn
Panel Discussion: Probabilistic Explanation
Panelists: James Fetzer, South Florida-Sarasota Joseph Hanna, Michigan State Paul Humphreys, Virginia
Program arrangements as of July 12, 1982
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Colloquim I: Discovery, Rationality, and History of Science
Speakers: Martin V. Curd, Purdue, "The Rationality of the Copernican Revolution" Noretta Koertge, Indiana, "Explaining Scientific Discovery' Stephen J. Wykstra, Tulsa, "Curried Lakatos"
Symposium: Technology and Risk Assessment
Speakers: David Bantz, Illinois-Urbana Douglas MacLean, Maryland
Commentators: Stuart Leslie, Johns Hopkins Peter Railton, Michigan
Panel Discussion: Recent Developments in Biology
Panelists: Franciso Ayala, UC-Davis Alan Maxam, Harvard Stuart Kauffman, Pennsylvania
Commentators: Marjorie Grene, Boston U. Elliott Sober, Wisconsin-Madison
Symposium: Recent American and Continental Developments
Speaker: Richard Bernstein, Haverford College
Commentators: Charles Guignon, Texas-Austin Thomas MacCarthy, Boston U.
Colloquium II. Causation
Speakers: Daniel M. Hausman, Maryland-College Park, "Causal and Explanatory Asymmetry" Robert H. Ennis, Illinois-Urbana, "Mackie's Singular Causality and Linked Over- determination" A. David Kline, Iowa State, "The 'Estab- lished Maxim' and Causal Chains"
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Presidential Address
Ernan McMullin, Notre Dame
EVENING
Reception
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30
MORNING
Symposium: Einstein's Discovery of Special Relativity
Speakers: Arthur 1. Miller, Harvard and Lowell John Earman, Minnesota Clark Glymour, Pittsburgh Robert Rynaciewicz, Pittsburgh
Commentator: Kenneth Schaffner, Pittsburgh
Symposium: Randomization in Statistical Inference and Experimental Design
Speakers: Debabrata Basu, Florida State Dennis Lindley, Florida State Isaac Levi, Columbia Patrick Suppes, Stanford
Symposium: Scientific Change and Evolutionary Biology
Speaker: David Hull, Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Commentator: Ernst Mayr, Harvard Aaron Snyder, Wisconsin-Parkside
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Speakers: Patrick A. Heelap, SUNY-Stony Brook, "Hermeneutical Realism and Scientific Observation" Jarrett Leplin, N. Carolina-Greensboro, "The Historical Objection to Scientific Rea 1 ism" James Robert Brown, Toronto, "Realism, Miracles, and the CommonCause" Ronald Laymon, Ohio State, "Scientific Realism and the Hierarchical Counter- factual Path from Data to Theory Jon D. Ringen, Indiana-South Bend, "The Explanatory Import of Dispositions: A Defense of Scientific Realism"
AFTERNOON
Symposium: Inference in Perception
Speaker: Irvin Rock, Rutgers
Commentators: Patricia Smith Churchland, Manitoba Steven Stich, Maryland-College Park
Invited Lecture: Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics Today
Speaker: Howard Stein, Chicago
Colloquium IV: Probability and Statistical Inference
Speakers: Jan von Plato, Helsinki, "The Generalization of de Finetti's Representation Theorem to Stationary Probabilities" Deborah G. Mayo, Virginia Tech, "On After- Trial Criticisms of Neyman-Pearson Theory of Statistics'' Zeno G. Swijtink, Stanford, "A Bayesian Argu- ment in Favor of Randomization" Davis Baird, Arizona and Richard E. Otte, Arizona/Pittsburgh, "How to Committhe Gambler's Fallacy and Get Away With It"
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Co-sponsored by SHOT and 4S
Speakers: Joseph Agassi, Boston and Tel Aviv Derek Price, Yale Nicholas Rescher, Pittsburgh
Symposium: Language and Thought
Speaker: Brian Loar, USC
Commentators: Jerry Fodor, MIT Gilbert Harman, Princeton
Symposium: Quantum Mechanics and Locality
Speakers: Geoffrey Hellman, Indiana Itamar Pitowsky, Western Ontario
Colloquium V: Measurement, Verisimilitude and Decision
Speakers: Arnold Koslow, CUNY-Graduate School and Brooklyn College, "Quantity and Quality: Some Aspects of Measurement'" Ernest W. Adams, UC-Berkeley, "Approximate Generalizations and Their Idealization" Ilkka Niiniluoto, Helsinki, "Truthlikeness for Quantitative Statements" K.S. Shrader-Frechette, UC-Santa Barbara, "Economics, Risk-Cost-Benefit Analys is, and the Linearity Assumption"
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MORNING
Symposium: Revolution and Reference
Speaker: Thomas Kuhn, MIT
Commentators: Mary Hesse, Cambridge Phil ip Ki tcher, Vermont
Symposium: The Sure-Thing Principle
Speakers: Richard Jeffrey, Princeton Edward McClennen, Washington Amos Tversky, Stanford
Colloquium VI: Philosophy of Physics
Speakers: Robert Weingard, Rutgers, "Do Virtual Particles Exist?" R.I.G. Hughes, Yale, "The Logic of Experimental Questions" Robert Alan Coleman and Herbert Korte, Regina, "The Status and Meaning of the Laws of Inertia"
Colloquium VII: Tachyons, Temporal Becoming, and Thermo- dynamics
Speakers: Steven F. Savitt, British Columbia, "Tachyon Signals, Causal Paradoxes, and the Relativity of Simultaneity" Paul Fitzgerald, CUNY-BaruchCollege, "Tem- porality, Secondary Qualities, and the Relativity of Simultaneity" John H. Harris, Otago, "The Apparent Incon- sistency of Moulines' Treatment of Equ i l i br i um Thermodynami cs"
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Colloquium VIII: Levels of Explanation in Biology
Speakers: Robert Brandon, Duke, "The Levels of Select ion" Robert C. Richardson, Cincinnati/Pittsburgh, "Grades of Organization and the Units of Selection Controversy' John Beatty, Arizona State, "The Insights and Oversights of Molecular Genetics: The Place of the Evolutionary Perspective" Carla E. Kary, Illinois-Chicago Circle, "Can Darwinian Inheritance Be Extended from Biology to Epistemology?"
Colloquium IX: Philosophy of Science, Past and Future: Metaphor and Play
Speakers: Steve Fuller, Pittsburgh, "Recovering Philosophy from Rorty" Richard Creath, Arizona State, "Was Carnap a Complete Verification ist in the Aufbau?" Eva Feder Kittay, SUNY-Stony Brook, "The Creation of Similarity: A Discussion of Metaphor in Light of Tversky's Theory of Similarity'' Michael Goldman, Miami, "Science and Play"
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