1982 PSA Program Source: PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Association, Vol. 1982, Volume One: Contributed Papers (1982), pp. xi-xvii Published by: The 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

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 , Columbia Patrick Suppes, Stanford

Symposium: Scientific Change and Evolutionary Biology

Speaker: David Hull, Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Commentator: , 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 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 , 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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