Laguna Workshop in the Philosophy of Biology 2006

Feb. 17-19, 2006, Hotel Laguna

Program

Friday – February 17 Session I (9 am -12 pm) Sandy Mitchell, “Contingency in Complex Biological Systems” Steve Frank, “Cancer and Some Problems of Inference”

Session II (2 pm -5 pm) Andre Ariew, “Explaining Trait Prevalence vs. Explaining Adaptation” Bruce Glymour, “Wayward Modeling”

Saturday – February 18 Session III (9 am -12 pm) Alan Love, “Reductionism, Development, and Time” Michael Rose, “Living Through a Scientific Revolution: The Last 40 Years of Aging Research”

Session IV (2 pm -5 pm) Paul Griffiths, “Function, Homology, and Character Individuation” Elliott Sober, “Which Similarities Provide the Best Evidence of Common Ancestry?”

Sunday – February 19 Session V (9 am -12 pm) Steve Downes, “What is Heritability Analysis Good For?” Francisco Ayala, “Darwin’s Revolution: Design Without a Designer”

A continental breakfast will be available each morning of the conference beginning at 8 am in the Catalina meeting room.

Sponsored by UCI Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science UCI School of Social Sciences UCI School of Biological Sciences UCI Research and Graduate Studies UCI Program in History and Philosophy of Science For more information, contact [email protected]