POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

A conference in honor of Philip Kitcher
John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University.

May 1st & 2nd, 2020, Columbia University, New York, City

Room: Fayerweather 310

Please register by sending an email to kitcherfest@gmail.com.

Discounted room rates available at The Lucerne Hotel.

201 W 79th St, New York, NY 10024

Phone: (212) 875-1000

Mention that you are reserving for a Columbia University event.

Room: Fayerweather 310 (bordering Amersterdam Ave.)

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, MAY 1

10am - 10:40

Mike Bishop, “The Ethical Project and the Normativity Challenge”

10:40 - 11:20

Max Hayward, “Objectivity and Progress: on Kitcher's Pragmatist Ethics”

11:20 - 11:30

Short Break

11:30 - 12:10

Todd Jones, “Defending the humanities from scientific barbarian hordes. Should we follow Kitcher in following Steiner?”

12:10 - 12:50

Ignacio Ojea, "Technology in a Democratic Society"

12:50 - 2:10

Lunch

2:10 - 2:50

Arnon Keren, "Testimonial Skepticism and the Division of Cognitive Labor"

2:50 - 3:30

Michael Fuerstein, “Kitcher on science and democracy”

3:30 - 4

Break

4 - 4:40

Mike Dietrich, “Automation and the Duties of Experts: The Case of DNA Evolution”

4:40 - 5:20

Katie Tabb, “Darwin’s Dues: An Episode in the History of the Ethical Project.”

5:20 - 5:30

Short Break

5:30 - 6:30

Michael Strevens, "TBA"

SATURDAY

10 - 10:40

Peter Godfrey-Smith, “Kitcher and Keller on Climate Change”

10:40 - 11:20

Chris Haufe, “The Garbage Man”

11:20 - 11:30

Short break

11:30 - 12:10

Alex Levine, “Individuation From Numbers to Creatures, or the Deep Kitcherian Kinship between Mathematics and Biology”

12:10 - 12:50

Matthew Slater & Marco Nathan, “On the Plurality of Pluralisms”

12:50 - 2:10

Lunch

2:10 - 2:50

Jessica Pfeifer, “Disunifying Unification”

2:50 - 3:30

C. Kenneth Waters, “Morgan’s Achievement”

3:30 - 4

Break

4 - 4:40

Michael Weisberg, "Kitcher on Objectivity in Science"

4:40 - 5:40

Tributes to Philip Kitcher