Philosophy of Biology at the Mountains (on Zoom)

June 23, 25 and 29, 2020

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All times are Mountain Daylight Time (GMT - 6)

Tuesday, June 23

Morning sessions

9:00 – 9:40

Aja Watkins, Boston University, “Accommodating Horizontal Inheritance in Phylogenetics”

10:00 – 10:40

Celso Neto, University of Calgary, “Rethinking the Use of Idealizations in Science: The case of Phylogenetic Trees "

11:00 – 11:40

Archie Fields III, University of Calgary, “Using Situated Cognition Modeling to Solve Empirical Relevance and Support Problems in Evolution of Cooperation Research”

Lunch Break (11:40-1:00)

Afternoon Sessions

1:00 – 1:40

Invited Speaker: Roberta Millstein, UC Davis. "Why you should care about Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic"

2:00 – 2:40

Makmiller Pedroso, Towson University, “Wicked Nature: Coping with Uncertainty through Redundancy”

3:00 – 3:40

Denise Hossom, UC Davis, “Where the Wild Things are Classified: Consequences of Classifying Wildness and Nonhuman Animals Caught in the Crosshairs”

Thursday, June 25

Morning Sessions

9:00 – 9:40

Karen Kovaka, Virginia Tech, “Just Leave It Alone?”

10:00 – 10:40

Amadeo Estrada, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, “Reconstructing the early evolution of life: epistemological challenges”

11:00 – 11:40 Lightning-round Poster Session

Charles Beasley, London School of Economics, “Four Errors in the Science of Animal Consciousness”

Mel Andrews, University of Cincinnati, “Is the FEP Epistemologically Applicable?”

Hayley Clatterbuck, University of Wisconsin–Madison, “Darwin’s causal argument against design”

Rafael Ventura, University of Pennsylvania, “Models of Species Metaphysics”

Jorge Lizarzaburu, Emory University, “Human Nature and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: The Dialectical Biologist Redux”

Daniel Swaim, University of Pennsylvania, “A New Account of Narrative Possibility”

David Colaco, Mississippi State University, “Believe me, I can explain! Concerns about inferences to the explanandum”

Fran Fairbairn and Vanya Rohwer, Cornell University, "The Ethical Dimension of Lethal Specimen Collection in Ornithology"

Lunch Break (11:40-1:00)

Afternoon Sessions

1:00 – 1:40

Invited Speaker: Catherine Kendig, Michigan State University, "Why you should care about how kinds and parts are made"

2:00 – 2:40

Beckett Sterner & Stephen Elliott, Arizona State University, “The Social Epistemology of Data Integration for Global Biodiversity Loss”

Monday, June 29

Morning Sessions

9:00 – 9:40

Amanda Corris, University of Cincinnati, “Cognition as a facilitator of non-genetic inheritance”

10:00 – 10:40

Jacqueline Wallis, University of Pennsylvania , “Mate Choice and Sexual Selection: a Philosophical Update”

11:00 – 11:40

Caleb Hazelwood, Duke University, “Evolutionary Causation and Biological Practice: An Experimental Approach”

Lunch Break (11:40-1:00)

Afternoon Sessions

1:00 – 1:40

Invited Speaker: Stephen Downes, University of Utah, "Why you should care about Genome Wide Association Studies"

2:00 – 2:40

Marina DiMarco, University of Pittsburgh, “Unstable Intermediates: Integrating Biosocial Causes”

3:00 – 3:40

David Kinney & Christopher Kempes, Santa Fe Institute, “Epistemic Principles of Astrobiology”