Saturday, September 29, 2018
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116 Honors Way, Tallahassee, FL 32306
September 28 - 29, 2018
History and Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology: Past Achievements, Future Prospects
A Conference Sponsored by the Werkmeister Bequest to the Philosophy Department
Friday morning (9:30-12:30): “History of Evolutionary Biology: Past Achievements.”
Session Chair: Jack Justus
Ron Numbers (rnumbers@wisc.edu): “Creationism”
Polly Winsor (polly.winsor@utoronto.ca): “The Revolutionary Nature of Darwin's Thinking as Shown by Strickland's Chart”
David Sepkoski (sepkoski@illinois.edu): “Sociobiology and Ideology: or, was Ed Wilson really all wet?”
Mark Borrello (borrello@umn.edu): "The Renaissance of Group Selection: Is Michael Ruse all wet?”
Friday afternoon (2:00-5:00): “Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology: Past Achievements.”
Session Chair: Ron Doel
Derek Turner (dtur@conncoll.edu): "Have philosophers helped us understand macroevolution?”
Robert Richards (r-richards@uchicago.edu): “The Romantic Source of Archetype Theory and Owen’s Plagiarism.”
Paul Thompson (p.thompson@utoronto.ca): “Codifying the Structure of Evolutionary Theory”
Pete Takacs (ptakacs@fsu.edu): "Philosophy of Biomedicine for the 21st Century.”
FRIDAY EVENING: Private dinner for participants
Saturday morning (10:00-1:00): “Science and Religion”
Session Chair: John Kelsay
Ed Larson (ed.larson@pepperdine.edu): "With a Creationist as Secretary of Education and a Conservative Supreme Court, What is the Ongoing Significance of the Scopes Trial?”
Mike Peterson (mike.peterson@asburyseminary.edu): "Theism as the Proper Worldview Home of Science.”
John Beatty (john.beatty@ubc.ca): "It pleased the Creator that . . . Capricious God and Capricious Nature in the Darwinian Revolution”
Saturday afternoon (2:30-5:00): “History and Philosophy of Biology: New Directions”
Session Chair: Christopher Pynes
Grant Ramsey (grant.ramsey@kuleuven.be): “What is the philosophy of biology?”
Betty Smocovitis (bsmocovi@ufl.edu): “Is a New Evolutionary Synthesis Necessary? Rethinking Stebbins and Ayala (1981) in Light of the Extended Synthesis”
Richard Richards (rrichard@ua.edu): "The Biology of Art.”
SATURDAY EVENING: Fish fry chez Ruse (6:00pm) — all invited
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