Schedule overview:
Friday, March 29 (Global & International Studies 1128, West Wing)
10:00 am - 12:00 noon: Presentation Session 1 (Philosophy of the Special Sciences)
12:00 noon - 2:00 pm: Lunch (not provided)
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Presentation Session 2 (Historical and Social Studies of Science and Medicine)
Saturday, March 30 (Social Science Research Center, Woodburn Hall 200)
9:00 am - 10:00 am: Breakfast (light fare provided)
9:00 pm - 11:00 pm: Presentation Session 3 (General Philosophy of Science)
11:00 pm - 12:30 pm: Keynote Talk (Dr. Kristen K. Intemann, Montana State University)
12:30 noon - 2:00 pm: Lunch (not provided)
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm: Poster Session & Snacks
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm: Presentation Session 4 (History of Philosophy of Science, HOPOS)
5:30 pm - 7 pm: Reception (pizza and snacks will be provided)
5:30 pm - 7 pm: Reception (pizza and snacks will be provided)
Full schedule:
Friday, March 29
Location: Global & International Studies 1128, West
Wing
10:00 am – 12:00 noon Session 1: Philosophy of
the Special Sciences
10:00 am, Ryan O’Loughlin (Indiana University)
“Objectivity, Seepage, and Climate Science”; Commentator:
Lara Hu
11:00 am, Luma Melo (Indiana
University) “How to Train a Mouse – Methodological Issues in Pre-clinical
Exercise Oncology”; Commentator: Dan Li
12:00 noon – 2:00 pm Lunch Break (not provided)
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Presentation Session 2: Historical and
Social Studies of Science and Medicine
2:00pm, Ilyas Manakkadavan
(University of California Berkeley & Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
“New Reproductive Technology: Medical Discourse, Belief and Faithful Reasoning;
‘Islamic’ Response from Muslims of Kerala”; Commentator: Becca Jackson and Ryan
O'Loughlin
3:00pm, Brenton Wells (Indiana
University) “John Wilkin’s Two Worlds”; Commentator: Shannon Abelson
4:00pm, Haejoo Kim (Syracuse
University) “The Rhetoric of Hydropathy and Lay Medical Agency in
Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain”; Commentator: Elana Rakoff
Saturday, March 30
Location: Social Science Research Center, Woodburn Hall 200
9:00 am – 10:00 am Breakfast Light fare provided
9:00 am – 11:00 am Session 3: General Philosophy of
Science
9:00 am, Jungmin (Amy) Kim (Independent Scholar) “Against Covering Laws: Narrative, Causation, and Historical Method”; Commentator: Jared Neumann
10:00 am, Lawrence Wang (McGill University) “An Epistemological Basing for Scientific Pluralism”; Commentator: Faruk Gulter
10:00 am, Lawrence Wang (McGill University) “An Epistemological Basing for Scientific Pluralism”; Commentator: Faruk Gulter
11:00 am – 12:30 pm Keynote Talk: Dr. Kristen K. Intemann
(Montana State University)
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch Break (not provided)
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Poster Session & Snacks
3:30 pm – 6:30 pm Presentation Session 4: History of
Philosophy of Science (HOPOS)
3:30 pm, Paul Shephard (Indiana
University) “Newton’s Experimentum Crucis and Eliminative Reasoning”;
Commentator: Jared Neumann
4:30 pm, Char Brecevic (University of Notre
Dame) “The Role of Imagination in Ernst Mach’s Philosophy of Science”; Commentator: Stavros
Roupakas
5:30 pm - 7 pm Reception (pizza and snacks provided)
Talks in Categories:
Session 1: Philosophy of the Special Sciences
Ryan O’Loughlin (Indiana University) “Objectivity, Seepage, and Climate Science”
Luma Melo and Amit Hagar (Indiana University) “How to train a mouse (to run like a human) – methodological issues in pre-clinical exercise oncology”
Session 2: Historical and Social Studies of Science and Medicine
Brenton Wells (Indiana University), “John Wilkin’s Two Worlds”
Haejoo Kim (Syracuse University), “The Rhetoric of Hydropathy and Lay Medical Agency in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain”
Ilyas Manakkadavan (University of California Berkeley & Indian Institute of Technology Bombay) “New Reproductive Technology: Medical Discourse, Belief and Faithful Reasoning; ‘Islamic’ Response from Muslims of Kerala”
Session 3: General Philosophy of Science
Lawrence Wang (McGill University) “An Epistemological Basing for Scientific Pluralism”
Jungmin (Amy) Kim (Independent Scholar) “Against Covering Laws: Narrative, Causation, and Historical Method”
Session 4: History of the Philosophy of Science (HOPOS)
Char Brecevic (University of Notre Dame) “The Role of Imagination in Ernst Mach’s Philosophy of Science”
Paul Shephard (Indiana University), “Newton’s Experimentum Crucis and Eliminative Reasoning”
Poster Session
Joana Andoh (Yale) “The Culpability of Disease: Exploring Medical Ethnography in Hippocrates’ Airs, Waters, and Places”
Claire Bise (Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans) “History of the Breast Implant: Then and Now”
Justin Choi (Independent Scholar) “Epilepsy, Insanity, and Normalcy: Medical and Social Constructions of Etiologies of Epilepsy and their Implications for Mental Health at the End of the 19th Century”
Seo Yeong (Shauna) Kwag (Independent Scholar) “The Deaf and the Other: Leibniz, Language, Paradigm Change”
