Hopos
2002 Program
Location: Hall Building, 7th floor, Concordia University,
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
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I.
Friday Morning 9:00 - 12:00
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| A. Symposium: Ernst Mach: "Actions and Reactions" | |
| John
Blackmore (Independent Scholar) |
"Mach, Mauthner, and Six Types of Skepticism" |
| Robert
J. Deltete
(Seattle University) |
"Helm on Mach" |
| Erik
Banks
(Hunter College) |
"Two Ex-Herbartians on Space: Ernst Mach and Bernhard Riemann" |
| Paul
Pojman
(University of Utah) |
"Mach's Biological Origin, Purpose, and Nature of Science" |
| B. Contributed Papers: Kantian and Anti-Kantian Themes in the 19th Century | |
| Warren
Schmaus
(Illinois Inst. of Technology) |
"Did Kant Transform Philosophy? The Case of France" |
| John
Ongley (Illinois Inst. of Technology) |
"Anti-Positivism and the Idea That There is No Logic of Discovery" |
| Vladimir
Zeman (Concordia University) |
"On the Neo-Kantian Search for Invariance and Cohen's Infinitesimalmethode" |
| Gregory
B. Moynahan (Bard College) |
"Thinking the Infinitesimal: Hermann Cohen's Philosophy of Science" |
| C. Contributed Papers: Foundations of Mathematics | |
| Yvon
Gauthier
(Université de Montréal) |
"La notion d'hypothèse chez Riemann" |
| Mathieu
Marion (University of Ottawa) and Paolo Mancosu (University of California, Berkeley) |
"Wittgenstein's Constructivization of Euler's Proof of the Infinity of Primes" |
| Jean-Pierre
Marquis
(Université de Montréal) |
"A Brief History of the Foundational Role of Category Theory" |
| Elaine
Landry (University of Calgary) |
"Structure in Mathematics and Science" |
| D. Symposium: Philosophy and Biology in Descartes and Beyond | |
| Saul
Fisher (The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) |
"Mechanism and Atomism in Gassendi's Account of Plant and Animal Generation" |
| Lisa
Shapiro
(Simon Fraser University and Cornell University) |
"The Health of a Hydraulic Machine?: Nicholas La Framboisière and Descartes on the Regulation of the Passions" |
| Karen
Detlefsen
(University of Pennsylvania) |
"The Relation Between Advances in Microscopy and Malebranche's Conception of Nature" |
| Dennis
Des Chene
(Emory University) |
"Life After Descartes" |
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II.
Friday Early Afternoon 1:30 - 3:45 pm
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| A. Symposium: Recent Studies in the History of Experimental Psychology and Philosophy of Science | |
| Uljana
Feest
(University of Pittsburgh) |
"Of Rats and Psychologists: A Conceptual and Historical Analysis of E. C. Tolman's Operationism" |
| Gary
L. Hardcastle
(University of Wisconsin) |
"People, Machines, and Science: The Harvard Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory in the 1940s" |
| Gary
Hatfield (University of Pennsylvania) |
"The New Psychology and the Mind-Body Problem" |
| B. Contributed Papers: Interpreting 20th Century Physics | |
| Robert
DiSalle
(University of Western Ontario) |
"Theory and Interpretation in the Development of 20th Century Physics" |
| Meinard
Kuhlmann
(University of Bremen) |
"The Significance of Operationalist Arguments in Alternative Approaches to Quantum Field Theory" |
| Lambert
Williams
(New York University) |
"Models, Simulation and Phenomenology in Physics: Some Remarks on Peter Galison" |
| C. Contributed Papers: Philosophy of Science in the History of Philosophy | |
| David
Sullivan
(Metropolitan State College of Denver) |
"One of the Legacies of Philosophical Modernism" |
| Todd
Davis
(Duke University) |
"Science, Language, and the Reconstruction of Philosophy: Sellars' Critique of Carnap in ‘Empiricism and Abstract Entities’ " |
| Laura
Rediehs
(Saint Lawrence University) |
"Redefinitions of Objectivity in the 20th Century" |
| D. Contributed papers: Bodies in Nature | |
| Eric
Lewis
(McGill University) |
"The Concept of Body in the Hellenistic Period" |
| Emily
Michael
(Brooklyn College CUNY) |
"John Wyclif's Atomism" |
| Jason
Scott Robert
(Dalhousie University) |
"Revisiting Kant and Blumenbach on the Bildungstrieb" |
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III.
Friday Late Afternoon 4:00 - 6:15
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| A. Contributed Papers: Carnap's Aufbau | |
| Iulian
Toader
(University of Bucharest) |
"Non-Propositional Aspects of Carnap's Quasianalysis" |
| Chris
Pincock (University of California, Berkeley) |
"Carnap's Physical Construction System" |
| Sahotra
Sarkar
(University of Texas) |
"Methodological Solipsism and Phenomenological Reduction: A Husserlian Technique at the Center of Carnap's Aufbau" |
| B. Contributed Papers: Social-Political Philosophies of Science in the 20th Century | |
| Staffan
Müller-Wille
(Max Planck Institute for History of Science) |
"Boris Hessen's Philosophy of Science" |
| Maria-Filomena de Sousa (Université du Québec è Montréal) | "Knowledge, Rules and Tradition" |
| Laszlo
Ropolyi (Eètvès University) |
"The ‘Hungarian’ Lakatos" |
| C. Contributed Papers: Scientists Turn to History | |
| Jutta
Schickore
(University of Cambridge) |
"
‘...a contemplation of the whole of Science and its History’
- William Whewell, the Context Distinction, and HPS" |
| Alfred
Nordmann (University of South Carolina) |
"The Power of Anecdote: Heinrich Hertz's Philosophical Appeal to the History of Science" |
| Sophie
Hutin (Université Paris I) |
"Le holisme et l'histoire des sciences: Un aperçu des holismes de Duhem et de Quine" |
| D. Contributed papers: Experiment and Probability | |
| Rose-Mary
Sargent
(Merrimack College) |
"Francis Bacon's Experimental Activity" |
| Dorothy
Coleman
(Northern Illinois University) |
"Baconian Probability and Hume's Theory of Testimony" |
| Berna
Kilinc (Bogazici Universitesi) |
Kant's Notion of Objective Probability" |
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Reception,
6:15 - 7:15
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IV.
Saturday Morning 9:00 - 12:00
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| A. Symposium: Cross-Currents on the Continent: French and German Epistemology of the Sciences 1850-1960 | |
| Patrick
McDonald
(Seattle Pacific University) |
"Helmholtz, Bernard, and the Epistemology of Experiment" |
| Michael Heidelberger (University of TÉbingen) | "Poincaré and German Sense-Physiology" |
| Jean
Leroux
(University of Ottawa) |
"Bachelard and Logical Empiricism" |
| David
Hyder
(University of Constance) |
"Foucault, Husserl and Historical Epistemology" |
| B. Symposium: Frege's Notions of Proof and Truth | |
| Darcy
Cutler
(University of British Columbia) |
"Logicism and Gödel's Theorems" |
| Norma
Goethe
(University of Cordoba) |
"Frege's Account of a Legitimate Inferential Procedure and the Issue of Proofs by Contradiction" |
| Michele
Friend
(George Washington University) |
"What a Proof Guarantees for Frege" |
| Pierluigi
Miraglia
(University of Texas) |
"Truth-Aptness and Logical Potential" |
| C. Contributed Papers: Issues in Scientific Method | |
| Eric
Audureau
(Université de Provence) |
"On Poincaré's Alleged Conventionalism" |
| Anastasios
Brenner
(Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail) |
"Carnap's critical conventionalism" |
| James
Justus
(University of Texas) |
"The Emergence and Fate of Cognitive Significance" |
| Dan
McArthur (University of Regina) |
"Why is Bachelard not a Scientific Realist?" |
| D. Contributed papers: Mathematization, Method and Metaphysics in the Early Modern Period | |
| Kurt
Smith (Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania) |
"The Place of Enumeration in Early Modern Physics: Making Possible the Mathematization of the Physical World" |
| Geoff
Gorham (Macalester College) |
"The Metaphysical Roots of Cartesian Physics: The Law of Rectilinear Motion" |
| Michael
Futch
(Augusta State University) |
"Temporal and Causal Asymmetries in Leibniz's Philosophy of Science" |
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Godfrey
Guillaumin |
"Demonstration and Experience in Philosophical Magnetism during the Seventeenth Century" |
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V.
Saturday Afternoon 1:30 - 3:45
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| A. Symposium: Anti-Apriorism and Anti-Naturalism in Early 20th Century Philosophy of Science | |
| Thomas
Ryckman
(University of California, Berkeley) |
"The Failure of Anti-Apriorism in Philosophy of Physics" |
| Thomas
Uebel (University of Manchester) |
"Einheitswissenschaft as Wholesale Ersatz for Metaphysics?" |
| Alan
Richardson
(University of British Columbia) |
"The Pragmatic and the Empirical A Priori: Pragmatism's Resources for Relativizing the A Priori" |
| B. Contributed Papers: Hilbertian Themes | |
| Bruno
LeClercq
(Independent Scholar) |
"Husserl et Hilbert: Théorie des Systèmes Formels" |
| Yoshinori
Ogawa
(University of British Columbia) |
"Idealization and Deduction: Bernays and the Hilbert Program" |
| Melanie
Frappier
(University of Western Ontario) |
"The Influence of Hilbert on Heisenberg's Closed Theories" |
| C. Contributed Papers: Themes in Biology and Philosophy in the 20th Century | |
| Anya
Plutynski
(University of Utah) |
"R.A. Fisher and Sewall Wright: Philosophy of Science for Population Genetics" |
| Chuck
Ward
(Millersville University) |
"Emergence and Epigenesis" |
| Justin
Garson (University of Texas) |
"The Revival of Emergentism in Philosophy of Science in the Late 1960's" |
| D. Contributed papers: Newtonian Space and Matter | |
| Zvi
Biener and Christopher Smeenk
(University of Pittsburgh) |
"Does Gravity Feign? Newton, Cotes, and the Essential Properties of Matter" |
| Lisa
Downing (Uiversity of Illinois at Chicago) |
"Newton and Thinking Matter" |
| Mary
Domski
(Indiana University) |
"Newton's Philosophy of Geometry" |
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Plenary
Session:
François Duchesneau, Saturday 4:00 - 5:15 pm |
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Congress
Banquet, Saturday 7:00 pm
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VI.
Sunday Morning 9:00 - 12:00
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| A. Symposium: Philosophie des Sciences et Histoire des Sciences chez Auguste Comte | |
| Michel
Bourdeau (Centre national de recherche scientifique) |
"Comte et le Naturalisme" |
| Jean-François
Braunstein (Université Paris I) |
"Comte et le 'Style Français' en Histoire des Sciences" |
| Annie
Petit (Université Paul-Valéry) |
"Auguste Comte: Promoteur de l'histoire des Sciences" |
| Mary
Pickering
(San Jose State University) |
"The Status of the Intellect in the Last Works of Auguste Comte" |
| B. Contributed Papers: Logical Empiricism | |
| Gabor
A. Zemplen
(Deutsches Museum) |
"Classification of Systems of Hypotheses - Otto Neurath on the History of Optics" |
| Sheldon
Steed
(University of British Columbia) |
"Congestions And Remedies: Understanding Neurath's Concept of Ballungen" |
| Enzo
de Pellegrin
(Boston University) |
"A Lack of Reverence: Schlick and Wittgenstein in 1926" |
| Elisabeth
Nemeth
(University of Vienna) |
"Socially enlightened science - Neurath on social science and visual education " |
| C. Contributed Papers: The Science of Social Science and Philosophy | |
| Michael
White (McGill University) |
"Deep Time and the Genres of History in Britain, 1815-1860" |
| Jessica Pfeifer (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) |
"Mill on Laws and Systematicity" |
| Laura
J. Snyder (University of Chicago) |
"The Science of the 'Dismal Science'" |
| Gualtiero
Piccinini
(University of Pittsburgh) |
"Experimental Epistemology" |
| D. Contributed papers: Kant on the Formal Sciences | |
| Lisa
Shabel (Ohio State University) |
"The 'Axioms' of Geometry in the Early Modern Period" |
| William
Goodwin (University of California, Berkeley) |
"Intuition and Reductio Proofs in Kant's Philosophy of Geometry" |
| R.
Lanier Anderson
(Stanford University) |
"The Traditional Logic and Kant's Philosophy of Arithmetic" |
| Ofra
Rechter (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
"Kant on Definitions in Arithmetic Across the Critical Turn" |
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VII.
Sunday Afternoon 1:30 - 3:45
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| A. Symposium: Émile Meyerson, History and Critique | |
| Frédéric Fruteau de Laclos (Université de Paris X) | "Le néo-comtisme d'Émile Meyerson" |
| Stephen
Nazaran (University of Notre Dame) |
"Tragedy and History: Émile Meyerson's a priori" |
| Nathan
Andersen (Eckerd College) |
"Repetition and Reenactment: Collingwood on the Relation between History and the Philosophy of Science" |
| B. Contributed Papers: The Philosophies of the Physicists in the 20th Century | |
| Mathias
Frisch
(Northwestern University) |
"Lorentz's Cautious Realism and the Electromagnetic World Picture" |
| Ravi
Gomatam
(Bhaktivedanta Institute) |
"Einstein's Critique of Quantum Theory - A Reassessment" |
| Peter
Bokulich
(Boston University) |
"Bohr on Disturbance and Quantum Uncertainty" |
| C. Contributed Papers: Logic, Mathematics, and Value in Logical Empiricism | |
| David
Stump (University of San Francisco) |
"Getting the Logic into Logical Empiricism" |
| Bonnie
Shulman
(Bates College) |
"The Value of Value-Free Mathematics" |
| George
Reisch
(Independent Scholar) |
"To the Icy Slopes of Logic: Logical Empiricism, the Unity of Science Movement, and the Cold War" |
| D. Contributed papers: Mind, Morals, and Nature into the 19th Century | |
| Tom
Staley
(Virginia Tech) |
"Trends in the Development of Associationism: A Comparison of the Philosophies of David Hume and Alexander Bain" |
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| David
K. Nartonis
(Independent Scholar) |
"Idealist Philosophy of Science at Harvard, 1723-1859" |
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Plenary
Session:
Don Howard, Sunday 4:00 - 5:15 |
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Congress
ends at 5:15.
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