Department of Philosophy

Philosophy of Biology Workshop: Biology & Values

(Sponsored by the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Endowment Fund)

April 16-18, 2004

204 Longmire Building

Program

Friday, April 16th

Session I:

9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Speaker: Naomi Beck, "Individual Freedom, Capitalism and Evolutionary Biology in the Chicago School of Economics"

Speaker: Stephen Morris, "Tracing the Origins of Altruism: The Evolutionary Needle in a Haystack"

Speaker: Richard Richards, "Evolutionary Naturalism and the Logical Structure of Valuation: The Other Side of Error Theory"

Session II:

2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Speaker: Frederick Davis, "The Value of Sea Turtles: A Case Study in Commodification"

Speaker: Uwe Hossfeld, "Scientific Travels to the Indomalayan Region and Evolutionary Biology in the 19th and 20th century: Haeckel and Beyond"

Keynote Speaker: Robert Richards, "The Politics and Epistemology of Evolutionary Theory in the 19th Century and Today"

Saturday, April 17th

Session III:

9:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

Speaker: Roger Sansom, "Taking Cultural Evolution Seriously: Do Values Evolve?"

Speaker: Zachary Ernst, "Evolution and Moral Intuitions"

Session IV:

12:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Speaker: Jason Zinser, "Modal Concepts in the Biological Sciences"

Speaker: Julia Tuma, "Man in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

Sunday, April 18th

Session V:

9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Speaker: Alessandro Pajewski, "The Very Idea of Humanity: Darwin, Sympathy, and the Idea of Left-Wing Liberalism"

Speaker: David Castle, "Probing Benefits: Biotechnology Innovation and the Patent System"

Speaker: Christopher DiTeresi, "Coming to Richards' Defense: Evolutionary Ethics and the Naturalistic Fallacy"