Department of Philosophy
Werkmeister Conference on Philosophy and Biology:
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
(Sponsored by the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Endowment Fund)
February 23-25, 2001
Program
Friday, February 23rd
Session I: Traditional Problems (Chair: Joseph Travis, Florida State University)
1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: David Buller (Northern Illinois University), "Progress in Teleology"
Speaker: Ken Waters (University of Minnesota), "Pluralism, Reductionism, and the Gene-Centered Point of View"
Session II: Keynote Address (Chair: Lawrence Abele, Florida State University)
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Speaker: David Hull, Emeritus (Northwestern University), "The Philosophy of Biology"
Saturday, February 24th
Session III: Historical Issues (Chair: Vassiliki B. Smocovitis, University of Florida)
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Speaker: John Beatty (University of Minnesota), "Historical Reflections on Evolutionary Biology as a Historical Science"
Speaker: Jane Mainschein (Arizona State University), "From Embryology to Evo-Devo: Whatever Happened to Organisms?"
Session IV: Development (Chair: Walter Tschinkel, Florida State University)
12:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Speaker: Paul Griffiths (University of Pittsburgh), "Philosophy of Developmental Biology and Genetics"
Speaker: Robert Brandon (Duke University), "Modularity in Development and Evolution"
Sunday, February 25th
Session V: Applied Problems (Chair: Paul Thompson, University of Toronto, Scarborough College)
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Speaker: Bryan Norton (Georgia Institute of Technology), "The Philosophy of Conservation Biology: Where Should We Go From Here?"
Speaker: David Castle (University of Guelph), "Problems of Individuation in Biotechnology"
Speaker: Jack Wilson (Washington and Lee University), "More Problems of Individuation in Biotechnology"