History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Values
Graduate Conference Program 2019
Friday, November 8th, 2019 (Eck Visitors Center Auditorium)
5:30-6:45
Public Keynote: Kristen Intemann, Montana State University
“Understanding the Problem of “Hype”: Exaggeration, Values, and Trust in Science”
Saturday, November 9th, 2019 (E378 Corbett Family Hall)
9:00-10:30 Graduate Student Presentations Session 1
9:00-9:30 Victor Monnin, University of Strasbourg
“Debating the Practical Value of Paleontology, California 1860-1875: Journalists, Legislators, Miners, and Geologists”
9:30-10:00 Michael Pope, Boston College
“Trust the Process: Peirce on the Reliability and Self-Correction of Induction”
10:00-10:30 Char Brecevic, University of Notre Dame
“Imaginative Resistance in Scientific Disagreement”
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00
Joyce Havstad, Oakland University
“The Structure of Scientific Evolution”
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00
Clair Morrissey, Occidental College
“Good-Seeing: Insights from Ecological Field Research”
2:00-2:45
Q&A Panel: Engaging with Science
Joyce Havstad, Clair Morrissey, Emanuele Ratti
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:30
Graduate Student Presentations Session 2
3:00-3:30 Rebecca Korf, University of California, Irvine
“Respecting Public Investment: Against Democratic Endorsement as a Criterion for Legitimate Value Influence in Science”
3:30-4:00 Jude Galbraith, University of Notre Dame
“Can Research in Emerging Technologies Be Made Subject to Democratic Values? The Problem of Pre-political Research”
4:00-4:30 Christian Ross, Arizona State University
“Conjuring Public Engagement: Scientific Expertise and Disputes in the Public Arena”
5:30-6:45 (Montgomery Auditorium, LaFortune Student Center)
Public Keynote: Inmaculada de Melo-Martín, Weill Cornell Medicine/Cornell University
“Reprogenetic Technologies, Philosophy, and the Public”