Program | Philosophy

Conference Program
Monday, April 25, 2016
4:30 pm	Informal gathering at local pub on campus (see GH for Graduate House on campus map), Dinner - provided
7:00 pm	Keynote: Catherine Legg (University of Waikato) Scientific Integrity: A Pragmatist Examination of Theory and Practice in the Ethics of Inquiry Keynote chaired by David DeVidi
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
9:00 am	Breakfast - provided
9:30-10:30 am	Matthew Maxwell (Simon Fraser University) Blocking the Path of Inquiry: Fine and Peirce on Acceptance
10:30-11:30 am	Brandon Holter (East Tennessee State University) Scientific Inquiry, Values, and Peirce's Economy of Evidence Session chaired by Ian MacDonald
11:30-11:45 am	Break
11:45-12:45 pm	Andrew Howat (California State University-Fullerton) *Is There Such a Thing as Rational Self-control?* Talk chaired by Kevin Gerlach
12:45-2:15 pm	Lunch - provided
2:15-3:15 pm	Mara-Daria Cojocaru (Munich School of Philosophy & visiting scholar at the University of Sheffield) *Toward a New Moral Science? Peirce's and Dewey's Theories of Emotion and Their Roles in Inquiry*
3:15-4:15 pm	Adam See (City University of New York - CUNY) The Ethics of Animal Experimentation: From John Dewey to The Present Session chaired by Nathan Haydon
4:15-4:30 pm	Break
4:30-6:00 pm	Panel Discussion: Aaron B. Wilson (South Texas College) Sarah Cashmore (University of Toronto) Daniel J. Brunson (Morgan State University) Transhumanist Themes in Peirce Panel chaired by Carla Fehr
6:00 pm	Dinner on your own
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
9:00 am	Breakfast - provided
9:30-10:30 am	Evelyn Brister (Rochester Institute of Technology) For Pragmatist, Tension between Scientific Expertise and Democratic Process Talk chaired by Jay Solanki
10:30-11:30 am	Niall Roe (University of Calgary) Peirce and the Historiography of Science Talk chaired by Blake Freier
11:30-11:45 am	Break
11:45-12:45 pm	Cory Johnson (University of Otago) Peirce, Abduction and the Role of Beauty in Science Talk chaired by Greg Cote
12:45-2:15 pm	Lunch - provided
2:15-3:15 pm	Vitaly Kiryushchenko (York University) Logic and Ethics in Peirce's Pragmatism: Peirce on Statistical Errors and the Moral Value of Knowledge
3:15-4:15 pm	Mathew Brown (University of Texas-Dallas) John Dewey on Values in Science: Four Theses Session chaired by Matthew Silk
4:15-4:30 pm	Break
4:30-6:00 pm	Plenary: Heather Douglas (University of Waterloo) *The Interplay of Evidence and Values in Science* Plenary chaired by Shannon Dea
7:00 pm	Conference banquet

NOTE: Change of location; Wed., Apr. 27, 2016 talks to be held in Hagey Hall (HH), Room 2104

NOTE: All talks, including the keynote, to be held in Hagey Hall (HH), ~~Room 1106~~ (change of location Apr. 27, 2016)

This conference is made possible by the generous support of the Kerr-Lawson family, the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, and the University of Waterloo Department of Philosophy.