Event Date:
Friday, February 18, 2011 - 12:00am
Event Date Details:
Registration:
For those wishing to attend the conference, registration is appreciated. It’s free, and it helps our planning. To register send an email to the conference email address (ucsb.conf@gmail.com) with “Registration” in the subject line. If you give us your name and institutional affiliation, we will try to have a name tag waiting for you.
Travel
Maps
- UCSB Campus Map (see also map with Department & Conference Locations).
Parking
Visitors to UCSB are required to have a valid parking permit. See Parking Services.
Event Location:
- Theater & Dance 1701
Event Contact:
Updates
The UCSB Department of Philosophy held this Steven Humphrey Fund for Excellence in Philosophy Conference from February 18–20, 2011.
Events
Friday, February 18
- 5:00–7:00 PM Peter Godfrey-Smith (Harvard), “Origin Explanations”
- 7:00 - 9:00 PM Reception/Buffet, UCSB Faculty Club
Saturday, February 19
- 9:30–11:30 AM Elisabeth Lloyd (Indiana), “Adaptationism in Action”
- 11:30–1:00 PM Lunch, Graduate Student Association Lounge
- 1:00–3:00 PM Paul Griffiths (Sydney), “How Evolution Tracks Truth”
- 3:00–3:15 PM Break
- 3:15–5:15 PM Jerry Fodor (Rutgers), “From the Darwin Wars”
Sunday, February 20
- 9:30–11:30 AM Mohan Matthen (Toronto), “Species as Historical Kinds”
- 11:30–1:00 PM Lunch, UCSB Faculty Club
- 1:00–3:00 PM Richard Boyd (Cornell), “Evolutionary Theory as Methodological Anesthesia: Methodological and Philosophical Lessons from Evolutionary Psychology”
- 3:00–3:15 PM Break
- 3:15–5:15 PM Alex Rosenberg (Duke), “How Jerry Fodor Slid Down the Slippery Slope to Anti-Darwinism, and How We Can Avoid the Same Fate”
Location:
All talks will be in Theater & Dance 1701
Discussants
- Marc Ereshefsky (Calgary)
- Zachary Ernst (Missouri)
- Patrick Forber (Tufts)
- Laura Franklin-Hall (NYU)
- Simon Huttegger (Irvine)
- Alan Love (Minnesota)
- Sheldon Smith (UCLA)
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