2^nd Annual St. Louis Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable

March 31 - April 2, 2000

CONFERENCE LOCATION: University of Missouri- St. Louis, Social Sciences and Business Building (SSB) Room 331, North Campus.

PARKING: Friday 3/31- please use lot N, Saturday 4/1 and Sunday 4/2- all lots are open.

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, MARCH 31

Politics and Method in the Social Sciences

12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Len Krimerman (University of Connecticut), "Bringing Democracy into the Social Sciences: Michael Root and Beyond" abstract

Michael Root (University of Minnesota), "The Use of Racial Categories in the Biomedical and Social Sciences" abstract

3:00 p.m. Keynote Address:  Alvin I. Goldman (University of Arizona), "Experts: Which Ones Should You Trust?"

4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. 

Gary Hardcastle (University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point), "Epistemic Responsibility:  A Critique of Goldman" abstract

James Beebe (St. Louis University), "Scientific Epistemology and Conceptual Linguistic Normativity" abstract

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Reception at the Daniele Hotel 

SATURDAY, APRIL 1

Rules and Norms in Explanation

9:00 a.m.  - 1:00 p.m. 

Brandon Claycomb (Springfield College), "Challenging Giddens on Wittgensteinian Social Rules" abstract

Terrence Kelly (CSU Hayward), "Sociological, Not Political: Rawls, Habermas and Embedded Intuitions" abstract

David Henderson (University of Memphis), "Explanations, Norms, and Normative Principles" abstract

Stephen Turner (University of South Florida), "Relativism as Explanation"abstract

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.  Lunch

2:30 p.m.  - 6:30 p.m.   Discipline and Method

Mark J. Smith (The Open University), "Narratives, Plausibility and Postdisciplinarity in the Social Sciences: Coping with Complexity, Living with Uncertainty" 

Mark Risjord, Margaret Moloney, Sandra Dunbar (Emory), "Methodological Triangulation in Nursing Research" abstract

Malcolm Williams (University of Plymouth), "Can We Be Realists? Realism and the Problem of Operationalisation in Survey Research" abstract

Tim May (University of Salford)"Reflexivity and Social Knowledge:  Positioning and Belonging in Social Life" abstract

6:30 p.m.   Dinner (Location TBA)

SUNDAY,APRIL2

Social Ontology

10:00 a.m.  - 1:00 p.m.

Theodore R. Schatzki (University of Kentucky), "A New Socialist Social Ontology" abstract

 Dominic Murphy (Washington University), "Hackingâs Reconciliation" abstract

 Kenneth Shockley (Washington University), "Standpoints and Essentialism" abstract
 
 

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