THIRD ANNUAL 

ST. LOUIS PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE ROUNDTABLE 

APRIL 20-22,  2001
 


 
Organizers
Alison Wylie, Washington University in St. Louis
James Bohman, St. Louis University
Paul Roth, University of Missouri-St. Louis

 
PROGRAM

 
All Sessions will be held in Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall, 
Washington University in St. Louis.

 
APRIL 20   FRIDAY
11:30 - 12:00   Opening Remarks
12:00 - 2:00   Translation
   
  • James C. Lindahl (Philosophy, San Jose State University): ?Representing Mande, Azande and Benandanti: The Flexibility of Language in Ethnographic Translation?
  • James Maffie (Philosophy, Colorado State University-Ft. Collins): "Why Care about Nezahualcoyotl?: Fieldnotes from the Anthropology of Epistemology"
2:30 - 5:30   Expert Knowledge: Power, Politics and the Social Sciences
   
  • Erik Angner (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh): ?Social Scientists as Experts: Overconfidence in Theory and Practice? 
  • James Wong (Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University): ?Power: Tool of Knowledge? The Relationship of Politics to Knowledge?
  • Ron Sundstrom (Philosophy, University of Memphis): ?Human Kinds and Social Space?
6:00   Keynote Address
   
  • Linda Alcoff (Philosophy, Syracuse University): ?Power/Knowledge and the Epistemic Criterion? 
7:30   Dinner

 
APRIL 21   SATURDAY
9:00 - 12:00   The Ontology of Social Institutions and Collective Intentions
   
  • Gisèle Chevalier (Département d'Études françaises, Université de Moncton) and Richard Hudson (Commerce, Mount Allison University): "Institutional Facts in the Journal of Finance, 1999.
  • Adrian Haddock (Philosophy of the Social Sciences, University of Exeter): ?Constructing History: Narrative Sentences and Changes in the Past"
  • Deborah Tollefsen (Philosophy, Ohio State University): ?Collective Intentionality and the Social Sciences?
12:00 - 1:00    Lunch
1:00 - 3:00   Doing Philosophy of Social Science so it Matters
   
  • Ragnvald Kalleberg(Sociology, University of Oslo): ?Can and Should Social Science Contribute to Improvements of the Social Reality Studied??
  • James Johnson (Political Science, University of Rochester): ?Conceptual Problems and the Prospects for Theoretical Progress in Political Science Culture Among the Sociologists and Economists"
3:30 - 6:30   Rational Choice
   
  • Michaela Haase (Economics, Washington University): ?Economic Rationality, Mental Models and Social Theory:  New Conceptions, Old Problems?
  • Jonathan Halvorson (Philosophy, Columbia University): ?On the Status of Laws of Economic Rationality?
  • Dimitri Landa (Political Science, University of Minnesota) and Jakub Zielinski (Political Science, Ohio State University): ?Two Models of Explanation in the Theory of Rational Choice?
7:00   Dinner: hosted by the organizers

 
APRIL 22   SUNDAY
10:00 - 1:00   Community Consensus in 'Standard Social Science'
   
  • Alban Bouvier (Philosophy and Social Science, University of Paris-Sorbonne): ?Rational Choice Models and Cognitive Rhetoric in the Explanation of Social Facts: An Epistemological Plea for an Individualistic Methodology in Cognitive Rhetoric?
  • Robert A. Strikwerda (Humanities, Indiana University-Kokomo): ?Recent American Anthropology as a Self-Correcting Enterprise: Critique of Ethnography and the Mead/Freeman Controversy?
  • Aviezer Tucker (Philosophy, Trinity College): ?Historiographic Knowledge? 

 
ROUNDTABLE HOMEPAGE