Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable-2002-Program

FOURTH ANNUAL

ST. LOUIS PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE ROUNDTABLE

MARCH 15-17, 2002

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

PROGRAM

All Sessions will be held in the
Conference Room - Humanities Building
(3800 Lindell Blvd)
Saint Louis University

MARCH 15		FRIDAY
11:00 - 1:00		Nature/Nurture (chair: James Bohman)
		*David Rubinstein* (University of Illinois at Chicago): ?Language Games and Primitive Reactions? *Warren Schmaus* (Illinois Institute of Technology ) ?Is Durkheim the Enemy of Evolutionary Psychology??
1:15 - 3:15		Culture and Politics (chair: Michael Stein)
		*Joseph D. Lewandowski* (Central Missouri State University): ?Street Democracy: The Political Culture of Urbanism? *Roger S. Foster* (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY): "Rethinking Reflexivity: Critical Agency Beyond Discourse and Habitus"
3:30 - 5:00		Plenary Session (chair: James Bohman)
		Russell Hardin (NYU): ?If It Rained Knowledge"
6:30		Dinner

MARCH 16		SATURDAY
9:00 - 12:00		Deliberative Democracy (chair: Alison Wylie)
		*Len Krimerman* (University of Connecticut): ?Is There Democratic Life Outside the Forum?? *Robert Ware* (University of Calgary): ?Social Deliberation, Decision-making, and Democracy? *James Bohman* (SLU): ?Deliberative Democracy and Its Critics: An Issue for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences??
12:00 - 1:00		Lunch
1:00 - 4:00		Social Cognition (chair: Harold Kincaid)
		*Bill Wimsatt* (University of Chicago): "Paradoxical Objects and Interpenetrating Ontologies: New Visions for the Complex Sciences" *Julie Zahle* (University of Pittsburgh): ?A Discussion of the Argument from Multiple Realization as Applied to the Social Science Debate on Reduction? *Stephen Turner* (University of South Florida): "Tradition and Cognitive Science: Oakeshott?s Undoing of the Kantian Mind"
4:30 - 6:00		Plenary Sesssion (chair: Paul Roth)
		*Steven Lukes* (LSE): ?Power and Luck?
7:00		Dinner: hosted by the organizers

MARCH 17		SUNDAY
9:30 - 12:30		Facts and Values (chair: Robert Strikwerda)
		*Robert Feleppa* (Wichita State University): "Moral Value Judgments in Social Science" *Brandon Claycomb* (Marian College): "On Virtuous Translation" *Michael Root* (University of Minnesota): ?Fairness in Testing?

ABSTRACTS

WE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE SUPPORT FROM:

Department of Philosophy, St. Louis University
Department of Philosophy and Center for the Humanities, University of Missouri in St. Louis
Committee on Social Thought and Analysis, and Department of Philosophy, Washington University

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