Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Where applicable, session organizers are listed in italics below the session information.

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9:00 am - 10:30 am

Evolution and Ideology

9 am - 10:30 am
Room: Lambs Canyon (HSEB 3515c)
Michael Brady - The Forgotten History of Evolution in America
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Emilie Raymer - A Man of His Times: Thorstein Veblen and University of Chicago Evolutionists, 1891-1906
University of Chicago
Hyung Wook Park - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Peter Brian Medawar, and the Construction of Immunological Tolerance
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

Themes = Education, Evo-Devo, Policy
Keywords = 19th Century, Early 20th Century, Evolutionary Theory, Cultural Evolution, Behavior, Genetics
Sponsors = Environmental Humanities, Medical Ethics, Tanner Humanities Center, Utah Museum of Natural History, Gender Studies, Asia Center, College of Humanities

The Pluralism of Modeling in Biology: The Light and the Dark Side

9 am - 10:30 am
Room: Emigration Canyon (HSEB 2958)
Stuart Glennan - Agent-based Models and Scientific Understanding
Butler University
Greg Cooper - The Explanatory Role of individual Based Models in Ecology
Washington and Lee University
Fridolin Gross - Dynamical Systems Thinking as an Alternative Heuristic for Molecular Biology?
IFOM-IEO Campus Milan
Organizer: Stuart Glennan

Themes = Race
Keywords = Ecology, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Modeling, Pluralism, Mechanism

Norms for Representing Biological Diversity: Species, Hierarchies, and Museum Displays

9 am - 10:30 am
Room: City Creek Canyon (HSEB 2948)
Lucie Bittner - Use and Abuse of Monistic Philosophy and Concepts in View of Protistan Diversity Studies
CNRS Station Biologique de Roscoff
Richard Stephenson - A Defense of Rank Free Classification of Taxa in Paleontology
Univeristy of Utah
Lukas Rieppel - Exhibiting Prehistory at the American Museum of Natural History
Harvard University

Themes = Civic Engagement
Keywords = Systematics, Microbial, Genomics, Ecology, Early 20th Century, Organismal
Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History, Environmental Humanities, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities

Biological Levers, Altruism, and Emotion

9 am - 10:30 am
Room: Mill Creek Canyon (HSEB 2938)
Gillian Barker - Altruism and Biological Leverage
University of Western Ontario
Michael D. Doan - Behavioral Interaction and the Emotions: Is 'Narrow' Evolutionary Psychology Enough?
Dalhousie University
O'Neal Buchanan - Embodied Emotions and Biological Leverage
University of Western Ontario
Organizer: O'Neal Buchanan

Themes = Evo-devo
Keywords = Evolutionary Theory, Behavior, Cultural Evolution, Development
Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History, Tanner Humanities Center, Brain Institute, College of Humanities, Department of Anthropology

Human Kinds and Human Minds: Revisiting the Debate Over Race and IQ

9 am - 10:30 am
Room: Parleys Canyon (HSEB 2110)
Yuriditzi Pascacio Montijo - One Nature of Intelligence, or Many? A Proposal to Characterize the Different Natures of Human Intelligence
UNAM
Jonathan Kaplan - Race and Intelligence: Does Genomics Change Anything?
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University of Medicine
Matthew Kopec - Sesardic’s 'Race': A Philosophical Destruction of a Non-Biological Concept
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Themes = Race, Policy, Education
Keywords = Genomics, Behavior, Population Genetics, Development
Sponsors = Medical Ethics, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities, Asia Center, Department of Anthropology, Latin American Studies

Experiments and Beyond: New Epistemological Perspectives in Biological Research

9 am - 10:30 am
Room: Bell Canyon (HSEB 1730)
Guido Caniglia - Listening to our Experiments: Darwin's Dilemmas, Lillie's Paradox and the Genetic Regulatory Architecture of Insect Societies
Arizona State University
Lijing Jiang - Seeing Experiments Differently: Viktor Hamburger and Rita Levi-Montalcini’s Study of Neuron Development before 1950
Arizona State University
Marta Halina - Reconceptualizing Behavior through Experiments in Comparative Psychology
University of California, San Diego
Michel Morange - Commentary
Centre Cavaillès, Ecole normale supérieure
Chair: Sandra Mitchell
University of Pittsburgh, HPS
Organizer: Guido Caniglia

Keywords = Development, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Neurobiology, Early 20th Century, Late 20th Century, Behavior, Evolutionary Theory
Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities Brain Institute

Chromosomes and Genes: Out from the shadow of DNA

9 am - 10:30 am
Room: Neffs Canyon (HSEB 1700)
Maria Jesus Santesmases - Circulating Chromosomes: From Plants to Human Tumors
CSIC
Nathan Ha - Murray Barr and the Development of the Sex Chromatin Test
Princeton University
Andrew Hogan - Visualizing the 'Fragile X': Diagnostic Cytogenetics in the 1970s and 1980s
Organizers: Maria J. Santesmases and Edna Suarez

Themes = Genetic Testing, Race
Keywords = Genetics, Population Genetic, Circulation, Cold War
Sponsors = Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Gender Studies, Tanner Humanities Center, Department of Anthropology, Latin American Studies, College of Humanities

Crossing Over: Exchanging Methods, Models, and Concepts in Biology and Medicine

9 am - 10:30 am
Room: King's Peak (Medical School classroom A)
Katherine Liu and Jason Scott Robert - Reconnecting Basic Research to Medicine via Angiogenesis Inhibitors
Arizona State
Jason Byron - Modeling Bacterial Evolution
University of Pittsburgh
Jan Baedke - 'Extended Synthesis' and Extended Methodology: The Limits of Interventionism in Epigenetics
Department of Philosophy, Ruhr-University-Bochum

Themes = Policy, Scientific Progress
Keywords = Development, Microbial, Evolutionary Theory, Epigenetics, Scientific Revolution, Causation, Intervention, Complex Systems
Sponsors = Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Utah Museum of Natural History

The New Mechanism – Critical Perspectives

9 am - 10:30 am
Room: Grandeur Peak (Medical School classroom B)
Laura Franklin-Hall - The Emperor’s New Mechanisms
NYU
Arnon Levy - What’s at Stake in the Mechanisms Debate?
The Van Leer Institute
Andrew Melnyk - From New Mechanistic Explanation to Good Old-Fashioned Reductionism
University of Missouri
Organizer: Arnon Levy

Keywords = Mechanisms, Causation, Causal Explanation, Reduction

Philosophy of Psychology Meets Philosophy of Biology

9 am - 10:30 am
Room: Ensign Peak (Medical School classroom C)
Chris Zarpentine - Moral Psychology as Pastiche: Evolution, Computation, and Neuropsychology
Florida State
David Haury - Knowledge, Beliefs, Cognitions, and Acceptance of Evolution
Ohio State
Brian McLoone and Steven Orzack - Philosophy of Biology and Philosophy of Psychology: A Study in Contrasts
Fresh Pond Research Institute

Themes = Education
Keywords = Behavior, Neurobiology, Evolutionary Theory, Evolution
Sponsors = Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities, Brain Institute

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Nothing in Common? Diverse Approaches to the Study of Diverse Aspects of Human Evolution

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: Lambs Canyon (HSEB 3515c)
Emily Schultz - Does Culture Evolve on its Own? Outlining an Alternative Anthropological Account of Processes of Natural-Cultural Stability and Change
Saint Cloud State University
Hisashi Nakao and Edouard Machery - The Evolution of Punishment
Kyoto University/Pittsburgh University
Sarah Roe - The Journey from Discovery to Scientific Change
University of California, Davis

Keywords = Evolutionary Theory, Cultural Evolution, Development, Ecology, Microbial, David Hull, Genomics, Scientific Revolution
Sponsors = Environmental Humanities, Department of Anthropology, Asia Center

Reductionism and Complexity

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: Emigration Canyon (HSEB 2958)
Lucas J Matthews - Psychopathy and Explanation of Complex Biological Systems
University of Utah
David Frank - Neuroeconomics, Reductionism, and Explanatory Extension: The Case of Utility
University of Texas at Austin
Fabian Lausen - Research Directives and Heuristic Reductionism
Bielefeld University

Keywords = Behavior, Neurobiology, Development, Reduction, Moleculuar and Cellular Biology, Genetics
Sponsors = Tanner Humanities Center, Brain Institute, Department of Anthropology, College of Humanities

Individuals, Units of Selection, and Levels of Organization

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: City Creek Canyon (HSEB 2948)
Shijian Yang - Holobionts as Units of Natural Selection
University of Pennsylvania
Jon Umerez - Levels of Organization in Biological Systems A Conceptual Analysis
Universty of the Basque Country
Andrew Hamilton - From Types to Individuals: Hennig's Ontology and The Development of Phylogenetic Systematics
Arizona State University

Themes = Evo-devo
Keywords = Early 20th Century, Organismal, Microbial, Evolutionary Theory, David Hull, Phylogenetics, Individuality, Hennig, Systematics, Extinction, Ranking
Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History, Latin American Studies

Reappraising the Prospects for the Gene after the First Decade of the 21st Century

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: Mill Creek Canyon (HSEB 2938)
Charbel Niño El-Hani - The Crisis of the Gene: Recent Developments
Federal University of Bahia
Laurence Perbal - Postgenomics and Postmodernity: The Case of the Gene
Université libre de Bruxelles
Tom Fogle - Commentary
Organizer: Charbel Niño El-Hani

Themes = Education, Evo-devo
Keywords = Late 20th Century, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Genetics, Genomics
Sponsors = Medical Ethics, Tanner Humanities Center, Latin American Studies

The Human Scope of Evo-Devo

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: Parleys Canyon (HSEB 2110)
Ron Amundson - Human Relations in Light of Evo-devo
University of Hawaii, Hilo
Eva Jablonka - Human Culture: An Epigenetic View
Tel-Aviv University
Jim Griesemer - Commentary
University of California, Davis
Organizer: Linnda Caporael

Themes = Evo-Devo
Keywords = Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Theory, Development, Sociality
Sponsors = Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Department of Anthropology

Between Archeology and Anatomy: Human Evolution Across Disciplines

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: Bell Canyon (HSEB 1730)
Nathalie Richard - Human Evolution According to Gabriel de Mortillet and John Lubbock (France, England c. 1860-1870)
Matthew Goodrum - Crafting a New Science: Defining Paleoanthropology and Its Relationship to Prehistoric Archeology (1860-1890)
Virginia Tech
Jesse Richmond - Discipline and Credibility in the Post-War Australopithecine Controversy
Union College
Organizer: Richard G. Delisle

Keywords = 19th Century, Early 20th Century, Late 20th Century, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Systematics, Evolutionary Theory, Cultural Evolution
Sponsors = Department of Anthropology, Environmental Humanities

Populations and Genes: Out from the Shadow of DNA

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: Neffs Canyon (HSEB 1700)
Edna Suárez and Ana Barahona - Post-war and Post-revolution: Human Heredity in Mexico
UNAM
Angela N. H. Creager - Mutation in the Atomic Age
Princeton University
Lisa Gannett - Anthropology and the ‘New Systematics’
Saint Mary's University
Organizer: Maria J. Santesmases and Edna Suarez

Themes = Genetic Testing, Race
Keywords = Genetics, Population Genetics, Circulation, Cold War
Sponsors = Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities, Latin American Studies, Department of Anthropology

Why Bother? The Value of Applying HPS

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: King's Peak (Medical School classroom A)
Jessica Bolker - Introduction
University of New Hampshire
Melinda Fagan - Applied HPS and Stem Cell Research
Rice University
Chris Haufe - Structure and Funding of Science
University of Chicago
Organizer: Jessica Bolker

Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, College of Humanities

Normativity, Nativism, and Neo-Anti-Darwinism

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: Grandeur Peak (Medical School classroom B)
Aron Vadakin - Evolution, Normativity, and Normative Judgment
Florida State University
Danielle Wylie - Moral Nativism and Modularity
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Rafael Ventura - Fodor's Neo-Anti-Darwinism
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Keywords = Evolutionary Theory, Development
Sponsors = Tanner Humanatities Center, College of Humanities, Department of Anthropology, Utah Museum of Natural History

Mentoring and Metaphor in the Development of Natural Selection

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: Ensign Peak (Medical School classroom C)
Alistair Sponsel - Making a Man of Science: Lyell as a Personal Mentor to Darwin
Harvard University & the Darwin Correspondence Project
Jakub Novak - Alfred Russel Wallace and the Buttercup: The Aesthetic Experience of Nature as Part of Wallace’s Intellectual Biography
Melissa Charenko - Responses to Darwin's Use of a Malthusian Metaphor in Canada
University of Toronto

Keywords = Early 19th Century, Late 19th Century, Evolutionary Theory
Sponsors = Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities

Modeling Across Boundaries

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: Deseret Peak (Medical School classroom D)
Joshua Smart - Beg, Borrow, Steal: Evolutionary Economics as Model Borrowing
University of Missouri
Erik Svetich - Modeling 'Spandrels'
Virginia Tech
Alistair Isaac - Circadian Rhythms and Mechanistic Modeling
University of Michigan

Themes = Genetic Testing
Keywords = Evolutionary Theory, Late 20th Century, Spandrels, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Sponsors = Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Varieties of French neo Lamarckism

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: Lambs Canyon (HSEB 3515c)
Laurent Loison - The Importance of Positivism in French neo-Lamarckism: The Case of Botanical Georgraphy, 1880-1900
Nantes University
Raf de Bont - Evolution in the Field: Lamarckian Ethology in France and Belgium, 1870-1940
K.U.Leuven
Snait B. Gissis - Lamarckism and Sociology: Early Durkheim (1885-1892) and French neo-Lamarckisms
Tel Aviv University
Jean Gayon - Commentary
IHPST
Organizers: Snait Gissis and Laurent Loison

Keywords = Evolutionary Theory, 19th Century, Early 20th Century
Sponsors = Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities

Biological Epistemology and Gender Theory

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: Emigration Canyon (HSEB 2958)
Catherine Clune-Taylor - A Biological Critique of 'Disorder of Sex Development'
University of Alberta
Jocelyn Bosley - Sex, Laws, and the Founding of 'Biologie'
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Letitia Meynell - Cognitive Ethology as Ecofeminist Methodology
Dalhousie University
Laura Seger - The One-Dimensional Grandma: Gender Bias in Evolutionary Explanations of Menopause
Indiana University, Bloomington

Themes = Gender, Evo-devo
Keywords = Genetics, Development, Behavior, Neurobiology, 19th Century, Evolutionary Theory
Sponsors = Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities, Brain Institute, Gender Studies, Utah Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology

Development and Environment

2 pm - 4 pm
Room:: City Creek Canyon (HSEB 2948)
David J. Depew and Bruce H Weber - Organisms, Environments, and the Limits of the Modern Synthesis
University of Iowa
Stuart A. Newman - Lamarck's Dangerous Idea
New York Medical College
Antonine Nicoglou - Towards a Theory of Development: Rethinking the Role of Environment
Sorbonne University
Arnaud Pocheville - Niche Construction, Extended Development, and Extended Inheritance
Organizer: Antonine Nicoglou

Themes = Evo-Devo
Keywords = Development, Ecology, Evolutionary Theory, Organismal

Race: Controversies and Misunderstandings

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: Mill Creek Canyon (HSEB 2938)
Eric Hoffman - Concepts of Race, Person and Human Species in the 'Genomics Age': Paradoxes, Category Mistakes and Cognitive Dissonance
Quayshawn Spencer - Why There is No Space for Race in Phylogenetics
University of San Fransisco
John P. Jackson - Commentary

Themes = Race, Civic Engagement, Genetic Testing
Keywords = Genomics, Late 20th Century, Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Theory, Systematics, Population Genetics, Genetics
Sponsors = Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Asia Center, Latin American Studies, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities, Utah Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology

Multicellularity, Coloniality and Symbiosis: Organismality, Multicellularity and Major Transitions II

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: Parleys Canyon (HSEB 2110)
William C. Ratcliff - Experimental Evolution of Multicellularity
University of Minnesota
Ellen Clarke - A Solution to the Problem of Biological Individuality
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research
Mike Travisano
University of Minnesota
Organizers: William C. Ratcliff and Mark Borrello

Keywords = Evolutionary Theory, Organismal, Development, Microbial, David Hull
Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History

Recent Challenges to Disciplinary Integration: Human Evolution Across Disciplines

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: Bell Canyon (HSEB 1730)
Jessica Mikels-Carrasco - Sherwood Washburn's New Physical Anthropology: Rejecting the 'Religion of Taxonomy'
Ian Tattersall (read by Jeffrey Schwartz) - Paleoanthropology and Evolutionary Theory
Jeffrey H. Schwartz - 'Molecular Systematics' and the Subversion of Paleoanthropology
University of Pittsburgh
Richard G. Delisle - Paleoanthropology's Vertical Integration of Disciplines: From Cladograms, to Phylogenenies, to Scenarios, and Well Beyond
University of Lethbridge
Organizer: Richard G. Delisle

Keywords = 19th Century, Early 20th Century, Late 20th Century, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Systematics, Evolutionary Theory, Cultural Evolution
Sponsors = Environmental Humanities, Department of Anthropology

Reconvening the 1998 Philosophy of Science Genetics-Development-Behavior Debate

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: Neffs Canyon (HSEB 1700)
Kenneth F. Schaffner - Revisiting ‘Genes, Behavior, and Developmental Emergentism’
University of Pittsburgh
Paul E. Griffiths - The Triumph of Development
University of Sydney
Erik Jorgensen - The Irreducibility of the Worm
University of Utah
William C. Wimsatt - Innateness Re-examined in Light of Evolutionary Developmental Biology
Organizer: James Tabery

Themes = Genetic Testing, Evo-Devo
Keywords = Genetics, Development, Genomics, Neurobiology, Behavior, Evolutionary Theory, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Sponsors = Brain Institute, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Gender Studies, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities, Department of Anthropology

How to Apply HPS: Key Issues and Topics

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: King's Peak (Medical School classroom A)
Alan C. Love - Doing Biology More Philosophically?
University of Minnesota
Richard M. Burian - On Coping with Floods of Molecular and Functional Data
Virginia Tech
Ronald Jenner - Inference about the Past
The Natural History Museum, London
Laura Perini - (Re)Presenting Data: Style, Substance, and Medium as Message
Pomona College
Organizer: Jessica Bolker

Keywords = Molecular and Cellular Biology, Systematics
Sponsors = Brain Institute, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Utah Museum of Natural History

Roundtable: Biology Outside the Box

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: Grandeur Peak (Medical School classroom B)
Manfred Laubichler - A Poet's Vision of Nature's Creativity: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Conception of Morphology and Georg Büchner's "third way" between Idealism and Empiricism
Arizona State University
Michel Morange - François Jacob: Tinkering with Weapons, Bacteriophages and Words
Centre Cavaillès, Ecole normale supérieure
Erika Lorraine Milam - The Naked Ape is All Wet: Elaine Morgan and the Aquatic Ape
University of Maryland
Luis Campos - Drew Endy: Out As In - The Case of Synthetic Biology
Drew University
Organizers: Michael Dietrich and Oren Harman

Keywords = 19th Century, Early 20th Century, Late 20th Century, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Evolutionary Theory, Genetics, Organismal, Development
Sponsors = Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities

Perspectives on the Evolution of Mind and Behavior

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: Ensign Peak (Medical School classroom C)
Wayne Christensen - A Systems Approach to the Evolution of Cognition
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition
Julio Munoz-Rubio - Evolutionary Psychology: Interdiscipline or Fragmentary Analyses of Human Mind?
UNAM
Sherrie Lyons - Human Nature and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Promise of Phrenology, Evolution and Neurobiology
Empire State College
Tomi Kokkonen - Psychological Innateness and Biology
University of Helsinki

Themes = Philosophy of Biology, Darwinian Theory, Interdisciplinary Studies, Critics of Reductionism.
Keywords = Behavior, Neurobiology, Evolutionary Theory, Evolutionary Psychology, Reductionism, Dialectics, Complexity, History, Genetics, 19th century
Sponsors = Brain Institute, Department of Anthropology, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities, Latin American Studies

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Poster Session

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Room: Officer's Club
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Themes = Civic Engagement, Policy
Keywords = Early 20th Century, Late 20th Century David Hull
Sponsors = Department of Anthropology, Gender Studies, College of Humanities, Tanner Humanities Center, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities

Happy Office Hours

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Room: Officer's Club