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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

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9:00 am - 10:30 am

Philosophical, Evolutionary, and Neuroscientific Perspectives on Affective Experience

9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: Lambs Canyon (HSEB 3515c)
Paul Davies - The Practical Point of View From the Biological Point of View
College of William and Mary
Michael Trestman - Investigating the Phylogenetic Distribution of Consciousness
University of California, Davis
Thomas Ebke - What is Neo-Finalism? Raymond Ruyer in the Light of Contemporary Brain Research
Universität Potsdam

Keywords = Neurobiology, Systematics, Evolutionary Theory, Behavior, Late 20th Century
Sponsors = Division of Medical Ethics, Brain Institute, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities

Evolutionary Architectures of Mind

9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: Emigration Canyon (HSEB 2958)
Jonatan Garcia Campos - Evolutionary Aspects of Dual-Process Theories of Reasoning
UJED
Paola Hernandez Chavez - Assessing Evolutionary Considerations in Modular Theories of Mind
CEFPSVLT
Ruth Garcia and José Luis González Recio - Ramón y Cajal on the Neuron: Progress in Biology from a Lakatosian and Laudanian Outlook
Universidad Complutense
Organizer: Paola Hernandez

Keywords = Neurobiology
Sponsors = Brain Institute, Latin American Studies

Theoretical and Practical Implications of Paleontological Research

9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: City Creek Canyon (HSEB 2948)
Kevin Francis - Strategies of Generalization in Mass Extinction Debates
Evergreen State College
Elizabeth Dobson - Raising the Dead and Buried: Ancient DNA Research and the Meaning of Fossils
Florida State University
Kyle Burchett - Anthropogenic Mass Extinction: Homo sapiens and the Evolution of the Biosphere since the Pleistocene
University of Kentucky

Themes = Policy, Sustainability, Genetic Testing
Keywords = Evolutionary Theory, Genetics, Population Genetics, Ecology, Cultural Evolution, Ancient, Systematics, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Late 20th Century, Leigh Van Valen
Sponsors = Department of Anthropology, Utah Museum of Natural History, Environmental Humanities

The Social Lives of Biological Theories: A Historical Drama in Three Episodes

9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: Mill Creek Canyon (HSEB 2938)
Devin Gouvêa - Pangenesis and the Debate over Evolutionary Mechanisms, 1868-71
The University of Chicago
Joy Wattawa - Darwin Dissipated: When Natural Selection Met Heat Death
Daniel Liu - The Shoggoth of Science: Protoplasm and the Biological Disciplines, 1890-1940
University of Wisconsin, Madison - Department of History of Science
Organizer: Devin Gouvêa

Themes = Evo-Devo
Keywords = 19th Century, Evolutionary Theory, Development
Sponsors = Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities

Evo-devo and Explanatory Integration I: Biological Practices

9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: Parleys Canyon (HSEB 2110)
Ingo Brigandt - 'Developmental Constraint' in the 1980s
University of Alberta
Arantza Etxeberria - Descriptions Dignified: Patterns and Processes in Evo-devo
University of the Basque Country
Manfred Laubichler - Commentary
Arizona State University
Organizers: Ingo Brigandt and Alan Love

Themes = Evo-Devo
Keywords = Evolutionary Theory, Development, Organismal, Genetics, Late 20th Century
Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History, Brain Institute, Department of Anthropology

Theories, Models, and Data in Population Genetics: Population Genetics as a Multidimensional Discipline

9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: Bell Canyon (HSEB 1730)
Alirio Rosales - How to Think About Population Genetics: The Dimensions of Theory
Department of Philosophy
University of British Columbia
Yoichi Ishida - Roles of Models in Population Genetics: Sewall Wright's Analysis of the Linanthus Data
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Pittsburgh
Jon Seger - 'Missing Heritability' and the Genetics of Genes That Can't be Identified
Department of Biology
University of Utah
Organizers: Yoichi Ishida & Alirio Rosales

Keywords = Early 20th Century, Late 20th Century, Microbial, Genetics, Evolutionary Theory, Genomics
Sponsors = Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Utah Museum of Natural History, Environmental Humanities, College of Humanities, Tanner Humanities Center, Department of Anthropology

Hierarchy Theory of Evolution

9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: Neffs Canyon (HSEB 1700)
Dan R. Brooks - Metaphors for the Extended Synthesis: Something Old, Something New
Bielefeld University
Silvia Caianiello - Modularity and Hierarchy Theory
ISPF, CNR
Linnda Caporael - Grounding Human Social Cognition in Hierarchical Group Structure
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Organizer: Emanuele Serrelli

Keywords = Ecology, Systematics, Population Genetics, Evolutionary Theory, Development, Organismal
Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History, Environmental Humanities, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities, Department of Anthropology

Issues in the Philosophy of Animal Cognition

9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: King's Peak (Medical School classroom A)
Nicholas Shea - Metarepresentation and Reward Prediction Errors in Non-Human Animals
Faculty of Philosophy
University of Oxford
Andrew Fenton - Neuroscience and the Problem of Other Animal Minds: Why It May Not Matter as Much as Some Think
Dalhousie University
Amanda Leonard - The Myth of Gender in Companion Animals: The Effects of Anthropomorphism on Spay/Neuter Rates
The George Washington University

Themes = Gender, Policy, Race
Keywords = Behavior, Neurobiology, Genetics, Metarepresentation, Animal Metacognition, Reward-Guided Decision Making, Temporal Difference Learning
Sponsors = Environmental Humanities, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Brain Institute, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities, Gender Studies, Department of Anthropology

The Fine Art of Science and the Fine Science of Art

9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: Grandeur Peak (Medical School classroom B)
Rachel Mundy - Sonic Specimens and Musical Evolution
Columbia University
Alkistis Elliott-Graves - Abstraction and Conceptualization in Invasive Species Research
University of Pennsylvania

Keywords = Cultural Evolution, Ecology, Early 20th Century, Systematics, Behavior
Sponsors = Environmental Humanities, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities, Utah Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology

Heuristic Guidelines and Experimental Practice in Biology

9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: Ensign Peak (Medical School classroom C)
Mike Buttolph - 'In promise unsurpassed': Mendelian Genetics and the Scientific Status of Biology
University College London
Veli-Pekka Parkkinen - Gene Knockouts and Mechanistic Understanding
University of Oslo
Susie Fisher - ‘DNA make RNA (makes protein)’ – DNA/RNA Hybridization and the Making of Molecular Genetics
The Open University of Israel

Keywords = Early 20th Century, Late 20th Century, Genetics, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Probability and Evolution

9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: Deseret Peak (Medical School classroom D)
Jun Otsuka - Causal Modeling in Evolutionary Biology
Indiana University
Ryota Morimoto - Bayesian Interpretation of Probability in Genetic Drift Model
Keio University

Keywords = Genetics, Ecology, Development, Population Genetics, Late 20th Century, Evolutionary Theory
Sponsors = Asia Center

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Expertise across Disciplinary Communities: Philosophy, Behavioral Genetics, and Evolutionary Psychology

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: Lambs Canyon (HSEB 3515c)
Kathryn Plaisance - Interactional Expertise: A Case Study in Philosophy and Behavioral Genetics
University of Waterloo
Carla Fehr - Criticisms of Evolutionary Psychology: Critical Discourse across Epistemic Communities
Iowa State University
John Dupré - Commentary
University of Exeter

Themes = Gender, Civic Engagement
Keywords = Behavior, Genetics, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Sponsors = Brain Institute, Gender Studies, Department of Anthropology

Synthetic Biology: Ontological and Epistemological Issues

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 13 Room: Emigration Canyon (HSEB 2958)
Dan Nicholson - Biology as Engineering: The Philosophical Basis of Synthetic Biology
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognitive Research
Werner Callebaut - Synthetic Biology – Making as Knowing?
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognitive Research
University of Vienna
Michel Morange - Commentary
Centre Cavaillès, Ecole normale supérieure
Maureen O'Malley - Commentary
University of Sydney
Joan Fujimura - Commentary
Organizers: Dan Nicholson and Werner Callebaut

Keywords = Evolutionary Theory

Biological Taxa, Essentialism, and the Individuality Thesis

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: City Creek Canyon (HSEB 2948)
Kenneth Vernon - Ostensive Definitions and Species Names
University of Utah
Makmiller Pedroso - Does Kripke's Argument for Origin Essentialism Apply to Biological Species?
University of Calgary
Jerzy Brzozowski - Essentialism Has Never Been Dead
Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Keywords = David Hull, Systematics, Evolutionary Theory, Organismal
Sponsors = College of Humanities, Tanner Humanities Center, Department of Anthropology, Latin American Studies

On the Importance of Terms in Biology

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: Mill Creek Canyon (HSEB 2938)
Gregory Radick - Heredity's Baggage
University of Leeds
Thierry Hoquet - Natural Cuckolds? Sociobiological Jargon and its Feminist Critiques
Université Paris Ouest Nanterre
Lucie Laplane - Issues of Terminology in Biology: The Case of Cancer Stem Cells
Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
Organizers: Lucie Laplane, Thierry Hoquet and Gregory Radick

Keywords = Pre-20th Century, Early 20th Century, Late 20th Century, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Evolutionary Theory, Behavior
Sponsors = Gender Studies, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities

Evo-devo and Explanatory Integration II: Physical Science

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: Parleys Canyon (HSEB 2110)
Laura Nuño de la Rosa - 3D Modeling and Organicism in Development and Evo-devo
UCM & IHPST-Paris 1
Alan Love - Physics Meets Biology in Evo-devo
University of Minnesota
Sabine Brauckmann - Commentary
Estonian Institute of Humanities
Jessica Bolker - Commentary
University of New Hampshire
Organizers: Ingo Brigandt and Alan Love

Themes = Evo-Devo
Keywords = Development, Organismal, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Evolutionary Theory, Late 20th Century
Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History, Brain Institute, Department of Anthropology

The Philosophy and the History of Biology from Latin America

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: Bell Canyon (HSEB 1730)
Maximiliano Martinez, Eugenio Andrade and Sergio Martinez - Constraints, Path Dependence, and the Phylotypic Stage
Departamento de Humanidades, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-C;
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Alejandro Rosas - Moral Polymorphism
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Paulo Abrantes - Culture and Transitions in Individuality
University of Brasília
Organizer: Maximiliano Martinez

Themes = Evo-Devo, Evolution of Morality, Functions, Primatology, Human Sexuality, Darwinian Populations, Race
Keywords = Evolutionary Theory, Genomics, Cultural Evolution, Behavior, Development
Sponsors = Brain Institute, College of Humanities, Department of Anthropology, Latin American Studies

Hierarchy Theory of Evolution

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: Neffs Canyon (HSEB 1700)
Gregory P. Dietl - Toward a Unified Ecology in Macroevolution
Paleontological Research Institution
Cornell University
Telmo Pievani - The Evolving Structure of Evolutionary Theory: The Role of Hierarchy Theory for an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
University of Milan Bicocca
Niles Eldredge - A Matter of Individuality: Hierarchy Theory at the Dawn of Evolutionary Biology
The American Museum of Natural History
William Miller, III - Macroevolutionary Consonance and Expansion of the Modern Synthesis
Humboldt State University
Organizer: Emanuele Serrelli

Keywords = Ecology, Systematics, Population Genetics, Evolutionary Theory, Development, Organismal
Sponsors = Environmental Humanities, College of Humanities, Tanner Humanities Center, Utah Museum of History, Department of Anthropology

Research Systems

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: King’s Peak (Medical School classroom A)
Elihu M. Gerson - Research Systems as Units of Comparative Analysis
Tremont Research Institute
James Griesemer - Model Taxa and Taxon-Focused Research in Evo-Devo: Some Thoughts on the Use of Model Systems in Biology
University of California, Davis
Christopher DiTeresi - Morpholinos and the Metabolism of Error
George Mason University
Organizer: Elihu M. Gerson

Themes = Evo-Devo
Keywords = Evolutionary Theory, Development

Population Genetic Modeling in the Age of Molecular Data: Population Genetics as a Multidimensional Scientific Discipline

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: Grandeur Peak (Medical School classroom B)
Michael R. Dietrich - Reversing the Direction of Time: The Rise of the Coalescent in Population Genetics
Dartmouth College
Anya Plutynski - Microbial Evolution and Public Health: A Multilevel Perspective
University of Utah
Edna Suarez-Diaz - Commentary
UNAM
Organizers: Yoichi Ishida and Alirio Rosales

Keywords = Population Genetics, Early 20th Century, Late 20th Century, Microbial, Genetics, Evolutionary Theory, Genomics
Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History, Environmental Humanities, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities, Department of Anthropology

Optimality and Selection: Models, Explanations, and Causal Interpretations

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: Ensign Peak (Medical School classroom C)
Collin Rice - Optimality Explanations in Evolutionary Biology
University of Missouri
Erick Peirson - The Role of Optimization Models in the Rise of Phenotypic Plasticity in Evolutionary Biology
Arizona State University
Michael Jonathan Hodge - Natural Selection: Defending a Causal Interpretation
University of Leeds

Keywords = Evolutionary Theory, Optimality, Modeling, Idealization, Explanation

Interpreting Fitness

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: Deseret Peak (Medical School classroom D)
Peter Gildenhuys - Fitness Assignments for Irregular Systems
Lafayette College
David Crawford - Strength, Stability, and the Principle of Natural Selection
Duke University
Trin Turner - Fitness and Explanation: A Pragmatic Approach
Indiana University

Keywords = Late 20th Century, Evolutionary Theory, Organismal, Population Genetics, Behavior, Genetics

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Conceptual Issues in Ecology and Ethology

2 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: Lambs Canyon (HSEB 3515c)
Michael Bradie - The Moral Life of Animals
Bowling Green State University
Viorel Pâslaru - Integrative Pluralism and Mechanistic Explanation
University of Dayton
Marcela Zalamea - Schizophrenic Ecology
University of Copenhagen

Keywords = Ecology, Explanation, Pluralism, Balance of Nature, Laws of Nature, Modernism and Postmodernism, Science Studies, Case Studies Logic
Sponsors = Environmental Humanities, Divison of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Utah Musem of Natural History, Brain Institute, Department of Anthropology

Roundtable: Toward a Philosophy of Systematic Biology: Data, Phylogenetic Methodology, and Claims of Informational Superiority

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: Emigration Canyon (HSEB 2958)
Jeffrey Schwartz - Introduction
Department of Anthropology
University of Pittsburgh
David Williams and Malte Ebach - Pattern Cladistics, Relationships and the 'Natural System': A Brief History
The Natural History Museum, London
University of New South Wales
Malte Ebach and David Williams - A Brief History of Miscommunicating Monophyly
University of New South Wales
The Natural History Museum, London
Francisco Vergara-Silva - Species Concepts, 'Phylogenetic Thinking', and 'Integrative Taxonomy': A Role for Contemporary Epistemology?
Instituto de Biología
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Organizer: Francisco Vergara-Silva

Themes = Evo-devo
Keywords = Late 20th Century, Systematics, Evolutionary Theory, Genetics, Genomics, Development, Organismal
Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History, Anthropology

Conceptual Challenges in Investigating Life’s Origins

2 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: City Creek Canyon (HSEB 2948)
Carol Cleland - Conceptual Challenges for Contemporary Theories of the Origin of Life
University of Colorado
Emily Parke - Lessons from Arsenic Bacteria?
University of Pennsylvania
Mark Bedau - The Program-Metabolism-Container (PMC) Model of Minimal Chemical Life Implies that Minimal Life is a Matter of Degree
Reed College
Michael Weisberg - Homochirality Before the Origin of Life
University of Pennsylvania
Organizer: Michael Weisberg

Keywords = Origins of Life, Biochemistry, Evolutionary Theory

Past and Present: Races, Species, Clades, and Taxa

2 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: Mill Creek Canyon (HSEB 2938)
Casey Helgeson - Why Taxonomize Hierarchically?
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Joel Velasco - Why Context Matters: An Inference-Relative Understanding of Clade
Cornell University
Matthew J. Barker - Saving a Revolutionary View (of the History of the Philosophy of Species in Biology)
Concordia University
Matthew Kopec - Clines vs. Clades in the Race Debate
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Organizer: Joel Velasco

Themes = Race
Keywords = Clade, Hierarchy, Monophyly, Phylogenetics, Race, Species, Systematics, Taxonomy, David Hull
Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology

Organisms, Individuals, and Inheritance

2 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: Parleys Canyon (HSEB 2110)
Patrick Forber - Symbiosis and Inheritance
Tufts University
Austin Booth - New Work for a Theory of Individuals
Harvard University
Greg Priest - Darwin among the Zoophytes: Darwin’s Perspective on Biological Individuality
Stanford University
Jonathan Birch - Extreme Cooperation as the Mark of Higher-Level Individuality
University of Cambridge
Ellen Clarke - Commentary
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research
Organizer: Patrick Forber

Keywords = Evolutionary Theory, 19th Century, Organismal, David Hull
Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History

Roundtable: Teaching Gender Studies of Biology

2 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: Bell Canyon (HSEB 1730)
Marsha Richmond - Gender Studies of Biology in Perspective
Wayne State University
Georgina Montgomery - Visualizing Gender: Digital Collections and Audio-Visual pro
Michigan State University
Tina Gianquitto - When is a Rose Just a Rose?: Gender, Science, and Rhetoric
Colorado School of Mines
Erika Milam - Thinking with Gender
University of Maryland
Donald Opitz - Is it Possible to Teach ‘Gay Science’ without the ‘Gay’?
DePaul University
Sarah Richardson - Teaching Interdisciplinarity through Gender Studies of Biology
Harvard University
Organizers: Marsha Richmond and Georgina Montgomery

Themes = Gender, Education
Sponsors = Gender Studies, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities

Hierarchy Theory of Evolution

2 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: Neffs Canyon (HSEB 1700)
Telmo Pievani - The Evolving Structure of Evolutionary Theory: The Role of Hierarchy Theory for an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
Pievani's talk has been moved to the 11:00 am session, HSEB 1700)
University of Milan Bicocca
Ilya Tëmkin - Nested Networks and Biological Diversification
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
Keynyn Brysse - Lessons from Interdisciplinary (Non-) Communication in the Mass Extinction Debate
Princeton University
Emanuele Serrelli - Criticizing Adaptive Landscapes and the Conflation between Ecology and Genealogy
University of Milano Bicocca
Organizer: Emanuele Serrelli

Keywords = Ecology, Systematics, Population Genetics, Evolutionary Theory, Development, Organismal
Sponsors = Tanner Humanities Center, Utah Museum of Natural History, Environmental Humanities, Department of Anthropology, College of Humanities

Microbial Ecology and Metagenomics: Scientific, Philosophical and Historical Reflections

2 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: King’s Peak (Medical School classroom A)
Maureen O'Malley - Microbial Ecology from the Past to the Present: Some Key Philosophical Issues
University of Sydney
Rebecca Case - Microbial Ecology: A Marine Perspective
University of Alberta
Eric Bapteste - Microbial Ecology From an Evolutionary Perspective
Equipe Phylogénie, Bioinformatique et Génome, UMR CNRS
Jay Odenbaugh - Microbial Ecology and the Philosophy of Ecology: A Commentary
Lewis & Clark College
Organizer: Maureen O'Malley

Themes = Sustainability
Keywords = Ecology, Microbial, Genomics, Evolutionary Theory, Systematics, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Systematics
Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History, Enironmental Humanities

Experiment from Reproduction to Neuroscience

2 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: Grandeur Peak (Medical School classroom B)
Kimberly Brumble - Reproductionism and Robust Virtual Experimentation in the Life Sciences
University of Calgary
Nancy Hall - William Cochran, Gertrude Cox, EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS, and Agricultural Research
University of Delaware
Matthew Bateman - Experimental Inquiry in Cognitive Neuroscience
University of Pennsylvania

Themes = Policy, Education, Evo-Devo
Keywords = Population Genetics, Neurobiology, Ecology, Methodology, Early 20th Century, Late 20th Century, Development
Sponsors = Environmental Humanities, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities, Brain Institute, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Utah Museum of Natural History

The Philosophy and the History of Biology from Latin America

2 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: Ensign Peak (Medical School classroom C)
Alba Perez-Ruiz - Development of the Concept of Reconciliation in Primatology
CEFPSVLT
Jorge Martinez-Contreras - Savage Human Sexuality
Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana
Nei Freitas Nunes-Neto, Argyis Arnellos and Charbel Niño El-Hani - Etiological and Organizational Perspectives on Function
Universidade Federal da Bahia
Carlos Lopez Beltrán and Vivette García Deister - The Mexican Mestizo: A Life in Science
UNAM/University of Manchester
Organizer: Maximiliano Martinez

Themes = Evo-Devo, Race, Gender
Keywords = Evolutionary Theory, Genomics, Cultural Evolution, Behavior, Development, Evolution of Morality, Functions, Primatology, Human Sexuality, Darwinian Populations
Sponsors = Latin American Studies, Department of Anthropology, Gender Studies

Values and Policy: The Implications of Subjects' and Researchers' Understanding of Research

2 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 13
Room: Deseret Peak (Medical School classroom D)
Thomas Cunningham - A Simple Argument Gone Wrong: Why the Ban on Federal Funding for SCNT is Unjustified
University of Pittsburgh
Frazier Benya - Researchers' Concerns about the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Biomedical Research (1960-1971)
University of Minnesota
Lane DesAutels - Relocating Objectivity in Environmental Ethics: an Appeal to Objective Reasons
University of Maryland, College Park
Caroline Appleton - Ontologically Grounded and Pragmatically Applicable Environmental Ethics/Reconciling Values in Conservation Biology and Policy: The False Dichotomy of Intrinsic and Instrumental Value
Arizona State University

Themes = Sustainability, Policy, Civic Engagement
Keywords = Ecology, Late 20th Century, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Sponsors = Environmental Humanities, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanitites

4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Member's Meeting (all participants are welcome)

Post Theater
Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.