Meeting of the ISHPSSB - Sciencesconf.org

Functions and Complex Systems

001

Chair: Eric Desjardins

› Functions and Ecological Resilience - Gillian Barker, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western University 09:30-10:15 (45min)

› Functional Analogical Models in Biomedical Research - Zachary Helwig Munroe, University of Western Ontario: Rotman Institute of Philosophy 10:15-11:00 (45min)

Public/scientist partnerships in the production of biomedical knowledge: the gamers, the advocates and the enablers

002

Chair: Richard Creath

› Public/scientist partnerships in the production of biomedical knowledge: the gamers - David Magnus, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics 09:30-10:00 (30min)

› Public/scientist partnerships in the production of biomedical knowledge: the enablers - Lauren Milner, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics 10:00-10:30 (30min)

› Public/scientist partnerships in the production of biomedical knowledge: the advocates - Mildred Cho, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics 10:30-11:00 (30min)

Is Race Real?

003

Chairs: Quayshawn Spencer & Melinda Gormley

› Race, Slavery, and Polygenism: Edward Long's History of Jamaica - Suman Seth, Cornell University 09:30-09:50 (20min)

› When We Say “Race is a Social Construction,” What Are We Saying? - John Jackson, University of Colorado 09:50-10:10 (20min)

› Concepts of Race among U.S. Biologists and Anthropologists - Ann Morning, New York University 10:10-10:30 (20min)

› Why the Usefulness of Race Is Useless - Matthew Kopec, University of Colorado Boulder (USA) 10:30-10:50 (20min)

Biological Theories and Theories in Medicine

004

Chair: Jacob Stegenga

› DSM-5 and the Removal of the Multiaxial System for Psychiatric Diagnosis: What Is at Stake? - Steeves Demazeux, Centre d'Histoire des Sociétés, des Sciences et des Conflits; Institut Faire Faces 09:30-10:00 (30min)

› Does pathophysiology contain a theory of disease? - Maël Lemoine, University of Tours 10:00-10:30 (30min)

› Network medicine as a genetic theory of disease - Marie Darrason, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques 10:30-11:00 (30min)

Can human sciences be applied to animal societies

005

› Japanese wisdom? Natural cultures and cultural natures - Harry Wels, VU University Amsterdam 09:30-09:45 (15min)

› The Pragmatics of Nonhuman Friendships - Irina Meketa, Department of Philosophy, Boston University 09:45-10:00 (15min)

› Culturally Constructed Concepts in Animals - Grant Goodrich, The citadel 10:00-10:15 (15min)

› Social networks and animal behavior - Colin Allen, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University 10:15-10:30 (15min)

› Social Constructionism and Theory of Mind - Olivia Sultanescu, Department of Philosophy, York University 10:30-10:45 (15min)

› Can Human sciences be applied to animal societies? - General discussion 10:45-11:00 (15min)

Debates About the Level of Selection A (submitted papers)

006

› Variation Within and Between Hierarchical Levels - Lauren McCall, American Museum of Natural History 09:30-10:00 (30min)

› On the Status of the Debate About Biological Individuality - Austin Booth, Harvard University Department of Philosophy 10:00-10:30 (30min)

› Species Selection and the Individuality Thesis: A Lesson in Ontology from a Tasmanian Wolf - Leonard Finkelman, CUNY Lehman College 10:30-11:00 (30min)

General Philosophy of Science A (submitted papers)

007

› Downward Determination as a Non-Causal Probability-Raising Relation - Charbel El-Hani, Professor 09:30-10:00 (30min)

› Mechanisms and the puzzle of explanatory relevance - Maria Serban, School of Philosophy 10:00-10:30 (30min)

› Ecosystem Research and Real-World Simulation - Astrid Schwarz, Institute for Philosophy, Technical University Darmstadt 10:30-11:00 (30min)

New Directions in the Study of Inheritance

008

Chair: Pierrick Bourrat

› Pluralistic models of inheritance: toward the reform of a central concept in biology - Gaëlle Pontarotti, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques 09:30-10:15 (45min)

› Why culture evolves without being an inheritance system - Olivier Morin, Central European University 10:15-11:00 (45min)

More About Darwin and Wallace A (submitted papers)

125

› Evolution without Natural Selection: Darwin's Domain of the Useless - Thomas Robert, University of Calabria / Università della Calabria, Université de Genève 09:30-10:15 (45min)

› Modus Darwin Reconsidered - Casey Helgeson, University of Wisconsin, Philosophy dept. 10:15-11:00 (45min)

Public Health Issues A (submitted papers)

127

› Sorting out patients and diseases in early XIXth century Paris. An historical account of how medicine met its subject. - Antoine Ermakoff, Laboratoire de Philosophie et d'Histoire des Sciences 09:30-10:00 (30min)

› Fetal Risk, Federal Response: Alcohol Warning Labels and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Erica O'Neil, Arizona State University 10:00-10:30 (30min)

› Bridging the Social-Biomedical Divide : Uncovering Explanatory Conflicts in the Public Health Literature - Eniola Salami, University of Calgary 10:30-11:00 (30min)

Towards a motricity approach in cognitive sciences

214

Chair: Bernardo Yanez

› Differences between identity and self-consciousness from a motricity approach - Melina Gastelum Vargas, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 09:30-10:00 (30min)

› Autonomous movement: the beginning of mental life from an embodied and ecological approach. - Ximena González-Grandón, Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine-National Autonomous University of Mexico - Jimena Vergara Ortega, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) 10:00-10:30 (30min)

› The unification of the mind: a hypothesis - Jose Padua-Gabriel, Institute of Philosophical Research- National Autonomous University of Mexico 10:30-11:00 (30min)

Genetics. From Mendel to Benzer and Beyond A (submitted papers)

Actes

› What if Mendel had died in 1840? Retrodictions in early genetics. - Mike Buttolph, University College London - London's Global University 09:30-09:50 (20min)

› Against Theory-Biased Classical Genetics - Yafeng Shan, University College London 09:50-10:10 (20min)

› The growth of Morgan's evolutionary thought: 1903-1932 - Lilian Martins, Universidade de São Paulo 10:10-10:30 (20min)

› Theorising and representational practices in genetics - Marion Vorms, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques 10:30-10:50 (20min)

Responses to Principles of Evolutionary Medicine (RT)

Amphi Physio

Participants: Peter Gluckman, Mark Hanson, John Matthewson, Pierre-Olivier Méthot, Dominic Murphy, Kenneth Schaffner

Making Modern Developmental Biology

Colloque 1

Chair: Sabine Brauckmann

› From Embryology to Developmental Biology: The Diversification of a Biological Field. - Michael Dietrich, Dartmouth College - Nathan Crowe, Arizona State University 09:30-10:00 (30min)

› Molecularising mammalian development: gene transfer, recombinant networks and the making of transgenic mice - Dmitriy Myelnikov, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge 10:00-10:30 (30min)

› Communicating Reproductive Biology: Claims to Human In Vitro Fertilization - Nick Hopwood, University of Cambridge 10:30-11:00 (30min)

Eugenics Part I, eugenic traits

Colloque 2

Chair: Moyra Lang

› Eugenic Lists - Rob Wilson, University of Alberta, Canada 09:30-10:00 (30min)

› Why did the Nazis sterilize the Blind? - Amir Teicher, School of Historical Studies, Tel-Aviv University, Safra Center for Ethics, Tel-Aviv University 10:00-10:30 (30min)

› Combining permissible abortion with prenatal testing: Risking Eugenics? - Lyster Caroline, McGill University 10:30-11:00 (30min)

New perspectives on the evolution of human cognition

001

Chair: Kim Sterelny

› Bonobos as model of the last common ancestor of humans and apes: the neglected discussion in the evolution of human cognition - Ivan Gonzalez-Cabrera, Australian National University 11:30-12:15 (45min)

› As far as I know. Social learning and the available information. - Chiara Ferrario, Victoria University of Wellington - Laura Di Paolo, Università di Roma 12:15-13:00 (45min)

The Problem of "Race" A (submitted papers)

002

› Remeasuring Man - Michael Weisberg, University of Pennsylvania 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› The use of the concept of race in biomedicine: the hypothesis of social causes undermines the utilitarian argument. - Ludovica Lorusso, University of Sassari 12:00-12:30 (30min)

› The Last Race Realisms - Matthew Barker, Department of Philosophy, Concordia University 12:30-13:00 (30min)

Conceptual Difficulties Associated with Evo-Devo A (submitted papers)

003

› The inception of modularity in biology - Silvia Caianiello, Silvia Caianiello 11:30-12:15 (45min)

› Developmental explanation - Veli-Pekka Parkkinen, University of Oslo 12:15-13:00 (45min)

Immunology and Individuality

004

Chair: Samuel Alizon

› Doing Biographical Work: The ‘Self' of Immunological Theory and the ‘Self' of Autoimmune Disease - Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Individuality and Immunology's Theories of Cognition - Alfred Tauber, Center for Philosophy and History of Science 12:00-12:30 (30min)

› The individual, the organism, and the immune system - Thomas Pradeu, Paris-Sorbonne University 12:30-13:00 (30min)

Transnational Science During the Cold War A

005

Chair: Edna Suarez-Diaz

› Practices of circulation: radioisotopes and cytology in the atomic age - María Santesmases, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› A New Look at Radioisotopes: Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace and Its Consequences for Science and Medicine - Angela Creager, Princeton University Department of History - John Krige, Georgia Tech - School of History, Technology and Society 12:00-12:30 (30min)

› Cold War Collaboration and the 'American Challenge': The European Society for Nuclear Methods in Agriculture - Karin Zachmann, Munich Center for the History of Science and Technology 12:30-13:00 (30min)

Debates About the Level of Selection B (submitted papers)

006

› Conceptions of Multilevel Selection and their Implications for Empirical Results - Christopher Dimond, Arizona State University 11:30-11:50 (20min)

› MLS3: Expanding Multi-level Selection Theory to Capture Hierarchical Transition by Individuation - David Crawford, Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol 11:50-12:10 (20min)

› A Defense of Superorganisms - Karen Kovaka, University of Pennsylvania - Philosophy Department 12:10-12:30 (20min)

› Interactionist Group Selection - Tomi Kokkonen, TINT (University of Helsinki) 12:30-12:50 (20min)

General Philosophy of Science B (submitted papers)

007

› How Multiple Realization is Possible - Kenneth Aizawa, Rutgers University, Newark 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Divergent Philosophies in Evolutionary Science - Carmen Marcous, Florida State University 12:00-12:30 (30min)

› Regulation: Integrating Concept or Epistemological Red Herring? - Kevin Amidon, Iowa State University 12:30-13:00 (30min)

Functions in Ecology

008

Chair: Gillian Barker

› Defending Ecosystem Health: A Normative but Naturalized Notion of Ecological Function - Antoine C. Dussault, Université de Montréal 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› On the vague and metaphorical definitions of “good ecosystem functioning” - Catherine Dieleman, The University of Western Ontario 12:00-12:30 (30min)

› Climate change and ecological management: from historical structural to futuristic functional goals - Eric Desjardins, University of Western Ontario 12:30-13:00 (30min)

More About Darwin and Wallace B (submitted papers)

125

› Hair-raising observations: Darwin and Crichton Browne on piloerection and insanity - Pieter Adriaens, Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Darwin and the decline of Ancient Greece: a problem or a shining example for his theory? - Ageliki Lefkaditou, University of Leeds 12:00-12:30 (30min)

› Charles Darwin as Historical Methodologist; The Role of Scottish Conjectural History in the Origin of Species - Cosima Herter, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities 12:30-13:00 (30min)

Public Health Issues B (submitted papers)

127

› Nathan Shock and the "Biomedicalization of Aging" - Hyung Wook Park, Nanyang Technological University 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Bacteriophage and the American Pharmaceutical Industry - Carolyn Farnsworth, University of South Carolina 12:00-12:30 (30min)

› Socially and morally responsible cognitive neuroimaging: Mental rotation case study - Vanessa Bentley, University of Cincinnati 12:30-13:00 (30min)

Physiology in the 20th Century (submitted papers)

214

› Forged Together: Anglo-American Physiologists and the Structure of War and Post-War Physiology 1935-1955 - Stephen Casper, Clarkson University 11:30-12:15 (45min)

› The erythrocyte “has a life span” – erythrocyte aging between experimental and mathematical approaches - Maria Strecht Almeida, ICBAS, University of Porto 12:15-13:00 (45min)

Genetics. From Mendel to Benzer and Beyond B (submitted papers)

Actes

› Economic models in the cell: division of labor in the German Empire and the transition from real- to finance economy in conception and heredity 1870-1900 - Bettina Bock von Wülfingen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 11:30-11:50 (20min)

› Science During Wartime: Richard Goldschmidt's Internment during the First World War - Marsha Richmond, Wayne State University 11:50-12:10 (20min)

› Randomization? Fisher, “Student,” and the Society for Psychical Research - Nancy Hall, University of Delaware 12:10-12:30 (20min)

› A Historical and Systematic Analysis of the Hardy-Weinberg Law - Pablo Lorenzano, National Scientific and Technical Research Council, National University of Quilmes 12:30-12:50 (20min)

Dialogue Garland Allen - Bruno Strasser

Amphi Physio

Theme: Biology in the 21st Century: Hybridization of Experimentalism and Natural History?

Hodgiana A

Colloque 1

Chair: Shane Glackin

› Buffon and Darwin after Hodge: the case for extremism - Thierry Hoquet, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Against "Evolution"? Non-Darwinian Theorizing and the Hodgean Historiography of Biology - Peter Bowler, Queens University Belfast 12:00-12:30 (30min)

› From germs and cells to species and trees of life... and beyond: Jon Hodge's articulation of Darwin´s Generation Theorizing into its wider frames - Carlos Lopez-Beltran, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas UNAM 12:30-13:00 (30min)

Eugenics Part II, politics and eugenics

Colloque 2

Chair: Moyra Lang

› Differentiating Eugenics and Social Darwinism - Aida Roige Mas, University of British Columbia 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Revisiting Eugenics and the Left: JBS Haldane, Diversity, and an Independent India. - Gordon McOuat, University of King's College 12:00-12:30 (30min)

› Confronting the ‘Eugenic Agitation': Herbert Spencer Jennings, the Biology of Democracy, and the American Social Welfare Community in the 1920s - Judy Johns Schloegel, Independent Scholar 12:30-13:00 (30min)

Council Meeting #1

Open to Council's members

What is a gene? the gene concept faced to recent advances in genetics, molecular and developmental biology

001

Chair: Jean-Jacques Kupiec

› "What is a gene? The gene concept faced to recent advances in genetics, molecular and developmental biology." - Jean Deutsch, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 15:00-15:20 (20min)

› Hox genes' colinearity during Limb Development - Charles Galperin, IHPST 15:20-15:40 (20min)

› Chromosome structure as a component of gene definition - Thomas Heams, Génétique Animale et Biologie Intégrative 15:40-16:00 (20min)

› The molecular gene concept in the post-genomic era - Frédérique Théry, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques 16:00-16:20 (20min)

The Problem of "Race" B (submitted papers)

002

› Racial Certificates and “Jewish Racial Traits”: Otmar von Verschuer and Nazi Racial Policy Practice at the Institute for Human Heredity and Racial Hygiene, 1936-1942 - Sheila Weiss, Clarkson University 15:00-15:30 (30min)

› Survival of the Fittest during the First World War: Herbert Spencer, the French Army, and the Development of La force noire, 1890-1920 - Joe Lunn, University of Michigan--Dearborn 15:30-16:00 (30min)

› Do I look Mexican? The Reification of a National Face - Abigail Nieves, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 16:00-16:30 (30min)

Conceptual Difficulties Associated with Evo-Devo B (submitted papers)

003

› Rethinking innateness as a primitive term within developmental scenarios - Valentine Reynaud, Institut de Recherches Philosophiques de Lyon 15:00-15:45 (45min)

› Typological thinking and essentializing from a practical point of view - Christopher DiTeresi, Philosophy Dept, George Mason University 15:45-16:30 (45min)

Individuality and the Division of Labor

004

› Modularity and division of labor: from theory to experimental evolution - María Rebolleda Gómez, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities 15:00-15:30 (30min)

› Individuality and the Division of Labor in the Nineteenth Century - Lynn Nyhart, University of Wisconsin-Madison 15:30-16:00 (30min)

› Debating Division of Labor in European Ethology. An Epistemological Analysis of the Pardi-Deleurance controversy about the Organization of Wasp Societies in 1950. - Guido Caniglia, Arizona State University (Center for Biology and Society) 16:00-16:30 (30min)

Transnational Science During the Cold War B

005

Chair: Edna Suarez-Diaz. The last 30 minutes will be devoted to a general discussion with all the participants

› Human population studies and the World Health Organization - Soraya de Chadarevian, University of California Los Angeles 15:00-15:30 (30min)

› Alfonso León de Garay and the set up of the Genetics and Radiobiology Program in Mexico, 1960-1970. - Ana Barahona, National Autonomous University of Mexico 15:30-16:00 (30min)

Outsourcing biomedicine

006

Chair: Nick Hopwood

› Outsourcing in anatomical visualization. Atlas production and the politics of visual cultures in early 20th century Vienna. Outsourcing biomedicine (Birgit Nemec, Lukas Rieppel, Sophia Roosth, Hallam Stevens) - Birgit Nemec, University of Vienna 15:00-15:20 (20min)

› The Vertical Integration of American Paleontology - Lukas Rieppel, Northwestern University 15:20-15:40 (20min)

› Open Source, Outsourced: Synthetic Biology in the Age of Biological Taylorism - Sophia Roosth, Harvard University 15:40-16:00 (20min)

› Buy-ology: kits and knowledge in molecular biology - Hallam Stevens, Nanyang Technological University 16:00-16:20 (20min)

General Philosophy of Science C (submitted papers)

007

› “If you can spray them, then they are real”: Evidence Construction in Fragrance Chemistry - Ann-Sophie Barwich, University of Exeter 15:00-15:30 (30min)

› Open the doors: integrating epistemology into the lab - Thomas Camus, Dynamique des capacités humaines et des conduites de santé - Vincent Devictor, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution - Montpellier 15:30-16:00 (30min)

› Some examples of possibology applied to biology and its history - Sylvie Allouche, Center for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol 16:00-16:30 (30min)

Understanding variation beyond the Modern Synthesis

008

Chair: Fridolin Gross

› Mutational Lamarckism and the Modern Synthesis view of mutational randomness as conditional independence - Pablo Razeto-Barry, Instituto de Filosofía y Ciencias de la Complejidad, Santiago - Davide Vecchi, Universidad de Santiago, Instituto de Filosofía y Ciencias de la Complejidad, Santiago 15:00-15:30 (30min)

› Phenotypic variation in ecological setting: a challenge for evolutionary modeling beyond the Modern Synthesis - Serrelli Emanuele, "Riccardo Massa" Department of Human Sciences, University of Milano Bicocca, Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab, Center for Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon 15:30-16:00 (30min)

› Variation in a world with multiple levels, mechanisms, and units of evolution: The Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Approach - Nathalie Gontier, Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab, Center for Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon 16:00-16:30 (30min)

More About Darwin and Wallace C (submitted papers)

125

› The Charles Darwin-Wyville Thomson Debate: deep sea crinoids, scientific evidence, and the adjudication of Darwinian natural selection - Rodolfo Alaniz, University of California [San Diego] 15:00-15:30 (30min)

› From The Malay Archipelago: Alfred Russell Wallace's Scientific Contributions - Emily Matykiewicz, Florida State University 15:30-16:00 (30min)

› Contribution to the methodology of reception studies: considerations regarding the study of Darwin in Portugal (1910-1974) - Pedro Fonseca, FCT; CEIS20-University of Coimbra 16:00-16:30 (30min)

New Models and Approaches in Evolution (submitted papers)

127

› Modelling the Course of an HIV Infection: Insights from Ecology and Evolution - Samuel Alizon, Maladies infectieuses et vecteurs : écologie, génétique, évolution et contrôle 15:00-15:45 (45min)

› Modeling evolution using the probability of fixation - David McCandlish, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania 15:45-16:30 (45min)

Genetics. From Mendel to Benzer and Beyond C (submitted papers)

209

› Patenting life: The life of a patent - Ana Romero, INSTITUTO DE FILOSOFÍA 15:00-15:30 (30min)

› The French Concept of the Gene, from Microbe to Transposon? - Laurent Loison, Laboratoire Sciences, Histoire, Philosophie 15:30-16:00 (30min)

› Seymour Benzer, Genetic Maps, and the Junkman's Problem - Yoichi Ishida, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh 16:00-16:30 (30min)

Macromolecules and Molecular Biology (submitted papers)

214

› Rosalind franklin and the dna double helix: historiographical accounts - Marcos Silva, University State of Londrina 15:00-15:30 (30min)

› Molecules in Biology Before Molecular Biology - Daniel Liu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dept. of History of Science 15:30-16:00 (30min)

› Rendering the dynamic static: examining how x-ray crystallography constructs investigation into protein function - Julie-Anne Gandier, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Biozone Center for Applied Bioscience and Bioengineering 16:00-16:30 (30min)

Asking the Hidden Questions Raised by Stem Cells: History, Philosophy, and Biology

Amphi Physio

Chair: Jason Robert

› What's Surprising about Stem Cell Research? - Jane Maienschein, Arizona State University 15:00-15:20 (20min)

› Leaping from Waddington's landscape: premature theorizing in stem cell biology - Melinda Fagan, Rice University 15:20-15:40 (20min)

› Stem cell ontology: why does it matter? - Lucie Laplane, Institut Gustave Roussy, URSHS, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Institut de Recherches Philosophiques (IRePh) 15:40-16:00 (20min)

› Stem cells in an evolutionary perspective - Michel Vervoort, Institut Jacques Monod 16:00-16:20 (20min)

Hodgiana B

Colloque 1

Chair: Shane Glackin

› Hodge's Paradigm-Making Thinking about the Population Geneticists - Michael Ruse, Florida State University 15:00-15:30 (30min)

› How Hodge's History of Biology and Philosophy of Biology Fit Together - Gregory Radick, University of Leeds 15:30-16:00 (30min)

› Responses and reflections - Jon Hodge, University of Leeds 16:00-16:30 (30min)

Eugenics Roundtable: Past and Present (RT)

Colloque 2

Participants: Amir Teicher, Rob Wilson, Caroline Lyster, Judy Johns Schloegel, Gordon McOuat. Chair: Matthew Smithdeal

Poster session, with cocktail (Hall)