Beyond Dichotomies, Across the Boundaries:

Interdisciplinary Investigations of Dynamic Interactions in Biological and Social Sciences

 

An Interdisciplinary Conference to be held at the U of MN April 14-17, 2005

Co-organized by Evelyn Fox Keller, Katie Plaisance, and Mary Winbauer

 

 

Thursday, April 14th

 

 

7:30pm-9:00pm          Keynote Presentation, Barker Center 100

Evelyn Fox Keller: history and philosophy of science, MIT and U of MN

            Organisms, Machines and Thunderstorms

 

 

Friday, April 15th  (All sessions to be held in Humphrey Center 180A)

 

9am-11:30am              Faculty Session One

 

            Patrick Bateson, ethology and behavioral neuroscience, Cambridge University

Taking the stink out of instinct

 

Gilbert Gottlieb: developmental biology, UNC Chapel Hill

            Individual development and evolution: A bidirectional, multilevel model

                                   

 

1:00pm-3:30pm          Faculty Session Two

 

Eleanor Maccoby, developmental psychology, Stanford University

            The dynamics of dyadic and group interaction:  A developmental perspective

 

Shaun Gallagher, philosophy and cognitive science, University of Central Florida

From neurons to narrative: An interdisciplinary approach to intersubjectivity

 

3:30pm-4:00pm          Coffee Break

 

4:00pm-6:30pm          Faculty Session Three

 

            Reka Albert, mathematics and mathematical modeling in biology and physics, Penn State

            Network modeling: A framework for understanding the structure and function of cellular

regulatory pathway

 

Ben Kerr, ecology, evolution and behavior, U of MN

A tragedy of the commons in host-pathogen metapopulations: Evolutionary games on

social networks

 

 

 

Saturday, April 16th  (All sessions to be held in Humphrey Center 180A)

 

 

8:30am-10:30am         Student Session 1: Cognitive Science

Commentator: Naomi Scheman, Philosophy, U of MN

 

Jason Leddington, Philosophy, Northwestern University

Perception, cognition, & explanation

 

Xaq Pitkow, Biophysics, Harvard

The efficiency of the eye in its natural environment

 

Georg Theiner, Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Indiana University

Language evolution as a case of collectivist outflanking

 

 

10:30am-12:30pm       Student Session 2: Normal-Abnormal Dichotomy in Psychology

Commentator: Patricia Ross, Member of Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, and Professor of Philosophy at Carleton College

 

Holly Andersen, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh

De-pathologizing bipolar disorder

 

Susan Hawthorne, Philosophy, U of MN

The messiness of disorder: Questioning the normal:disordered dichotomy

 

Rhiannon Luyster, Psychology, University of Michigan

Across the boundaries: Research in normal and abnormal development

 

 

 

1:45pm-4:00pm          Student Session 3: Individual-Social Dichotomies

Commentator: Helen Longino, Philosophy, U of MN

 

Anna Alexandrova, Philosophy and Science Studies, UCSD

From models to institutions: Game theory and the FCC spectrum auctions

 

Melinda Fagan, History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University

Science as action: the individual-social dichotomy in social epistemology

 

Margeret Heath, Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Being (im)Possible: Poeisis, Cognitive Niche-Construction and Non-Linear Dynamics?

 

Christy Hoffman, Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago

Attachment research without a detachment component: An examination of how a gorilla mother-infant attachment relationship is co-constructed

 

4:00pm-4:30pm          Coffee Break

 

4:30pm-6:15pm          Student Session 4: Historical Perspectives on Dichotomies in Biology

Commentator: Mark Borrello, History of Science & Technology, Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, U of MN

 

David Steffes, History of Science, University of Oklahoma

In the Name of the Organism: Integrating Biology at Chicago through Metaphor and Practice, 1930s-1940s

 

James Tabery, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh

R.A. Fisher, Lancelot Hogben, and the Origin(s) of Genotype-Environment Interaction

 

 

 

Sunday, April 17th   (Humphrey Center 180A)

 

 

8:45am-10:30am         Student Session 5: Dichotomies in Quantitative/Bevioral Genetics

Commentator: Matt McGue, Behavioral Genetics, U of MN

 

            Lucia Gutierrez, Agronomy, Iowa State

Comparing molecular marker and phenotypic trait diversity: addressing the dichotomy between genes and phenotypes

 

Katie Plaisance, Philosophy, U of MN

Prevalent Dichotomies in Behavioral Genetics: What’s an Environment, Anyway?