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Professor Emeritus John Malcolm giving an address
UC Davis Philosophy faculty are active in presenting papers at conferences and departments throughout the world. This page lists recent and upcoming talks.
2008 UC Davis Faculty Talks
February, Robert May, "The Essential Proposition: Frege on Identity Statements," Logic Seminar, Stanford University
February 6, Aldo Antonelli, "Logicism, Quantifiers, and Abstraction," University of California, Davis
March 6, Paul Teller, "Some Dirty Little Secrets about Truth," Washington University, St. Louis
March 13, James Griesemer, "What Simon Should Have Said (About Dynamical Boundaries)," The Edges and Boundaries of Biological Objects Workshop, University of Utah
March 15, Roberta Millstein, "Thinking about the Concept of 'Population' in Evolutionary Biology," The Edges and Boundaries of Biological Objects Workshop, University of Utah
March 18, Jan Szaif, "Parmenides on Truth versus Appearance," Ancient Philosophy Working Group, University of California, Berkeley
March 28, James Griesemer, "Tracking, Abstracting and Colligating Work Make Scientific Facts that can Travel," Workshop on Making Small Facts Travel: Labels, Packages, and Vehicles, London School of Economics and Political Science
April 3, Paul Teller, "Some Dirty Little Secrets about Truth," The Ohio State University
April 4, Paul Teller, "Fiction, Fictionalization, and Truth in Science," The Ohio State University
April 11, James Griesemer, "Neo-Heraclitus: Objectivity, Judgment and a Problem of Locality in Biodiversity Research," Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science and the Fishbein Center for History of Science, University of Chicago
April 11, Paul Teller, "Reductionism, Emergence, and Truth," Conference on Modeling and Simulation, University of Ilberg, Netherlands
April, Robert May, "The Composition of Thought," (presentation of work co-authored with Richard Heck), Stanford Cognitive Lunch, Stanford University
April 18, Cody Gilmore, "An Argument Against Plenitude," Pacific Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association
May 2, Adam Sennet, "Conditionals, Biconditionals, and Embedding," University of Nottingham
May 2-4, Robert May, "The Composition of Thought," (presentation of work co-authored with Richard Heck), Semantics and Philosophy in Europe
May 14, Adam Sennet, "Unarticulated Constituents and Unarticulated Structure," Arché, University of St. Andrews
May 16, Adam Sennet, "Conditionals, Biconditionals, and Embedding," University of Leeds
May 16, Aldo Antonelli, "Abstraction Principles in First-Order Arithmetic," Logic Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
May 25, Jan Szaif, "False Judgment as Other-Judging (allodoxia) in Plato's Theaetetus," West Coast Plato Workshop, University of California, Davis
May, Robert May, "The Essential Proposition: Frege on Identity Statements," Institute for Philosophy, University of Jena
June 6, Paul Teller, "Some Dirty Little Secrets about Truth," Philosophy of Science Retreat, University of California, San Diego
June 7, Jan Szaif, "Intrinsische Güter: Überlegungen in Ausgang von der antiken Ethik" ("Intrinsic Goods: Ancient and Modern Approaches"), University of Erlangen
June, Roberta Millstein, "How Many Chances Become One Chance." Presented at the Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (IHPST) at the Université Paris 1, Paris, France
July, Gerald Dworkin, Conference on Death and Dying, Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Santander, Spain
September 19-22, Jan Szaif, "The Concept of Education through Science in Antiquity," "Bildung durch Wissenschaft" Conference, Munich, Germany
September 19, Aldo Antonelli, "First-Order Arithemtic," University of Florence, Florence, Italy
October 2, James Griesemer, "The MVZ’s First Century: Perspectives from the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science" (talk co-authored with Elihu Gerson and Cathryn Carson), The Philosophical Pizza Munch, California Academy of Sciences
October 3, Adam Sennet, "Unarticulated Constituents and Hidden Structure," University of Toronto
October 4, James Griesemer, "The MVZ’s First Century: Perspectives from the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science" (talk co-authored with Elihu Gerson and Cathryn Carson), Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, Centennial Celebration: "Drawing the Lines: A Celebration of Art and History"
October 15, Elaine Landry, "Reconstructing Hilbert to Construct Category-Theoretic Algebraic Structuralism," University of California, Berkeley
October 31, James Griesemer, "There and Back Again: Natural History, Biodiversity, and the Problem of Locality," Workshop for the Cultural Study of Science and Technology, Rice University
November 6, James Griesemer, "What Models in Evolutionary Biology Don’t Mean," Philosophy of Science Association, Pittsburgh
November 6-9, Roberta Millstein, "(Mis)nterpreting Mathematical Models of Drift: Drift as a Physical Process" (with Michael R. Dietrich and Robert A. Skipper), Philosophy of Science Association, Pittsburgh
November 6-9, Paul Teller, "Signal, Noise and Information in Imperfect Knowledge," Philosophy of Science Association, Pittsburgh
December 5, Adam Sennet, University of California, Los Angeles
December 6-7, Jan Szaif, Comments on Stephen Menn, "Aristotle on the Many Senses of Being," Princeton Colloquium
2009 UC Davis Faculty Talks
January, Gerald Dworkin, Conference for the retirement of Jerry Cohen, Oxford
January 23, Aldo Antonelli, "Deflationary Abstraction and the Frege Quantifier," University of Notre Dame
February 13-15, Jan Szaif, "Plato's Definition of Propositional Falsehood in the Sophist: How Does it Build upon the Analysis of Non-Being in Sophist 254-259?," XIV. Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
March 20, James Griesemer, "The Relative Significance of Epigenetic Inheritance in Evolution," Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
March, Gerald Dworkin, Lectures on Paternalism, Juan Carlos III University, Madrid
April, Roberta Millstein, "Toward a Concept of 'Population' for Evolutionary Biology and Ecology," Cincinnati Darwiniana Speaker Series
April, Robert May, "Author Meets Critics," De Lingua Belief (with Robert Fiengo), Pacific Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association
April, Roberta Millstein, "Toward a Concept of 'Population' for Evolutionary Biology and Ecology," Bay Area Biosystematists (BABS), Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
April, Paul Teller, "True or True Enough: Is the Traditional Idealization of Truth an Idealization?" Pacific Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association
April, Roberta Millstein, "Chance in Biology," Philosophy of Science Retreat, James Reserve, San Jacinto Mountains, CA.
May 1, Aldo Antonelli, "Deflationary Abstraction and the Frege Quantifier," Stanford University
May 7, James Griesemer, "Tracking Mendel," Department of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Cruz
May 14, Jan Szaif, "The Significance of the 'Third Way' in Parmenides' Poem," Université de Fribourg (Switzerland)
May 24, Jan Szaif, Comments on C. Swanson, "Self-Refutation in the Euthydemus," UC Berkeley
June 7-10, James Griesemer, "Heuristic Reductionism and the Relative Significance of Epigenetic Inheritance in Evolution," Transformations of Lamarckism: 200 Years to the Philosophie Zoologique, The Twenty-Third Annual International Workshop on the History and Philosophy of Science, Tel Aviv University and The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
July 16, James Griesemer (with Ayelet Shavit), "Are We There Yet? The Problem of Locality in Biodiversity Resurveys," ISHPSSB 2009, Brisbane, Australia
July 12-17, Roberta Millstein, "Differentiating Natural Selection, Sexual Selection, and Social Selection," Biennial Meeting of the International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, ISHPSSB 2009, Brisbane, Australia
August, Gerald Dworkin, "The Current State of the Physician-assisted Suicide Debate", Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo, Santander, Spain
October 14, Adam Sennet, "Propositional Structure and Unarticulated Constituents," Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics and Science (HPLMS), UC Berkeley
October 22, Elaine Landry, EPSA conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
October 30, James Griesemer Discussion of my work with Lisa Gannett on the history of genetic mapping, Seminario sobre Genómica Critica, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
October, Roberta Millstein, "Causal Processes and the Concept of 'Population' in Evolutionary Biology," Current Issues in Darwinian Theory Workshop, Halifax, NS
November 13, Elaine Landry, Stanford University
November, Roberta Millstein, "The Concept of 'Population' in Evolutionary Biology," Darwin 2009: 200 Years of Evolutionary Biology Workshop, Stony Brook University
2010 UC Davis Faculty Talks
February 11, Elaine Landry, UC Santa Cruz
February 16, Gerald Dworkin, "On Lying and Deception" Center for Bioethics, National Institutes of Health
March 31 - April 4, James Griesemer, Author Meets Critic, Peter Godfrey-Smith’s Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection (Oxford), American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco
July 8-11, James Griesemer, "Scaffolding Development and Culture," Konrad Lorenz Institute, Altenberg Austria
July 15-18, James Griesemer, "David Wake and Evolutionary Morphology’s Contribution to Evo-Devo," Konrad Lorenz Institute Workshop on the 30th anniversary of the Dahlem Workshop on Evolution and Deveopment, Berlin, Germany