Directors: Sandra Mitchell and Peter Machamer
June 23-July 25, 2003
University of Pittsburgh
Visiting Lecturer: Hugh Lacey , Scheuer Family Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, Swarthmore College
Session 1.
Monday, June 23 (Mitchell & Machamer)
11:00-12:30,
GET ACQUAINTED & LOGISTICS
Aims, Goals, Methods & Strategies of the Workshop.
Background: THE PROBLEMS OF VALUES IN SCIENCE
Readings :
1) C.G. Hempel, (1960). "Science and Human Values" in C.G. Hempel, Aspects of Scientifc Explanation. New York; Free Press, 1965.
2) Thomas Kuhn, (1973, 1977). "Objectivity, Values and Theory Choice" in
Kuhn, The Essential Tension , University of Chicago Press.
3) Larry Laudan, (1984). Science and Values, University of California Press
2:00-4:00 THE IDEAL OF A VALUE-FREE SCIENCE
Session 2.
Tuesday, June 24 (Mitchell & Machamer)
1:00-4:00
CRITICISMS OF VALUE FREEDOM AND OBJECTIVITY
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Readings :
1) Helen Longino, (2002). The Fate of Knowledge , Chapters 1-4.
Session 3. Thursday, June 26 (Lacey)
11:00-12:30
EPISTEMIC AND SOCIAL VALUES
Readings :
1) Hugh Lacey, (1999). Is Science Value Free?
, Chapters 1-6.
2:00-4:00 EPISTEMIC AND SOCIAL VALUES (continued)
Session 4.
Friday, June 27 (Lacey)
11:00-12:30
CASE STUDY: BIOTECHNOLOGY, AGROECOLOGY AND FARMING
Readings :
1) selections from R. Sherlock & J. Morrey (eds). (2001).
Ethical Issues in
Biotechnology. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
2) Lacey, H. (2002). Assessing the value of transgenic crops. Ethics in Science and Technology . 8: xxx-xxx.
3) Lacey, H. (in press). Seeds and their socio-cultural locus. In Science and
Other Cultures (S. Harding and R. Figueroa, eds.). New York: Routledge, p.
91-105.
1:00-3:00 Discussion
Visiting Lecturer: Paul Griffiths , Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of
Science, University of Pittsburgh
Session 5.
Monday, June 30 (Griffiths)
11:00-12:30
THE SCIENCE OF VALUE: BIOLOGY, EMOTIONS, AND ETHICS
Readings :
1) selections from Maienschein, J., & Ruse, M. (Eds.). (1999). Biology and the foundation of ethics . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2) selections from Rottschaefer, W. A. (1998). The biology and psychology of moral agency . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2:00-4:00 Discussion
Session 6. Tuesday, July 1 (Griffiths)
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1:00-4:00
CASE STUDY: COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Readings :
1) Martin, James E., and Kleindorfer, George B. (1988). “Value, cognition, and cognitive sciences”. In Inquiries Into Values , Sander H. Lee (ed.). Lewiston:
Mellen Press, 709-719.
2) Montgomery,Richard. (1995). “Explanation and Evaluation in Cognitive
Science”,
Philosophy of Science . 62(2): 261-282.
Session 7. Wednesday, July 2 (Mitchell & Machamer)
11:00-12:30
GENETIC DETERMINISM OF BEHAVIOR
Readings :
1) Fred Gifford, (2000). "Understanding Genetic Causation and its Implications for Ethical Issues in Human Genetics", to appear in Medical Genetics:
Conceptual Foundations and Classic Questions , ed. Rachel Ankeny and Lisa
Parker. Kluwer, Philosophy and Medicine volume. (2000)
2) Jonathan Kaplan, (2000). The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research:
Dangers For Social Policy (Reflective Bioethics), Chapters 1-3.
2:00-4:30 Participant presentations
Visiting Lecturer: Dominic Murphy , Assistant Professor of Philosophy, California
Institute of Technology
Session 9.
Monday, July 7 (Murphy)
11:00-12:30,
THE ROLE OF RATIONAL AND ETHICAL NORMS IN UNDERSTANDING
AND EXPLAINING PSYCHOPATHY
Readings :
1) Widiger, T. A & L. M. Sankis, (2000). Adult Psychopathology: Issues and
Controversies. Annual Review of Psychology 51: 377-404.
2) Wakefield, J. (1997). Diagnosing DSM-IV, part 1: DSM-IV and the Concept of Disorder. Behavior Research and Therapy , 35: 633-649.
3) Murphy, D. (2001). Hacking’s Reconciliation: Putting the Biological and
Sociological Together in the Explanation of Mental Illness. Philosophy of the
Social Sciences , 31(2): 139-62.
2:00-4:00
Session 10. Tuesday, July 8 (Murphy)
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1:00-4:00
CASE STUDY: ARE PSYCHOPATHS MAD, IRRATIONAL OR JUST EVIL?
Readings :
1) Cleckley, H. The Mask of Sanity (5th ed). Pages 337-376.
2) Nichols, S. How Psychopaths threaten moral Rationalism: Is it Irrational To be
Immoral? Monist, 85 (2).
Session 11. Thursday, July 10 (Mitchell & Machamer)
11:00-12:30
EVIDENTIAL SUPPORT. UNDERDETERMINIATION AND
INTERPRETATION
Readings :
1) Bogen and Woodward, Saving the Phenomena
2) Duhem
3) Quine
2:00-4:00 Participant presentations
Session 12. Friday, July 11 (Mitchell & Machamer)
11:00-12:30 OBJECTIVITY
Readings:
1) Daston, L., and P.L. Galison. (1992). The image of objectivity. Representations
40(Fall):81.
2) Helen Longino, (2002). The Fate of Knowledge , Chapters 5-6.
3) John Haugeland, Having Thought: Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind , Chapter
10.
1:00-3:00 Participant presentations
Visiting Lecturers: Alison Wylie , Professor of Philosophy at Washington University.
Session 13.
Monday, July 14 (Wylie)
11:00-12:30,
RETHINKING THE CONTEXTUAL:CONSTITUTIVE DISTINCTION
Readings :
Selections from:
1) Solomon, Miriam. Social Empiricism . Cambridge MA: MIT Press,
2001.(selections)
2) Kitcher, Philip. Science, Truth, and Democracy . New York: Oxford University
Press, 2001.
(selections)
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2:00-4:00
Session 14. Tuesday, July 15 (Wylie)
1:00-4:00
CASE STUDY: FEMINIST ARCHAEOLOGY
Readings: Feminist Archaeology
1) Hartsock, Nancy C. M. (1983). " The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a
Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism." In Discovering Reality: Feminist
Perspectives On Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology and Philosophy of Science , ed. Sandra Harding and Merrill B. Hintikka, 283-310. Boston MA: D. Reidel Publishing
Company.
2) Lloyd, Elisabeth A. (1996). "Objectivity and the Double Standard for Feminist
Epistemologies." Synthese 104: 351-381.
3) Wylie, Alison. (1997). " The Engendering of Archaeology: Refiguring Feminist Science
Studies." Osiris 12: 80-99.
4) Wylie, Alison. (2001). "Doing Social Science as a Feminist: The Engendering of
Archaeology." In Feminism in Twentieth Century Science, Technology, and Medicine , ed.
Angela Creager, Lunbeck, Elizabeth , and Londa Schiebinger, 23-45. Chicago: Chicago
University Press.
5) Wylie, Alison. (2003). "Why Standpoint Theory Matters: Feminist Standpoint Theory." In
Philosophical Explorations of Science, Technology, and Diversity , ed. Robert Figueroa and Sandra Harding. New York: Routledge.
Session 15. Thursday, July 17 (Mitchell & Machamer)
11:00-12:30
SOCIAL NORMS
Readings :
1) Barry Barnes
2) John Searle. (1995). The Construction of Social Reality , Penguin Books: London., p. 13-29-37-51-79-90.
3) Margaret Gilbert. (1990). “Walking Together: A Paradigmatic Social
Phenomenon”
Midwest S5tudies in Philosophy Vol XV:1-14.
2:00-4:00 Participant presentations
Session 16. Friday, July 18 (Mitchell & Machamer)
11:00-12:30
Readings :
1:00-3:00 Participant presentations
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Visiting Lecturer: Kristen Schrader-Frechette, O'Neill Family Professor of Philosophy,
Concurrent Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame
Session 17.
Monday, July 21 (Schrader-Frechette)
11:00-12:30
THE RATIONAL ND THE ETHICAL
Readings :
2:00-4:00
Session 18. Tuesday, July 22 (Schrader-Frechette)
1:00-4:00
CASE STUDY: Kangas vs. Noss on Tropical Deforestation in The Bulletin of the
Ecological Society of America, 1987-1988
Readings :
1) Kangas, P.C. "On the Use of Species-Area Curves to Predict
Extinctions," Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 68:158-162.
2) Noss, Reed., "Dangerous Simplifications in Conservation Biology," Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 67:278-279.
3) Schrader-Frechette, K. and McCoy, E. (1993). Methods in Ecology ,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Chapters 4&7.
Session 19. Thursday, July 23 (Mitchell & Machamer)
11:00-12:30
VALUES AND POLICY
Readings :
1) Heather Douglas. (2000). “ Inductive Risk and Values in Science”, Philosophy of
Science , 67, pp. 559-579.
2)
Sandra Mitchell, “Conflicting Values and Roles in Science Policy”
2:00-4:30 Participant presentations
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Session 20. Friday, July 24 11:00-3:00 (Mitchell & Machamer)
CLOSING DISCUSSION
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