Models, Methods, and Evidence: Topics in the Philosophy of Science
38th Oberlin Colloquium in Philosophy
April 4-6, 2008
Each symposium is two hours long, with main papers lasting 50-60 minutes, comments lasting about 20 minutes, and the remainder reserved for open discussion.
All sessions will take place in Craig Lecture Hall, in the Science Center.
All members of the Oberlin College community welcome. Other attendance by invitation only.
Friday April 4th
7:30 p.m.
Speaker: Bas van Fraassen (Princeton University)
“The Perils of Perrin, in the Hands of Philosophers”
Commentator: Helen Longino (Stanford University)
Chair: Martin Thomson-Jones (Oberlin College)
Saturday April 5th
10:00 a.m.
Speaker: Margaret Morrison (University of Toronto)
“Models, Mediation, and Measurement”
Commentator: Ronald Giere (University of Minnesota)
Chair: Nick Huggett (University of Illinois, Chicago)
1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
“Absence of Evidence and Evidence of Absence”
Commentator: Michael Strevens (NYU)
Chair: Andrea Woody (University of Washington)
3:30 p.m.
Coffee break
3:45 p.m.
Speaker: Peter Godfrey-Smith (Harvard University)
“Models and Fictions in Science”
Commentator: Arthur Fine (University of Washington)
Chair: Richard Healey (University of Arizona)
Sunday April 6th
10:00 a.m.
Speaker: Nancy Cartwright (LSE, UC San Diego)
“Evidence-Based Policy: So, What’s Evidence?”
Commentator: Sherrilyn Roush (UC Berkeley)
Chair: Kyle Stanford (UC Irvine)
12:00 p.m.
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