2024 Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable
2024 Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable
University of Texas at Dallas
March 29-30, 2024
Founders Building, FO 1.502
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Friday, Mar 29, 2024
9:15: Welcome from Jonathan Tsou (University of Texas at Dallas, Director of the Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology)
9:30-10:15: Zachary Peck (University of Cincinnati), “An Enactivist Account of What Constitutes Collective Action”
10:20-11:05: Sarah Roe (Southern Connecticut State University) and Elyse Zavar (University of North Texas), “Biases in Qualitative Social Science: Understanding the Role of Bias in Disaster Commemoration, Collective Memory of Traumatic Events, and Reinterpretation across Generations”
11:10-11:55: Paul Forrester (Yale University), “Mistakes and Rational Choice Theory”
12:00-1:15: Lunch
1:20-2:05: Kobi Finestone (Chapman University), “Value, Money, and Democracy: Price Measurement and the Administrative State”
2:10-2:55: Joseph Rouse (Wesleyan University), “Niche Construction and the Politics of Language”
3:00-3:15: Coffee Break
3:20-4:25: Keynote 1: Muhammad Ali Khalidi (CUNY Graduate Center)
4:30-5:30: Reception, Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology: Opening of the CVMST Office (JO 4.602)
Saturday, Mar 30, 2024
9:30-10:15: Augie Faller (Bryn Mawr College), “A Travel Guide for Social Kinds”
10:20-11:05: Alexander Tolbert (Emory University), “Exploring the Causal Stability of Genuine Kinds: An Analysis of Social Constructivist Perspectives on Race”
11:10-11:55: Yosef Washington (Claremont-McKenna College), “Bio-Social Race”
12:00-1:15: Lunch
1:20-2:25: Keynote 2: Quayshawn Spencer (University of Pennsylvania)
2:25-2:35: Coffee Break
2:40-3:25: Nick Zautra (Indiana University), “Psychiatry’s Second Validity Crisis? The Problem of Disparate Validation”
3:30-4:15: Patricia Marino (University of Waterloo), “Minimal Models, Feminist Epistemology, and the Production of Ignorance”
4:20-5:05: Luca Garzino Demo (University of Pennsylvania), “A Definition of Stability for Social Norms”