The 2024 Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable was hosted by the Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology (CVMST) on Mar. 29-30, 2024 at the University of Texas at Dallas. This conference featured excellent and innovative presentations on topics in philosophy of social science by a mix of senior and junior scholars. Some photos of the event are below (photo credit to Kareem Khalifa).
The conference featured two fascinating and provocative keynote talks by Muhammad Ali Khalidi and Quayshawn Spencer.
Keynote Speaker: Muhammad Ali Khalidi (CUNY Graduate Center) on opaque and transparent social kinds
Keynote Speaker: Quayshawn Spenser (University of Pennsylvania) on race pluralism
Zachary Peck (University of Cincinnati) on enactivism and collective action
Sarah Roe (Southern Connecticut State University) and Elie Zavar (University of North Texas) on bias in memorial commemorations
Paul Forrester (Yale University) on mistakes and rational choice theory
Kobi Finestone (Chapman University) on measuring inflation
Joseph Rouse (Wesleyan University) on niche construction and the politics of language
Augie Faller (Bryn Mawr College) on how social kinds travel
Alexander Tolbert (Emory University) on the stability of genuine kinds and social constructivist race concepts
Yosef Washington (Claremont-McKenna College) on the bio-social conception of race
Nick Zautra (Indiana University) on approaches to validation in psychiatry
Patricia Marino (University of Waterloo) on minimal models in economics and the production of ignorance
Luca Garzino Demo (University of Pennsylvania) on a definition of stability for social norms
Philosophers of social science at the reception for the grand opening of the office for the CVMST (March 29, 2024). L-R: Mark Risjord, Yosef Washington, Kobi Finestone, Rick Townsend, Kareem Khalifa, Rainer Schulte, Joe Rouse, Quayshawn Spencer, David Henderson, Patricia Marino, Nick Zautra)
Conference Organizers: Jonathan Tsou (University of Texas at Dallas) and Kareem Khalifa (UCLA)