New Central APA Sessions

2008 Central Division APA Meeting

The next sessions for the Society at the Central APA are now available. They are:

GI-5 Thursday, April 17, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM

Group Session: Society for the Metaphysics of Science

Topic: Metaphysics, Science, and the Social World

Title: "The Folk Concept of Race"
Speaker: Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh)

Title: "Normalcy and Sociality"
Speaker: Robert A. Wilson (University of Alberta)

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GIII-10 Thursday, April 17, 7:30 PM-10:30 PM

Group Session: Society for the Metaphysics of Science

Title: "Mechanistic Functionalism"
Speaker: Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri, St. Louis)

Title: "Improving Nonreductive Functionalism by Taking Mechanisms Seriously: Causal Versus Total Nomic Roles"
Speaker: Ronald Endicott (North Carolina State University)

Title: "The Third Way for Functionalists"
Speaker: Carl Gillett (Illinois Wesleyan University)