From macintos at ucalgary.ca Mon Jan 19 14:36:52 2009 From: macintos at ucalgary.ca (Jack MacIntosh) Date: Mon Jan 19 14:37:26 2009 Subject: HPS meetings this term Message-ID: <11257AFE-ADDB-4122-8DFE-009EE12F27A0@ucalgary.ca> Dear All, Attached is the list of HPS meetings this term. Our first talk is this Friday at 3:30: Hank Stam, "The Snark was a Boojum revisited: Restricting the range of species in animal psychology, 1898-1960." SS 1253. See you then and there! Jack. J. J. MacIntosh Department of Philosophy University of Calgary Calgary, AB Canada, T2N 1N4 macintos@ucalgary.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.ucalgary.ca/pipermail/hps-l/attachments/20090119/354590af/attachment.html From macintos at ucalgary.ca Mon Jan 19 14:39:53 2009 From: macintos at ucalgary.ca (Jack MacIntosh) Date: Mon Jan 19 14:40:34 2009 Subject: Fwd: HPS meetings this term References: <11257AFE-ADDB-4122-8DFE-009EE12F27A0@ucalgary.ca> Message-ID: <1A590613-8A2D-401B-9964-0411EE6EEC37@ucalgary.ca> This time it's attached. Jack. Begin forwarded message: > From: Jack MacIntosh > Date: January 19, 2009 2:36:52 PM MST (CA) > To: hps-l@mailman.ucalgary.ca > Cc: pdankers@telusplanet.net, Merlette Schnell > Subject: HPS meetings this term > > Dear All, > > Attached is the list of HPS meetings this term. Our first talk is > this Friday at 3:30: Hank Stam, "The Snark was a Boojum revisited: > Restricting the range of species in animal psychology, 1898-1960." > SS 1253. See you then and there! > > Jack. > > J. J. MacIntosh > Department of Philosophy > University of Calgary > Calgary, AB > Canada, T2N 1N4 > macintos@ucalgary.ca ? -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/mixed From macintos at ucalgary.ca Tue Jan 20 08:46:27 2009 From: macintos at ucalgary.ca (Jack MacIntosh) Date: Tue Jan 20 08:47:04 2009 Subject: slightly updated list Message-ID: <88D9230C-0E0D-47D9-AACA-FE4FD2AAB9F6@ucalgary.ca> Attached is a slightly updated list of talks. No changes, but a typo corrected, a title for Grover's paper, and a time for Greene's. JJM -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Osler) Date: Mon Feb 9 16:08:11 2009 Subject: FW: advert for next Darwin lecture - please circulate Message-ID: <007e01c98b0a$ee73f380$cb5bda80$@ca> -----Original Message----- From: L. Eslinger [mailto:eslinger@ucalgary.ca] Sent: February 9, 2009 3:57 PM To: Marc Ereshefsky; Dr. Margaret J. Osler; Lyle M. Eslinger; Alison Wiigs; Katheryn Andersen; Anne Jaggard; Monika Davidson; fwstahni@ucalgary.ca; Benedikt Hallgrimsson; Dr. Michael G. Surette; Jason Anderson; Elena Braverman Subject: Re: advert for next Darwin lecture - please circulate Hi all, Attached is the advert for the upcoming Darwin's Birthday Seminar. Details are as follows; abstract is on the attached flyer: Speaker: Locke Rowe (Canada Research Chair in Evolutionary Ecology, Univ. of Toronto) Title: Pattern and process of sexual conflict Time, location: Fri. Feb. 13, 4 pm, MFH 164 I'd very much appreciate if you could circulate this advert and encourage attendance by interested faculty and students. This event is actually a longstanding tradition at Calgary: it's the 24th Annual Darwin's Birthday Seminar, delivered by an internationally-leading evolutionary biologist in honor of Darwin's birthday on Feb. 12. This will be one of the highlights of the entire series of Darwin events. Although the talk will be a scientific one, it will be broadly pitched. The topic can be neatly summarized as "The (evolutionary) battle of the sexes", and I think anyone broadly interested in biology will find it intriguing. Cheers, Jeremy Fox -- **************** Associate Professor Dept. of Biological Sciences University of Calgary 2500 University Dr. NW Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Canada http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~jefox/Home.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Yet current evolutionary thinking is comprehensively sub-organismal. The motivation for sub-organismal biology lies in its methodological underpinnings--mechanism. Mechanism is the view that an explanation proceeds by citing the activities of a system's parts. It leaves no explanatory role for the emergent properties of complex systems (like organisms). I develop an alternative to mechanism: explanatory emergence. Explanatory emergence holds that while the emergent properties of complex systems have no causal autonomy over their parts, they do have explanatory autonomy. The activities of goal-directed systems are susceptible to both mechanistic and emergent teleological explanations. These are complete, complementary and mutually autonomous. Evo-devo, I argue, demonstrates that the distinctive capacities of organisms figure in emergent teleological explanations of the process of adaptive evolution. The case for evo-devo, then, requires that we recognise a class of non-mechanistic, emergent explanations. From rzach at ucalgary.ca Mon Mar 2 15:14:42 2009 From: rzach at ucalgary.ca (Richard Zach) Date: Mon Mar 2 15:14:59 2009 Subject: HPS This Week: David Boutillier tomorrow, Denis Walsh on Friday Message-ID: <49AC5A52.6000602@ucalgary.ca> David Boutillier Title: On the Development of Physical Geometry in the Nineteenth Century *Tuesday, March 3, 3:30 pm Social Sciences Building, Room 1253* *Hosted by the History & Philosophy of Science Research Group.* I will first outline Kant's approach to the metaphysics of nature, and his view of the epistemic authority of science. I then discuss an empiricist critique of Kant offered by Hermann von Helmholtz, which suggests that the Kantian "productive imagination" implicitly depends on deeper assumptions that themselves arise from certain empirical conditions. Following this, I discuss Poincare's conventionalist critique of Helmholtz, which suggests that the principles that Helmholtz alleges to be facts are actually "definitions in disguise." And I conclude by drawing some morals concerning the insights into the nature and character of the principles of physical geometry that were achieved in the nineteenth century. Denis Walsh Friday, March 6, 4 pm *Social Sciences Room 1253* /*Hosted by the History & Philosophy of Science Research Group.*/ Title: Mechanism, Emergence and Miscibility: The Case for Evo-Devo Evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) seeks to establish an irreducible explanatory role for the distinctive capacities of organisms in evolutionary biology. Yet current evolutionary thinking is comprehensively sub-organismal. The motivation for sub-organismal biology lies in its methodological underpinnings--mechanism. Mechanism is the view that an explanation proceeds by citing the activities of a system's parts. It leaves no explanatory role for the emergent properties of complex systems (like organisms). I develop an alternative to mechanism: explanatory emergence. Explanatory emergency holds that while the emergent properties of complex systems have no causal autonomy over their parts, they do have explanatory autonomy. The activities of goal-directed systems are susceptible to both mechanistic and emergent teleological explanations. These are complete, complementary, and mutually autonomous. Evo-devo, I argue, demonstrates that the distinctive capacities of organisms figure in emergent teleological explanations of the process of adaptive evolution. The case for evo-devo, then, requires that we recognize a class of non-mechanistic, emergent explanations. /Denis Walsh, previously at the University of Edinburgh, UK, currently holds the Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Biology at the University of Toronto. / http://www.chairs.gc.ca/web/chairholders/viewprofile_e.asp?id=1762& From mjosler at ucalgary.ca Mon Mar 2 15:23:05 2009 From: mjosler at ucalgary.ca (Margaret J. Osler) Date: Mon Mar 2 15:23:23 2009 Subject: FW: Invitation to the History of Medicine Days 2009 Message-ID: <008001c99b85$752f9ca0$5f8ed5e0$@ca> Skipped content of type multipart/related-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Here are the details: "Race and Evolution: Changing Ideas on Race-mixing in 20th Century America" Fri., Mar. 20, 3:30 pm, SS 1253 . Everyone is welcome. Please come. Maggie Margaret J. Osler Department of History 2500 University Drive, SW University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 Canada Work: 1-403-220-6414 Home: 1-403-244-3277 FAX: 1-403-289-8566 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.ucalgary.ca/pipermail/hps-l/attachments/20090310/c23451c4/attachment.html From mjosler at ucalgary.ca Mon Mar 16 16:53:12 2009 From: mjosler at ucalgary.ca (Margaret J. Osler) Date: Mon Mar 16 16:53:20 2009 Subject: REMINDER--PAUL FARBER TALK THIS FRIDAY Message-ID: <003e01c9a689$fc289c20$f479d460$@ca> Hi Everyone, Professor Paul Farber from Oregon State University will be giving a talk this Friday afternoon at 4 pm in SS 1253 on "Race and Evolution: Changing Ideas on Race-Mixing in Twentieth-Century America." Everyone is Welcome. I hope to see you there. Maggie Margaret J. Osler Department of History 2500 University Drive, SW University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 Canada Work: 1-403-220-6414 Home: 1-403-244-3277 FAX: 1-403-289-8566 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.ucalgary.ca/pipermail/hps-l/attachments/20090316/0d1cbd99/attachment.html From macintos at ucalgary.ca Thu Mar 19 15:36:00 2009 From: macintos at ucalgary.ca (Jack MacIntosh) Date: Thu Mar 19 15:36:19 2009 Subject: Next week's talk Message-ID: Hi everybody, Just a reminder that Travis Dumsday will give us a paper next Tuesday. March 24, at 3:30, in SS 1253. Title: "Natural Kinds, Laws, and the Problem of Complex Essences". Jack. J. J. MacIntosh Department of Philosophy University of Calgary Calgary, AB Canada, T2N 1N4 macintos@ucalgary.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Osler) Date: Mon Mar 23 15:48:41 2009 Subject: public lecture on Darwin Message-ID: <00a601c9ac01$17e2bcd0$47a83670$@ca> Hi Everybody-- The attached announcement is for the first of a series of 3 public lectures to celebrate Darwin's 200th birthday. It's at the Telus Science Centre, next Thursday, April 1 at 7 pm. Everyone is welcome. Maggie -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: darwin_trimmed.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 74255 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.ucalgary.ca/pipermail/hps-l/attachments/20090323/ff41ba3b/darwin_trimmed-0001.jpg From mjosler at ucalgary.ca Wed Mar 25 10:54:34 2009 From: mjosler at ucalgary.ca (Margaret J. Osler) Date: Wed Mar 25 10:54:39 2009 Subject: FW: PHIL COLLOQUIUM MARCH 31: Dorothy Grover (Illinois/Canterbury), "On Describing the World" Message-ID: <006d01c9ad6a$5fcd04a0$1f670de0$@ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ This message was sent to all subscribers of philannounce-l To unsubscribe, see instructions at: http://www.ucalgary.ca/it/email/mailman E-mail: philannounce-l@mailman.ucalgary.ca Homepage: http://mailman.ucalgary.ca/mailman/listinfo/philannounce-l From mjosler at ucalgary.ca Fri Apr 24 15:32:20 2009 From: mjosler at ucalgary.ca (Margaret J. Osler) Date: Fri Apr 24 15:32:40 2009 Subject: Next Darwin event at Telus WoS Message-ID: <001601c9c524$29526510$7bf72f30$@ca> Hi Everybody The next public lecture in the U of C "Introducing Darwin" series is Monday May 4 at 7 pm at the Telus World of Science Discovery Dome. Chris Brochu (Univ. of Iowa) will speak on "The Hierarchy of Certainty: How the Past is Predictive." An advert for the lecture is attached. Dr. Brochu is a leading paleontologist best known for his work on Tyrannosaurus rex and the giant "terror crocodile" Deinosuchus; he is also a renowned teacher. He will discuss how Darwinian ideas can be used not just to reconstruct past evolution, but to predict future evolution. The lecture will last about 50 min. and will be followed by question and answer with the audience. The lecture is completely free and no advance reservation is required. The first lecture of the series drew a great crowd and we're hoping for even more this time; hope you can join us. - Margaret J. Osler Department of History 2500 University Drive, SW University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 Canada Work: 1-403-220-6414 Home: 1-403-244-3277 FAX: 1-403-289-8566 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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To enter, compose an original limerick that illuminates the nature of this report: "Flip, Flop and Fly: Modulated Motor Control and Highly Variable Movement Patterns of Autotomized Gecko Tails," Timothy E. Higham and Anthony P. Russell, Biology Letters, 2009. The authors, at Clemson University and the University of Calgary, report: "Many animals lose and regenerate appendages, and tail autotomy in lizards is an extremely well-studied example of this.... We used electromyography and high-speed video to quantify the motor control and movement patterns of autotomized tails of leopard geckos (Eublepharis macularius). In addition to rhythmic swinging, we show that they exhibit extremely complex movement patterns for up to 30 min following autotomy, including acrobatic flips up to 3 cm in height." RULES: Please make sure that: (1) your rhymes actually do; and (2) your poem is in classic, trills-off-the-tongue limerick form. PRIZE: The winning poet will receive (if we manage to send it to the correct address) a free, possibly severed, high-res PDF issue of the Annals of Improbable Research. Send entries (one entry per entrant) to: SEVERED GECKO'S TAIL LIMERICK COMPETITION c/o From mjosler at ucalgary.ca Wed Oct 14 11:03:16 2009 From: mjosler at ucalgary.ca (Margaret J. Osler) Date: Wed Oct 14 11:07:37 2009 Subject: Final public lecture on Darwin Message-ID: <005001ca4cf0$392fdae0$ab8f90a0$@ca> Hi all, The final lecture in the "Introducing Darwin" series will be held on Tues. Oct. 27 at 7 pm in the Discovery Dome at Telus World of Science. John Brooke (Emeritus Professor, Oxford University) will speak on "'God knows what the public will think': Darwin's Origin of Species and the Question of Religion". Dr. Brooke is the world's leading historian of the interactions between science and religion. He is the recipient of several awards and the author of numerous books. Dr. Brooke will speak for about 50-60 min. The lecture will be followed by an informal question-and-answer session. As with our previous public lectures, this event is totally free (no charge for the event, or for entrance to the Telus WoS). Please circulate this advert within your units and pass it on to anyone who might be interested. In particular, you may wish to encourage undergraduate and graduate students to attend. Cheers, Jeremy **************** Associate Professor Dept. of Biological Sciences University of Calgary 2500 University Dr. NW Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Canada http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~jefox/Home.htm From tjgdumsd at ucalgary.ca Fri Nov 6 11:34:33 2009 From: tjgdumsd at ucalgary.ca (tjgdumsd@ucalgary.ca) Date: Fri Nov 6 11:34:39 2009 Subject: Darwin Series on CBC Message-ID: <7bfab46d5e033dfc6f02b2aa4705b928.squirrel@webmail.ucalgary.ca> November 5th, 2009 Carleton's Darwin Week sparks CBC 'Ideas' series Ideas on CBC Radio One (www.cbc.ca/ideas) pays tribute to Darwin and celebrates the 150th anniversary of the publication of his transformational and contentious book On the Origin of Species. Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection completely changed how we think about the world. This four-part series stems from events that took place during Carleton University's Darwin Week. Host Seth Feldman will guide listeners through the life and ideas of Charles Darwin. Broadcasts will be from 9:05 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. on the following consecutive Wednesdays: November 11, 2009: The Prepared Mind: From Darwin's early years to his voyage of discovery on the H.M.S. Beagle. November 18, 2009: From the Beagle to the Book: Darwin thinks his way to The Origin of Species November 25, 2009: Primates vs. Primates: What The Origin of Species said and what was said about it. December 2, 2009: Darwin's Enduring Legacy: Why science and society today are still wrestling with Darwin's big idea.