Recent Graduate Publications & Presentations

Clarke, Roger.

Conference Presentations:

"Belief, Assertion, and Context”, Western Canadian Philosophical Association meeting (Oct. 2010)

"No Contradiction in the Preface”, Northwestern/Notre Dame Graduate Epistemology Conference (April 2011).

Publications:

"`The Ravens Paradox' Is a Misnomer,” Synthese175(3): 427-440 (2010). 

"How to Manipulate an Incompatibilistically Free Agent,” American Philosophical Quarterly (accepted).

 

Davis, Taylor.

Conference Presentations:

“The Cognitive Science of Science:  Hypothetical Reasoning and Inference to the Best Explanation.”  Poster presentation, Society of Philosophy and Psychology (2010).

 

Deery, Oisin.

Conference Presentations:

"How Our Experience as Agents is Mistaken if Determinism is True", Northwest Philosophy Conference (October 2009)

"Why the Revised Manipulation Argument Fails", Western Canadian Philosophical Association Meeting (October 2010).

“Phenomenal Abilities: Incompatibilism and the Experience of Agency," with Matthew Bedke and Shaun Nichols, New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility (NOWAR) (November 2011)

Publications:

“The Philosophy of Free Will: Selected Contemporary Readings”,  co-edited with Paul Russell, Oxford University Press (forthcoming Spring 2012).

“Extending Compatibilism: Control, Responsibility, and Blame”, Res Publica: A Journal of Legal and Social Philosophy, 13/3 (2007): 209-230.

 

Other:

Visiting Graduate Fellowship at The Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University, August 2011 - December 2011.

 

DesRoches, Tyler.

Conference Presentations:

“Evidence for-use in the social sciences: towards a general model”, International Network for Economic Method (2010).

Other:

History and Philosophy of Economics workshop at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at UBC (March 2010), co-organized with Margaret Schabas

 

Esmaili, Emma.

Conference Presentations:

“Rationality's Evolution: Against the Fine Descriptive Grain”, Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (May 2011).

 

French, Christopher.

Conference Presentations: 

"The case of complicated populations: scientific aims, G matrices, and causal inference", Philosophy of Biology at Madison (May 2010) with Andrew Inkpen

“Neo-Kantianism and an Objective Concept of Probability: Situating the Early Reichenbach”,  the History of Philosophy of Science conference in Budapest, Hungary (June 2010).

“Drifting Notions of Stochasticity in Evolutionary Biology”, International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (July 2011)

Other:

Visiting Graduate Fellowship at Tilburg Institute of Logic and Philosophy of Science at Tilburg University in the Netherlands (Feb-April 2012)

 

Inkpen, Andrew.

Conference Presentations: 

"The case of complicated populations: scientific aims, G matrices, and causal inference", Philosophy of Biology at Madison (May 2010) with Chris French

"Darwin and the types of selection", International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology, University of Utah (July 2011).

Publications:

"Sex-specific foraging behaviors and growth rates in juveniles mediate the development of extreme sexual size dimorphism." The Open Ecology Journal, 3: 59-70 (2010) with M. Foellmer.

 

Lukits, Stefan.

Conference Presentations: 

“The Judy Benjamin Problem in Probability Kinematics”, Information Theory and Epistemology at the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science annual conference at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (May 2011)

Publications:

“Narrativity and the Symbolic Vacuum” in Philosophy and Theology Vol. 23, No. 1 (2011).

 

Rosales, Alirio.

Conference Presentations:  

“Causal Narratives and Theory Structure in Population Genetics: The Case of R.A. Fisher and Sewall Wright”, Models and Simulations 4, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (May 2010)

“From Narratives to Simulations: The Case of Sewall Wright’s Shifting Balance”, The Epistemology of Models and Simulations (April 2011) with Steven Peck

"Population Genetics as Multidimensional Scientific Discipline", International Society for the Philosophy, History and Social Studies of Biology (July 2011)

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Stanev, Roger.

Conference Presentations:

"Modeling and Evaluating Statistical Monitoring Decisions of Clinical Trials", Epistemology of Modeling and Simulation, MIDAS, Pittsburgh (April 2011)
"Statistical Evidence and the Conduct of Clinical Trials: A Challenge to Philosophies of Statistics", Center for Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh (October 2010)
"The Objectivity of Clinical Trials", Situating Science, Vancouver (October 2010)

Publications:

''Stopping Rules and Data Monitoring in Clinical Trials,'' (in press) European Journal for Philosophy of Science (Proceedings) (2011)
''Statistical Decisions and the Interim Analyses of Clinical Trials'' Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Vol. 32:61-74 (2010).

 

Viera, Gerardo.

Conference Presentations:

“Interpersonal Frege Cases and the Publicity Constraint”, Philosophy of Mind, Language, and Cognitive Science (May 2011)

“Interpersonal Frege Cases and the Publicity Constraint” Society for Philosophy and Psychology (July 2011)

 

Nabeel Hamid

Conference Presentations:

"Introspection is not perception: A response to Goldman", Society for Philosophy and Psychology (July 2011)

Markovic, Jelena.

Conference Presentations:

"Simulating to Predict: Mirror Neurons and the Simulation Theory of Mindreading", Society for Philosophy and Psychology (July 2011)

 

Westra, Evan.

Conference Presentations:

"The role of simulation-based mind-reading in altruism and empathy: the significance of psychopathy", Society for Philosophy and Psychology (July 2011)