If you're in the neighborhood

you may want to check this out:

Mississippi Philosophical Association Meeting Program 2013
Hosted by Mississippi State University

Theme: Philosophy of Biology

Schedule below the fold

All talks will take place in 211 McCool.  Box lunch, Registration and Coffee Breaks will take place in 223A Etheredge.

Friday, February 8th

12:00-12:55         Box lunch, Registration [MPA Business Meeting 12:25-12:55]

1:00-1:30              Presidential Address
Robert Thompson, Mississippi State University

1:35-2:05              Why Species Pluralism Won’t Work
Paula J. Smithka, University of Southern Mississippi

2:10-2:40              A Matter of Mechanism: Biological Species Homeostasis vs. Population Structure Theory
Georgia Rae Rainer, University of Southern Mississippi

2:45-3:15              Biological Species and the Concept of Homeostasis
Kenneth J. Curry, University of Southern Mississippi

3:20-3:50              Type-selection versus Token-selection
Bence Nanay, University of Antwerp/University of Cambridge

3:55-4:25              Coffee Break

4:30-6:00              Keynote Address
C. Kenneth Waters, University of Minnesota

6:30-7:30              College of Arts & Sciences Happy Hour, Zorbas

Saturday, February 9th

8:00-9:00              Coffee & Bagels

9:00-9:30              Natural Selection and the Explanation of Token Traits
Brian McLoone, University of Wisconsin-Madison

9:35-10:05           Major and Minor Groups in Evolution
Peter Gildenhuys, Lafayette College

10:10-10:40         Equilibrium and Infinities
Richard Gawne, Duke University

10:45-11:15         Coffee Break

11:20-11:50         Cultural Sex: Muller's Ratchet and the Maintenance of Culture
Marshall Abrams, University of Alabama at Birmingham

11:55-12:25         Human Nature in a Post-Essentialist World
Grant Ramsey, University of Notre Dame

12:30-1:30           Lunch

1:35-2:10              The Problem of Access: Why Natural History Remains in the Backyard Gabrielle F. Graham, Florida State University

2:15-2:45              Why Simpson’s Paradox and the Sure Thing Principle Won’t Resolve the Fitness Wars
Peter Takacs, Florida State University

2:50-3:20              Divergent Philosophies in Evolutionary Biology
Carmen Maria Marcous, Florida State University

3:25-3:55              Coffee Break

4:00-4:30              Functions in Organisms, Artifacts, and Designed Living Systems
Sune Holm, University of Copenhagen

4:35-5:05              From Biological Unification to Biological Interdisciplinary
Marco J. Nathan, University of Denver             

6:00-8:00              Conference Banquet Restaurant Tyler

Sunday, February 10th

10:30am               Closing Brunch Reception
                                Bickle/Bernstein/Cooper Farther Along Farm, Webster County, MS
                               

 I'll take notes and report back.