KitcherFest. A conference in honor of Philip Kitcher

Please register by sending an email to kitcherfest@gmail.com.

Confirmed Speakers:

Michael Bishop, “The Ethical Project and the Normativity Challenge”

Max Hayward, “Objectivity and Progress: on Kitcher’s Pragmatist Ethics”

Alex Levine, “Individuation From Numbers to Creatures, or the Deep Kitcherian Kinship between Mathematics and Biology”

Matthew Slater & Marco Nathan, “On the Plurality of Pluralisms”

Arnon Keren, “Testimonial Skepticism and the Division of Cognitive Labor”

Michael Fuerstein, “Kitcher on science and democracy”

Mike Dietrich, “Automation and the Duties of Experts: The Case of DNA Evolution”

Katie Tabb, “Darwin’s Dues: An Episode in the History of the Ethical Project.”

C. Kenneth Waters, “Morgan’s Achievement”

Todd Jones, “Defending the humanities from scientific barbarian hordes. Should we follow Kitcher in following Steiner?”

Ignacio Ojea, “Technology in a Democratic Society”

Peter Godfrey-Smith, “Kitcher and Keller on Climate Change”

Chris Haufe, “The Garbage Man”

Michael Weisberg, “Kitcher on Objectivity in Science”

Jessica Pfeifer, “Disunifying Unification”