Conference Schedule
The conference will be held at the University of Idaho Commons building. Concurrent sessions will be held in the Horizon and Aurora Rooms in "The Summit" Conference Center (4th floor); coffee/snacks will be available next door in the Panorama Room. Registration, meals, and the plenary session will be held in the Whitewater Room (bottom floor).
Sessions will run 80 minutes with 10 minute buffers. We ask speakers to limit their presentations to 30–40 minutes to leave enough time for up to 10 minutes of comments and 30–40 minutes of discussion.
Friday Evening (March 14th)Drinks at the Coeur d'Alene Brewing Company |
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Saturday (March 15th) |
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8–9 AM |
Whitewater Room |
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9–10:20 AM |
Horizon | Chair: Mitch Stokes comments: Zanja Yudell (CSU Chico) |
Aurora | Chair: Bruce Glymour "Natural Kinds and Biological Realisms" comments: Matthew H. Slater (U Idaho) |
10:30–11:50 AM |
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"Fundamental Laws and Properties" comments: Russ Payne (BCC) |
noon–1 PM |
Lunch Provided | |
1–2:20 PM |
Horizon | Chair: Ann Levey "Functional Kinds and Functional Explanations"
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Aurora | Chair: David Sanford "Boundaries, Conventions, and Reality" comments: Sara Bernstein (Arizona) |
2:30–3:50 PM
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"Natural Kinds and Naturalized Ethics" comments: Robert Epperson (Western Washington U) |
"Arthritis and Nature's Joints"
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4–6 PM
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Whitewater Room | Chair: Matthew H. Slater (U Idaho) "It Takes More than All Kinds to Make a World" comments: Alexander Bird (Bristol) |
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6 PM
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Dinner at various area restaurants The organizers will make some reservations and provide sign-up sheets. |
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Brunch See our restaurant list for suggestions. |
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10:30–11:50 AM |
Horizon | Chair: Joseph Campbell "How to Think comments: Rebekah Rice (Seattle Pacific U) |
Aurora | Chair: Steve Crowley comments: Achille Varzi (Columbia) |
noon–1:20 PM |
"Rigidity for Kind Designators" comments: Michael O'Rourke (U Idaho) |
"Population Thinking as Trope Nominalism" comments: Patrick Ray (U Idaho) |
1:20–2:30 PM |
Lunch Provided Whitewater Room |
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2:30–3:50 PM |
Horizon | Chair: Amanda Steppe “The Ur-Kind in the Social Sciences and Why it Can’t Cause Anything” comments: Ron Wilburn (UNLV) |
Aurora | Chair: Andrew Cortens "The Metaphysics of Natural Kinds" comments: John Carroll (NC State) |
4–5:20 PM
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"Why Human Kinds Are Different: In Defense of Hacking" comments: Alexander Skiles (Notre Dame) |
"Boyd, Homeostatic Property Clusters, and Psychological Kinds" comments: Stephen Crowley (Boise State) |
5:30–6:50 PM
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Horizon | Chair: Ian O'Loughlin "The Unnatural Reason: Carving the World at its Normative Joints" comments: Bill Kabasenche (WSU) |
Aurora | Chair: Shairylann Lisonbee "The Roles of Definitions in Scientific Concepts" comments: Joseph Long (Florida State) |
7–10 PM
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"Inductive Inference and Natural Kinds" 1912 Center, Moscow Idaho (directions from Commons) Dinner starts at 7PM (for registered attendees), the keynote will begin around 8:30PM. |
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Continental Breakfast at the University Inn |
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9–10:20 AM |
Horizon | Chair: Dan Holbrook "Predicting Populations by Modeling Individuals" comments: Chris Haufe (Virginia Tech) |
Aurora | Chair: Terri Mayfield "A Return to the Analogy of Being" comments: Ben Caplan (Ohio State) |
10:30–11:50 AM |
"Species as Similarity-based Concepts: What’s Wrong with Natural Kinds and Individuals" comments: Stephen Crowley (Boise State) |
"The Natural Time of a Natural Kind" comments: Angie Harris (Utah) |
noon–1:20 PM |
Horizon | Chair: Jason Fishel |
Aurora | Chair: Ryan Cole "Naturalness, Eligibility, and the Case Against Particularism in Material-Object Metaphysics" comments: Raul Saucedo (Cornell) |
1:30–6:00 PM |
Free time, basketball |
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6:00–9:00 PM |
Silver and Gold Rooms, University Inn The INPC Public Forum is a panel discussion on the topic of the conference designed to introduce members of the community to philosophy and how it impinges on their lives. Light dinner/appetizers and a cash bar provided. |
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