PRESENTATIONS
(* = Invited Talks)
2008
“The Structure of Evolutionary Theory and Biological Knowledge”, 18th Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical Biology - 'Towards an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis', Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria, July 2008.*
“Asa Gray’s Evolving Perspective on Teleology, Variation, and Natural Theology”, International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science Meeting 2008, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, June 2008.
“Development and Evolution in Context: Embryos in Erotetic Dialogue”, Marine Biological Laboratories - Arizona State University History of Biology Seminar, Woods Hole, MA, May 2008.*
“Temporal Dimensions of Reductionism in Biology”, Science Studies Symposium: McKnight Summer Fellows Presentation (“Thinking Through Science: Philosophical Perspectives on Biology, Geography, and History”), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, May 2008.
“The Structure of Evolutionary Theory and Biological Knowledge: Epistemic Materials for a 21st Century Synthesis”, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, SUNY – Stony Brook, New York, March 2008.*
2007
“Respondent to Kevin Theissen’s ‘Global Warming: What We Know and What We Do Not Know’”, North Central Program for Science and Theology, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, November 2007.*
“Consequences of an Intelligent Discussion about Design with Darwin: Asa Gray’s Evolving Perspective on Teleology and Natural Theology”, &HPS – Conference in Integrated History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2007.
“Explanatory Adequacy in Philosophical Analyses of Reductionism” , International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK, July 2007.
“Functional Homology and Homology of Function”, International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK, July 2007.
“Reduction, Representation, and Temporality in Explanations of Ontogeny”, Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science, University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany, June 2007.*
“Reduction, Representation, and Temporality in Explanations of Ontogeny”, Department of Philosophy, University of Münster, Münster, Germany, June 2007.*
“From Philosophy to Science: Evolutionary Developmental Perspectives”, Science and Philosophy (Sci-Phi) Symposium, SUNY-Stony Brook (Manhattan), New York, March 2007.
2006
“Explaining Evolutionary Innovation and Novelty: Criteria of Adequacy and Multidisciplinary Prerequisites", Philosophy of Science Association Meeting 2006, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, November 2006.
“Commentary on Robert Wilson’s Boundaries of the Mind and Genes and the Agents of Life ('Author Meets Critics' Session)”, American Philosophical Association Meeting (Pacific Division), Portland, OR, March 2006.*
“Natural Theology: Recent Developments, Future Potential”, Cornell University, sponsored by Chesterton House and Graduate Christian Fellowship, Ithaca, NY, March 2006.*
“Reductionism, Development, and Time”, Philosophy of Biology Workshop, sponsored by the University of California-Irvine, Laguna Beach, CA, February 2006.*
“Criteria of Explanatory Adequacy in Disciplinary Syntheses: Revisiting ‘Incommensurability’ in the Context of Evolutionary Developmental Biology”, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, January 2006.*
“Evolutionary Morphology and Evo-devo: Hierarchy and Novelty”, Bay Area Biosystematists Meeting, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, January 2006.*
2005
“Comparative embryology and Evo-devo history: Lessons from N.J. Berrill’s embryological investigations of marine invertebrate evolution”, Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, November 2005.*
“The Structure and Import of Developmental Genetic Explanations of Evolutionary Novelty”, International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, July 2005.
“Commentary on ‘Revisiting the Darwinian Revolution’ (Special Issue of the Journal of the History of Biology, 2005)”, International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, July 2005.*
“Evolutionary Developmental Biology and the Problem of Innovation and Novelty”, Dept. of Philosophy, California State University-Chico, Chico, CA, February 2005.*
“Evolutionary Developmental Biology and the Problem of Innovation and Novelty”, Dept. of Philosophy, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, February 2005.*
“Explaining Innovation and Novelty: A Study on the Nature of Interdisciplinary Epistemology”, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, February 2005.*
“N.J. Berrill and the evolutionary developmental biology of ascidians”, Division of Humanities, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, February 2005.*
“Evolutionary Developmental Biology and the Problem of Innovation and Novelty”, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, February 2005.*
“Evolutionary Developmental Biology and the Problem of Innovation and Novelty”, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, January 2005.*
2004
“Problem Agendas in Biological Research: The Case of Evolutionary Innovation and Novelty”, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, December 2004.*
“Problem Agendas in Biological Research: The Case of Evolutionary Innovation and Novelty”, Dept. of Philosophy, University of California-San Diego, San Diego, CA, October 2004.*
“Larval Homology, Ectoderm Novelty, and Skeletal Arm Morphogenesis in the Sea Urchin Genus Heliocidaris”, Dept. of Biology, Indiana University, IN, April 2004.
“Problem Agendas in Biological Research: The Case of Evolutionary Innovation and Novelty”, Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, February 2004.*
“Problem Agendas in Biological Research: The Case of Evolutionary Innovation and Novelty”, Division of History and Philosophy of Science, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN, January 2004.*
2003
“Organizational Homology, Sea Urchin Larvae, and Ectoderm Novelty”, Philosophy and Developmental Biology Workshop, Cambridge, MA, November 2003.
“N.J. Berrill and the evolutionary developmental biology of ascidians”, History of Science Society Meeting 2003, Cambridge, MA, November 2003.
“Evaluating Larval Homologies in Closely Related Species with Different Developmental Modes” (Scientific Poster Presentation), Developmental Basis of Evolutionary Change, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, October 2003.
“The Problem of Innovation and Novelty”, International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, July 2003.
“Morphological and Paleontological Perspectives for a History of Evo-Devo”, Evolutionary Morphology Group, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 2003.*
“Concepts and Conceptual Change: A Hybrid Investigative Framework for Philosophy of Science”, Workshop on Cultural Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 2003.*
2002
“Evolvability, Dispositions, and Intrinsicality”, Philosophy of Science Association Meeting 2002, Milwaukee, WI, November 2002.
“Alternate Histories for Evo-Devo: Morphological and Paleontological Perspectives”, Dibner Institute for the History of Science Workshop, “From Embryology to Evo-Devo”, Cambridge, MA, October 2002.*
“Evolvability, Dispositions, and Intrinsicality”, 1st Annual Conference on Recent Work in Biology and Philosophy, Duke University, June 2002
“Comments on Menser (‘Explaining Patterns of Stasis and Change in Kingdom Animalia: Developmental Constraints, Evo-devo, and Devo-evo’)”, Philosophy and Developmental Biology Workshop, University of Texas-Austin, April 2002.*
“Evolutionary Morphology, Innovation, and the Synthesis of Evolutionary and Developmental Biology”, Philosophy of Biology Graduate Student Conference, University of Texas-Austin, April 2002.
“Causal Process Individuation, Contrastive Explanation, and Theoretical Generality. Comments on Brandon’s “The difference between drift and selection: A reply to Millstein”, Philosophy and History of Biology Workshop, University of Pittsburgh, March 2002.
2001
“Evolutionary Morphology, Innovation, and the Synthesis of Evolutionary and Developmental Biology”, Pittsburgh/London Colloquium on Philosophy of Biology and Neuroscience, University of London, London, UK, September, 2001.
2000
“Darwin and Cirripedia Prior to 1846”, Joint Atlantic Seminar on the History of Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, April, 2000.
OTHER INVITED CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
“Emergence: From Physics to Biology”, The Seven Pines Symposium XI, Stillwater, MN, May 2007.
Session Chair for “Scientific Practice, Conceptual Change, and the Nature of Concepts”, Concepts and Objectivity: Knowledge, Science, and Values, University of Pittsburgh, September 2006.
Panel Discussion Chair for “Methods and Approaches to Biology”, Southwest Colloquium on the History and Philosophy of Life Sciences, UC-Davis, April 2006.
“Shifting Pasts: Four Dialogues on Change”, Second German-American Frontiers of Humanities Symposium, Hamburg, Germany, October 2005.
“Concept of the Gene in Contemporary Biology” Workshop, University of Pittsburgh, January 2003.
“From Embryology to Evo-Devo”, Dibner Institute Seminar on the History of Biology, Woods Hole, MA, May/June 2001.