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PGSA Conference
The
PGSA Conference is held on a yearly basis. It hosts Philosophy graduate
students from across North America who can present papers on any topic
within Philosophy. The 2010 conference takes place on on March 11 & 12.
University of Waterloo
Philosophy Graduate
Student Association
Seventeenth Annual Graduate Conference in
Philosophy
March 11 & 12, 2010
Keynote Address
Dr. Mark Wilson
University of Pittsburgh
"How 'Wave Front' Found its Truth-Values"
Abstract: Scientific theories rarely serve as islands entire of
themselves. Such hidden connections sometimes force novel readings upon
venerable doctrines, dramatically altering our understanding of their
basic "subject matter" in the process. Conventional Maxwellian
electromagnetism underwent an upheaval of this type in the mid twentieth
century. The case (which will be recounted in non-technical terms) offers
interesting insights for both philosophy of language and philosophy of
science, for it supplies a portrait of semantic stabilization unfolding in
a different manner than conventional "natural kind" models suggest.
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Schedules
and Abstracts
from Previous Years
2009 Program
2008 Program
2006 Schedule
2006 Abstracts
2005 Schedule
2005 Abstracts
2004 Schedule
2004 Abstracts
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