01-10-06: Louisa Wood (Fisheries Centre, British Columbia) will be visiting the lab from 1 October to 15 October, 2006.
04-05-06: Steve Lanier was awarded the Hibbs Undergraduate Philosophy Scholarship for the 2006-2007 academic year.
28-04-06: Justin Garson's dissertation defense will be held on Wednesday, 03 May, 2006 at 2 p.m. in Waggener Hall room 316.
He will be defending his dissertation, entitled: "Psychiatic Disorders and Biological Dysfunctions: Some Philosophical Questions Concerning Psychaitry."
His committee consists of:
Sahotra Sarkar, Chair, Professor of Philosophy and Integrative Biology
Robert Causey, Professor of Philosophy,
Robert J. Hankinson, Professor of Philosophy,
Richard Wilcox, Professor of Pharmacology,
John Z. Sadler, Professor of Psychiatry.
20-04-06: Anya Plutynski (Philosophy, Utah) will be visiting the lab from 20 April to 23 April, 2006 and giving a talk at the UPA conference.
20-04-06: Chris Margules (Sustainable Ecosystems, CSIRO, Australia) will be visiting the lab from 14 April to 18 April, 2006.
09-03-06: Debate: Intelligent Design vs. Evolutionary Theory: A Debate on the Nature of Evolution
"Can the evolution of life on earth be explained by purely natural processes?"
Organized by the Undergraduate Philosophy Association at The University of Texas at Austin
Debaters:
Dr. Sahotra Sarkar, Professor, Section of Integrative Biology and Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Paul Nelson, Fellow, Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture Fellow, International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design, Professor, Program of Science and Religion, Biola University
Commentator: Dr. William Wimsatt, Professor, Department of Philosophy and the Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago
Panel Members:
Dr. Daniel Bolnick, Professor, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Arturo De Lozanne, Professor, Section of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Cory Juhl, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Robert Koons, Fellow, Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, Fellow, International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Thomas Milner, Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Texas at Austin
22-02-06: Anya Plutynski (Philosophy, Utah) will be visiting the lab from February 24th to 27th.
05-01-06: Chris Margules (Sustainable Ecosystems, CSIRO, Australia) will be visiting the lab from 11 January to 27 January, 2006.