Upcoming Meetings

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10. Organism and Environment — 3/25

• Lewontin, The Triple Helix (entire book)
  
• S&D Chapter 9: “Adaptation, Ecology, and the Environment” **

11. Reductionism versus Anti-Reductionism — 4/1

• Sarkar, “Reduction: A Philosophical Analysis” [PDF]
• Kitcher, “1953 and All That: A Tale of Two-Sciences” [CIEB §13]
• Waters, “Why the Antireductionist Consensus Won’t Survive the Case of Mendelian Genetics” [CIEB §14]
• Sober, “The Multiple Realizability Argument Against Reductionism” [CIEB §15] *
• S&D Chapters 6–7: “Mendel and Molecules”, “Reduction: For and Against” **

No class on 4/8 (Slater at Pacific APA).

12. Biological Laws & Contingency — 4/15

• Beatty, "The Evolutionary Contingency Thesis" [CIEB §11]
• Sober, “Two Outbreaks of Lawlessness in the Philosophy of Biology” [CIEB §12] *
• Lange, "Are There Natural Laws Concerning Particular Biological Species?" [PDF]

13. Biological Laws and Special Science Autonomy — 4/22

• Rosenberg, “How is Biological Explanation Possible?” [PDF]
• Lange, “The Autonomy of Functional Biology: a Reply to Rosenberg” [PDF]

14. Ecological Diversity, Biodiversity — 4/29

• Mikkelson, “Ecological Kinds and Ecological Laws” [PDF]
• Sarkar, “Defining ‘Biodiversity’; Assessing Biodiversity” [PDF]

Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference on "The Environment" — 5/1–3

15. Final Presentations: Topics TBA — 5/6

• If you are presenting in Meeting 15, final essays are due by Friday 5/15 at 3PM
• They are due Monday 5/11 by 3PM otherwise.