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ISN Summer Conference 2007: “The Nature of Nature”
(This page is now of historical interest only.)
Plan and Schedule
The Summer Conference runs from Friday afternoon, June 15th,
through Saturday evening, June 16th. The schedule is as follows.
For further background and context, please review the previously published
Invitation to the Summer Conference.
Friday, June 15th
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3:30-3:50pm
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Introductory remarks (ISN staff) |
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4:00-4:30pm |
Paper 1:
Dr. Joel Brind, "Apples from applesauce: A
critical look at where reductionism has led in
modern biology, and a fresh, common sense approach" |
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4:45-5:15pm |
Paper 2:
Dr. John Keck, "Chemistry, biochemistry: natural
motion and natural forms" |
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5:30-6:30pm
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Keynote 1:
Dr.
Jude Dougherty, "The use and abuse
of metaphor and analogy in scientific explanation" |
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7:00-9:00pm |
Informal dinner at conference location |
Saturday, June 16th
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9:00-9:10am
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Introductory remarks (ISN staff) |
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9:10-9:45am
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Paper 3: Tedmund Chan, "Biological structuralism
and Aristotelian-Thomistic physics" |
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10-10:30am |
Paper 4:
Dr. Thomas McLaughlin, "Nature and inertia" |
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10:45-11:15am |
Paper 5:
Dr. Daniel Kuebler, "Why are there trees?
Finding patterns and order in randomness" |
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11:30am-12:30pm
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Keynote 2:
Dr. Philip Skell, "The challenges facing a
'scientific' biology and any theory of 'origins'" |
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12:45-1:30 |
Lunch |
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1:30-2:00pm |
Paper 6:
Dr. Bruce Lundberg, "The virtues of Euler:
Ethical foundations for mathematics" |
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2:15-2:45pm
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Paper 7: Dr.
Chris Morrissey, "The metaphysics of causality" |
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3:00-3:30pm
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Paper 8: Scott Hefelfinger, "Science,
intelligibility, and creation" |
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3:45-4:15pm |
Paper 9:
Dr. William Carroll, "Creation
and cosmology" |
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4:30-4:50pm |
Closing remarks (ISN staff) |
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6:30-9:00pm |
Dinner at nearby restaurant |
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