EVENT: Feminist Philosophy Conference Canada - June
Conference Announcement
International Association for Women Philosophers
XIV IAPh Symposium 2010
Feminism, Science and Values
June 25-28, 2010
The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
co-hosted by the Department of Philosophy
and the Rotman Institute of Science and Values
Featuring keynote addresses by Barbara Duden (Leibniz Universität Hannover), Lisa Gannett (St. Mary's University), Sarah Richardson ( University of Massachusetts, Amherst),
Vandana Shiva (Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology) ) and Nancy Tuana (Penn State University)
Feminism, Science and Values
June 25-28, 2010
The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
co-hosted by the Department of Philosophy
and the Rotman Institute of Science and Values
Featuring keynote addresses by Barbara Duden (Leibniz Universität Hannover), Lisa Gannett (St. Mary's University), Sarah Richardson ( University of Massachusetts, Amherst),
Vandana Shiva (Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology) ) and Nancy Tuana (Penn State University)
This will be the International Association of Women Philosophers' (http://www.iaph-philo.org) first meeting in Canada and only its second meeting in North America.
Session themes will include:
- Race, Genomics and Social Values
- Researching Sex Differences: Feminist Critiques and Their Antecedents
- Facts in Feminist Philosophy
- "Female Complaints": Medicine, Markets and Women's Health
- Beauvoir and Arendt on Science
- Feminism and Empiricism (Quinean Themes)
- Technology and Intervention in Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Sex and Gender: Military Contexts
- Reconsidering Values in Feminist Philosophy of Science
- Reductionism, Determinism and Feminist Values
- Disability and Dependence
- Gender and Sport
- Science and Values: Global Perspectives
Registration and full program information can be found at: http://www.uwo.ca/philosophy/
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