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) 

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/events/iaph2010/index.html