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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
Conference support provided by UWO Faculty of Arts and Humanities
and Research Western.
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Elisa A. Hurley
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
The University of Western Ontario
Stevenson Hall 4140
London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B8
(519) 661-2111, ext. 81583
www.rotman.uwo.ca
http://publish.uwo.ca/~ehurley3/