DAY 1
(Sunday, May 5th)
8:00-8:30am
Breakfast (at conference venue, Sanford Building #223)
8:30am-9:00am
Welcome (Dan McShea & Gunnar Babcock)
9:00am-9:45am
“Proper Functions in Society: Selectionist Arguments in Sociology”
Andrés Casto Araujo (Sociology, Duke University)
9:45am-10:30am
“Do opaque algorithms have functions?”
Clint Hurshman (Philosophy, University of Kansas)
10:30am-10:45
Coffee Break
10:45am-11:30am
“Quasi-Naturalistic Teleology in Aristotle’s Biology”
Mo Zhao (Philosophy, University of Bonn)
11:30am-12:15pm
“How to be a Teleologist: Comparisons of Teleological Explanations in the History &
Philosophy of Biology & Cosmology”
Nichole Levesley (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)
12:15pm-1:15pm
Lunch
1:15pm-2:00pm
“Keeping the Telos in Teleology: A Pragmatist Suggestion”
Niall Roe (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)
2:00pm-3:15pm
“Did Darwin make purpose safe for science, or banish it from nature?”
Alex Rosenberg (Philosophy, Duke University)
3:15pm-3:30pm
Coffee Break
3:30pm-4:45pm
“Nature as a Craftsman in Aristotle’s Teleology”
Mariska Leunissen (Philosophy, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
4:45pm-5:15
Writing Exercise
6:30pm
Dinner
DAY 2
(Monday, May 6th)
8:00am-8:30am
Breakfast (at conference venue, Sanford Building #223)
8:30am-8:45am
Welcome (Dan McShea & Gunnar Babcock)
8:45am-9:30am
“Teleological Development and Synergistic Information”
Tiago Rama (Philosophy, University of the Republic of Uruguay) *remote presentation
9:30am-10:15am
“A normative challenge for evolution-based moral realisms”
Jonah Branding (Philosophy & Biology, Michigan State University) & Matt Ferkany (Philosophy, Michigan State University)
10:15am-10:30am
Coffee Break
10:30am-11:15am
“Toward a Descriptive Psychological Theory of Meaning and Purpose”
Jonathan Iwry (Harvard Law School)
11:15am-12:00pm
“Making Sense of Agency”
Cassandra Williams (Philosophy, University of Toronto)
12:00pm-1:00pm
Lunch
1:00pm-1:45pm
“The Human Affectome: A teleological framework of affective phenomena”
Alessandra Yu (Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), Daniela Schiller (Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) & Leroy Lowe (Neuroqualia)
1:45pm-3:00pm
“A Guide to the Problems of Teleology in Biology”
Robert Brandon (Philosophy, Duke University)
3:00pm-3:15pm
Coffee Break
3:15pm-4:30pm
“Desire and Prediction”
Kent Berridge (Psychology/Neuroscience, University of Michigan)
4:30pm-5:00
Writing Exercise
6:30pm
Dinner
DAY 3
(Tuesday, May 7th)
9:00am-9:45am
Breakfast (at conference venue)
9:45am-11:00am
“Novel goals, diverse intelligences: the biomedical impact of philosophical frameworks”
Michael Levin (Biology, Tufts University) *remote presentation
11:00am-12:00pm
Workshop: On purpose
Dan McShea (Biology, Duke University) & Gunnar Babcock (Biology, Duke University)
12:00pm-1:00pm
Lunch
1:00pm-3:00pm
(continued) Workshop: On purpose
Dan McShea (Biology, Duke University) & Gunnar Babcock (Biology, Duke University)