About SLAPSA
SLAPSA is an organization intended to promote collaboration and cooperation among St. Louis area philosophers of science. It hosts an annual workshop for graduate students and faculty. It encourages the development and exchange of educational materials and curricula for the history and philosophy of science. It promotes history and philosophy of science in the broader academic community and beyond.
SLAPSA Conference
SLAPSA sponsors an annual conference on philosophy and history of science. SLAPSA X will be held on 24 March 2018. Download the program here (includes directions).
Location
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Peck Hall, Room 3117
Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Schedule
- 8:30–9:00
- 9:00Exploratory invention: the pre-history of positron emission tomography 1950s–1975
- 10:00Formal practical knowledge: science, engineering, and mechanism
- 11:00Galen’s wounds: the social function of wounds and nosological taxonomy in Galen
- 12:00–1:30See program for recommendations.
- 1:30Modular unification: how computer simulations reveal a new explanatory virtue
- 2:30Composition as trans-scalar identity
- 3:30
- 3:45Actual difference making and causal selection
- 5:30
Registration is not required.
SLAPSA Coordinators
The coordinators for SLAPSA are:
- Carl Craver, Philosophy & PNP, Washington University
- Gualtiero Piccinini, Philosophy, UMSL
- Kent Staley, Philosophy, SLU
SLAPSA Archive
Program for the 2009 SLAPSA Conference.
Flyer for the 2012 SLAPSA Conference.
Program for the 2015 SLAPSA Conference.
Program for the 2017 SLAPSA Conference.
About the flag
The flag used on this page is the Saint Louis City flag.
The design was submitted by Prof. Emeritus Theodore Sizer, Pursuivant of Arms at Yale. It symbolizes the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Over the point of confluence a round golden disk upon which is the fleur-de-lis of France (blue) calls attention to the French background of the city and to Saint Louis, King of France, for whom the city is named.
The flag’s colors recall those of Spain (red and gold), Bourbon France (white and gold), Napoleonic and Republican France (blue, white and red), and the United States of America (red, white, and blue). See the St. Louis City Revised Code Chapter 1.20
Saint Louis Area Philosophy of Science Assocation