A heated exchange between Peter Godfrey-Smith and Jerry Fodor concerning the theoretical veracity of Evolution by Natural Selection at UCSB's "Debating Darwin" Philosophy Conference.

UC Santa Barbara Department of Philosophy Announces
a Steven Humphrey Fund for Excellence in Philosophy Conference
Debating Darwin: Philosophical Issues in Evolution and Natural Selection

February 18-20, 2011

Friday, February 18

5:00 - 7:00 PM Peter Godfrey-Smith (Harvard), "Origin Explanations"
7:00 - 9:00 PM Reception/Buffet, UCSB Faculty Club

Saturday, February 19

9:30 - 11:30 AM Elisabeth Lloyd (Indiana), "Adaptationism in Action"
11:30 - 1:00 PM Lunch, Graduate Student Association Lounge
1:00 - 3:00 PM Paul Griffiths (Sydney), "How Evolution Tracks Truth"
3:00 - 3:15 PM Break
3:15 - 5:15 PM Jerry Fodor (Rutgers), "From the Darwin Wars"

Sunday, February 20

9:30 - 11:30 AM Mohan Matthen (Toronto), "Species as Historical Kinds"
11:30 - 1:00 PM Lunch, UCSB Faculty Club
1:00 - 3:00 PM Richard Boyd (Cornell), "Evolutionary Theory as Methodological Anesthesia: Methodological and Philosophical Lessons from Evolutionary Psychology"
3:00 - 3:15 PM Break
3:15 - 5:15 PM Alex Rosenberg (Duke), "How Jerry Fodor Slid Down the Slippery Slope to Anti-Darwinism, and How We Can Avoid the Same Fate"