Call for ABSTRACTS:  Southwest Colloquium in the History and Philosophy
of the Life Sciences.  Deadline:  January 1, 2004.
 
Sponsored by the University of Texas at Austin (Program in the History
and Philosophy of Science, Department of Philosophy) and Arizona State
University (Department of Biology, Program in Biology and Society).

This is the second year of the Southwest Colloquium in the History and
Philosophy of the Life Sciences, an annual event that includes a one day
Graduate Student Symposium and a one day Faculty/ Graduate Student
Workshop devoted to a specific topic that will be held on alternating
years at Arizona State University and the University of Texas, Austin.

The annual Graduate Student Symposium will take place on a Friday
afternoon and Saturday morning and will feature presentations by
graduate students on any topic in the history and philosophy of the life
sciences, although preference will be given to papers that are related
to the topic of the Faculty/Graduate Student Workshop. All submissions
will be subject to peer review. There will be a keynote address by an
outstanding researcher Friday afternoon.

The Faculty/ Graduate Student Workshop will take place on Saturday
afternoon and evening and will focus on a different topic in the history
and philosophy of the life sciences each year. Workshop papers will be
pre-circulated and each will have one or more commentators. The topic
for next year's meeting, to be held at the University of Texas, Mar. 5
-6 is "Model Systems in Biology." The keynote address will be given by
Dr. Patrick Suppes, Lucie Stern Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus of
Stanford University.

Deadline for submission of abstracts is January 1st, 2004. Abstracts can
be submitted to either one of the organizers. Abstracts of graduate
students will be considered for both events.

Limited Funds are available to support graduate student travel to attend
the meeting. For more information please contact Manfred Laubichler
(manfred.laubichler@asu.edu) or Sahotra Sarkar (sarkar@mail.utexas.edu).

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