Stony Brook University's Departments of Philosophy and of Ecology &
Evolution will host an informal symposium on the relationship between
science and philosophy, on Saturday, March 10, 2007 on the SBU campus in
Stony Brook, Long Island, NY.

The idea is to explore why, if at all, scientists should care about what
philosophers say about science. Is philosophy of science a discipline that
should matter, however tangentially, to practicing scientists? Is it an
independent area of study largely independent of science proper? What are
the various domains of scholarship and teaching of the two disciplines,
and how should they intersect?

We encourage colleagues and graduate students in both philosophy and any
area of science to submit abstracts for the conference, on the general
theme of whether or not philosophy can be useful to science or vice versa,
and how one would go about building bridges between the two cultures.
Selected papers will be collected in a special issue of the Quarterly
Review of Biology, a very high-impact journal dedicated to broad
conceptual issues in biology.

Abstracts should be around 200-300 words, and should be sent to
massimo.pigliucci@stonybrook.edu by December 15, 2006. Authors whose
abstracts will be accepted will be asked to present for about 20 minutes,
with 10 minutes of Q&A after each presentation.

Sincerely,
Massimo Pigliucci (SBU-Ecology & Evolution, massimo.pigliucci@stonybrook.edu)
Robert Crease (SBU-Philosophy, rcrease@notes.cc.sunysb.edu)

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