UPDATE (10/11/04):

• The organizing committee thanks everyone for their support of FDISH.
• A summary of events at FDISH 2004 is available.
• A photo gallery of FDISH 2004 is also available for viewing.
• The graduate student travel page has been updated.
• For more reactions and comments on FDISH 2004 please go to Florida State University Philosophy Department's blog.

We invite you to join us for the 2004 ISHPSSB Future Directions in the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology Workshop (FDISH). FDISH is a four-day intensive philosophy of biology graduate training workshop that focuses on identifying emerging and under-developed fields, investigates how to work in and among different disciplines, provides a forum for young scholars to develop intellectual networks, and prepares them for professional service. The philosophy of biology is intertwined closely with the history and sociology of biology, and so too should any such graduate training. As such, FDISH has invited and seeks scholars and graduate students of these, and other, disciplines to join us.

FDISH is structured around four invited speakers, various small-group roundtable
discussions, practical workshops, and planned, but informal, meetings with
faculty from around the greater San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere.

The workshop features talks by Jay Odenbaugh (Lewis and Clark College), Jason
Robert (Arizona State University), Kim Sterelny (The Australian National University and Victoria University, Wellington), and Edna Suárez Diaz (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).