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 exhibits the relevance of history and philosophy of science to the broader academic community and to communities beyond.
SLAPSA Conference
SLAPSA sponsors an annual conference on philosophy and history of science. The fourth conference, SLAPSA Four, will be held on 25 February 2012 at the Center for Spirituality and Sustainability, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. For directions and further details see the conference flyer.
Schedule
- 8:30–9:00
- 9:00–10:10How Hertz Secured Experimental Evidence and What Bayesianism Cannot Do
- 10:10–11:20Fields and Waves
- 11:20–12:30Is Non-Reductive Machine-Consciousness Possible?
- 12:30–1:30Morris University Center or off campus
- 1:30–2:40Mirror Neurons are Not Evidence for Simulation Theory
- 2:40–3:50Carving Natural Language at its Joints: Syntax as a Natural-Kind
- 3:50–5:00Optogenetics and Maker’s Knowledge
Registration is not required. For information, or to express interest in attending, contact the conference organizers, Judith Crane or Christopher Pearson at the SIUE Philosophy Department.
SLAPSA Mailing List
To receive messages from the SLAPSA mailing list,
click this link. It should open a new message in your email program. In that message, change “YourFirstName” to your first name and “YourLastName” to your last name. Doing so will automatically add you to the list (the listserv greeting will tell you how to remove yourself from the list).
If that fails, or if there is some problem with the mailing list, write to one of the co-ordinators below.
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.
About the flag
The flag used on this page is the Saint Louis City flag. Here is the relevant section of the Revised Code of the City of Saint Louis.
The design submitted by Professor Emeritus Theodore Sizer, Pursuivant of Arms at Yale University, and now on file in the office of the City register is approved, adopted and designated as the official flag of the City. The flag with a solid red background has two broad heraldic wavy bars, colored blue and white, extending from the left top and bottom corners toward left center where they join and continue as one to the center right edge. This 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) calling attention to the French background of the early city and more particularly to St. Louis of France for whom the City is named. The golden disk represents the City and/or the Louisiana Purchase. (Heraldically, the disk is a “bezant” or Byzantine coin signifying, money or simply purchase.)
The flag’s colors recall those of Spain (red and yellow or gold), Bourbon France (white and gold), Napoleonic and Republican France (blue, white and red), and the United States of America (red, white, and blue). (Ord. 52322 § 2, 1964: 1948 C. Ch. 1 § 5: 1960 C. § 6.020.)
Saint Louis Area Philosophy of Science Assocation