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 Conferences
SLAPSA sponsors an annual conference on philosophy and history of science. The first SLAPSA conference was held on 28 Feb 2009 at Washington University. We enjoyed a day of lively discussion on a variety of topics from evidence to the social character of scientific knowledge.
Schedule
- 9:00-10:00Aaron Cobb, Saint Louis UniversityObjectivity and Justification: Peter Achinstein’s Theory of Evidence Revisited
- 10:15-11:15Don Goodman-Wilson, Washington UniversityModularity and Mechanism and Hodgkin and Huxley: Philosophical Insights from the Voltage Clamp
- 11:15-12:45 Break for lunch
- 12:45-1:45Judith Crane, Southern Illinois University at EdwardsvilleSpecies Pluralism
- 2:00-3:00William Rehg, Saint Louis UniversitySocially Relevant Philosophy of Science: A Contextualist Program• Download a draft (pdf, 23 Feb 2009)
- 3:15-4:15Robert Northcott, University Of Missouri at Saint LouisMacro-causal Explanation
- 4:30-5:30Paul Weirich, University Of MissouriCommon Knowledge in Simultaneous-Move Games• Download a draft (pdf, 25 Feb 2009)
SLAPSA Mailing List
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SLAPSA Coordinators
The coordinators for SLAPSA are:
- Carl Craver, Philosophy & PNP, Washington University
- Gualtiero Piccinini, Philosophy, UMSL
- Kent Staley, Philosophy, SLU
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