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Past Colloquia
2006-2007
| September 29, 2006 |
"On the Nature of Science" |
Paul Hoyningen-Huene Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science University of Hannover |
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| October 2 (MONDAY) | "A Closer Look at the Nature of Science" |
Paul Hoyningen-Huene Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science University of Hannover |
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| October 20 | "An Evolutionary Cognitive Science? We Should Live So Long" |
Jerry Fodor Department of Philosophy Rutgers University |
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| October 30 (MONDAY) |
"Three (?) Kinds of Conceptual Change in Science" |
Marcel Weber Science Studies Program University of Basel |
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| November 16 (THURSDAY) |
"Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law" |
Peter Woit |
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| November 17 | "Extrapolation, Capacities, and Mechanisms" |
Daniel P. Steel
Department of Philosophy Michigan State University |
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| January 26, 2007 | "Theodosius Dobzhansky, the Typological-Population Distinction, and the Question of Race" |
Lisa Gannett |
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| March 30 | "Causes That Make a Difference" |
C. Kenneth Waters |
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| May 4 | "Social Science and the American State: From the Social Survey to the New Deal" |
Jessica Wang |
2005-2006
| September 30 2005 |
"The Illusion of Freedom Evolves: How Darwinism Supports an Error Theory of Free Will and Moral Responsibility" |
Tamler Sommers |
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| October 6 | "How Strong is the Case for Social Relativism in Science?" |
Marcel Weber |
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| October 14 | "What Can the Mind Tell Us About the Brain?" |
Gary Hatfield |
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| October 21 | "The Methodology and Epistemology of Historical Science" |
Carol Cleland |
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| November 18 | "The Changing Roles of Heisneberg's Microscope Experiment" |
Melanie Frappier |
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| December 9 | "Causal Compatibilism and the Phenomenology of Agency" |
Terry Horgan |
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| February 10 2006 |
"The Entangled World: Does Information Solve the Puzzle?" |
Jeffrey Bub |
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| March 3 | "Shaping the Case: Rhetorical Schemes in Scientific Argument" |
Jeanne Fahnestock |
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| March 23 (THURSDAY) | "Ethics and Animals" |
Peter Singer
Center for Human Values Princeton University |
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| March 31 | "The Speculum of Ignorance: The Women's Health Movement and Epistemologies of Ignorance" |
Nancy Tuana |
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| April 21 | "The Fate of Paraparticles" |
Hans P. Halvorson
Department of Philosophy Princeton University |
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| April 28 | "Turning Point: |
Richard Creath |
2004-2005
| September 17, 2004 |
"De-idealizing Truth" |
Paul Teller Department of Philosophy University of California, Davis |
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| October 4 (Monday) | "The Use of Alchemy to Establish the Limits of Science: From the Middle Ages to the President's Council on Bioethics" |
William Newman Department of History and Philosophy of Science Indiana University, Bloomington |
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| October 8 | "Eugenics and its Opposition, 1910-1945: What Have We Learned?" |
Garland E. Allen Department of Biology Washington University-St. Louis |
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November 5 |
"Structure and Perspective: How Far Does Realism Reach?" |
Bas C. van Fraassen Department of Philosophy Princeton University |
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| January 21, 2005 | "The Emotional Basis of Morals" |
Jesse Prinz |
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| February 4 | "Is Natural Selection a Mechanism?" |
Roberta Millstein
Department of Philosophy California State University, Hayward |
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| February 11 | "Collections or Collectives? Pluralism and Causation in the Group Selection Debate" |
Benjamin Kerr |
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| April 1 | "The Appropriate Kind of Structure: Putting Science Back into Philosophy of Science" |
Elaine Landry |
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| April 8 | "Postgenomic Futures: Translations Across The Machine-Nature Border In Systems Biology" |
Joan Fujimura |
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| April 29 | "Preserving Philosophical Polemics for Pedagogical Purposes" |
Richard Duschl |
2003-2004
| October 3, 2003 |
"Accounting for the Self: Leibniz' Quadrature of the Circle and Perspective in Paris" |
Matthew Jones Department of History Columbia University |
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| October 10 | "What Genes Do" |
C. Kenneth Waters Department of Philosophy and Center for Philosophy of Science University of Minnesota |
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| October 31 | "Ethical and Conceptual Issues in Behavioral and Psychiatric Genetics" |
Kenneth Schaffner Department of Philosophy George Washington University |
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November 7 |
"Making the Monkey: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of M. togeanus in |
Celia Lowe Department of Anthropology University of Washington |
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| December 12 | "How to Reconcile Physicalism and Antireductionism in Biology" |
Alex Rosenberg |
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| February 27, 2004 | "Still a Mystery: The Fourth Quantum Number" |
Margaret Morrison
Department of Philosophy University of Toronto |
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| April 8 (Thursday) | "Designing Socially Intelligent Robots" |
Cynthia Breazeal |
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| April 23 | "Imagination and Other Subtle Effluvia in Early Modern Europe" |
Lorraine Daston |
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| April 30 | "Assumptions, Data and Ethics: A Neo-Kuhnian Revisiting of the |
Richard Grandy |
2002-2003
| September 27, 2002 |
"The Logically Possible Ways in which Time Can Begin" |
Quentin Smith Department of Philosophy Western Michigan University |
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| November 1 | "The Huxley-Wilberforce Debate at the 1860 Oxford Meeting of the British Association" |
Frank James Royal Institution of Great Britain |
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| November 1 | "History of Science and the Practices of Experiment" |
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger Executive Director Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin |
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January 31, 2003 |
"Making History in Tsukuba Science City, Japan" |
Sharon Traweek Department of History University of California, Los Angeles |
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| February 21 | "From Bhopal to an Informated Environmentalism" |
Kim Fortun |
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| February 21 | "Promising Genomics, Speculating on Iceland" |
Michael Fortun
Department of Science and Technology Studies Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
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| February 28 | "Carnap and the Caterpillar" |
Philip Kitcher |
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| April 17 (THURSDAY) | "The Origins of the Modern Mind" |
Merlin Donald |
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| April 18 | "Biotechnology and the Sanctity of Nature" |
Greg Kaebnick |
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| May 2 | "Judgments about Moral Objectivity: Experimental Assays" |
Shaun Nichols |
2001-2002
| September 28, 2001 |
"Illegal Explanation: The Mechanist Alternative" |
William Bechtel Department of Philosophy Washington University, St. Louis |
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| October 5 | "The Limits of Ecology and the Re/Construction of Unruly Complexity" |
Peter Taylor Critical and Creative Thinking Program University of Massachusetts, Boston |
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| October 12 | "What is the Value of Research? Protecting Human Subjects at the Frontiers of Biomedical Science" |
David Magnus Center for Bioethics University of Pennsylvania |
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November 9 |
"Space and Geometry in Eighteenth Century Scotland: Reid's "Geometry of Visibles", Conventionalism, and a bit of Hume" |
Edward Slowik Department of Philosophy Winona State University |
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| February 8, 2002 | "2-D Modal Logic and the History of Science" |
Paul Griffith |
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| February 22 | "Racial Politics in Residential Segregation Studies" |
Ronald Sundstrom
Department of Philosophy University of Memphis |
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| March 1 | "Leibniz's Concept of Organic Body" |
Francois Duchesneau |
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| April 5 | "Biology and Mathematics: A Clash of Cultures?" |
Evelyn Fox Keller |
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| May 3 | "Causation. One Word, Many Things" |
Nancy Cartwright |
2000-2001
| October 13, 2000 |
"The Re-Currency of Pragmatism and its Current Possibilities" |
Harvey Sarles Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature University of Minnesota |
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| October 27 | "Normative Methodology and the Experimental Systems Perspective in the History of Biology" |
Marcel Weber Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science University of Hanover |
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| November 10 | "How Could Explanations in the Special Sciences be Autonomous and Irreducible?" |
Marc Lange Department of Philosophy University of Washington |
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November 17 |
"The Impact of Value-Free Science on Politicsand Historiography" |
David Stump
Department of Philosophy University of San Francisco |
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| December 8 | "A Model of Models" |
Stuart Glennan |
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January 26, 2001 |
"Cartesian Causation: Continuous, Instantaneous, and Overdetermined" |
Geoffrey Gorham
Department of Philosophy St. Olaf College |
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| February 16 | "Logical Empiricism in North America: Some Recent Themes" |
Gary Hardcastle |
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| March 16 | "Consensus in Science" |
Miriam Solomon |
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| April 13 | "Sex, Pluralism and the Problem with Grand Theories of Explanation" |
Carla Fehr |
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| April 27 | "Suspended in Language: A "Rational Reconstruction" of the Linguistic Philosophy Underlying Bohr's Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Theory" |
Rob Clifton Department of Philosophy University of Pittsburgh |
1999-2000
| October 8 1999 |
"Beyond the Gene but Beneath the Skin" |
Evelyn Fox Keller Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| October 15 | "Scientific Perspectives" |
Ronald N. Giere University of Minnesota |
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| October 29 | "Do Minds Speed Up Evolution?" |
Steve Downes University of Utah |
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November 12 |
"Sewing Up the Mind: The Claims of Evolutionary Psychology" |
Barbara H. Smith Duke University |
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| November 19: | "Multiple Realizability and Universality" |
Robert Batterman Ohio State University |
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| February 4, 2000 | "As the Worm Turns: Conceptual Changes in Modeling C. elegans" |
Rachel Ankeny
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| February 18 | " 'Metaphysics' - 'Physics' = Something I Know Not What" |
Michael Dickson
Department of History and Philosophy of Science Indiana University, Bloomington |
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| March 17 | "The Mechanical Structure of Neuroscientific Theory" |
Carl Craver |
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| April 7 | "Model Organisms and the Human Genome Project" |
David Botstein |
1998-1999
| October 2, 1998 |
"What do we Measure When we Measure Behavior, e.g. Agression?" |
Helen Longino University of Minnesota |
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| October 9: | "Designing Components and Composing Design: Supplier Relations and Application Engineering in the Early U.S. Automobile Industry" |
Jeffrey Yost University of Minnesota |
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| October 30 | "The Normal Genome in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Thought" |
Lisa Gannett Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science |
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November 6 |
"Explicative Research Strategies and Their Alternatives - Simplicity as an Example" |
Ilkka Kieseppä Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science |
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| November 13 | "The Curious Ways of Bohm's Theory" |
Jeffrey Barrett |
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| November 20 | "Science Studies: The Good, the Bad and the Awful" |
Noretta Koertge
Indiana University |
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| April 9, 1999 | "Machines Who Teach: A Brief History of Computers in Education" |
Robert Seidel |
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| April 16 | "Realism, Pluralism, and Biological Classification" |
Marc Ereshefsky |
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| April 30 | "On the Theoretical Role of 'Genetic Coding" |
Peter Godfrey-Smith |
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| May 14 | "Mendel's Mistake?" |
Douglas Allchin University of Minnesota |
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| May 28 | "Science and Technology in the Making (STIM): Media-Intensive Tools for Teaching and Research in the History of Recent Science and Technology" |
Timothy Lenoir Stanford University |
1997-1998
| October 10, 1997 |
"The Cosmetic Use of Prozac" |
Carl Elliott University of Minnesota |
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| November 7 | "Can Psychiatric Nosology Really be Value-Free?" |
Patricia Ross University of Minnesota |
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| November 14 | "Theories as Tools: The Controversies over Theoretical Modeling in Ecology" |
Greg Cooper Duke University |
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| April 3, 1998 | "Truthlikeness, Translation and Scientific Progress" |
Eric Barnes |
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| April 17 | "The End of the Science and Values Debate in 1950s Philosophy of Science" |
Don Howard |
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| May 15 | "Crossing the Divide: Making Evolution into Professional Science" |
Michael Ruse |
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