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| September 21 | "Fleck and Kuhn on Scientific Change" |
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| October 5 | "Three Kinds of Idealization" |
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| October 8 (MONDAY) | "Causation in Biology: Stability, Specificity, and the Choice of Levels of Explanation" |
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| November 2 | "Representation vs Ontology in Mathematics" |
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| December 7 | "Bold Leaps: Guesses or Inferences? Analogical Reasoning in Science" |
Laura Snyder |
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| December 10 (MONDAY) | "Relativism and Its Discontents" |
Giovanni Giorgini
Department of Ancient History University of Bologna |
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| January 25 | "What is Empirical Testing?" |
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| February 29 | "Stratifying a Population By Race" |
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| March 28 | "Race, Medicine, and Money: Contextualizing the Emergence of 'Ethnic' Drugs" |
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| April 4 | "On Reflection (...more or less)" Note different time: 2:30 pm |
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| April 25 | "Maupertuis on attraction as an inherent property of matter" |
Lisa Downing |
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| Spring Science Studies Symposium of McKnight Summer Fellows, University of Minnesota | |||
| "Temporal Dimensions of Reductionism in Biology" | Alan C. Love Department of Philosophy |
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| "Cartographic Knowledge and Emerging Dutch Colonialism: the View from Population Biology" | Arun Saldanha Department of Geography |
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| "Galileo without Modernity? Preliminary Reflections on the Project of Writing Galileo Today." | J. B. Shank Department of History |
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| "Getting Real about Genetics and Genomics: An Antirealist Perspective" | C. Kenneth Waters Department of Philosophy |
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For a complete list of Studies in Science and Technology talks, please go to SST
Unless otherwise indicated, the lectures are held on Fridays, in conjunction with the Colloquium in Studies of Science and Technology, at 3:30 PM in Room 131 of the Physics Building on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota. Please join us at 3:15 PM in Room 216 for refreshments.
Fall 2008 |
Hasok Chang University College London |
Jon Marks |
October 31, 2008
Samir Okasha University of Bristol |
Spring 2009 |
Karen Sue Taussig University of Minnesota |
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Updated: February 12, 2008