2007-2008

September 21
"Fleck and Kuhn on Scientific Change"
Staffan Mueller-Wille
The ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (EGENIS)
University of Exeter


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October 5
"Three Kinds of Idealization"
Michael Weisberg
Department of Philosophy
University of Pennsylvania

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October 8 (MONDAY)
"Causation in Biology: Stability, Specificity, and the Choice of Levels of Explanation"
James Woodward
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
California Institute of Technology


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November 2

"Representation vs Ontology in Mathematics"

Kenneth Manders
Department of Philosophy
University of Pittsburgh


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December 7

"Bold Leaps: Guesses or Inferences?  Analogical Reasoning in Science"

Laura Snyder
Department of Philosophy
St. John's University

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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?"
Michael Strevens
Department of Philosophy
New York University


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February 29
"Stratifying a Population By Race"
Michael D Root
Department of Philosophy
University of Minnesota

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March 28
"Race, Medicine, and Money: Contextualizing the Emergence of 'Ethnic' Drugs"
Jonathan Kahn
School of Law
Hamline University


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April 4

"On Reflection (...more or less)"

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John Doris
Department of Philosophy
Washington University


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April 25

"Maupertuis on attraction as an inherent property of matter"

Lisa Downing
Department of Philosophy
The Ohio State University

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May 9

First Annual Science Studies Symposium:
"Thinking Through Science: Philosophical Perspectives on Biology, Geography and History"


 

 

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.

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Upcoming Speakers

Fall 2008
Hasok Chang
University College London

Jon Marks
University of North Carolina-Charlotte

October 31, 2008   Samir Okasha
University of Bristol

Spring 2009
Karen Sue Taussig
University of Minnesota

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