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Colloquia 2008-09
The colloquium meets 3 times per quarter on, generally on the 3rd, 6th and 9th Thursdays at 4:15 in the Lane History Building, Room 307, unless noted below.
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George E. Smith, Tufts University
currently a visitor here at Stanford at the Center for History and Philosophy of Science
"Theory Enters Measurement: 17th Century Experiments in the Mechanics of Motion"
Thursday, May 28th, 4:15pm
Lane History Bldg 200 Room 305
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Chandra Mukerji, Department of Communication, UC San Diego
currently a fellow at the CASB at Stanford
"Engineering and Powers of Impersonal Rule"
Thursday, May 14th, 2009, 4:15pm
Lane History Bldg 200 Room 307
- Sean Cocco, Assistant Professor of History, Trinity College, Connecticut
"Volcanic South: The Origins of Science and Sensibility on Vesuvius"
noon, April 30th, 2009
Bldg 260 Room 216
Co-sponsored with the Medieval and Early Modern Seminar, Stanford Humanities Center
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Judith Carney, Professor of Geography, UCLA
"Seeds of Memory: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World"
Thursday, May 7th, 2009, 4:15pm
Lane History Bldg 200 Room 307
Co-sponsored with the Clayman Institute for Gender Research
- Sandra Mitchell, Chair of Department of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburg
"Emergence: Between Science and Philosophy"
April 16th, 2009, 4:15pm
Lane History Building 200 Room 30 (note room change to 30)
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Steve Epstein, University of California, San Diego, currently a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford
At the Clayman Institute, Thursday, February 19th, 11:45 - 1pm
Serra House, 589 Capistrano Way
"Beyond the Politics of Inclusion and Difference? Gender and Race in Biomedical Research Policy"
Description: "Examining the rise and the impact of new policies designed to promote inclusion of underrepresented groups in biomedical research, Prof. Epstein considers the opportunities and limits of these policies in promoting better health and eliminating health inequalities."
A light lunch will be provided for those who RSVP to Ann Enthoven at ann.enthoven at stanford.edu by Friday the 13th
- Paola Govoni, International Centre for the History of Universities and Science (CIS), Department of Philosophy, University of Bologna
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009, noon - 1pm
A light lunch will be provided for those who RSVP to ann.enthoven @ Stanford.edu
"The Making of Italo Calvino: Eva Mameli-Calvino, and Her Laboratory Garden"
Lane History Building, room 307
- Daniel Kennefick, Department of Physics, University of Arkansas
February 12, 2009, 4:15pm
Building 200 Room 305
"Traveling at the Speed of Thought:
The past, present and future of gravitational waves"
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Daniel Stolzenberg, UC Davis
February 11, 2009, 12 - 1pm
"Disaster Humanism: Information Storage & Data Recovery in the Early Modern Imagination."
Building 260, room 216
Co-sponsored with the Medieval and Early Modern Seminar, Stanford Humanities Center
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Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan
Friday, February 6th, 2009, 12 - 1:30pm
"African Bodies and Nuclear Things: Scenes from the Transnational Production of Uranium"
Encina Hall East 207
Co-sponsored with STS seminar series
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Eric Schatzberg, University of Wisconsin
Friday, January 16th, 2009, 12 - 1:30pm
"Redrawing Conceptual Boundaries: Art, Science and Technology from the Enlightenment to Veblen"
Encina Hall East 207
Co-sponsored with STS seminar series
- Ken Wharton, Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Jose State University
January 22, 2009, 4:15pm
Building 200 Room 303
"Time Symmetry vs. Quantum Mechanics"
- Bas van Fraassen, San Francisco State University
"The Perils of Perrin, at the Hands of Philosophers"
4:15pm, Nov 20th, 2008
Lane History Bldg, room 205
That the story of how Perrin's experimental work established the reality of atoms and molecules has been a staple in (realist) philosophy of science writings (Wesley Salmon, Clark Glymour, Peter Achinstein, Penelope Maddy, ....). I'll argue that how this story is told distorts both what the work was and its significance, and draw morals for the understanding of how theories can be or fail to be empirically grounded.
- Susana Gómez, Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Co-sponsored with the Medieval and Early Modern Seminar, Stanford Humanities Center
4:15 pm, Oct 23rd, 2008
"Words and Things in Early Modern Science: A Representational Turn"
Lane History Bldg, room 307
- Gerhard Schurz, Chair of Theoretical Philosophy, Henrich Heine Universität, Dusseldorf
"Structural Correspondence Realism and Empirical Success: The
Case of Phlogiston"
4:15 pm, Nov. 11th, 2008 (note Tuesday)
Lane History Bldg, room 307
Abstract: According to the modern oxidation theory of combustion, phlogiston does not exist. Nevertheless, phlogiston theory was strongly empirically sucessful at its time. How can this miraculous success be explained? I propose to explain this success by the fact that the notion of "de-phlogistification" corresponds to the modern (electron-based) notion of "oxidation". I generalize my observation into the following (logically provable) correspondence theorem: If a theory T was strongly successful in a domain of applications A, and was replaced later on by a superior
theory T* which was likewise successful in A, then under natural conditions,
T contains certain theoretical expressions which correspond (in A) to certain theoretical expressions of T*. I then explain how the correspondence theorem
justifies the inference from empirical success to partial theoretical truth.
- Mini-symposium on History of Health and Medicine in East Asia with
Federico Marcon
(Reischauer, Harvard), Carla Nappi (Montana State), and Paul Unschuld
(University of Munich)
Nov. 13th, 2008
Anthropology Bldg 50 Room 51P
Co-sponsored with the Center for East Asian Studies
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3:15 pm Welcome & Introductions by Findlen & Mullaney
- 3:25 pm Federico Marcon, Assistant Professor of Japanese History, University of Virginia
- 3:50 pm Carla Nappi, Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy, Montana State University
- 4:20 pm Paul Unschuld, Director of the Institute for the History of Medicine, University of Munich
- 5:45 pm Q&A discussion
- 6:15 pm Sessions end
Other events:
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Stanford-Paris, REHSEIS-CNRS Workshop: Diagrams in Mathematics
October 9 - October 11, 2008
location: Paris this year, last year the event was held here at Stanford.
Previous Year's HPST Colloquia
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