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History of Science Colloquia

Colloquia 2007-08

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.

  • Ken Waters, Director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, Indiana University

    "Getting Real about Genetics and Genomics: An Antirealist Perspective"

    4:15pm, May 29th, 2008

    Room 30, Lane History Building 200

Other Events:

Previously this year:

  • Stanford-Paris, REHSEIS-CNRS Workshop: Diagrams in Mathematics
    Thursday, October 4th - Saturday, October 6th, 2007
    location: Building 110 Room 1110 (The new Classics Department, center right of the main quad, overlooking the Rodin Citizens of Calais statues, previously Anthropology)
    Program
  • Lee Smolin, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada
    The Nature of Time and Law in Cosmology

    4:15pm, October 11th, 2007


    Bldg 260 room 113
    Stanford University
    Poster (PDF)

  • Symposium on Science and Sensibility in the American Enlightenment
    Friday, October 12th, 2007
    9:45 am - 4 pm
    Lane History Building 200 room 307

    Program

    Poster (PDF)

  • Nick Rasmussen, University of New South Wales

    'Kill Happy'? Amphetamine Use by the Allies in the Second World War

    4:15pm, November 15th, 2007

    History room 307

  • Reviel Netz, Classics Department, Stanford University

    Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic

    noon, December 6th, 2007

    History room 307

  • Ian Hacking, Chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts at the Collège de France

    "Crystallizations of Thought: How New Possibilities and New Things Come into Being"

    4:15pm, January 23, 2008

    Room 201, Lane History Building 200
    *Note new room for this talk*

  • Michael Friedman, Stanford University

    "Extending the Dynamics of Reason: Generalizing a Post-Kuhnian Approach to the History and Philosophy of Science"

    4:15pm, February 28th, 2008

    Room 307, Lane History Building 200

  • D. Graham Burnett, Princeton University

    "Trying Leviathan"

    4:15pm, March 13th, 2008

    Room 307, Lane History Building 200

  • Tom Ryckman, Stanford University

    "Dissolving the Einstein-Hilbert Priority Dispute"

    4:15pm, April 3rd, 2008

    Lounge Room 302, Lane History Building 200

  • David Sepkoski of the University of North Carolina, Wilmington

    "Paleobiology: What's in a Name?"
    Sponsored by the Paleobiology Research Group as part of their Paleobiology Seminar Series

    3:30pm, Wednesday April 16th, 2008

    Room 109, Braun Hall Building 320

  • Hasok Chang, Dept of Science and Technology Studies, University College London, UK

    "Phlogiston revisited: theory-choice and pluralism"

    4:15pm, April 17th, 2008

    Room 302, Lane History Building 200

  • Robert Richards, History of Science and Medicine, University of Chicago

    "Haeckel's Darwinism: Charges of Fraud and Complicity in Nazi Biology."

    4:15pm, May 8th, 2008

    Room 307, Lane History Building 200

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