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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:
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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
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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
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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
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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
Previous Year's HPST Colloquia
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