Conferences & workshops

2009 Workshops

Embodied Empiricism Workshop 2009
Feb 20-22 2009
Convenor: Charles Wolfe

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Darwin: a philosophical discourse
Thursday July 9 2009, 1:30-5pm
Location: Science Meeting Room 450, Carslaw Building, University of Sydney

Program:

• Sean Dyde (Unit for HPS, Sydney): "Darwin on liberty"
• Jean Gayon (Paris 1): Sexual and natural selection
• Philippe Huneman (IHPST, Paris): What does evolutionary theory explain? Darwinism, adaptation, form and diversity
• Dominic Murphy (Unit for HPS, Sydney): Apes at Evensong: doing without providence after Darwin
• Charles Wolfe (Unit for HPS, Sydney): Revisiting the metaphysics of transformism in the Radical Enlightenment

* We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Ambassade de France, Canberra

Download the program (PDF)

Past workshops & conferences

• Baroque science conference
  Feb 15-17, 2008
  Convenor: Ofer Gal
• Optics and epistemology
  July 27, 2007
• Empiricism and the life sciences in early modern thought
  August 3, 2007