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