Reading group in History and Philosophy of Science
Coordinated by Charles Wolfe
All meetings are on Thursday at 10:15 in Carslaw 437 (Charle's office), usually fortnightly but pay attention to the schedule as it may change.
Semester 1, 2009
| Date | Article | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| April 9 | A paper on free will and behavioural genetics
|
Allan McCay |
| April 30 | Georges Canguilhem Machine and Organism Contact Charles for PDF
|
Ian Wills |
| May 28 (TBC) |
Christina Chimisso Here are some links to articles by Chimisso that appear in the book in modified forms: The Identity and Routes of Philosophy of Science
|
Charles Wolfe Sean Dyde |
| TBA |
J.B. Shank Link to online purchase
|
Charles Wolfe & David Gilad |
Semester 2, 2009
TBA
Suggestions for further readings
Texts remaining to be chosen (feel free to suggest others):
- Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity
(New York: Zone Books, 2007) - Timothy Lenoir, The strategy of life: teleology and mechanics in nineteenth century German biology
(Kluwer, 1982) - Keith Thomas, Man and the natural world: changing attitudes in England 1500-1800.
(London : Allen Lane, 1983) - Porter, Roy & Teich, Mikuláลก (eds), The Scientific revolution in national context.
(Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992)
we can divide this up, it's a series of independent pieces. - Steve Fuller's Kuhn vs Popper.