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Research seminars

6 – 7:30 pm
Science Faculty Meeting Room, Carslaw 450 (Level 4)*
*unless otherwise indicated.

All are welcome

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2009 Research seminar series

Date Title / Speaker Description

Mon 9 Mar

The Social Function of Self-Representation: From Adam Smith
to Cognitive Neuroscience
Dominic Murphy
Unit for History & Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney

 

  

Mon 23 Mar

The Medicine of Patriotism: The Moral Cure on the Battlefield in
Revolutionary France
Lisa O'Sullivan
Senior Curator of Medicine, Science Museum, London
Department of History, Birkbeck College

 

 * Room change to:
New Law School
Seminar Room 100
Mon 6 Apr

Bacon v. the Projector: Vernacular Perspectives on Technological Invention
in Early Modern England
Jessica Ratcliff
Visiting Scholar, Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University
Visiting Scholar, Unit for History & Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney

 

  
Mon 20 Apr

Where Did Eugenics Go?
Alison Bashford
Dept. of History, University of Sydney

 

  
Mon 4 May

Essentialism and Natural Kinds in Biology
John Wilkins
Dept. of Philosophy, University of Sydney

 

  
Mon 18 May

Excellent British Adventures in Polar Science, 1920-1958
Peder Roberts
Program in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Stanford University

 

  

Fri 5 Jun

Symposium on research conducted in the Unit for History & Philosophy of Science

 

  
Thu 9 Jul
2-5pm

Darwin: A Philosophical Discourse
Featuring papers by Sean Dyde, Jean Gayon, Philippe Huneman, Dominic Murphy,
Thomas Pradeu, and Charles Wolfe

 

  

Mon 27 Jul

Between Handicraft and Mathematics: The Role of the Amsterdam
Rekenmeesters in Growing Circulation of Elemantary
Mathematical Knowledge. With Some Remarks on the Twente Uses
of Mathematics in the Dutch Republic-Project
Tim Nicholaije
Dept of Science, Technology, and Policy Studies, University of Twente

 

  
Mon 3 Aug Time and Invariance: On the Temporality of the Physical World 
Friedel Weinert 
Dept of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Bradford
Visitor, Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney

 

  
Mon 24 Aug

Unfinished Pluralism: Beyond the Art and Science of Medicine
Miriam Solomon
Temple University, Philadelphia

 

  
Mon 31 Aug Clinical Labour: Theorizing Human Guinea Pigs and Tissue 'Donors' as Workers
Melinda Cooper
Dept. of Sociology, University of Sydney

 

  
Mon 14 Sep Explicative Definition: Defending Carnap's Account of Concept Determination in Science and Philosophy
James Justus
ARC Postdoctoral fellow, Dept. of Philosophy, U of Sydney

 

  

Mon 12 Oct

Picturing the Pain of Animal Others: Rationalising Form, Function and Suffering

Dr Christopher Degeling

Unit for History and Philosophy of Science

University of Sydney

 

*Location Change
Room 340
New Law Building

Mon 19 Oct

6.30pm

 'Ript from the Womb': The Social and Political History of Caesarean Section
Caroline de Costa
Dept. of Clinical Medicine, James Cook University

$10.00 inc. wine and cheese and discussion after.

Royal Australian College of Physicians

*Location change: Royal  Australian College
of Physicians

 Level 8

Phillip St Sydney

 

2nd November

2-5pm

Symposium on research conducted in the Unit for History & Philosophy of Science

 

 Room 450
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