HPS Graduate Program
Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values
University of Notre Dame
Spring 2002 Lecture Series
James Lennox
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
“Did Aristotle Do Biology?”
Thursday, February 7, 2002
4:15 PM
119 Debartolo
William Wimsatt
Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago
“How Contingencies Become Necessities: Generative
Entrenchement and Evolution”
Thursday, February 14, 2002
4:15 PM
119 DeBartolo
Rasmus Winther
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University
“Mereology and Modules: Parts and Wholes in
Evolutionary Developmental Biology”
Thursday, March 21, 2002
4:15 PM
107 Malloy
Richard Burian
Department of Philosophy, Viriginia Polytechnic and State University
“‘Historical Realism,’ ‘Contextual Objectivity,’ and
Changing Concepts of the Gene”
Tuesday, April 2, 2002
4:15 PM
119 DeBartolo
Werner Callebaut
Konrad Lorenz Institute, Altenburg, Austria
“The Future of the Life Sciences From the Perspective
of Theoretical Biology”
Tuesday, April 16, 2002
4:15 PM
119 DeBartolo
John Heilbron
Worcester College, Oxford University and
Department of History of Science, Yale University
“Physics and Its History around 1800”
Monday, April 22, 2002
4:15 PM
119 DeBartolo
Ahmad Dallal
Department of History, Stanford University
“Realism and Instrumentalism in Medieval Islamic Astronomy:
The Interaction of Astronomy and Theology”
Thursday, April 11, 2002
4:15 PM
119 DeBartolo
(Cosponsored by the Medieval Institute and the Islamic Studies Program)
