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Reading Group
Spring 2007
January 23: Kristian Camilleri. "Constructing the Myth of the Copenhagen Interpretation." pdf
January 30: Enda Leaney. "Tea, Cakes and Science: Promoting Science in Nineteenth-Century Ireland." Background reading: Enda Leaney. "'Missionaries of Science: Provincial Lectures in Nineteenth-century Ireland." Irish Historical Studies 34, no. 135 (May, 2005). pdf
February 6: Chris Hamlin: Leading a discussion of John Pickstone's paper, "Ways of Knowing and of Working: An Exploration of Practices and Categories in the Histories of Science,Ttechnology, and Medicine."
February 13: HsingChi von Bergmann: "Condition of Contextualized Science Education in
Forty-two Countries." Background Reading: H. A. Wang and W. H. Schmidt. "History, Philosophy and
Sociology of Science in Science Education: Results from the Third
International Mathematics and Science Study." Science & Education 10 (2001), 51-70. pdf
February 20: Alan Padgett. “Induction after Foundationalism: Four Theses on Informal Inference.” From: Alan G. Padgett. Science and the Study of God: A Mutuality Model for Theology and Science. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2003. pdf
February 27: Teasel Muir-Harmony. "Tracking Diplomacy: The Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory's Satellite Tracking Station in India."
March 6: Alex Skiles. "How Do Symmetry Principles Relate to the Laws of Physics?"
Spring 2006: Once again this spring we are experimenting with the format we followed in the fall, featuring presentations of recent work by members of the Notre Dame HPS community or discussions of selected individual paeprs. Here is the schedule such as it currently stands. All meetings are at 4:15 PM in 131 Decio.
January 24: Don Howard. "Physics as Theodicy." pdf
January 31: Brian Pitts. "Does the Big Bang Demystify Creation in the Finite Past?" pdf
February 7: Dan McKaughan. "The Influence of Niels Bohr on Max Delbrück: Revisiting the Hopes Inspired by 'Light and Life'." pdf
February 14: Christina Turner. "The Early History of Gravitational Lensing." pdf
February 21: Lydia Patton. "Logic and Philosophy of Science in the Early Marburg School." pdf
March 7: Dan Pasch. "Herbert Blumer's Methodological Project." doc
March 21: Kim Pelis. "A Louse, Divided: Contrasting Styles of Epidemiological Demonstration in French North Africa, 1906-1922." pdf
Fall 2005: This fall we are experimenting with an alternative format for the HPS Reading Group, featuring presentations of recent work by members of the Notre Dame HPS community or discussions of selected individual paeprs. Here is the growing schedule for this fall, with links to relevant materials.
August 30: Phil Sloan. "Kant on the History of Nature." pdf doc
September 6: Phil Mirowski. "Rethinking the Commercialization of Science." ppt doc
September 13: George Howard. "Stan Ovshinsky and the Hydrogen Economy:
Creating a Better World. doc
September 20: Don Howard and Buket Korkut-Raptis. "Michael Friedman and the Contingent A Priori." Friedman's "Kant, Kuhn, and the Rationality of Science" Howard commentary on Friedman: pdf
September 27: Pietro Corsi. "The Biology of Lamarck: Text and Context." See HPS
Lectures for details.
October 4: Holly Vande Wall. "Natural Kinds of Chemistry: A Critique of Brian Ellis’ New Essentialist Ontology." doc
October 11: Nahyan Fancy. "The Virtuous Son of the Rational: A Traditionalist’s Response to the Falāsifa’s
dismissal of Revelation." abstract manuscript (pdf)
October 25: Katherine Brading and Joe Zepeda. Leading a discussion of Hasok Chang's work on "How Do You Make the First Thermometer?" Readings from Chang (.doc)
November 1: Hasok Chang. "Spirit, Air, Quicksilver: How to Determine a Temperature Scale." See HPS Lectures for details.
Every semester, the students, faculty, and friends of the
HPS Program meet on Tuesday afternoons from 4:15 to 5:30 during
roughly the first half of the semester to discuss a reading
in the history or philosophy of science chosen by a vote of
the group. By convention, the Fall Semester is reserved for
the discussion of a work in the philosophy of science, the
Spring Semester being reserved for the discussion of a work
in the history of science.
Here is a list of titles discussed during recent semesters.
Spring 2005: Mary Poovey, A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).
Fall 2004: Bas C. van Fraassen, The
Empirical Stance (New Haven and London: Yale University
Press, 2002).
Spring 2004: Robert J. Richards, The
Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the
Age of Goethe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2002).
Fall 2003: Helen Longino, The Fate of
Knowledge (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
2002).
Spring 2003: A selection of "classic" papers in the
history of science.
Fall 2002: Philip Kitcher, Science, Truth, and
Democracy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Spring 2002: William Clark, Jan Golinski, and Simon
Schaffer, eds.,The Sciences in Enlightened Europe
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999).
Fall 2001: Thomas S. Kuhn, The Road Since Structure:
Philosophical Essays, 1970-1993, With an Autobiographical
Interview. James Conant and John Haugeland, eds. (University
of Chicago Press, 2000).
Spring 2001: Lily E. Kay, Who Wrote the Book of
Life: A History of the Genetic Code (Stanford University
Press, 2000).
Fall 2000: John Brooke and Geoffrey Cantor, Reconstructing
Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion (Oxford
University Press, 1999).
Spring 2000: Mara Beller, Quantum Dialogue: The
Making of a Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1999).
Fall 1999: Noretta Koertge, ed., A House Built
on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths about Science (New
York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
Spring 1999: Edward J. Larson, Summer for the Gods:
The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science
and Religion (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1998).
Fall 1998: Abner Shimony, Search for a Naturalistic
World View. Vol 1, Scientific Method and Epistemology
(Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
Spring 1998: N. Jardine, J.A. Secord, and E.C. Spary,
eds., Cultures of Natural History (Cambridge and
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Fall 1997: Evelyn Fox Keller and Helen Longino, eds.,
Feminism and Science (Oxford and New York: Oxford
University Press, 1996). |
