JCAhouse 
Philosophy, History & Dialectics of Science
Philosophy, History & Dialectics of Science|
JCAhouse
Philosophy, History & Dialectics of Science |
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From the Fall of 1991 through the Fall of 1995 I organized an informal seminar. The goal of this series was to bring together Brandeis graduate students, postdocs, faculty and interested undergrads to discuss the historical and philosophical backdrop of science. I wanted to give fellow students and faculty a chance to reflect on why and how we do science from the perspective of an interdisciplinary forum. Thank you to all of the participants. Below you will find the list of speakers and their topics.
This series was supported by the Volterra Center at Brandeis University. Steven J. Harris (History) was unflaggingly supportive.
| 1991-92 | ||
| Giovanni Bosco (Biology) | 10/22/91 | Lamarckian Evolution |
| Jerry Samet (Philosophy) | 11/19/91 | Introduction to the Philosophy of Science |
| Chandler Fulton (Biology) | 4/28/92 | Mendel's Scientific Integrity |
| Tony Tanner | 5/12/92 | History of Science in the Service of Teaching Chemistry |
| 1992-93 | ||
| Gene Itkis (Computer Science BU) & Leon Chernyak (History BU) | 10/21/92 | Towards an Immunocentric Approach in Immunology |
| Gail Fleischaker (BU Philosophy & History of Science) | 11/17/92 | Life, like Pornography: "You know it when you see it" - But what are you looking for? |
| Misia Landau (Anthropology BU) | 12/10/92 | Narratives of Human Evolution |
| Lee LeCuyer (BU Philosophy & History of Science) | 12/15/92 | Leaping into Contradiction: Ethical Speculations From the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics |
| Pato Huerta (Neurobiology) | 1/21/93 | Dialectical Method in Biology |
| Steve Harris (History) & Giovanni Bosco (Biology) | 3/2/93 | Galileo and The Baltimore Case |
| Open discussion | 3/30/93 | Women in the Biological and Physical Sciences |
| Yaron Levy (Biology) | 5/3/93 | The Bio-Tech Revolution: Will It Happen? What Will It Look Like? |
| Karen Duca (Chemistry) | 6/8/93 | The Double-X Factor: Female Scientists in Sci-Fi Films |
| 1993-94 | ||
| Open discussion | 9/28/93 | Fuchs,S. (1993) Positivism is the Organizational Myth of Science. Perspectives on Science. 1: 1-23. |
| Don Smith (Computer Science) | 10/26/93 | On Richard Rorty's Consequences of Pragmatism |
| Horace Freeland Judson (Stanford University) | 11/23/93 | The Early History of DNA and Immunology |
| Marc Swetlitz (Dibner Visiting Scholar at Brandeis) | 2/8/94 | Molecular Biology, Eugenics and Politics |
| Jeremy C. Ahouse (Biology) | 3/15/94 | Canon formation and change in science |
| Alan Stockdale (Anthropology) | 5/10/94 | The Organization of Innovation: The Development and Deployment of Biotechnologies for Cystic Fibrosis |
| 1994-95 | ||
| Peter Vibert (Structural Biology) | 10/11/94 | Science, Non-Science, and Anti-Science |
| Matt Benasutti (Molecular Biology, Business) | 12/13/94 | An Introduction to Ayn Rand's Objectivism |
| Tom Wilson (History) & John Garvey (Biology) | 2/7/95 | Fraud in Science and Law: The Development and Implications of an Idea |
| Pato Huerta (Neurobiology) | 3/14/95 | Constructivism and Autopoiesis: the work of Humberto Maturana & Francisco Varela |
| Dan Peisach (Structural Biology) | 4/11/95 | Fictive Representations: Reciprocal Space in Structural Biology |
| Hugh Pendletion (Physics) | 5/16/95 | Frames of Reference: From Foucault to Einstein |
| Sam Schweber (Physics) | 10/17/95 | The Metaphysics of Physics at the End of the Century: Do the Laws of Nature Evolve? |
| Jeremy C. Ahouse (Biology) | 11/21/95 | Strong Contingency: Biological Evolution at the End of the Century |
| James Kloppenberg (American History) | 12/11/95 | A Review of Pragmatism from James to Rorty |
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