Reading Group in History and Philosophy of Science 2007

Reading Group in History and Philosophy of Science 2008

Coordinated by Charles Wolfe, HPS – [email protected]

Meetings are every second Thursday at 11.15 am in Charles’s office, Carslaw 437.

Date Article Presenter March Walter Ong, S.J. Kiran Krishna 20 [[b||Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason]] Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1958 / reissued U of Chicago Press, 2004

April 3 Nikolas Rose Veronica, Chris & Charles [[b||The Politics of Life Itself Biomedicine, Power and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century]] Princeton, 2007 [[i||Contact Charles for PDF]]

April 17 Pamela H. Smith Charles Wolfe & Ofer Gal [[b||The body of the artisan : art and experience in the scientific revolution]] Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004

May 8 Hughes, Thomas P Ian Wells [[b||Human Built World: How to Think About Technology and Culture]] Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004

May 15 Canizares-Esguerra, Jorge Claire Kennedy [[b||Nature, empire, and nation: explorations of the history of science in the Iberian world]] Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006

May 22 A paper on some recent Newtownian scholarship titled David Gilad "Newtown in the Free Market of Ideas" Contact Charles for a copy

May 29 Christopher Lawrence and George Weisz, eds., Dean Rickles, [[b||Greater than the Parts: Holism in Biomedicine, 1920-1950]] Hans Pols & New York: Oxford University Press Charles Wolfe Contact Charles for snippets of the book

June 5 Either Boris Hessen's original 1931 article or some analysis on the topic -- TBC Robert

June 12 Helena Sheehan Veronica & perhaps Robert [[b||Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History]] Humanities Press Intl, 1985, 2nd ed. 1993 [[i||Available as series of PDFs at:]] [[http://webpages.dcu.ie/~sheehanh/mxphsc.htm||http://webpages.dcu.ie/~sheehanh/mxphsc.htm]] [[i||Students interested in this topic could divide up the book]]

June 26 Mario Biagioli Kiran Krishna & Charles Wolfe [[b||The Scientific Revolution is Undead]] Configurations 6.2 (1998) 141-148 [[i||Online at:]] [[http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v006/6.2biagioli.html|| http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v006/6.2biagioli.html]] [[i||from a computer with a subscription]]

July 3 David Norton Charles Wolfe & Anik Waldow [[b||The Myth of British Empiricism]] 1981 [[i||Contact Charles for PDF]]

July 17 Something on renaissance medicine or the Royal Society-- TBA Alan Salter

Jul 31 Mario Biagioli Kiran Krishna & [[b||The Scientific Revolution is Undead]] Charles Wolfe [[i||Configurations]] 6.2 (1998) 141-148 [[http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v006/6.2biagioli.html|| http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v006/6.2biagioli.html]]

Aug 7 Robert Martensen Peter Hubert & [[b||The Brain Takes Shape: An Early History]] Charles Wolfe Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004

Aug 28 Adam Smith Anik Waldow & Adam Smith on sympathy Dominic Murphy [[i||Presentation by Anik to be sent out, or contact Charles]]

TBA Michael Ruse Sean Dyde [[b||Can a Darwinian be a Christian?]] Cambridge University Press, 2000

Texts remaining to be chosen

Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, [[i||Objectivity]] (New York: Zone Books, 2007) Timothy Lenoir, [[i||The strategy of life: teleology and mechanics in nineteenth century German biology]] (Kluwer, 1982)

Keith Thomas, [[i||Man and the natural world: changing attitudes in England 1500-1800.]] (London : Allen Lane, 1983)

Porter, Roy & Teich, Mikuláš (eds), [[i||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 [[i||Kuhn vs Popper.]]