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Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Presentations

Faculty Presentations

  • June 9-11, 2005 — Bill Newman on "Alchemy and Optics in the Work of Isaac Newton" at Lumière et vision dans les sciences et dans les arts, de l'antiquité au xviie siècle, Conference at L'Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris.

  • March 12, 2006 — Lisa Lloyd at Brooklyn Public Library, New York.
  • March 15-17, 2006 — Bill Newman on "The Persistence of Techne: Nature, Design, and Early Modern Practice of the Arts" at Getty Research Institute Workshop, Los Angeles.
  • April 27, 2006 — Colin Allen discussed Morgan's Canon at American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting, Chicago

  • May 31, 2006 — Lisa Lloyd gave Stillman Drake Memorial Lecture, Presidential Lecture, Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, Congress of Humanities, Toronto.
  • June 1, 2006 — Colin Allen spoke in a symposium on Animal Cognition at Society for Philosophy & Psychology, St. Louis
  • June 3, 2006 — Colin Allen organized EthicALife Workshop at ALIFEX Artificial Life Conference, Bloomington
  • June 14-18 — Jutta Schickore organized a symposion on "Reconsidering the Context Distinction" at the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) in Paris, France.
  • June 22-24, 2006 — Amit Hagar and Colin Allen at European Computing and Philosophy conference, ECAP 2006, Trondheim, Norway. Hagar will be talking about Quantum Computing, and Allen is program track chair for Biological Computation.
  • June 23-24, 2006 — Jutta Schickore co-organized the workshop, "Generating Knowledge with Microscopes" at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Germany). This is part of a joint project "Generating Experimental Knowledge: Experimental Systems, Concept Formation, and the Pivotal Role of Error" of the MPI and the Dept. of Philosophy at the University of Haifa (Israel).
  • July 2-7, 2006 — Colin Allen organized a special session on Extended Mind at Annual Summer Interdisciplinary Conference 2006, Andaslnes, Norway, and he gave a talk titled "Mind and World -- An Unprincipled Distinction?"
  • July 12-15, 2006 — Lisa Lloyd gave Keynote lecture, International Academy of Sex Research, Amsterdam.
  • July 19-22, 2006 — Bill Newman on Newton's "Chymistry" at the International Conference on the History of Alchemy and Chymistry, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia.

  • October 23-27, 2006 — Colin Allen lectured at Eotvös Lorand University for the Budapest Semester in Cognitive Science.
  • November 3-5, 2006 — Colin Allen spoke at the University of North Carolina Expression Workshop: Art, Language, Ethology, and Ethics.
  • November 4, 2006 — Jutta Schickore presented a paper on "Anatomy and Astronomy: Early Nineteenth-Century Constellations" at the "Anatomy in Context" session of the History of Science Society annual meeting in Vancouver.
  • November 4, 2006 — Domenico Bertoloni Meli presented a paper on "Anatomists and Mathematicians in the 17th Century" at the "Anatomy in Context" session of the History of Science Society annual meeting in Vancouver.
  • November 18, 2006 — Lisa Lloyd at American Anthropological Association, "The Fantastic Bonus", Presidential Panel on "The Orgasm", San Jose, CA.
  • December 27-30, 2006 — Colin Allen spoke in the Eastern APA session on Machine Ethics in Washington, DC.

  • February 22-24, 2007 — Colin Allen on "Mirror Neurons And Cognition", Cal State Long Beach.
  • February 24, 2007 — James Capshew delivered a talk about "The President and the Professor: Establishing Sex Research at Indiana University" as part of the Indiana Association of Historians annual meeting in Bloomington.
  • March 30, 2007 — Lisa Lloyd spoke on "The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in Evolutionary Science" at the Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science.
  • April 19-21, 2007 — Colin Allen spoke on "Understanding Other Minds and Moral Agency," College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA.

  • 2006-2007 — Lisa Lloyd at University of Kentucky Women's Studies Program, Committee on Social Theory, Interdisciplinary Series on Evolution.
  • May 26, 2007 — Amit Hagar talked about "Thomas Reid and the Language of Nature" at the Bloomington Eighteenth-Century Studies Workshop.
  • June 14–16, 2007 — Jutta Schickore co-organized a conference on Generating Experimental Knowledge, which took place at the University of Wuppertal, where she spoke on "Pretensions, Defects, and Excellencies: Test Objects for Microscopes in the Early 19th Century."
  • June 15, 2007 — Domenico Bertoloni Meli gave a talk on "Guidobaldo, Galileo e la meccanica del XVII secolo" at the Convegno internazionale di studi Urbino-Mombaroccio in honor of the 400th anniversary of the death of Guidobaldo dal Monte.
  • June 26, 2007 — Jim Capshew delivered a paper, coauthored with graduate student Matt Dunn, "The Present Past: Publication Patterns in History of Psychology, 1998-2007" at the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences in Dublin. Jim also participated in an Editors' Roundtable.
  • July 5, 2007 — Domenico Bertoloni Meli spoke at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science in Berlin, on the role of "The Color of Blood" in 17th-century anatomy and philosophy.

  • October 11–13, 2007 — Amit Hagar expounded "Length Matters: The Einstein-Swann Correspondence and the Constructive Approach to Special Relativity" at the &HPS1 Conference at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
  • October 11–13, 2007 — Domenico Bertoloni Meli ranged over "A Lofty Mountain, Putrefying Flesh, Styptic Water, and Germinating Seeds: Methodological Reflections on Experimental Procedures from Pascal and Perier to Redi and Beyond" at the &HPS1 Conference at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
  • 11–13 October, 2007 — Jutta Schickore examined "How to Understand Scientific Justification: Practicing HPS" at the &HPS1 Conference at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
  • October 26, 2007 — Amit Hagar gave "Length Matters: The Einstein-Swann Correspondence and the Constructive Approach to Special Relativity" at the Symposium on Time and Relativity at the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota.
  • October 29, 2007 — Jutta Schickore spoke at the University of Pennsylvania on "Assessing Microscopes: Changing Practices of Comparison and the Emergence of Test Objects."
  • November 2, 2007 — Jutta Schickore served as commentator on the session "Analysing Microscopes: Images, Techniques, Procedures" at the History of Science Society meeting in Arlington, VA.
  • November 3, 2007 — Domenico Bertoloni Meli was on the panel discussing "Working Knowledges Before and After c. 1800: Practices and Disciplines in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine" at the HSS meeting in Arlington, VA.
  • November 3, 2007 — James Capshew examined "Portraits of the Sex Researcher: The Cultural Production of Kinsey" at the HSS meeting in Arlington, VA.
  • November 26, 2007 — Jutta Schickore spoke at the Berkeley-UCSF Colloquium in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine on "Assessing Microscopes: Changing Practices of Comparison and the Emergence of Test Objects."

  • January 25, 2008 — Colin Allen discussed "Machine Morality: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong" at the IUPUI School of Informatics. Click the following link for video of Allen's talk on Machine Morality.

Student Presentations

  • June 14-18, 2006 — Stephen Friesen spoke at the symposium on "Reconsidering the Context Distinction" at the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) in Paris, France
  • July 24, 2006 — Cesare Pastorino gave a brown bag presentation at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia: "The Origins of Francis Bacon's Alchemical Account of Proteus"

  • October 5, 2006 — Melinda Fagan spoke on "Integrative Pragmatism and Scientific Inquiry" at the California Academy of Sciences, Colloquium on History and Philosophy of Science, San Francisco, CA
  • November 3, 2006 — Cesare Pastorino presented a paper titled "The Alchemical Background to Francis Bacon's Proteus" at the History of Science Society annual meeting in Vancouver

  • Melinda Fagan presented "Science as Social Action: How to Construct Scientific Objectivity"
    • January 12, 2007 — Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University
    • January 18, 2007 — Department of Philosophy, University of California Santa Cruz
    • January 26, 2007 — Department of Philosophy, Rice University
    • January 29, 2007 — Department of Philosophy, University of California at Davis
  • January 30, 2007 — Melinda Fagan spoke on "The Search for the Hematopoietic Stem Cell: Immunology and Epistemic Success" to the Program in Science and Technology Studies, University of California at Davis
  • March 10, 2007 — Melinda Fagan spoke on "Social Epistemology of Stem Cell Research" at the Science and Philosophy Symposium, University of Stony Brook, New York, NY
  • March 25, 2007 — Andy Fiss spoke about "Stories of Women in Science," sponsored by AGEP and the Office of Women's Affairs, Indiana University
  • April 23, 2007 — Grant Goodrich gave a talk on "The Role of Anecdotal Evidence in Late 19th Century Studies of Animal Behavior" at the Animal Behavior Conference at the IU Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior.
  • May 16, 2007 — S. Brian Hood presented "The Anglo-American Tradition in Philosophy" at Gori, Georgia. (Sponsored by US Embassy, Tbilisi, Georgia)
  • May 22, 2007 — S. Brian Hood presented "The Anglo-American Tradition in Philosophy" at Telavi, Georgia. (Sponsored by US Embassy, Tbilisi, Georgia)

  • June 26, 2007 — Jim Capshew delivered a paper, coauthored with graduate student Matt Dunn, "The Present Past: Publication Patterns in History of Psychology, 1998-2007" at the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences in Dublin.
  • July 28, 2007 — Grant Goodrich presented "Experimentation and the Development of Lloyd Morgan's Canon" at the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) meeting at the University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
  • July 29, 2007 — Melinda Fagan spoke on "Stems and Standards: Social Mechanisms for Managing Complexity in Immunology" at the ISHPSSB conference in Exeter.
  • July 29, 2007 — Matt Dunn spoke on "Two Requirements for the Concept of Genetic Drift" at the ISHPSSB conference in Exeter.

  • September 11, 2007 — Cesare Pastorino made a coauthored presentation on "The 'Digital Index Chemicus': Toward a Digital Tool for Studying Isaac Newton's 'Index Chemicus'" to the Digital Resources for the Humanities and Art conference at Dartington College, UK
  • October 11–13, 2007 — Melinda Fagandiscussed "Integrative Pragmatism and Scientific Inquiry" at the &HPS1 Conference at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
  • October 11–13, 2007 — Koray Karacaanalyzed "A Case Study in the Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation: Electron-Proton Inelastic Scattering Program in High Energy Particle Physics" at the &HPS1 Conference at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
  • November 21, 2007 — Brian Hood will talk to the Department of Psychological Methods, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands), about "Realist Presuppositions in Psychometrics."

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