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Friday, April 13th, 2012
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Analysing Alkaloids, Analysis Mania: What Liebig's 1830 Laboratory Notebook Can Tell Us About the Practice of Organic Analysis
Catherine Jackson, Chemical Heritage Foundation,
Friday, March 30th, 2012
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Stitching the World Together: Why Time Seems to Flow
Craig Callender, University of California, San Diego,
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
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Concepts of Completeness in Einstein’s Critique of Quantum Mechanics
Don Howard, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame,
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
4:00pm 5:00pm
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X-phi as Explication Preparation for Formal Epistemology
James Justus, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Texas-Austin,
Friday, January 27th, 2012
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Feynman Diagrams
Adrian Wuthrich, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh,
Friday, January 6th, 2012
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How to Destroy Probabilities and Lives by Trying to Make Things Safer
Adam Elga, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University,
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

The Molding of the Young Bethe
Silvan S. Schweber, professor of physics and Richard Koret Professor in the History of Ideas, Emeritus, Brandeis University,
Friday, April 8th, 2011
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Empire and the Politics of Information in America, 1840-1860
Peter Shulman, assistant professor of history, Case Western Reserve University,
Friday, February 11th, 2011
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Incommensurabilities? Trying to Grasp Chinese Medicine in 17th-Century Europe
Harold J. Cook, professor of history, Brown University,
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

The 'Unity of the Occult Sciences': A View from late Seventeenth-century Britain
Michael Hunter, University of London,
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Leibniz and His Followers on Action and Reaction: The Origin of Kant's Third Law of Mechanics
Marius Stan, Caltech-Huntington Mellon Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy, Caltech,
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Immanuel Velikovsky and the Pseudoscience Wars: The Great Collision of 1950
Michael Gordin, professor of history, Princeton University,
Friday, October 22nd, 2010
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

The Early Kant's (Anti-)Newtonianism
Eric Watkins, professor of philosophy and science studies, UC San Diego,
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Ancient Greek Atomism and the Mechanical Philosophy
Sylvia Berryman, associate professor of philosophy, University of British Columbia,
Friday, February 19th, 2010
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Learned Surgeons and the Cultures of Print in Renaissance Venice
Cynthia Klestinec, assistant professor of English, Miami University of Ohio,
Monday, December 7th, 2009
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Modeling and Representing: An Artefactual Approach to Model-based Representation
Tarja Knuuttila, visiting associate in philosophy, Caltech,
Friday, October 30th, 2009
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

The Origin of Vector Calculus in Geometry and Mechanics
Sandro Caparrini, postdoctoral fellow, University of Toronto,
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Cartesian Consciousness Reconsidered
Alison Simmons, professor of philosophy, Harvard University,
Friday, May 8th, 2009
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Persons and Explanations by Mechanisms
Peter Machamer, professor of the history and philosophy of science, University of Pittsburgh,
Friday, May 1st, 2009
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Beyond Galton: J.S. Mill, Charles Darwin, and the 19th Century British Debate over Inherited Differences?
Diane Paul, professor emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston, visiting professor, UCLA Center for Society and Genetics,
Friday, February 27th, 2009
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Pre-History of the Mechanical Philosophy
Daniel Garber, professor of philosophy, Princeton University,
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Leibniz's History of the Earth
Claudine Cohen, CNRS-University of Paris,
Andre Wakefield, Pitzer College,
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Big Books in Manuscript and Print
Ann Blair, professor of history, Harvard University,
Friday, December 5th, 2008
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Gravity in the Tropics: The Seconds Pendulum and Global Science, 1672–1726
Nicholas Dew, assistant professor of history, McGill University,
Friday, May 9th, 2008
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

The Genesis of the 1000-foot Arecibo Dish
Marshall Cohen, professor of astronomy, emeritus, Caltech,
Friday, January 11th, 2008
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Marx, Mao, and Mathematics
Joseph Dauben, professor of history, City University of New York,
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Two Concepts of Scientific Philosophy: Carnap and Reichenbach
Andre Carus, affiliate lecturer, University of Cambridge ,
Friday, March 30th, 2007
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Visualizing the Mathematical Sciences in the Early Modern Period
Volker Remmert, University of Mainz,
Friday, February 16th, 2007
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Modeling in Synthetic Biology
Andrea Loettgers, senior postdoctoral scholar in the Center for Biological Circuitry Design, Caltech,
Friday, January 26th, 2007
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Heinrich Hertz's Road to the Principles of Mechanics
Jesper Lutzen, visiting professor of history, Caltech, and professor of mathematics, University of Copenhagen,
Friday, January 12th, 2007
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Useful Knowledge: On the History of the Concept of Science for the Common Good, from Bacon to Mill
Rose-Mary Sargent, Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor of History, Caltech, and professor of philosophy, Merrimack College,
Monday, June 5th, 2006
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Wonderment for Idiots in Baroque Rome
Ingrid Rowland, associate professor of art history, University of Chicago,
Friday, June 2nd, 2006
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

To Draw or to Calculate: Aristarchus's Problem and the Computational Practices of Greek Astronomy
Ido Yavetz, assistant professor, The Cohn Institute for History of Science, Tel Aviv University, and the Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor in the History of Science, Caltech,
Friday, May 19th, 2006
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Kepler's Archetypal Cosmology and Arguments for the Copernican Theory
Noel Swerdlow, professor of history and professor of astronomy and astrophysics, University of Chicago,
Thursday, April 27th, 2006
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

The Mathematical Theory of Perspective from Alberti to Lambert: Its Development, Its Use, and Its Prestige
Kirsti Andersen, associate professor, department of the history of science, University of Aarhus, Denmark,
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Building MIT: Architecture and Technology
Thomas P. Hughes, Emeritus Professor of the History of Science and Technology , University of Pennsylvania,
Friday, November 18th, 2005
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Running a Laboratory in 19th-Century Germany: Virchow the Pathologist and Ludwig the Physiologist
Robert G. Frank, Department of History, UCLA,