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Tuesday, May 27th, 2025
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar (cross-listed with the LCSSP series)
All Learning is Generative
Boris Babic,
Associate Professor of Data Science, Philosophy, and Law,
University of Hong Kong,
Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
4:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar (cross-listed with the LCSSP series)
Healthcare AI and Machine Personhood
Sara Gerke,
Associate Professor of Law and Richard W. & Marie L. Corman Scholar,
College of Law,
University of Illinois,
Boris Babic,
Associate Professor of Data Science, Philosophy, and Law,
University of Hong Kong,
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
On Plausible Counterfactual Explanations in XAI
Jiji Zhang,
Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Arts,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Monday, March 31st, 2025
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Eighteenth century color knowledge: clashes between physics, practice, and mathematics
Friedrich Steinle,
Professor of History of Science, Emeritus, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany; President of the German Society for History of Science, Medicine, and Technology,
Tuesday, March 11th, 2025
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Don't Use Machine Learning To Evaluate Grants
Kathleen Creel,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science,
Northeastern University,
Thursday, March 6th, 2025
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Paper Worlds: Urbano Monte and the Global Renaissance
Paula Findlen,
Ubaldo Pierotti Professor in Italian History,
Stanford University,
Thursday, February 27th, 2025
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Science as social choice
Conor Mayo-Wilson,
Associate Professor of Philosophy,
University of Washington, Seattle,
Friday, December 6th, 2024
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Dividing al-ʿUlūm: Mathematics as a 'Rational Science' in the Post-Classical Islamicate World
Julia Tomasson,
PhD Candidate,
Department of History,
Columbia University,
Wednesday, November 6th, 2024
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Mathematical Writings of Antoine Parent
John F. Hall,
Professor of Civil Engineering, Emeritus,
Caltech,
Friday, November 1st, 2024
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Structured Deliberation
Dmitri Gallow,
Associate Professor of Philosophy,
USC,
Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
What are cognitive costs?
Thomas F. Icard,
Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech; Professor of Philosophy and, by courtesy, of Computer Science, Stanford University,
Thursday, May 9th, 2024
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Symmetries as Isomorphisms
Lu Chen,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
USC,
Tuesday, April 16th, 2024
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Thomas Gray as reader and writer of the natural world
Scott Mandelbrote,
Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse,
University of Cambridge,
Wednesday, April 10th, 2024
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Making Molecular World: Building a practice-based account of modern chemistry
Dr. Catherine M. Jackson,
Associate Professor and Director of the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology,
University of Oxford,
Thursday, April 4th, 2024
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► CANCELED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
This seminar has been canceled.
Paula Findlen,
Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of History,
Stanford University,
Thursday, January 18th, 2024
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Mendel, Darwin, and Lysenko on Heredity
Ute Deichmann,
Professor, Jacques Loeb Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences,
Ben Gurion University of the Negev,
Thursday, January 11th, 2024
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
When Is It Okay to Ban Research (Funding)?
Craig Callender,
Tata Chancellor's Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics,
UC San Diego,
Thursday, December 7th, 2023
12:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Einstein on Singularities: Analysis versus Geometry
John Norton,
Distinguished Professor,
Department of History and Philosophy of Science,
University of Pittsburgh,
Thursday, November 30th, 2023
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Inquiry, Risk, and Impartiality: Lessons from The Harvest of American Racism
Kareem Khalifa,
Professor of Philosophy,
UCLA,
Thursday, November 9th, 2023
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CSSPP/HPS Seminar
What's So Special about Genetic Information, Anyway?
Ozan Gurcan,
Postdoctoral Instructor in Science, Society, and Public Policy,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 1st, 2023
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● POSTPONED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
This seminar has been postponed.
John Norton,
Distinguished Professor,
Department of History and Philosophy of Science,
University of Pittsburgh,
Wednesday, October 11th, 2023
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Disappearing Without a Trace: The Arrows of Time in Kent's Solution to the Lorentzian Quantum Reality Problem
Emily Adlam,
Assistant Professor,
Schmid College of Science and Technology,
Chapman University,
Thursday, June 1st, 2023
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Deformation: Intentional Incomprehensibility in Seventeenth-Century Minim and Jesuit Visual Culture
Susanna Berger,
Associate Professor of Art History and Philosophy,
Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences,
USC,
Thursday, April 27th, 2023
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Malnutrition and the "Quality of People" in the Early Cold War
Hannah LeBlanc,
Howard E. and Susanne C. Jessen Postdoctoral Instructor in STEM and Inequality,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Thursday, March 2nd, 2023
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Back to The Problem of Space
Joshua T. Eisenthal,
Research Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Caltech,
Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Pinocchio's Ancestry: a Social and Cultural History of Automata in the North Italian Renaissance
Cristiano Zanetti,
Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee in the History of Science,
Caltech,
Thursday, February 9th, 2023
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Why did Pierre Bayle believe in Virtuous Atheists?: A Critique of Pure Reason Avant la Lettre
Dmitri Levitin,
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford; Visiting Associate in the Humanities, Caltech,
Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Calculating the Length of Life in the Sixteenth Century: Arabic Astrology and Humanist Reforms
Margaret E. Gaida,
Postdoctoral Instructor in Early Modern Natural Philosophy,
Caltech,
Friday, October 15th, 2021
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● POSTPONED: History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
This seminar has been postponed until May 2022 (date TBD).
Myles Jackson,
Professor of the History of Science, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study,
Thursday, June 10th, 2021
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Online Event
Resolute and Correlated Bayesians
Boris Babic,
Assistant Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, INSEAD; former Weisman Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy of Science, Caltech (2017-2019),
Monday, June 1st, 2020
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▶︎ CANCELED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
This seminar has been canceled.
Alastair Wilson,
Professor of Philosophy,
University of Birmingham,
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020
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▶︎ CANCELED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
This seminar has been canceled.
Jill North,
Associate Professor of Philosophy,
Rutgers University,
Thursday, April 16th, 2020
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▶︎ CANCELED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
This seminar has been canceled.
Tim Maudlin,
Professor of Philosophy,
New York University,
Tuesday, April 7th, 2020
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▶︎ CANCELED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
This seminar has been canceled.
Matthias Dörries,
Professor of Epistemology and History of Science,
University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study,
Tuesday, March 10th, 2020
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▶︎ CANCELED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
This seminar has been canceled.
Don Howard,
Professor of Philosophy,
University of Notre Dame,
Friday, March 6th, 2020
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▶︎ CANCELED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
This seminar has been canceled.
Paula Findlen,
Professor of Early Modern Europe and History of Science,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, December 4th, 2019
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Spiritual Mobilization: Re-selling market fundamentalism to America's clergy during the New Deal
Erik M. Conway,
Visiting Associate in the Humanities,
Caltech,
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