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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,
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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,
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► CANCELED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
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Paula Findlen,
Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of History,
Stanford University,
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
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Resolute and Correlated Bayesians
Boris Babic,
Assistant Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, INSEAD; former Weisman Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy of Science, Caltech (2017-2019),
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▶︎ CANCELED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
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Alastair Wilson,
Professor of Philosophy,
University of Birmingham,
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▶︎ CANCELED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
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Jill North,
Associate Professor of Philosophy,
Rutgers University,
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▶︎ CANCELED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
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Tim Maudlin,
Professor of Philosophy,
New York University,
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▶︎ CANCELED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
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Matthias Dörries,
Professor of Epistemology and History of Science,
University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study,
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Don Howard,
Professor of Philosophy,
University of Notre Dame,
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▶︎ CANCELED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
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Paula Findlen,
Professor of Early Modern Europe and History of Science,
Stanford University,
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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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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Fallacy of Calibrationism
Yoaav Isaacs,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Baylor University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Understanding "why": The role of causality in cognition
Tobias Gerstenberg,
Assistant Professor in Psychology,
Stanford University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Nothing is real, but thank God it's epistemic
Mario Hubert,
Howard E. and Susanne C. Jessen Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy of Physics,
Caltech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Aristotelian Mechanics in the Renaissance
Mark Schiefsky,
Visiting Associate in Philosophy, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech; C. Lois P. Grove Professor of the Classics, Harvard University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Premodern roots of modern subjectivity
Gabriel Motzkin,
Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor of History,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Causal Simulation
Thomas Icard,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Stanford University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Interferon Tournament: Credit Markets and Economies of Honor in the First Age of Biotech
Nicolas Rasmussen,
Professor, Programs in History and Environment & Society,
School of Humanities and Languages,
University of New South Wales,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Generalized Learning and Conditional Expectation
Simon Hutteger,
Professor of Philosophy,
UC Irvine,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Data Science of Human Heredity… Decades before Mendel
Theodore M. Porter,
Distinguished Professor of History & Vice Chair for Academic Personnel,
UCLA,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Visiting Newton's Atelier Before the "Principia," 1679-1684
Michael Nauenberg,
Professor of Physics, Emeritus,
UC Santa Cruz,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Language-based Games
Joseph Halpern,
Moore Distinguished Scholar, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech; Professor, Computer Science Department, Cornell University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Historical Foundations of Free Market Fundamentalism
Naomi Oreskes,
Professor of the History of Science,
Harvard University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Hard Problem of Intertheoretic Comparisons
Jennifer Carr,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Philosophy,
UC San Diego,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Quantum Measurement and Ontology
Jeff Barrett,
Chancellor’s Professor,
Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science,
UC Irvine,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Explanation in Contexts of Causal Complexity: Lessons from Psychiatric Genetics
Lauren Ross,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science,
UC Irvine,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Principle of Stability
Sam Fletcher,
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Resident Fellow, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Bayesian Pursuit of Truth: On an Influential and yet Underappreciated Solution to the Problem of the Priors
Hanti Lin,
Assistant Professor in Philosophy,
UC Davis,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Campanella, Galileo, and the Clash for the New Science at the Court of Pope Urban VIII
Stefano Gattei,
Dibner Research Fellow in the History of Science and Technology,
The Huntington Library,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Food of our Food: Medicated Feed and the Industrialization of Metabolism
Hannah Landecker,
Associate Professor of Sociology,
UCLA,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Stein's paradox and group rationality
Jan-Willem Romeijn,
Professor of Philosophy of Science and Head of the Department of Theoretical Philosophy,
University of Groningen - Netherlands,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Between the Sun and the Earth: The Recent History of Heliophysics and Space Weather
Gregory Good,
Historian of Earth Science and Director of the Center for History of Physics,
American Institute of Physics,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Dynamic Epistemic Risk
Boris Babic,
Weisman Postdoctoral Scholar Instructor in Philosophy of Science,
Caltech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Newton as a Philosophical Geometer: The Example of the Two Revolving Globes
Monica Solomon,
Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy,
USC,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
A Paradigm Shift in Slow Motion: On the History of Gravitational Waves
Alexander Blum,
Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science; Visiting Associate in History of Science, Caltech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors and Models of Moral Cognition
Eric Schwitzgebel,
Professor of Philosophy,
UC Riverside,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
On the Rise and Decline of Visual Modes of Teaching Philosophy
Susanna Berger,
Assistant Professor of Art History,
Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences,
USC,
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CANCELLED | Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
This talk has been cancelled.
Alexander Blum,
Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science; Visiting Associate in History of Science, Caltech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
A History of the Vacuum in Theoretical Physics
Aaron Sidney Wright,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Suppes Center for History and Philosophy of Science,
Stanford University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Our Knowledge about the Past: Some Puzzles from Physics
Eddy Chen,
Graduate Student,
Department of Philosophy,
Rutgers School of Arts & Sciences,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Early Detection of Gravitational Waves: A Historical Account
Virginia Trimble,
Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
UC Irvine,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Species Problem Problem and the No Solution Solution
Matt Haber,
Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy,
University of Utah,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Renormalize 'et impera': realism and approximate truth in particle physics
Porter Williams,
Assistant Professor,
Department of History and Philosophy of Science,
University of Pittsburgh,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Historians in the Laboratory: The Making and Knowing Project
Pamela Smith,
Seth Low Professor of History, Director of the Center for Science and Society,
Columbia University, New York,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Appreciation Problems of Neuroeconomics
Paul Hoyningen-Huene,
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institute of Philosophy, Professor Emeritus; Universität Zürich, Department of Economics, Lecturer,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
What is ‘orthodox' quantum mechanics?
David Wallace,
Professor of Philosophy,
USC,
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Joint Seminar of the Walter Burke Institute of Theoretical Physics and the Einstein Papers Project
Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prizes
Lars Brink,
Professor Emeritus, Chalmers University of Technology; Former Chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Scientific Variables
Benjamin Jantzen,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Virginia Tech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
How is an Olinguito like a Gothic church?
Aleta Quinn,
Ahmanson Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy of Science,
Caltech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science - TO BE RESCHEDULED
Topic to be Announced
Cosma Shalizi,
Carnegie Mellon University,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Geometrical Understanding in Dirac's Discovery of his Electron Equation
Thomas Pashby,
Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar in the Humanities,
School of Philosophy,
USC,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Cold War Geographies and the Making of the Indian Space Program
Asif Siddiqi,
Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor of History,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Assessing Scientific Theories
Stephan Hartmann,
Professor of Philosophy of Science and Alexander von Humboldt Professor,
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Overdetermination and non-reductive physicalism
John Donaldson,
Lecturer,
Philosophy Department,
University of Glasgow,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Quantum Field Theory and the Limits of Knowledge
Sean Carroll,
Research Professor of Physics,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Quantum Mechanics as Classical Physics
Chip Sebens, Ahmanson Postdoctoral Instructor in the History and Philosophy of Physics, Caltech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Young Einstein's Scientific Environment in Pavia and Milan
Christian Bracco, Associate Professor, SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, CNRS, Sorbonne Universités, Paris,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Against Brute Fundamentalism: Gesturing Toward an Explanation of the Fundamental in Physics
Kerry McKenzie, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, UC San Diego,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Problem of Motion in General Relativity
Dennis Lehmkuhl, Research Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Caltech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Passions for Learning in Early Modern Scientific Poetry
Yasmin Haskell, Cassamarca Foundation Chair in Latin Humanism, The University of Western Australia,
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