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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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Francis Bacon Conference Lecture
Babylonian Horoscopy and Genethlialogy
Francesca Rochberg,
Francis Bacon Visiting Professor of History, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech; Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
On Meerkats and Marmots: Long-term Research and the Birth of Behavioral Ecology
Erika L. Milam,
Charles C. and Emily R. Gillispie Professor in the History of Science; Professor of History,
Department of History,
Princeton University,
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Francis Bacon Conference
Thematic Continuities in Astronomy and Astrology from Antiquity to the Renaissance: A Conference in Memory of Noel M. Swerdlow
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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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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Amerasia
Elizabeth Horodowich,
Department Head,
Department of History,
New Mexico State University,
Alexander Nagel,
Professor of Art History,
New York University,
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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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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
From Fukushima to Hiroshima: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Eight Decades of Living with Nuclear Technology
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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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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Engineering Fidelity: Early Radio and the Trautonium in Berlin in the 1920s and '30s
Myles W. Jackson,
Ph.D., Ernst & Elisabeth Albers-Schönberg Professor in the History of Science, Institute for Advanced Study,
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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
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),
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
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Fighting the First Wave
Peter Baldwin,
Global Distinguished Professor, NYU; Professor of History, UCLA,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Online Event
Rich Rocks, the Climate Crisis, and the Tech Imperium
Sophia Kalantzakos,
Visiting Fellow in the Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology (2020-2021), Caltech; Global Distinguished Professor in Environmental Studies and Public Policy, New York University,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Online Event
Decolonizing Deep History
Pratik Chakrabarti,
Chair in History of Science and Medicine, University of Manchester; Director, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM),
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Online Event
Ideal and Illusion: The Rise and Fall of Nikola Tesla
W. Bernard Carlson,
Joseph L. Vaughan Professor of Humanities; Chair, Engineering and Society Department; Professor of History, University of Virginia,
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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,
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▶︎ CANCELED: Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
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Felicity Meakins,
Associate Professor of Linguistics,
The University of Queensland, Australia,
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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: Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
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Alan Stern,
Planetary Scientist,
Southwest Research Institute,
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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
This seminar has been canceled.
Matthias Dörries,
Professor of Epistemology and History of Science,
University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study,
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● POSTPONED: William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
This event has been postponed. Rescheduled date TBA.
W. Bernard Carlson,
Joseph L. Vaughan Professor of Humanities; Chair, Engineering and Society Department; Professor of History, University of Virginia,
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▶︎ CANCELED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
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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
This seminar has been canceled.
Paula Findlen,
Professor of Early Modern Europe and History of Science,
Stanford University,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Extinction: a (pre-)history
Jeremy Schneider,
Graduate Student,
Department of History,
Princeton University,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Lies & Truth in the History of Science
Alberto A. Martínez,
Associate Professor,
Department of History,
The University of Texas at Austin,
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Francis Bacon Lecture
Scholars or Spies? The Escalating Tension Between the U.S. and China in Academia
John Krige,
Kranzberg Professor, School of History, Technology, and Sociology, Georgia Institute of Technology; recipient of the Francis Bacon Award in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (2020),
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Francis Bacon Conference
Transnational Transactions: Negotiating the Movement of Knowledge Across Borders
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Exploring Islamic Maps: From the Earth to the Moon and the Cosmos
Karen Pinto,
Associate Research Professor,
College of Innovation and Design,
Boise State 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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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
An Ordinary Arab Ship, and Its Stories of Early Globalism
Geraldine Heng,
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Perceval Professor in Medieval Romance, Historiography, and Culture,
Department of English,
University of Texas at Austin,
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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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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Exploring Jupiter
Candice Hansen-Koharcheck,
Senior Scientist,
Planetary Science Institute,
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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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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Leonardo da Vinci: History of the Earth and the Fate of Man
Paolo Galluzzi,
Moore Distinguished Scholar, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech; Historian of Science, Director of the Galileo Museum, Florence, Italy,
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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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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Maps, Monsters, and Natural History in the Age of Exploration
Surekha Davies,
Cultural Historian and InterAmericas Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library,
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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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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
The Anatomy of Artificial Intelligence
Kate Crawford,
Co-Founder and Co-Director of the AI Now Institute at NYU, Distinguished Research Professor at New York University, and a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New York,
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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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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Towards a Global History of Biodiversity
Daniel Lewis,
Lecturer in History, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech; Dibner Senior Curator of the History of Science & Technology, The Huntington Library,
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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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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Making the World Go 'Round: How Urbano Monte Created his Map of 1587
Chet Van Duzer,
Geography and Map Division,
Library of Congress, Washington, DC,
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
The Space Barons and the New Space Age
Christian Davenport,
Author, Staff Writer,
The Washington Post,
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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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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Science vs. Intuition: Why Scientific Ideas Elude the Human Mind
Andrew Shtulman,
Associate Professor, Cognitive Science; Psychology,
Occidental College,
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Jay Rubenstein, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Was the First Crusade Really That Violent?
Jay Rubenstein,
Professor of History,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
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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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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
"By far the most important event in my life": Charles Darwin's recollections of his voyage on HMS Beagle
Janet Browne,
Aramont Professor of the History of Science,
Harvard University,
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