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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
The Wason Task and the Paradox of Confirmation
Branden Fitelson,
associate professor of philosophy,
UC Berkeley,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Transatlantic Islam: Carlyle, Emerson, Irving
Wai Chee Dimock,
professor of English and American studies,
Yale University,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
The Origins of Morality—Empathy, Rules, and Causal Reasoning
Alison Gopnik,
professor of psychology,
UC Berkeley,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Grace Nicholson: Pasadena's Merchant Princess
Kathleen Peck,
independent scholar and reader,
the Huntington Library,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
American Pastorals: Philip Roth and the Mid-Century Discourse of Happiness
Mary Esteve,
visiting associate professor of English, Caltech,
and associate professor of English,
Condordia Univeristy,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Commemorating Darwin: 1809, 1859, 2009
Janet Browne,
Aramont Professor of the history of science,
Harvard University,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Moral Intuitions as Heuristics
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong,
professor of philosophy,
Dartmouth College,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Electrolysis Before the Modern Ionic Theory: Underdetermination, Closure, and Pluralism
Hasok Chang,
senior lecturer in philosophy of science,
University College London,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Pistols! Treason! Murder!: A Multimedia Assassination
Jonathan Walker,
research fellow in history,
University of Sydney,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Three Applications of Means-Ends Epistemology
Oliver Schulte,
associate professor of computing science,
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
The Fall of the Roman Empire: Natural Scientific Approaches
Michael McCormick,
professor of medieval history,
Harvard University,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Voice and Text in Medieval Lyric
Seth Lerer,
professor of English,
Stanford University,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Archipelagic Macbeth
John Kerrigan,
professor of English,
University of Cambridge,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
The Specter of the Telescope: Radical Instrumentalism from Galileo to Hooke
Ofer Gal,
lecturer in the history and philosophy of science,
University of Sydney,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Conscience, Rights, and the 'Delirium of Democracy': Charles Brockden Brown's Inalienable Alien
Nancy Ruttenburg,
professor of comparative literature,
New York University,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Understanding without Explanation?
Peter Lipton,
department of history and philosophy of science,
University of Cambridge,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Robert Hooke in the Round: Ingenious Scientist, Newton's Nemesis, and a Most Disastrous Clerk
Lisa Jardine,
professor of renaissance studies,
Queen Mary University, London,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Intervention and Causal Inference in Rats
Aaron Blaisdell,
assistant professor of psychology,
Brain Research Institute,
UCLA,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Acknowledging the Unthinkable: Returning the Domestic Slave Trade to Its Central Role in the History of the United States
Steven Deyle,
associate professor of history,
University of Houston,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Watson, Crick, and the Mushroom Cloud
Soraya de Chadarevian,
department of history and the New Center for Society and Genetics,
UCLA,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
American Transportation Politics in the Twentieth Century
Mark H. Rose,
professor of history,
Florida Atlantic University,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Complexion and Classification: Narratives of Skin Color in Historical Sources
Martha Hodes,
associate professor of history,
New York University,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Becoming African in America
James Sidbury,
associate professor of history,
The University of Texas at Austin,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Workin' on the Chain Gang: Walter Mosley's Message to White Middle-Class America
Cecelia Tichi,
visiting professor of English, Caltech,
and professor of English,
Vanderbilt University,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Why the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection Always Was and Still Is a Causal-Explanatory Theory
Jon Hodge,
senior fellow,
department of philosophy,
Leeds University,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Harmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Myles W. Jackson,
associate professor of the history of science,
Willamette University,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
George Gallup in Hollywood
Susan Ohmer,
assistant professor of modern communication,
University of Notre Dame,
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Descartes' Attempt (in the Regulae) to Base the Certainty of Algebra on Mental Vision
Hendrik Bos,
Professor of History of Mathematics, Utrecht University,
Visiting Professor of History, Caltech,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Unification and Coherence
Stephan Hartmann,
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method ,
London School of Economics,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Innateness as Closed Process Invariance
Jonathan Weinberg,
Philosophy,
Indiana University,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Slavery and the Missouri Crisis Revis'd
Sean Wilentz,
Professor of History; Director, Program in American Studies,
Department of History,
Princeton University,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Using "Error" as a Probe in Historical Analysis: The Case of Galileo vs. Kepler
Giora Hon,
University of Haifa and the Dibner Institute,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Moral Luck: Why Chance Is Morally Irrelevant
Julian Nida-Rumelin,
Professor of Philosophy, Chair for Political Theory and Philosophy, University of Munich,
Visiting Associate in Philosopy, Caltech,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Is There a Neurophysiological Challenge to Freedom and Responsibility of Human Action
Julian Nida-Rumelin,
Professor of Philosophy, Chair for Political Theory and Philosophy, University of Munich,
Visiting Associate in Philosophy, Caltech,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
The Real Reason Genes Are at the Center of Attention in Biological Research
Ken Waters,
University of Minnesota,
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The Evolution and Evolvability of Culture
Kim Sterelny,
The Australian National University,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Pain and Pleasure in Political Economy
Catherine Gallagher,
UC Berkeley,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Rules, Emotions, and the Genealogy of Norms
Sean Nichols,
Department of Philosophy,
University of Utah,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
The Emotional Basis of Morals
Jesse Prinz,
Associate Professor,
Department of Philosophy,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
What Every Literate Man Once Knew: Tracing Readers in Early Modern England
Steven Zwicker,
Visiting Professor of English, Caltech,
Professor of English, Washington University,
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