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Friday, February 29th, 2008
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Voice and Text in Medieval Lyric
Seth Lerer, professor of English, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Archipelagic Macbeth
John Kerrigan, professor of English, University of Cambridge,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Understanding without Explanation?
Peter Lipton, department of history and philosophy of science, University of Cambridge,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

George Gallup in Hollywood
Susan Ohmer, assistant professor of modern communication, University of Notre Dame,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
5:30pm 6:30pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Innateness as Closed Process Invariance
Jonathan Weinberg, Philosophy, Indiana University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

The Japanese Sword, a Cultural Icon
Richard Suran,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

The Evolution and Evolvability of Culture
Kim Sterelny, The Australian National University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Pain and Pleasure in Political Economy
Catherine Gallagher, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Rules, Emotions, and the Genealogy of Norms
Sean Nichols, Department of Philosophy, University of Utah,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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HSS Brown Bag Seminar

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