Past Sessions
History and Philosophy of Science and Technology read and discuss ‘works in progress’ of group members. Past sessions have been dedicated to drafts of papers and chapters of larger manuscripts. For copies of works discussed, please contact the author directly.
| Date | Author | Title |
| May 5, 2009 | Ted Richards | Using Interactive Demonstrations to Teach Retrograde Motion |
| March 26, 2009 | Richard Pagni | A Personal Reflection on the Two Cultures and Their Wars |
| February 19, 2009 | Bruce MacLennan | Formal Methods for Embodied Computation and Morphogenesis |
| November 12, 2008 | Millie Gimmel | Nahua Medicine in Chican@ Literature: How Indigenous medical practices reduplicate the metonymic gap |
| September 11, 2008 | Jeffery Kovac | Science, Ethics and War: A Pacifist’s Perspective |
| May 7, 2008 | Richard Pagni | The Weak Nuclear Force, the Chirality of Atoms, and the Origin of Optically Active Molecules |
| April 14, 2008 | Ted Richards | Comments on Moore’s “Quantum Wave Model of Value Theory” |
| March 26, 2008 | Millie Gimmel | Nahua Medicine and Cultural Survival in Chicano Literature |
| February 18, 2008 | Denise Phillips | The Art of Wissenschaft: Natural Science and the Polite Public, 1810-1830 |
| November 14 2007 | Steven Blackwell | Nabokov Minds the Gap: Discontinuities in Nature, Art, and Science |
| October 10 2007 | Heather Douglas | Reintroducing Prediction into Explanation |
| September 12, 2007 | Bruce MacLennan | Analog Computation |
| May 2, 2007 | Susan North | ‘To Second Reason and Not to Oppress It': Stoic Influence on Bacon's Theories of Rhetoric and Discourse |
| April 4, 2007 | Bruce MacLennan | Aesthetics in Software Engineering |
| March 21, 2007 | Denise Phillips | Science, Myth and Eastern Souls: J. S. C. Schweigger and the Society for the Spread of Natural Knowledge and Higher Truth |
| February 7, 2007 | Heather Douglas | Science Wars and Policy Wars |
| January 17, 2007 | Jeffery Kovac | Moral Rules, Moral Ideals, and Use-Inspired Research |
| December 11, 2006 | Denise Philips | Epistemological Distinctions and Cultural Politics: Educational Reform and the Naturwissenschaft/ Geisteswissenschaft Distinction in mid-19th century Saxony(?) Germany |
| November 12, 2006 | Bruce MacLennan | Thought as Computation |
| October 9, 2006 | Millie Gimmel | New World Medicine in the Codex de la Cruz Badiano |
| September 11, 2006 | Stephen Blackwell | Nabokov and the Worlds of Physics |
| April 10, 2006 | Denise Phillips | Introduction to “Building a Natural Scientific Age: Science and Public Culture in Germany” |
| March 6, 2006 | Ted Ricahrds | (Re-) Dating De Gravitatione |
| February 13, 2006 | Heather Douglas | The Structure of Values in Science |
| December 1, 2005 | Millie Gimmel | Reflections of the Nahau World in the Codex de la Cruz Badiano |
| October 27, 2005 | Steven Blackwell | Scientific and Idealist Perspectives in Nabokov |
| October 6, 2007 | Ted Richards | “I shall venture to destroy his figments”: The large-scale structure of Newton’s De Gravitatione argument against Descartes |
| September 8, 2005 | Jeffery Kovac | Moral Rules, Moral Ideals, and Pasteur’s Quadrant |
| April 27, 2005 | Christopher Pynes | Defending Stem Cell Use and Cloning Techniques |
| March 30, 2005 | Millie Gimmel | Forgotten or Ignored? The case of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún’s Historia universal. |
| February 23, 2005 | Denise Phillips | Sokal Affair and the History of Science |
| January 19, 2005 | Heather Douglas | Boundaries between Science and Policy: Descriptive Possibility and Normative Desirability |