Department of Science and Technology Studies
Fourth Annual Research Day
Thursday 25 May 2006
10.30am – 1pm Room 105, 24 Gordon Square
2.30pm – 6pm
Room G.3, 22 Gordon Square
WELCOME, over coffee/tea (10.30am-11am)
SESSION 1: Anything Goes? The Many Ways of STS (11am-1pm)
Joe Cain
“You must be joking: pranks in scientific disciplines”
Charles Thorpe
“On being a Google Scholar”
David Teira
“Methodological norms as social norms in biomedical research”
Catherine Jackson
“Lavoisier’s Neun Kuegel Apparat”
BREAK
SESSION 2: Philosophy Still Lives in 22 Gordon Square (2.30-4pm)
Janne Mantykoski
“Truth and incommensurability”
Michela Massimi
“Saving phenomena: all you always wanted to know (and never dared to ask) about
what physicists actually do and what philosophers think physicists do”
Hauke Riesch
“The development of reductionism in the works of E.O. Wilson”
BREAK
SESSION 3: Science and Society, Through the Ages (4.30-6pm)
Jon Agar
“Imagining old futures: Somerset’s century of inventions”
Irena McCabe
“One Victorian Physicist’s popular science: John Tyndall (1820-1893), the Irishman
in Britain and abroad”
Richard Milne
“Red, green and in-between: biotechnology and the development of molecular
farming”
Followed by drinks and dinner
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