Reading Group in History and Philosophy of Science 2008
Coordinated by Charles Wolfe, HPS – c.wolfe@usyd.edu.au
Meetings are every second Thursday at 11.15 am in Charles’s office, Carslaw 437.
Date
Article
Presenter
March Walter Ong, S.J.
20
[[b||Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason]]
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1958 / reissued U of Chicago Press, 2004
Kiran Krishna
April 3 Nikolas Rose
[[b||The Politics of Life Itself
Biomedicine, Power and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century]]
Princeton, 2007
[[i||Contact Charles for PDF]]
Veronica, Chris & Charles
April
17
Charles Wolfe & Ofer Gal
Pamela H. Smith
[[b||The body of the artisan : art and experience in the scientific revolution]]
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004
May 8 Hughes, Thomas P
[[b||Human Built World: How to Think About Technology and Culture]]
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004
Ian Wells
May
15
Claire Kennedy
Canizares-Esguerra, Jorge
[[b||Nature, empire, and nation: explorations of the history of science in the Iberian world]]
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006
May
22
A paper on some recent Newtownian scholarship titled
"Newtown in the Free Market of Ideas"
Contact Charles for a copy
David Gilad
May
29
Christopher Lawrence and George Weisz, eds.,
[[b||Greater than the Parts: Holism in Biomedicine, 1920-1950]]
New York: Oxford University Press
Contact Charles for snippets of the book
Dean Rickles,
Hans Pols &
Charles Wolfe
June 5 Either Boris Hessen's original 1931 article or some analysis on the topic -- TBC
Robert
June
12
Helena Sheehan
[[b||Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History]]
Humanities Press Intl, 1985, 2nd ed. 1993
[[i||Available as series of PDFs at:]]
[[http://webpages.dcu.ie/~sheehanh/mxphsc.htm||http://webpages.dcu.ie/~sheehanh/mxphsc.htm]]
[[i||Students interested in this topic could divide up the book]]
Veronica & perhaps Robert
June
26
Mario Biagioli
Kiran Krishna & Charles Wolfe
[[b||The Scientific Revolution is Undead]]
Configurations 6.2 (1998) 141-148
[[i||Online at:]]
[[http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v006/6.2biagioli.html||http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/conf
igurations/v006/6.2biagioli.html]]
[[i||from a computer with a subscription]]
July 3
David Norton
[[b||The Myth of British Empiricism]]
1981
[[i||Contact Charles for PDF]]
July 17 Something on renaissance medicine or the Royal Society-- TBA
Jul 31
Charles Wolfe & Anik Waldow
Alan Salter
Mario Biagioli
Kiran Krishna &
[[b||The Scientific Revolution is Undead]]
Charles Wolfe
[[i||Configurations]] 6.2 (1998) 141-148
[[http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v006/6.2biagioli.html||http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/conf
igurations/v006/6.2biagioli.html]]
Aug 7 Robert Martensen
[[b||The Brain Takes Shape: An Early History]]
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004
Peter Hubert &
Charles Wolfe
Aug 28 Adam Smith
Adam Smith on sympathy
[[i||Presentation by Anik to be sent out, or contact Charles]]
Anik Waldow &
Dominic Murphy
TBA
Sean Dyde
Michael Ruse
[[b||Can a Darwinian be a Christian?]]
Cambridge University Press, 2000
Texts remaining to be chosen
Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, [[i||Objectivity]]
(New York: Zone Books, 2007)
Timothy Lenoir, [[i||The strategy of life: teleology and mechanics in nineteenth century German biology]]
(Kluwer, 1982)
Keith Thomas, [[i||Man and the natural world: changing attitudes in England 1500-1800.]]
(London : Allen Lane, 1983)
Porter, Roy & Teich, Mikuláš (eds), [[i||The Scientific revolution in national context.]]
(Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992)
we can divide this up, it's a series of independent pieces.
Steve Fuller's [[i||Kuhn vs Popper.]]