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Albert Michelson
Albert A. Michelson,
First Nobel Laureate at the University of Chicago,
recognized in 1907 for his measurements of the speed of light

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John Watson, founder of behaviorism; graduate student at Chicago, 1901-1904; member of the faculty 1906


Seminar with David Hull

 


Jordi Cat and teaching assistant

 

 

 

 

Courses Generally Offered

CHSS Faculty

Lorraine Daston
Reason and Its Histories

Arnold Davidson
Michael Foucault's History of Sexuality
History, Epistemology, and Morality of Sex
Michel Foucault: Power and Sexuality

Jan Goldstein
Memory: History of a Mental Faculty and of a Historiography
Sci/Pol/Popltn Europe: 1700-2000 (with M. Geyer)

John Haugeland
Philosophy of Science
Heidegger's Being and Time

Adrian Johns
The Book in Early Modern Europe
Natural Philosophy 1200-1800
Sociology of Science

Robert Perlman
Darwinian Medicine

Terry Regier
The Mind: Language and Meaning
Computational Neuroscience: Language

Robert J. Richards
Foundations of Modern Psychology: Wundt and James
Philosophy of History: Narrative and Explanation
Darwin's Origin of Species and Descent of Man
Goethe: Literature and Science
Seminar: From Social Darwinism to Sociobiology
German Romanticism I and II

Noel M. Swerdlow
History of Cosmology
Astronomy in the Scientific Revolution
Astronomy in Antiquity
Galileo's Astronomy and Conflicts with the Church
Astronomy of Kepler

George Stocking
Contextualization of Anthropological Knowledge
Ethnographic Practice in Historical Perspective
Seminar: History of Anthropology

Stephen Stigler
History of Statistics

Leigh Van Valen
Evolutionary Processes

William Wimsatt
Scientific and Technological Change
Philosophy of Biology I, II
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Biological and Cultural Evolution
Seminar: Evolution and Epistemology
Scientific and Technological Change

Alison Winter
History of Medicine since the Renaissance
Sciences of Mind: French Revolution to the Great War
Gender: History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Discussion in the Workshop in History and Philosophy of Science with Lorraine Daston

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