Events, Spring 2013

• April 5 (HHS) - 12:00 PM (Noon)
  Parysa Mostajir (Chicago): "Explanation in the Social Sciences: Family Resemblances and Causal Properties."
  
  
• April 12 (HPS) - 4:00 PM
  Angela Breitenbach (Cambridge): "Kant and the Development of Biology."
  
  
• April 19 (HHS) - 12:00 PM (Noon)
  Michelle Murphy (Toronto) "Economization of life: Epistemological Infrastructures of Population and Economy in the Twentieth Century."
  
  
• May 3 (HHS) - 12:00 PM (Noon) -Meeting Cancelled.
  
  
• May 10 (HPS) - 4:00 PM
  Jacqueline Feke (Chicago): "Co-opting and Criticizing Philosophy: The Self Promotion of Ancient Greek Mathematicians."
  
  
• May 17 (HHS) - 12:00 PM (Noon)
  Naomi Beck (Max Planck): "Why Evolution? Hayek in Chicago."
  
  
• May 24 (HPS) - 4:00 PM
  James Evans (Chicago): "Ambiguity and Intellectual Engagement."

About Workshops

HPS: History and Philosophy of Science Workshop, a CHSS and Fishbein Center joint workshop. The workshop meets at 4:00 p.m. in room 224 of the Social Science Research Building, 1126 E. 59th St.

HHS: History of Human Sciences Workshop, a Fishbein Center workshop. Papers are available at least a week in advance in the Fishbein Center (Social Science Bldg., Room 206, 1126 E. 59th Street) and sent out electronically. The workshop meets at noon in Social Sciences Building, room 224.

For further information or for assistance in attending, please call the Fishbein Center office at (773) 702-8391.

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

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Special Events and Conferences

The Human Sciences Workshops in Fall are devoted to Aspects of Darwin's accomplishment; they are being conducted under the title "Debating Darwin."  The Workshops are funded by the Fishbein Center, the President's Office, and the Templeton Foundation.  These workshops will be videoed and put on the Web.  For further information about this series and related events go to: http://darwin-chicago.uchicago.edu.

Past

Annual Max Planck-University of Chicago Workshop

• 2012: 50th Anniversary of Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• 2009: Human Science, Human Subjects
  
• 2008: Origins: The Historical Sciences in the Age of Darwin
  
• 2006: On Responsibility in the Human Sciences (Chicago)
  
• 2006: On Knowing in the Human Sciences (Berlin)

Darwin Conference 2009

Plenary speech at the 2009 Darwin Conference

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SOIT Readings

The Seminar on Important Things meets on alternate Fridays at noon in the Fishbein Center--the same days as HPS workshop. Members will be notified of the exact readings for discussion. Books will be available in the Seminary Co-op Bookstore.

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HPS Email List

Announcements of the above scheduled events are usually sent out in advance on our HPS email list. Announcements of other activities (e.g., social gatherings, ad hoc lectures, readings for the Seminar on Important Things) are also communicated via the HPS list. To subscribe to this list, go to https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/subscribe/hps or email your request to the Director of the Fishbein Center.

This calender and the email list are maintained jointly by the Fishbein Center and the CHSS program.

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"Professor Simian (with dignity): 'Don't you know that descent means a decline, a fall?"
From The Flaming Sword, July, 1906.

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