History and Philosophy of Science

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Upcoming Meetings

There are no currently scheduled upcoming events.


Past Meetings

  • December 9, 2015

    Babak Ashrafi, Consortium for HSTM, lead a discussion of Theodore Arabatzis, Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities (Chicago, 2005), chapters 6, 7, and 8.


  • November 11, 2015

    Gary Hatfield introduced chapters 4-5 of Theodore Arabatzis, Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities (Chicago, 2005).


  • October 14, 2015

    Nabeel Hamid introduced chapters 1-3 of Theodore Arabatzis, Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities (Chicago, 2005).


  • May 13, 2015

    Miriam Solomon of Temple University introduced Jutta Schickore, "More Thoughts on HPS: Another 20 Years Later," Perspectives on Science 19 (4): 453-481.


  • April 8, 2015

    Kevin Connolly of UPenn introduced Chapter 6 and Flavia Padovani of Drexel University introduced Chapter 7 of Daston and Galison's Objectivity.


  • February 25, 2015

    Louise Daoust of UPenn introduced Chapter 5 of Daston and Galison's Objectivity.


  • January 14, 2015

    Phillip Honenberger of CHSTM introduced chapter 4 of Daston and Galison's Objectivity.


  • December 10, 2014

    Nabeel Hamid of UPenn introduced Chapter 3 of Daston and Galison's Objectivity.


  • November 12, 2014

    Adam Knowles of Drexel introduced Chapter 2 of Daston and Galison's Objectivity.


  • October 8, 2014

    Gary Hatfield of UPenn introduced the Prologue and Chapter 1 of Daston and Galison's Objectivity as well as a review of Objectivity by Ian Kidd from Philosophy in Review, 2009.