History and Philosophy of Science

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Upcoming Meetings

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Past Meetings

  • 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.


  • May 14, 2014

    Phillip Honenberger introduced a final set of selections from Erkenntnis (2011) v75, "What (Good) is Historical Epistemology?"


Group Conveners

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    Miriam Solomon

    Miriam Solomon is Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair in the Department of Philosophy at Temple University. Her research interests are in philosophy of science, philosophy of medicine, history of science, epistemology, gender and science and biomedical ethics.

     

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    Noel Swanson

    Noel Swanson is an associate professor in the philosophy department at the University of Delaware, working on the philosophy of physics, science, and logic. His current research focuses on the conceptual foundations of quantum field theory. 

     

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