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- September 23rd, 2011 | Secrecy and Transparency in Science<\/a><\/li>\n
- October 14th, 2011 | Present at the Creation: The Promise and Peril of the Large Hadron Collider<\/a><\/li>\n
- November 4th, 2011 | Representation in Science and Art<\/a><\/li>\n
- December 2nd, 2011 | The Alfred I. Tauber Forum:<\/strong><\/em> Human Evolution: Culture, Cognition, and Human Nature<\/a><\/li>\n
- March 23rd, 2012 | The Robert S. Cohen Forum:<\/strong><\/em> 50 Years Since Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions<\/a><\/li>\n
- April 27th, 2012 | Are Men and Women Like Different Species? Critical Perspectives on Sex-Difference Research<\/a><\/li>\n
- May 3rd, 2012 | The Karbank Symposium in Environmental Philosophy:<\/strong><\/em> Scientific Assessments and Environmental Policy<\/a><\/li>\n
- Postponed until Fall 2012<\/em> | How Can the History and Philosophy of Science Contribute to Contemporary U.S. Science Education?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Secrecy and Transparency in Science<\/h3>\n
Friday, September 23, 2011
\n2:00-5:00pm
\nBarristers Hall, Law School
\n765 Commonwealth Ave.<\/p>\n![\"Secrecy](\"\/cphs\/files\/2013\/08\/Secrecy-and-Transparency-09.23.11-488x636.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n\nSecrets and Lies: Science Versus Market as Arbiter of Truth in Early Recombinant DNA Research<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Popp Berman<\/strong> Sociology, State University of New York at Albany<\/p>\n
Transparency Revisited: The Climatic Research Unit Emails, Democratic Accountability & Scientific Progress<\/p>\n
Wendy Parker<\/strong> Philosophy, Ohio University<\/p>\n
The Ontology of Secrets: What Counts as Forbidden Knowledge?<\/p>\n
Peter Galison<\/strong> Dept. of the History of Science and Dept. of Physics, Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Present at the Creation: the Promise and Peril of the Large Hadron Collider<\/h3>\n
Friday, October 14, 2011
\n4:00-5:30pm
\nLaw School, Room 1420
\n765 Commonwealth Ave.<\/p>\n![\"Present](\"\/cphs\/files\/2013\/08\/Present-at-the-Creation-Poster-10.14.11-475x636.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n\nAmir Aczel<\/strong> Visiting Researcher, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Representation in Science and Art<\/h3>\n
Friday, November 4, 2011
\n2:00\u20135:00 pm
\nThe Castle
\n225 Bay State Road<\/p>\n![\"BCPS#3\"](\"\/cphs\/files\/2013\/08\/BCPS3-491x636.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n\nScientific Representation: Visual Representation, Models, and the Relevance of Depiction<\/p>\n
Laura Perini<\/strong> Dept. of Philosophy, Pomona University<\/p>\n
The Scientific Image: Discovery and Dissemination<\/p>\n
Eric J. Heller<\/strong> Dept. of Physics and Dept. of Chemistry, Harvard University<\/p>\n
Representation as Inference in Art and Science<\/p>\n
Mauricio Su\u00e1rez<\/strong> Dept. of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Complutense University of Madrid<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Human Evolution: Culture, Cognition, and Human Nature<\/h3>\n
Friday, December 2, 2011
\n1:00\u20135:00 pm
\nBarristers Hall, Law School
\n765 Commonwealth Ave.<\/p>\n![\"Human](\"\/cphs\/files\/2013\/08\/Human-Evolution-Poster-12.02.11-464x636.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n\nWhat is Cultural Fitness?<\/p>\n
Grant Ramsey<\/strong> Dept. of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame<\/p>\n
Darwinism and Cultural Change<\/p>\n
Peter Godfrey-Smith<\/strong> Dept. of Philosophy, City University of New York<\/p>\n
Biological Evolution in a Technological Species<\/p>\n
Russell Powell<\/strong> Dept. of Philosophy, Boston University<\/p>\n
Cultural and Morphological Change in Human Prehistory<\/p>\n
Matt Cartmill<\/strong> Dept. of Anthropology, Boston University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The Robert S. Cohen Forum: Contemporary Issues in Science Studies<\/h6>\n
50 years since Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions<\/em><\/h3>\n
(co-sponsored by BU Center for the Humanities)
\nFriday, March 23, 2012
\n10:00am\u20135:30 pm
\nPhotonics Center Colloquium Room (906)
\n8 St. Mary’s Street<\/p>\n![\"BCPS](\"\/cphs\/files\/2013\/08\/BCPS-Cohen-Kuhn-491x636.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n\nFootnotes to Structure<\/em><\/p>\n
John Heilbron<\/strong> Dept. of History, University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n
Navigating among the Two Kuhns<\/p>\n
David Kaiser<\/strong> Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n
On Kuhn’s Development Before and After Structure<\/p>\n
Paul Hoyningen-Huene<\/strong> Institute of Philosophy, Leibniz University, Hannover<\/p>\n
Kuhn’s Social Epistemology and the Sociology of Science<\/p>\n
K. Brad Wray<\/strong> Dept. of Philosophy, State University of New York, Oswego<\/p>\n
‘Living in a New World’: Kuhn, Constructivism, and Mind-Dependence<\/p>\n
Michela Massimi<\/strong> Dept. of Science and Technology Studies, University College, London<\/p>\n
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and the Naturalistic Study of Science<\/p>\n
Alexander Bird<\/strong> Dept. of Philosophy, University of Bristol<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Are Men and Women Like Different Species? Critical Perspectives on Sex-Difference Research<\/h3>\n
Friday, April 27, 2012
\n10:00am\u20135:00pm
\nBarristers Hall, Law School
\n765 Commonwealth Ave.<\/p>\n![\"BCPS](\"\/cphs\/files\/2013\/08\/BCPS-Sex-Difference-491x636.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n\nThe Politics of Sex-Based Biology: Categories, Standards, and the Logics of Inclusion and Difference<\/p>\n
Steven Epstein<\/strong> Dept. of Sociology, Northwestern University<\/p>\n
How Social Meanings Drive Scientific Investigation (and Vice Versa)<\/p>\n
Helen Longino<\/strong> Dept. of Philosophy, Stanford University<\/p>\n
Conceptualizing Sex-Differences in the Human Genome<\/p>\n
Sarah Richardson<\/strong> Dept. of the History of Science and Studies, of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University<\/p>\n
Trading Essence for Potential: Feminist Moves Against the Homonculus in the Hormones<\/p>\n
Rebecca Jordan-Young<\/strong> Dept. of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College<\/p>\n
Gender Identity in Children: Formulating a Dynamic, Developmental Model<\/p>\n
Anne Fausto-Sterling<\/strong> Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Brown University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The Karbank Symposium in Environmental Philosophy<\/h6>\n
Scientific Assessments and Environmental Policy<\/h3>\n
Thursday, May 3, 2012
\n2:00pm\u20136:00pm
\nPhotonics Center Colloquium Room (906)
\n8 St. Mary’s Street<\/p>\n - October 14th, 2011 | Present at the Creation: The Promise and Peril of the Large Hadron Collider<\/a><\/li>\n
![\"Flyer](\"\/cphs\/files\/2013\/08\/Flyer-Sci-Assessments-and-Enviro-Policy-05.03.12--636x491.jpg\")
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