The Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
The ISHPSSB Off-Year Workshop Committee has been hard at work, and we are pleased to announce two more workshops have been approved. This brings the total number of 2022 ISHPSSB Off-Year Workshops to five! You can view all of them on the ISHPSSB webpage here: https://ishpssb.org/meetings#off-year-workshops Please note the new website for the “Echoes of …
Virtual and Visual Practices 1:30–2:00 Jolynna Sinanon and Gerhard Weisenfeldt– Trusting the sorcerer’s apprentice: Knowledge, magic and technology 2:00–2:30 Kevin Korb – Mechanical Eudaimonia 2:30–3:00 James Bradley – Richard Berry’s Atlas of Sectional Anatomy 3:00–3:30 Martin Bush – Drawing Down the Moon: The nineteenth century history of the moonscape Jolynna Sinanan and Gerhard Wiesenfeldt jolynnasinanan@gmail.com …
Understanding Minds and Bodies 1:30–2:00 Gemma Smart – Limits to Mechanistic Models of Psychiatric Phenomena: the puzzle of (Internet) Gaming Disorder 2:00–2:30 Ian Robertson – “Considerable angst”: Recalcitrant emotions, insight, and the apparent puzzle of obsessive compulsions 2:30–3:00 Nicola Marks – A tale of two 1978 births: The contingency of success and recognition in IVF …
Jacques Barzun fellowship for collections and programming in the history of biology American Philosophical Society, US This supports an advanced PhD candidate or recent MA or PhD recipient in improving the visibility of the library and museum’s holdings in the history of biology, and expanding relevant programmes and resources. The fellowship includes a stipend of …
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Rene Dubos, the Autochthonous Flora, and the Prehistory of the Microbiome Nicolas Rasmussen, School of Humanities & Languages, University of NSW 5pm Monday 26 April (Online) Only recently characterised by high-throughput sequencing methods that enable the study of microbes without lab culture, the human ‘microbiome’ (the microbial flora of the gut and various other parts …
The NIAS-Lorentz Program calls for coordinators for the NIAS-Lorentz Theme Group (NLTG) 2021/2022. The deadline for application with a pre-proposal is 15 February 2020. The NIAS-Lorentz Program is a collaboration established in 2006 by NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Amsterdam) and the Lorentz Center (workshop center for all scientific disciplines, Leiden). …
In cosmology probabilities appear in multiple different guises. We use them when we assess the naturalness of a certain value of the cosmological constant, when we assign likelihoods to possible initial conditions of the universe, when we judge the probability of cosmic inflation, or when we ascribe the probability of there being life in certain …