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Representations: A Science Studies Network Speaker Series
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Andrea Woody (Philosophy) Project Overview
This speaker series explores the practices of representing Nature in the sciences, and the ways in which science serves to represent diverse communities and cultural perspectives in the study of the natural world. The colloquium and speaker series will continue the work of the Science Studies Network convened in 2006-8. SSNet has succeeded in bringing together a diverse community of faculty and graduate students interested in Science Studies, and we wish to capitalize on this success through the new project. In the last two years the goal of SSNet has been to catalyze an interdisciplinary network in Science Studies at the University of Washington and beyond, incorporating faculty and graduate students working in three broad areas: history and philosophy of science; cultural studies of science; research ethics, equity and policy issues in science. We seek to continue to provide a common forum for discussing salient issues through interdisciplinary dialogue; to promote research clusters exploring current concerns in the sciences and Science Studies; to raise awareness of projects and courses related to Science Studies in the University of Washington; and to lay the foundation for a co-ordinated science studies program comparable to those now well established at peer institutions of similar profile. Project Homepage
Find readings, upcoming events, and registration information at: Walker Ames Scholar Events
Helen Longino is the Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. She is well known for her contributions to social epistemology and feminist philosophy of science, especially for a position she calls critical contextual empiricism in which she argues for the relevance of social values to the justification of scientific knowledge as objective. Her books include Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry (1990) and The Fate of Knowledge (2002), and she is a contributing co-editor of Scientific Pluralism (2006). Navigating the Social Turn In this public lecture Longino will provide a general characterization of her approach to the social character of science and compare it to the recent work of Philip Kitcher. Science Lunch Colloquium Longino will discuss chapters from a forthcoming monograph in which she analyzes the evidential structures and frameworks of inquiry that inform the contemporary sciences of human behavior. Readings TBA and RSVP required. Hypatia Founders Reflect on Rationality, Science, and Epistemic Humility Conference registration required. Spring Events
Synthetic Biology, Political Spirituality: Reflections on Some Actual Things ‘Seeing Atoms’: Instrument-Laden Perception and the Production of Nano-Images
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