A report on the BC Node in Genomics and Society newsletter, Fall 2010.
Node Manager(s)
Dr. Alan Richardson
Alan Richardson is Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia. He is Vice President and President Elect of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS). His research deals with the history of philosophy of science in the 19th and 20th centuries and employs methods from across the STS spectrum. He is author of Carnap's Construction of the World (Cambridge UP, 1997) as well as co-editor of Origins of Logical Empiricism (U Minnesota P, 1996), Logical Empiricism in North America (U Minnesota P, 2003) and The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism (Cambridge UP, in press); he serves on the editorial board of The Open Court's Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap.
604.822.3967
alanr{@}interchange.ubc.ca
Personal website
Research and Development
Post-Doctoral Appointments:
2008-10: Jonathan Tsou,(PhD, University of Chicago, 2008 in Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science)
Graduate of University of Chicago and currently at Iowa State University.
See "Publications" for a list of his activity during his fellowship. Tsou left UBC after the first year of the postdoc to take up a tenure-track position in the Department of Philosophy at Iowa State.
2009-10: Flavia Padovani, (PhD, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
See "Publications" for a list of her activity during her fellowship. Padovani went on to a postdoc funded by the Swiss government at the Centre for Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences at the LSE and took up a tenure-track position in the Department of English and Philosophy at Drewel University in Philadelphia in January 2012.
Cluster PhD:
2012-13: Steve Maye
2013-14: Sina Fazelpour
Cluster MA:
2009-10: Danielle [aka Dani] Hallet
Dani was very active co-organizing the Objectivity conference, the STS speaker series and conducting various administrative tasks for the Node.
Upcoming Node Events
Node News and Events
Sample and Mix: The Body Sonic in Qing Science and Medicine
The Science and Technology Studies Colloquium presents:Sample and Mix: The Body Sonic in Qing Science and Medicine
Carla Nappi, Department of History
Thursday, November 14 in Buchanan Tower, Room...
Richard Gold: Myriad Genetics and Beyond: The Fallout of the US Supreme Court Decision
The Science and Technology Studies Colloquium resumes Thursday, November 7 at Green College, Coach House, 5:00-6:30 with wine and cheese reception to follow.
Richard Gold, Faculty of Law, McGill...
Dis/Integration: On the New Interdisciplinarity
Dis/Integration: On the New Interdisciplinarity
UBC: Oct. 21, 2013 4:00-5:30
Buchanan A104Seventh Annual Stephen M. Straker Memorial LectureSpeaker: Barbara Herrnstein Smith...
The Telling of the Case: Rabies Narratives, Autopsy, and Medical Community in Nineteenth-Century New York City
The Telling of the Case: Rabies Narratives, Autopsy, and Medical Community in Nineteenth-Century New York City
Vancouver, Coach House, Green College, Oct. 3, 2013 5:00 pmThe UBC node is pleased...
Approaches to the Anthropocene: A Conversation with Philippe Descola and Bruno Latour
Approaches to the Anthropocene Join us for a conversation with Bruno Latour and Philippe Descola
Vancouver: September 25th, 2013, 5:30 PM through 7:00 PMLocation: ...
Bruno Latour: War and Peace in an Age of Ecological Conflict
Bruno Latour: War and Peace in an Age of Ecological Conflict
UBC The Vogue Theatre — Monday, September 23, 2013, at 7:30 pmThe UBC node is pleased to support this event.While politics has always been...
Evelyn Fox Keller: What Kind of Divide Separates Biology from Culture?
What Kind of Divide Separates Biology from Culture?
Evelyn Fox Keller, History and Philosophy of Science, MIT
April 4 2013 5pm (refreshments at 4:30)
Room 130, Liu Institute, 6476 NW Marine...
Anthony Grafton: The Marriage of Divination and Philology: An Inquiry into the Terminology and Practice of Scholarship in Early Modern Europe (and some other places)
March 21 Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University and Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor at UBC
“The Marriage of Divination and Philology: An...
Michael Ruse: “Debating Darwin: Mechanist or Romantic?”
Michael Ruse of the Florida State University Department of Philosophy delivers an STS colloquium talk titled “Debating Darwin: Mechanist or Romantic?” on Thursday, March 14, 5:00-6:30pm in Buchanan...
Lisa Cartwright: “Infrastructures of Power: New Topographies of Wind in Kansas”
“Infrastructures of Power: New Topographies of Wind in Kansas”
Thursday, March 7
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm, with reception to follow
Location: Coach House, Green College
Presented by Science and Society...
Deanna Kreisel: “‘The Insides of Things’: Higher-Dimensional Geometries and Victorian Theories of Space”
Deanna Kreisel of the UBC Department of English delivers an STS colloquium talk titled “‘The Insides of Things’: Higher-Dimensional Geometries and Victorian Theories of Space” on Thursday, February...
Jennifer Alexander: The Radical Religiosity of Jacques Ellul's Technological Critique
"THE RADICAL RELIGIOSITY OF JACQUES ELLUL'S TECHNOLOGICAL CRITIQUE"
Thursday, February 7, 5:00-6:30pm, GREEN COLLEGE, Coach House (reception to follow)
JENNIFER ALEXANDER, University of Minnesota,...
Angus Livingstone: Academy-Industry Relations: Great Fears, Great Expectations
Thursday, January 31, 5:00-6:30pm, Buchanan Tower 1197
ANGUS LIVINGSTONE, UBC
Angus Livingstone is Managing Director of the University-Industry Liaison Office (UILO) at The University of British...
Lean Ceccarelli: At the Frontiers of Science
The STS Colloquium continues this Thursday, January 17. Please join us, and let others know (poster attached).
"AT THE FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE: AN AMERICAN RHETORIC OF EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION"...
Todd Chambers: In Praise of Navel Gazing, Or an Argument for or against Bioethics Studies
In Praise of Navel Gazing, Or an Argument for or against Bioethics Studies
Thursday, January 3, 5:00-6:30pm, Green College Coach House
TOD CHAMBERS, Northwestern University
As the discipline of...