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
The Ecological and Societal Consequences of Biodiversity Loss
The first of a series of public talks: "Climate Change, Ethics, and Policy" at the Institute for Values in Science.Michael Loreau (Department of Biology, McGill University) will offer the first of...
Unruly Doctors: Revolutionary Promises and the Aftermath of Free Healthcare in Mexico
The UBC Node is helping to support the Science and Society Series.Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara):"Unruly Doctors:Revolutionary Promises and the...
How Uncertainty Became Randomness in Economics
Eric Schliesser (Department of Philosophy, Ghent University) will give a talk on "How Uncertainty Became Randomness in Economics."
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm. Green...
Human Documents: The 'Database of Dreams' Archive at Mid-Twentieth Century
Rebecca Lemov (Department of History of Science, Harvard University) opens UBC's Science and Society Series, 2011 with her talk, "Human Documents: The 'Database of Dreams' Archives at Mid-...
Helen Longino: Is There an Objective Concept of Evidence?
UBC Peter Wall Institute
Part of the Philosophy of Science workshop with UBC, UW and SFU.
Helen Longino, Stanford Univeristy, "Is There an Objective Concept of Evidence?"
Hayden receives Canada Council for the Arts Killam prize
The Canada Council for the Arts awards Dr. Michael Hayden of University of British Columbia a Killam prize. Hayden was a Trust in the New Sciences National Lecture Series presenter.From the...
Scientific Authority within Democratic Societies Workshop
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia
Blog:
Bently Allan's blog entry HERE
Description:
This two-day interdisciplinary workshop aims to use authority...
Priscilla Wald: "Clones, Chimeras and Other Creatures of the Biotechnological Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology."
UBC: Priscilla Wald (English, Duke).
“Clones, Chimeras, and Other Creatures of the Biotechnological Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology”
April 7, 2011.
5 pm,
Irving K. Barber...
Susan Solomon: "Constructing the Biography of a Scientific Go-Between: A.N. Rubakin, Soviet Public Health and Russian-French Space Between the World Wars."
Green College, UBC: Susan Solomon (Political Science, Toronto)
“Constructing the Biography of a Scientific Go-Between: A.N. Rubakin, Soviet Public Health and Russian-French Space between...
Rebecca Kukla (Philosophy, Georgetown). "Medicalization, Justice, and the Definition of Health."
Rebecca Kukla (Philosophy, Georgetown). "Medicalization, Justice, and the Definition of Health."
Thursday, February 3, 2010.
5:00 pm. Green College Coach House.
Paula Findlen: After the Trial: Galileo, His Early Biographers and the Catholic Church
Paula Findlen (History, Stanford): After the Trial: Galileo, His Early Biographers and the Catholic Church.
January 6, 2011, 5:00 pm.
Green College Coach House.
This talk explores the problem...
Asceticism, Truth, and Politics in Early-twentieth century Italian Pragmatism
Asceticism, Truth, and Politics in early-twentieth century Italian pragmatism
Francesca Bordogna
Department of History, Northwestern University
Thursday, 2 December 2010
5-6:30 pm...
Pre-Pragmatisms and Robust Empiricisms: James, Whitehead, Wilson
Science and Society Lecture by Steven Meyer (Department of English, Washington University in St Louis). 4:30 pm, Monday, November 8, 2010 in Peter Wall Institute Conference Rooms.
In...
Dr. Robert Brain discusses science of empathy on CBC's The Current ("Varieties of Empathy")
The Current interviews Dr. Brain on empathy and science.
The discussion follows-up on the "Varieties of Empathy in Science, Art, and Culture" Workshop at UBC Oct. 10-11, 2009. ...