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Myles W. Jackson (Polytechnic Institute of New York University and the Gallatin School of NYU).
Friday 28 May 2010, 16:30-18:00
Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of
New Museums Site
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The CCR5 gene patent: biomedicine, intellectual property and commerce in the United States
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Writing post-feminist history: female sexual dysfunction and biological psychiatry, 1960 to the present
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Respiratory physiology, experiment and Everest, from ghastly kitchens to gasping lungs
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Justice and automated match officiating
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Epistemic risk and public health science
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The solution to the problem of mental causation
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Dissolving a Darwinian dilemma for moral realism
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Ethics, risk and public works: models of optimal risk reduction
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The credit crisis as a problem in the sociology of knowledge
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Toys in Monkeyland: the utility of anatomical models and medical expertise in late eighteenth-century Vienna
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Why expert judgment isn't evidence: a qualified defence of the EBM position
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Scavengers of nature: recycling in the history of science and medicine
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Description, design and aesthesis in the work of John Ray and contemporaries
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Divorcing sex and reproduction: the discussion of artificial insemination in Britain, 1918–1948
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Picturability and the mathematical ideals of knowledge: Leibniz versus Newton
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Dynamic (bio)ontologies for good epistemology
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Learning things: the objects of familiar science in nineteenth-century Britain
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Social knowing
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A philosopher of science looks at medicine: do we 'need some large, simple randomized trials'?
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Dr Lauder Lindsay's lemmings: mad beasts and misanthropy in a Victorian asylum
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Rulers, clocks and common sense: metrology as a key to Wittgenstein's On Certainty
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The two cultures controversy: science, literature and cultural politics in postwar Britain
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Experimental religion and experimental natural philosophy in early modern England
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Insanity, divine madness and prophecy in Jung's self-experimentation
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Causation, models of disease and epidemiology
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Fusing modern art and science: Marian Dale Scott, Hans Selye, and the visualisation of life
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On recent work on faultless disagreement
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How creative is evolutionary computation?
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Consensus and disagreement in science
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Scientia sexualis versus ars erotica: Foucault, van Gulik, Needham, Orientalism
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The phenomenology of the extended mind: why your beliefs are not in your iPhone
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Narratives in Greek mathematics?
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Recarving the cognitive joints of nature
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History and philosophy of regulatory science: the case of pharmaceuticals
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Between law and astronomy: Kepler, Galileo and the uses of witnessing
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Psychiatry as cognitive neuroscience
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Thinking 'through numbers'
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Making the invisible visible: the hidden history of families, schools, civil rights, media and science in the production of learning disabilities
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Imagined experiments: molecular modelling and make-believe
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Can psychometric/educational testing be multicultural? The case of Greenland
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Phlogiston revisited: an argument for scientific pluralism
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How the insane crossed the Channel: a forgotten aspect of the Franco-British shared psychiatric history
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Early-modern investigations on the nature of tarantism from Tommaso Campanella to Antonio Vallisneri
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The shape of the conceptual
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What is an organism?
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Rolling up the history of a science: Greek musical theorists on their predecessors
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The psycho-reflexology of film: Soviet non-fiction cinema of the 1920s
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The politics and physiology of laughter in eighteenth-century France: the Saint-Aubins’ Livre des Culs
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Walking as a problem of the nineteenth century
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Contracting the philosopher’s stone: fraud, risk and profit in early modern alchemy
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Rival theories of the aerofoil: 1909-1926
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Thatcher, scientist
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Natural purposes, Kantian analogies and environmental ethics
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Biographical medicine: London consultants explain disease
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Spinoza on law and sovereignty
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'A year of resurrection, a year of grotesque horror': heart transplants and the media in 1968
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Are there Lewis conventions?
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Panacea's daughters: gentlewomen healers and experiential knowledge in early modern Germany
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Practical reasoning and inference
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Kepler as chronologer
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Chymistry and colours: alchemy, matter theory and optics in the early work of Isaac Newton
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Reference failure: why worry?
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Thomas Young: the last man who knew everything
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