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Professor Simon Schaffer
Tuesday 03 March 2009, 13:00-14:30
High science: hill stations and modern astrophysics
- đ¤ Speaker: Professor Simon Schaffer
- đ Date & Time: Tuesday 03 March 2009, 13:00 - 14:30
- đ Venue: Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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Abstract
Readings:
1. Simon Schaffer, ‘Astrophysics, anthropology and other imperial pursuits’. In: J. Edwards, P. Harvey and P. Wade (eds.) Anthropology and science: epistemologies in practice (Berg, 2007), pp.19â38.
2. D. MacKenzie, ‘From Kwajalein to Armageddon? Testing the social construction of missile accuracy’. In: D. Gooding, T. Pinch and S. Schaffer (eds.) The uses of experiment: studies in the natural sciences (Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp.409â436.
Series This talk is part of the Twentieth Century Think Tank series.
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