HPS Research Day @ The Sybil Centre
The School of History and Philosophy of Science Researh Day June 1st, Monday afternoon, at the Sybil Centre (Women’s College), 15 Carillon Avenue on the Newtown side of campus Time […]
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The Sibyl Centre 15 Carillon Avenue, Newtown, NSW, Australia
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Proprioception and Knowledge of the External World in the Long 18th Century – Antonia LoLordo – University of Virginia
Madsen Room 331 Madsen Building F09, The University of Sydney, NSW, AustraliaAbstract: Mary Shepherd says that motion (or the power of motion) is a sixth sense (or sixth sense organ). I argue that she is talking about proprioception. Shepherd thus holds that proprioception […]
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Fitness landscapes past, present, and future – Andreas Wagner – University of Zurich
Madsen Room 331 Madsen Building F09, The University of Sydney, NSW, AustraliaAbstract The fitness landscape or adaptive landscape is an iconic metaphor of evolutionary biology that has also been influential in unrelated areas of science, such as psychology and operations research. […]
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A war inside a war: fighting drug addiction during the decolonization of Vietnam – Claire Eddington – University of California
Madsen Room 331 Madsen Building F09, The University of Sydney, NSW, AustraliaAbstract: This talk opens in Hanoi on the eve of decolonization of French Indochina and the division of Vietnam into a Communist-controlled North, and a US-backed South. After decades of […]
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Euthenics, Women, and the Making of Better Environments – David PD Munns – City University of New York
Madsen Room 331 Madsen Building F09, The University of Sydney, NSW, AustraliaAbstract: In 1904, Ellen Richards introduced “euthenics.” By 1912, Lewellys Barker, director of medicine and physician-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital, would tell the New York Times that the “task of […]
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Multiple Routes to Enculturated Cognition – Professor Richard Menary – Macquarie University
Madsen Room 331 Madsen Building F09, The University of Sydney, NSW, AustraliaAbstract: Accounts of distinctively human cognition increasingly agree that culture is constitutive rather than merely additive, yet they continue to assume that each cognitive capacity has a canonical developmental pathway […]
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Expanding the Reflex Beyond Nervous Systems: animal preparations, tropism, and the presumption of stimulus-response sufficiency – Matthew Sims – Macquarie University
Madsen Room 331 Madsen Building F09, The University of Sydney, NSW, AustraliaAbstract: Contemporary biologists and philosophers often explain unicellular behaviour in terms of simple stimulus-response mechanisms, even where it appears to involve memory, learning, or context-sensitive evaluation. This talk traces one historical […]