History and Philosophy of Science

History and Philosophy of Science
The History and Philosophy of Science Research Group is an interdisciplinary community of scholars in the history and philosophy of science (HPS) including both faculty and graduate students. Members belong to the Faculties of Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, and Medicine, as well as Mount Royal College. First established in 1997, the Group's objective is to promote individual and collaborative research in HPS, and establish a network of HPS scholars at the University of Calgary. The Group meets at least once a month to discuss recent work in HPS, discuss members' own work, or host visiting scholars.

Darwin lectures homepage

Jan 13, Tuesday, noon, BI 211
Michael Lynch (Darwin lecture)
"Rethinking Genome Evolution"

January 23, Friday, 3:30, SS 1253.
Hank Stam
"The Snark was a Boojum revisited: Restricting the range of
species in animal psychology, 1898-1960"

Feb 4, Wednesday, 4 p.m., BI 211
Ehab Abouheif (Darwin lecture)
"What Darwin Didn't Know"

Feb 13, Friday, 4 p.m., ST 147 (time and place tentative)
Locke Rowe (Darwin lecture)
"The (Evolutionary) Battle of the Sexes"

March 3, Tuesday, 3:30, SS 1253
David Boutillier

March 6, Friday, noon, location TBA
Garland Allen (Darwin lecture, in conjunction with History of Medicine)
"Evolution, Genetics and Eugenics"

March 6, Friday, 4:00 p.m., SS 1253
Denis Walsh
"Mechanism,
Emergence and Miscibility"

March 20, Friday, 3;30 p.m., SS 1253
Paul Farber (Darwin lecture)
"Darwin
and Dobzhansky on Race"

March 24, Tuesday, 3:30, SS 1253
Travis Dumsday
"Natural Kinds, Laws, and the Problem of Complex
Essences"

March 25, Wednesday, 4 p.m., BI 211
David Bergen (Darwin lecture)
"Literary Darwinism and (the Function
of) Scripture"

March 31, Tuesday, 3;30, SS 1253
Dorothy Grover
"On Describing the World"

April 2, Thursday, 7 p.m., Telus Science Centre, TBA
Mott Greene
"Darwin, Man and Myth"

April 15, Wednesday, 4 p.m., BI 211
Paul Turner (Darwin lecture)
"Watching Evolution in Real Time"