London: The many ways of integrating HPS
Seventh UK Integrated HPS
UCL, 28-29 June 2012
History and Philosophy of the Sciences.
The many ways of integrating HPS
Gavin De Beer Lecture Theatre,
Anatomy Building, Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
THURSDAY 28 JUNE
12.45pm Registration and buffet lunch
1.50pm Welcome and opening remarks (Michela Massimi)
2pm–3pm History and Philosophy of Chemistry (chair: Hasok Chang)
2.00–2.20 Jenny Rampling (University of Cambridge)
“Demarcation problems in the Medieval sciences”
2.20–2.40 Rachel Dunn (University of Durham)
“Seeing science”
2.40–3.00 Steph Ratcliffe (UCL)
“Burning gold—a historical perspective on microstructuralism about chemical kinds”
3.00-3.15 Break
3.15–5.30 History and Philosophy of the Physical Sciences
Part I. From ancient science to the dawn of the modern world (chair: Ian Kidd)
3.15–3.35 Andy Gregory (UCL)
“Why studies of the ancient world need integrated HPS”
3.35–3.55 Alan Chalmers (Sydney / Durham)
“Descartes’ Optics: science or philosophy?”
3.55–4.15 Michael Bycroft (Cambridge)
“Enumerative abstraction in experimental physics: Dufay’s electrical research as an episode in methodology”
4.15–4.30 Break
Part II. From the Eighteenth Century to Twentieth Century (and Beyond) (chair: Steven French)
4.30–4.50 Sally Riordan (Stanford)
“Artefact Calibration: the Case of the Kilogram in 1793”
4.50–5.10 Tom Bunce (Durham)
“Born on causation”
5.10–5.30 Jon Agar & Michela Massimi (UCL)
“Working worlds as an example of integrated HPS”
5.30–5.45 Break
5.45–6.45 History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (chair: John Dupré)
5.45–6.05 Greg Radick (Leeds)
“Philosophies of Physics at the Birth of Genetics”
6.05–6.25 Berris Charnley (Exeter)
“The Trouble with Rogues: a new theoretical map of Mendelian plant breeding, 1900–1930”
6.25–6.45 Staffan Mueller-Wille (Exeter)
“Concepts: representations or tools?”
Dinner
FRIDAY 29 JUNE
Methods and modes of integrating HPS
Chair: Brendan Clarke
10.00–10.20 Hasok Chang (Cambridge)
“Integrated history and philosophy of chemistry: challenges and prospects”
10.20–10.40 Ian Kidd (Durham)
“Happy marriage or ménage à trois? Integrated History and Philosophy of Science, Third-Party Mediators, and Virtue Epistemology”
10.40–11.00 Matt Paskins (UCL)
“Complementary Science as a vocation”
11.00–11.30 Break
Chair: Catherine Wilson
11.30–11.50 Pete Vickers (Durham)
“How to turn PS into HPS: benefiting from theory eliminativism”
11.50–12.10 David Corfield (Kent)
“Making Michael Friedman’s Dynamics of Reason a little more dynamic”
12.10–12.30 Chiara Ambrosio (UCL)
“Integrated HPS through research and teaching: the case of ‘electricity’”
Dr Matthew D Eddy, Department of Philosophy, Durham University, 50 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HN, United Kingdom. (44) 191 334 6550. http://www.dur.ac.uk/m.d.eddy/