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2017 marks 100 years since the publication of D’Arcy Thompson’s landmark book On Growth and Form – “the greatest work of prose in twentieth century science” (Stephen Jay Gould), written by possibly “the most learned polymath of all time” (Richard Dawkins). One of the key works at the intersection of science and the imagination, it is a book that has inspired scientists, artists and thinkers as diverse as Alan Turing, C H Waddington, Claude Lévi Strauss, Norbert Wiener, Henry Moore and Mies van der Rohe. It pioneered the science of biomathematics, and has had a profound influence in art, architecture, anthropology, geography, cybernetics and many other fields. To mark the occasion, a two-day interdisciplinary conference is being organised at the Universities of Dundee and St Andrews, where D’Arcy spent most of his career and where his surviving collections are held. It will feature a range of presentations covering every aspect of D’Arcy’s own work and the various fiel...

Editors: Luciano Boschiero and K. Brad Wray https://link.springer.com/ journal/11016/26/1/page/1 In this issue: 1.       Editorial Exciting days Luciano Boschiero, K. Brad Wray Pages 1-2 2.       Symposium Shaping modernity John H. Zammito Pages 3-6 3.       Symposium Making the human sciences Michael R. Lynn Pages 7-12 4.       Symposium Naturalization/humanization Jan Golinski Pages 13-16 5.       Symposium Author’s response: the naturalization of the human and the humanization of nature Stephen Gaukroger Pages 17-20 6.       Essay Review Early correspondence of John Tyndall: preparation for a stellar career ascent Norman McMillan, Martin Nevin Pages 21-26 7.       Essay Review Between conservatism and liberalization: the enlightened pope ...

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna is inviting applications for the positions of a PhD candidate (100%, 3 years) and a postdoctoral researcher (100%, 2 years) in the areas of history and philosophy of mathematics within the ERC Starting Grant project “ The Roots of Mathematical Structuralism “ (2017-2022). The project is led by Principal Investigator Georg Schiemer, Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy.  (A second postdoctoral position and a second PhD position related to the ERC project will be advertised in 2019 and 2020 respectively.) Project Description: The project will investigate the mathematical and philosophical roots of mathematical structuralism. It will focus on several historical developments in nineteenth century mathematics and early twentieth century philosophy: the first one concerns several conceptual changes in geometry between 1860 and 1910 that eventually led to a “structural turn” in the f...

Poznan Reasoning Week (PRW 2017) 4–7 July 2017  AMU, Dpt. of Logic and Cognitive Science, Poznan, Poland  https://poznanreasoningweek. wordpress.com/ The cognitive turn in logic has resulted in the inclusion of research in, among others, cognitive science, psychology and computer science into logic’s hard core. As a consequence, logic has become more capable of modelling cognitive activities of real rather than idealized agents . Far from creating rivalry with mathematical logic, this marks a next step in the development of logic. But it also reminds that logic had for many centuries entertained a close and natural relation to human reasoning, and insofar as externalized reasoning is concerned also to rhetoric and dialectic. Consisting of two workshops, PRW2017 invites systematic as well as historical contributions to the study of individual- and group-reasoning processes . This includes, but is not restricted to, formal modelling. In 201...

Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Award Scheme 2017 Opening date: 1 March 2017 Closing date for applications: 31 May 2017 The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry invites applications for its Award Scheme for 2017. SHAC offers two types of award: support for research into the history of chemistry or history of alchemy by New Scholars and support for Subject Development of either history of chemistry or history of alchemy. It is expected that applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application by 31 July 2017. The Awards are most suitable for activities to be undertaken in the academic year October 2017–September 2018. New Scholars Awards are open to post-graduate students (both masters and doctoral students) and those who have obtained a PhD since 1 January 2012. Awards of up to £750 will be made to cover research expenses, including travel, accommodation, subsistence, the reproduction of documents, and library fees. Appl...

The Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH) Glasgow at the University of Strathclyde, the Musto Center for Drug Policy Studies (MCDPS) and the Center for the History of Development (CHD) at Shanghai University invite applications for the above twelve-month Fellowships.  They are aimed at candidates who will be in their fourth year of doctoral study or in the first two years of their postdoctoral career in the academic year 2017/8. More details can be found at https://www.h-net.org/jobs/ job_display.php?id=54657

Url:  <http://mmedia.uv.es/ buildhtml/47988> Jacalyn Duffin, professora canadenca, especialista d'història de la medicina i particularment en la biografia de René Laënnec, descobridor de l'estetoscopi, va donar una  interessant conferència a l'Institut d'Història de la Medicina i de la Ciència "López Piñero" el dia 22 de febrer de 2017, dins del cicle d'activitats de l'exposició organitzada pel professor Joan Lloret: " Auscultar per escoltar ". La conferència va servir per a repensar l'atribució de descobriments, els usos dels sentits dins de la medicina, els processos d'arribada de nous instruments per al diagnòstic mèdic i els canvis dins de les relacions entre doctors i pacients, a més de moltes altres qüestions que varen animar el debat posterior. La conferència impartida per la professora Jacalyn Duffin respecte a l'estetosc...

Venue du fond des âges, plus que toute autre maladie contagieuse peut-être, la syphilis (associée aux autres pathologies vénériennes) incarne les tensions d’un monde qui se mondialise à partir du XVI e siècle avec une phase d’accélération au XIX e siècle. Si l’on suit Alain Corbin dans la description qu’il donne de « l’image composite du péril vénérien, spectre inédit, dont les traits originaux […] ne s’effaceront pas avant les années médianes du XX e siècle », alors s’impose à notre étude une épidémie lente dont Peter Baldwin saisit la dynamique entre « prostitution et promiscuité » et met en lumière les « velléités de régulation » qui tentent de se superposer aux dynamiques de circulations. Le colloque souhaite donc conjuguer une pluralité de contexte (colonial, métropolitain …) et une perspective de temps long avec l’expérience contemporaine d’une épidémie de syphilis qui connaît une recrudescence. Avec près de 500 cas diagnostiqué...