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The History and Philosophy of Evidence-Based Health Care (HPEBHC) 15 – 19 June 2015 Rewley House , 1 Wellington Square, Oxford, UK Last Few Places Available Register HERE (Deadline for application 29 th May 2015) This unique course will trace the historical development of evidence-based health care. Students will engage with researchers who have played key roles in defining the History, Philosophy and actual practice of Evidence-Based Healthcare. Many famous medical doctors, including Galen, Descartes and Locke, were also philosophers, and recent evidence suggests that studying humanities improves clinical skills. Medical professionals will learn to think critically about the assumptions of their profession while philosophers and historians will learn about the empirical foundations of the science they contemplate. Many past students have published their assignments for the course in peer-reviewed journals. Why study the history and philosophy of Evi...

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Registration is now open for this year's Science in Public  meeting. The conference, with the theme “Science in Public: research, practice, impact” will be hosted by the Science Communication Unit at the University of the West of England, Bristol, on Thursday 9th and Friday 10th July 2015. The conference offers a broad platform for discussion and debate across disciplinary boundaries about all aspects of science in the public sphere. We are delighted to announce our keynote speaker will be Professor Maja Horst of the  Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen. She will be speaking on 'Culture, identity and the eco-system of science communication'. The draft programme is now available online and includes a lively mix of practice oriented workshops and research presentations. Further information about the conference, including the draft programme and registration details can be found on the Science in Public website: http://scienceinp...

The Mercurians, a Special Interest Group of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), is offering the Pam Laird Research Grant (US$1,000) to defray the cost of travel and housing to use a research collection to pursue research in the history of communication technologies. The Mercurians began meeting in 1986 for the purpose of generating networks between people who share work and interests in the history of communication technologies, defining the field broadly. Our activities include meeting during annual SHOT conferences, organizing paper sessions for SHOT meetings, and pursuing contacts between meetings via our Google Groups list. The Google Groups list serves both as a clearing house for members and as an informal forum for their ideas. We have added this new initiative to encourage and reward high-caliber research in the history of communication technologies, broadly defined. One of the Mercurians' missions is to encourage scholarship in the history of com...

Abierto el plazo para solicitar becas de la Fundación Carolina. "El Programa de Formación de la  Fundación Carolina  tiene como objetivos facilitar y promover la ampliación de estudios de licenciados universitarios así como la especialización y actualización de conocimientos de posgraduados, profesores, investigadores, artistas y profesionales procedentes de los países de América Latina miembros de la Comunidad Iberoamericana de Naciones y Portugal." http://www.becasyconvocatorias.org/2014/11/becas-de-la-fundacion-carolina-para.html

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS “HISTORIES OF FAILED SYNTHESIS” Graduate Conference in the History of Philosophy, University of Turin, November 12-13, 2015 The Phd Program in Philosophy of the University of Turin (F.I.N.O.) and the Turin Research Group on Early Modern & Modern Philosophical and Scientific Thought announce a Call for Papers for a Graduate Conference in the History of Philosophy. Central to the conference is the question of ‘synthesis’, by which we mean here the attempt to compose into unity the multiplicity and variety of the real — be such unification a perceptive, intellectual, a priori, a posteriori, ontological or epistemological one. From a philosophical point of view, any synthesis implies two moments, the effort to disregard divergent elements and the necessity to encompass them. This dichotomy may reflect the irreducibility of the simple to the complex: thus syntheses often fail. The purpose of the conference is twofold: to consider how philosophy...