Topic: History and Philosophy of Biology and Chemistry Thursdays at 4PM in Room 1116, Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST) unless otherwise* noted

"Race: Biological Reality or Social Construct?"
Robin Andreasen - Sept 20
University of Delaware

"A Honeymoon Spent Caked in Mud: George Gaylord Simpson's 1938 Expedition to Venezuela"
Joseph A. Cain - Oct. 4
University College, London

"Beautiful Contrivance : Science, Religion and Language in Darwin's Fertilization of Orchids"
Richard England - Oct. 18
Salisbury State University

"Bioagents: From Autonomy to Insect Intelligence"
Cliff Hooker - *Friday, Oct. 19 3PM
University of Newcastle, Australia
Philosophy Seminar Room, Skinner 1116

"Learning to Apply Theories: Case Studies from the Chemical Sciences"
Jeff Ramsey - *Oct. 25
Smith College
Cosponsored by Department of Chemistry

"Recent Neural Models of Consciousness: What Do They Explain, and How?"
Ilya Farber - *Friday, Oct. 26, noon
George Washington University
Room 1208, Biology/Psychology Building Cosponsored by Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS) Program

"The Role of Fossils in Phylogeny Reconstruction, or Why Is It So Difficult to Integrate Paleontological and Neontological Evolutionary Biology?"
Todd Grantham - Nov. 1
College of Charleston
Cosponsored by Department of Geology

"Chance and Evolution"
Roberta Millstein - Nov. 15
California State University, Hayward

"The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal"
Mitch Waldrop, PhD, Author - *Nov. 29
A. V. Williams Building Room 2460
Cosponsored by the Department of Computer Science

"Selection, Drift, or What? Evolution of the Scarlet Tiger Moth, P.dominula, 1947-2000"
Rob Skipper - *Monday, Dec. 3, noon
University of Cincinnati
Cosponsored by Department of Biology and Program in Behavior, Evolution, Ecology, and Systematics (BEES)

Cosponsored by the Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science, College of Arts and Humanities, Institute of Physical Science and Technology, and other departments as listed above. "Clifford Truesdell and his Battles"
Stuart Antman - *Monday, Feb. 4, 3:00 p.m.
Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics
Room 3206 Mathematics Building
Cosponsored with the Department of Mathematics.

"Quantum Surveying: How Generalized Bell States Act as Measuring Rods on Manifolds of Coherent States"
Dan Fivel - Feb. 7.
Physics, UMCP

"Cautious Revolutionaries: Maxwell, Planck, Hubble"
Stephen Brush - Feb. 21
Distinguished University Professor of the History of Science, UMCP

"The Internalist's Dilemma: Insights from 'Acquired Sociopathy'"
Adina Roskies - Mar. 7
Philosophy, MIT

"What Science Education Researchers Talk About When They Talk About 'Epistemology': An Introduction to Students' Views of Knowledge"
Andrew Elby - Mar. 14
Physics, UMCP

"Evo-Devo: A Viennese Perspective"
Werner Callebaut - *Monday, Apr. 1, noon
Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Belgium, and University of Vienna, Austria
Room 1208 Biology/Psychology Building
Cosponsored by the Program in Behavior, Evolution, Ecology, and Systematics (BEES).

"Logic and Entropy"
Orly Shenker - May 2
Philosophy, London School of Economics

Conference, "New Directions in the Foundations of Physics"
May 3 - 5, 2002, American Center for Physics, College Park
See http://carnap.umd.edu/philphysics/calendar.html for the program and other relevant information.

Cosponsored by the Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science, College of Arts and Humanities, Institute of Physical Science and Technology, and other departments as listed above.