Colloquium Series - Archive | Other Series - Archive Fall 2001 CHPS Colloquium Schedule 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?"
"A Honeymoon Spent Caked in Mud: George Gaylord Simpson's 1938 Expedition to Venezuela"
"Beautiful Contrivance : Science, Religion and Language in
Darwin's Fertilization of Orchids"
"Bioagents: From Autonomy to Insect Intelligence"
"Learning to Apply Theories: Case Studies from the Chemical Sciences"
"Recent Neural Models of Consciousness: What Do They Explain, and How?"
"The Role of Fossils in Phylogeny Reconstruction, or Why Is It So Difficult to Integrate Paleontological and Neontological Evolutionary Biology?"
"Chance and Evolution"
"The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal"
"Selection, Drift, or What? Evolution of the Scarlet Tiger Moth, P.dominula, 1947-2000"
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.
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