The History and Philosophy of Science Working Group is co-organized with the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium. The group meets monthly to discuss recent journal articles in history and philosophy of science, broadly construed.

 

Group Conveners:
Miriam Solomon
Noel Swanson

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Past Meetings

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David Beer, "The Problem of Researching a Recursive Society: Algorithms, Data Coils, and the Looping of the Social" (2022, Big Data & Society)
Beatrice Fazi, "Beyond Human: Deep Learning, Explainability, and Representation" (2021, Theory, Culture, & Society)

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Adam Koberinski & Chris Smeenk, "The Cosmological Constant and the Limits of Effective Field Theory" (2023, Philosophy of Science)

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Wendy Parker, "The Epistemic Projection Approach to Values in Science" (2024, Philosophy of Science)

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James Lowe and David Ingram, "DNA Barcoding and the Changing Ontological Commitments of Taxonomy" (2023, Biology and Philosophy)

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James Woodward, "Modelling Interventions in Multi-Level Causal Systems: Supervenience, Exclusion and Underdetermination" (2022, European Journal for Philosophy of Science)
 
 

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Ryan Neftd, "Motivating a Scientific Modelling Continuum: The case of natural models in the Covid-19 pandemic" (2023, Philosophy of Science)

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Discussion with Prof. Richardson (no new reading)

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Richardson, The Maternal Imprint, Ch. 7-9

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Richardson, The Maternal Imprint, Ch. 4-6 (Ch. 3 optional)

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Richardson, The Maternal Imprint, Ch. 1-2

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Rouse, Articulating the World, Ch. 9-10 (Ch. 11, epilogue optional)

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Rouse, Articulating the World, Ch. 7-8 (Ch. 6 optional)

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Rouse, "Toward a New Naturalism"
Rouse, Articulating the World, Ch. 3 (Ch. 4-5 optional)

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Leonelli, Data-Centric Biology
Ch. 6-7

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Leonelli, Data-Centric Biology
Ch. 3-5

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Leonelli, Data-Centric Biology
Ch. 1-2

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Epstein, The Ant Trap
Ch. 14-16

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Epstein, The Ant Trap
Ch. 10-12 (Ch. 13 optional)

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Epstein, The Ant Trap
Ch. 5-6, 8-9 (Ch. 7 optional)

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Epstein, The Ant Trap
Ch. 1-4

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