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Sunday 26 May / dimanche 26 mai 
 

9:00-10:15 Philosophy and Physics / Philosophie et Physique
(Victoria College 323
)

William Harper (University of Western Ontario)  
chairman / président

Slobodan Perovic (York University)
A Historical Reminder to the Proponents of the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Why did Schrödinger take Ill in 1926? 

Mélanie Frappier (University of Western Ontario)
The Influence of Hilbert's Programme on Heisenberg's Closed Theories

Letitia Meynell (University of Western Ontario)
Why Feynman Diagrams Represent


Relations Between Academic Knowledge and Industry
/ Relations entre les savoirs académique et industriel
(Victoria College 206)

Jean-François Auger (Université du Québec à Montréal)  
chairman / président

Hanna E. H. Martinsen (University of Toronto)
Textile Dyeing: Colour Magic, Dyer’s Art or Academic Science

Françoise Olivier-Utard (Université Louis-Pasteur)
Le mécénat industriel à la faculté des sciences de Strasbourg (1918-1998): recherche libre ou prestation de services aux entreprises ?

Mike Almeida  (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Le développement d'un conseil provincial de recherches : 
l'Office provincial des recherches scientifiques du Québec, 1937-1960

Canadian Society for the History of Medicine AMS Paterson Lecture / Discours Paterson AMS de la Société canadienne d'histoire de la médecine
(Emmanuel college, Electronic Classroom)

Bert Hansen (City University of New York)
Has the Laboratory been a Closet? Gay and Lesbian Lives in the History of Science and Medicine

 

10:15-10:30 Break / Pause
 
10:30-12:00 Method / Méthode
(Victoria College 323
)

Kyle Stanford (University of California)  
chairman / président

Robert G. Hudson  (University of Saskatchewan)
The Relativity of Novelty

Matthew D. Lund (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Theory-Laden Observation and the Logic of Discovery

Kent Staley (Saint Louis University)
Demarcation and Severe Testing 

 

Early Modern Science / La science au XVIIe siècle
(Victoria College 206)

Brian Baigrie (University of Toronto)
chairman / président

Anna Marie Roos (University of Minnesota Duluth)
Israel Hiebner's Astrological Amulets and the English Sigil War of 1698 

Stephen D. Snobelen (University of King's College)
Newton and Women

Kathryn Morris (University of King's College)
Lines of Light: Hobbes, Refraction, and the Human Heart

 

10:45-12:00 Private Passions - Public Pursuits / Passions privées et intérêts publics
(Emmanuel College, Electronic Classroom)

Alison Li  (York University)
chairman / président

Martin Fichman  (York University)
Private Passions/Public Pursuits: A Study of the Controversial Career of Alfred Russel Wallace

Janet Godden (University of Sydney) and 
Carol Hemstadter (Margareth Allemang Centre for the History of Nursing)
Nightingale Nursing in the Colonies: Conflict in the Victorian Ideology of Class and Gender

Barry Adams (University of Windsor)
"Aids Optimism," Semiotic Snares, and the Biomedical Subject

Joint session with the Canadian Society for the History of Medecine, Canadian Gay and Lesbian Studies Association, Canadian Society for Nursing History
Séance conjointe avec la Société canadienne d'histoire de la médecine, la Société canadienne d'études gay et lesbienne, la Société pour l'histoire des infirmières

 

12:00-14:00 Lunch / Dîner

  

14:00-15:00

Quantifying the Sea and Forecasting Fish / Quantifier l'océan et prévoir les poissons
(Victoria College 323)

Marianne Fedunkiw (Oxford University)  
chairman / président

Eric L. Mills (Dalhousie University)
Forgotten Calculation: Making the Physics of the Sea Quantitative, 1876-1900

Jennifer Hubbard (University of Toronto)
Forecasting Fish

 
  

14:00-15:15

Logical Empiricism Revisited / L'empirisme logique reconsidéré
(Victoria College 206)

Eric Palmer (Allegheny College)  
chairman / président

Jonathan Y. Tsou (University of Chicago)
The Justification of Concepts in Carnap's Aufbau

Alan Richardson (University of British Columbia)
Kuhn's Structure and Logical Empiricism: Beyond Epic, Tragedy, Irony, and Farce

 

15:00-15:15 Break for sessions in 323 / Pause pour les séances au 323

 

15:15-15:30 Break for sessions in 206 / Pause pour les séances au 206
 
15:15:17:00

Proof, Prediction and Mathematics in Ancient and Islamic Science / Preuve, prédiction et mathématiques dans les sciences antiques et islamiques
(Victoria College 323)

Craig Fraser (University of Toronto)  
chairman / président

Alan C. Bowen (IRCPS)
The Exact Sciences in Fourth-Century Greece and their Interpretation in Aristotle's Posterior Analytics 1.13

Daryn Lehoux (University of King's College)
Predictions in Ancient Astronomy and Astrology

Alexander Jones (University of Toronto)
Frames of Reference in Ancient Astronomy

Glen Van Brummelen (Bennington College)
Analysis, Synthesis, and Computation: From Pure Geometry to Applied Mathematics in Medieval Islam

Joint session with the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics. Séance conjointe avec la Société canadienne d'histoire et de philosophie des mathématiques. 

 

15:30-17:00 Philosophy meets Sociology / 
La philosophie rencontre la sociologie
(Victoria College 206)

Bart Simon (Concordia University)
chairman / président

K. Brad Wray (University of Alberta)
Scientific Specialisation
 

Jay Foster (University of Toronto)
Trust Within Reason 

Bryan Boddy (University of Toronto)
Icons and Iconoclasts

 

17:00 CSHPS Executive Meeting /
Réunion du conseil d'administration de la SCHPS
(Room to be annouced / Lieu à déterminer)

 


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