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Monday 27 May / lundi 27 mai 
  

08:00-09:00

CSHPS Breakfast Council Meeting / Déjeuner des conseillers de la SCHPS 
(Victoria College 323)

 

9:00-10:15 Diverse Allegiances and Worldviews in Victorian Evolutionism / Allégances diverses et visions du monde dans l'évolutionnisme victorien
(V
ictoria College 323)

Martin Fichman (York University)  
chairman / président

Donald R. Forsdyke (Queen's University)
Darwin's Research Associate, George John Romanes

Erin McLaughlin-Jenkins (York University)
Darwin as Revolutionary: T. A. Jackson on Vulgar Darwinism, History, Nature, and Society

Bernard Lightman (York University)
Huxley and Scientific Agnosticism: The Strange History of a Failed Rhetorical Strategy

Explanation and Understanding / Expliquer et comprendre
(Victoria College 206)

Robert Hudson (University of Saskatchewan)
chairman / président

Diana Palmieri (University of Western Ontario)
What is a Complete and Independent Explanation?

Natasha McCarthy  (University of Toronto)
Incommensurability : Science and Common Sense

 

10:15-10:30 Break / Pause
 
10:30-12:00 20th Century Philosophy of Science
La philosophie des sciences au XXe siècle
(Victoria College 206)

Alan Richardson (University of British Columbia)
chairman / président

Alain Beaulieu (Université de Paris VIII)
La philosophie des processus de Whitehead et la doctrine de l'évolution

Dan McArthur (University of Regina)
Why Bachelard is not a Scientific Realist?
 

Science, State and Society / La science, l'État et la société
(Victoria College 323)

Ernst Hamm (York University)  
chairman / président

Martin S. Staum (University of Calgary)
French Social Scientists on the Stable Society, Race and Empire, 1815-1848

James Elwick (University of Toronto)
Mementos of Individuality: Inscriptions, Surveillance and Emancipation in Victorian England

Judith Szapor (University of Toronto)
A Matter of Life or Death: Soviet and Foreign Physicists at the Ukrainian Physical-Technical Institute in the 1930s

 

12:00-14:00 Lunch / Dîner 

CSHPS Annual General Meeting /
Assemblée générale annuelle de la SCHPS
 
(Victoria College 323)

Lunch will be provided / Le repas sera gracieusement offert

  

14:00-15:15 Author Meets Critics / L'auteur confronte ses critiques
(Victoria College 323)

Danny Goldstick (University of Toronto)  
chairman / président

Author / Auteur :

James Robert Brown (University of Toronto)
Who Rules in Science? An Opinionated Guide to the Wars (Harvard University Press, 2001)

Critics / Critiques

Ernst P. Hamm (York University)
Gordon R. McOuat
(University of King's College)

Reply by the Author / Réponse de l'auteur

James Robert Brown (University of Toronto)
 

Philosophy and History of Engineering / 
Histoire et philosophie du génie
(Victoria College 206)

Janis Langins (University of Toronto)  
chairman / président

Steven L. Goldman (Lehigh University)
Contingency, Will and the Production of Technical Knowledge: Towards a Philosophy of Engineering

Natasha Zwarich  (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Enseignement supérieur et montée des experts: la formation des ingénieurs sanitaires à Montréal, 1880-1930

James E. Tomayko (Carnegie Mellon University)
The CF-105 Arrow and the Price of National Self-Esteem


15:15-15:30 Break / Pause
 
15:30-17:00 Stillman Drake Lecture / Lecture Stillman Drake
(Victoria College 323)

Lesley Cormack, CSHPS President (University of Alberta) 
chairman / président

Ian Hacking  (University of Toronto / Collège de France)
'True', Values and the Sciences


17:00-19:00 CSHPS President's Reception / Réception de la présidente de la SCHPS

 

19:00 CSHPS Banquet / Banquet de la SCHPS
(Location to be announced / Lieu à déterminer)

 


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