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07/23/2007 "Fritz Davis's First Book has been published by Oxford University Press"
Congratulations Fritz! 01/05/2007 All HPS students should be on the lookout for these three men who will be on our FSU campus this spring semester. Do not feed them as this encourages them. This is especially true for the one in the back of the photo. Lesley Numbers, Ronald Numbers, Michael Ruse, and Bob Richards.
01/02/2007 As I think everyone now knows, Ron Numbers will be on campus for two weeks, starting next Monday (Jan 8) giving a course on science and religion in America (from the Pilgrims to the Present) -- below there is a link to a really good Salon interview with him -- get in touch with Sarah Fisk (the HPS assistant if you would like to meet with him) at fsuhpsaa@netscape.net. http://www.salon.com/books/int/2007/01/02/numbers/print.html Michael End of the Semester Announcement - 12/21/2006 We want to congratulate all our students on a great semester and wish them safe travels and a fun break.
We are already looking forward to equally successful spring semester. A reminder will be going out on the listserv
regarding the HPS graduate student meeting with the date TBA. If anyone has any special day or time they cannot meet,
please be sure to let us know.
Special Halloween Announcement: A new feature of our program will include the opportunity for all our graduate students to be able to confess any and all sins to the honoured Father Ruse. All students should feel free to confess and be forgiven.
10/30/2006
This photo was taken by a Canadian philosopher on sabbatical in China. He was visiting a remote village where the inhabitants had never seen a foreigner. On the wall of the first-grade class was one photo only -- not Mao, not Marx, but our very own Charles Darwin! Actually, there was massive influence of evolution (called Darwinism but in fact owing much more to Herbert Spencer) on Chinese intellectuals around the beginning of the twentieth century. The worry that our ancestors might be monkeys was assuaged by the honor that Charles Darwin did to his grandfather Erasmus Darwin by following in his footsteps. 09/23/2006 We welcome applications from all suitably qualified students. 
(Actually, this is a picture of Dean Falk, professor of anthropology at FSU and an associate of the HPS Program, with the "Ice Man.") 09/05/2006 Our new academic year has begun! We are offering a Philosophy/Biology/Religion class for HPS core credit this semester that all majors should register for, if they have not taken it previously. We have been reorganizing the program to increase efficiency and we are taking suggestions from our students about what they would like to see in the HPS program. The minutes from our most recent meeting can be accessed by clicking here. HPS Masters students should download a copy of the Program handbook, if they do not already have one. This handbook lists all the requirements and other important information for our students. Pete Takacs is our student representative this year, if students have academic needs or suggestions, he can help with those issues. Click on his name to send him an email. In the future, student representatives will be elected yearly by the graduate students. Our listserv is up and running and all HPS students should have received an invitation to join; if you did not, please send an email to Sarah Fisk, sfisk@mailer.fsu.edu and she will send you an invitation. This listserv will be a communication point between HPS faculty and students and between the students themselves. Feel free to use it. HPS will be conducting brown bag lunches from 12:30 to 1:30 every other Tuesday during the Fall 2006 semester. These lunches will be an opportunity for students and professors to present papers they are currently working on. Although subject to change, the speaking schedule is currently is as follows:
05/01/2006 I just wanted to give everyone a progress report on the History and Philosophy of Science Program. As you will know, we now have an MA program and an undergraduate minor. For the past two years, we have had about six MA students and also there are a number of PhD students who are working in the field. Last year, two students from Philosophy in the HPS field got tenure track jobs. History and Religion have been very supportive of the program as well as Philosophy. Since 2000, we have had two Werkmeister Conferences on HPS, as well as a number of workshops. Next Spring we will have a Werkmeister Conference on Darwin's Origin of Species. I am very glad to say that all three of these conferences will be published by Cambridge University Press. The 2001 conference on the philosophy of biology is just about to go off to the Press - it is The Cambridge Companion to the Philsophy of Biology, co-edited by myself and David Hull, emeritus Northwestern. The 2005 conference is on evolutionary development (evo-devo), and is being edited by Jane Maienschein and Manfred Laubichler of Arizona State U. Next year, 2007, the volume will be edited by myself and Bob Richards, U Chicago. This last volume will appear just in time for the 2009 celebrations of the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin. We have a star-studded cast, including Dame Gillian Beer, former president of Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge, and Chris and Michele Kohler who have just sold their fabulous Darwin collection to the BM (NH). More details will be posted very shortly. (This last volume too will be a Cambridge Companion, the evo devo volume will appear in my series, the Cambridge Series in the Philosophy of Biology. All volumes have now been accepted by the Syndics.) There are a number of off campus workshops and conferences coming up. I want to support students who go to these, although with the big forthcoming conference we will need to watch the expenses. Sarah Fisk, the Program assistant, and I will make sure that these are posted on the HPS website. The only thing I ask is that you help me to plan the budget and that means not asking at the last moment and seeing if there are other funds available as well. Finally, at the undergraduate level we have started or reinvigorated a number of courses, including one on Feminist Philosophies of Science, and Environmental Ethics. I am particularly grateful to those people who helped to get the latter accredited as a Liberal Arts course. Michael
09/22/2005 We have added a new minor to our History and Philosophy of Science Program. For a list of the classes included in the minor please open the document below. We are still adding classes and the minor is still growing. We are pleased to welcome David Depew who will be guest lecturing on Tuesday, September 27, 2005 for the Biology, Philosophy, and Religion Seminar. Read all about our new minor!!
08/29/2005 Our Fall 2005 semester has begun and we will be adding a link for our new minor very soon. History and Philosophy of Science is offering a seminar called "Biology, Philosophy, and Religion" this fall. This class will include an interdisciplinary faculty makeup from the Philosophy, Religion, and Biology Departments. Teaching faculty will be Michael Ruse, John Kelsay, and Joseph Travis. We will also be having several guest lecturers including David Depew, Dean Faulk, and John Haught. |  |
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