Biology and Culture
November 20, 1991
- Speaker: Susan Oyama (Psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice): "Ontogeny and Phylogeny: A Case of Metarecapitualtion?"
- Commentator: Richard Burian (STS, Virginia Tech)
January 22, 1992
- Speaker: Richard Lewontin (Zoology, Harvard University): "Biology as a Social Weapon"
March 11, 1992
Colloquium: "Cultural Group Selection: An Empirical Evaluation"
- Robert Boyd (Anthropology, UCLA): "Models of Cultural Evolution"
- Commentator: Barbara Herrnstein Smith (Comparative Literature and English, Duke)
The Rhetoric of Science
April 2, 1992
- Speaker: Brian Rotman (Professor of Mathematics; independent scholar; Author of "Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero" (1988) and "Ad Infinitum: The Ghost in Turing's Machine-Taking God Out of Mathematics and Putting the Body Back In": "Circa 2000"
April 3, 1992
- Speaker: Brian Rotman (Professor of Mathematics; independent scholar; Author of "Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero" (1988) and Ad Infinitum: The Ghost in Turing's Machine-Taking God Out of Mathematics and Putting the Body Back In": "The Technology of Mathematical Persuasion"