Reconfiguring the Two Cultures: Contemporary Perspectives on the Sciences and the Humanities
February 18, 1997
- Speaker: Trevor Pinch (Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University): "The Golem of Science: One Way to Learn to Love Science"
February 19, 1997
Colloquium: "Analogue Days: The History of the Moog Electronic Music Synthesizer"
- Trevor Pinch (Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University)
March 7, 1997
- Speaker: Lorraine Daston (History of Science, Max Planck Institute, Berlin): "What Kind of a Culture is Science?"
March 8, 1997
Colloquium: “Objectivity”
- Lorraine Daston (History of Science, Max Planck Institute, Berlin)
- Commentator: Stanley Fish (English, Duke)
March 24, 1997
- Speaker: Bruno Latour (Sociology of Science, Ecole des Mines, Paris): "Why has Reality Become an Object of Belief and an Article of Faith?: A Commentary on Plato's Gorgias"
March 26, 1997
Colloquium: “Reality”
- Isabelle Stengers (Philosophy and History of Science, Free University of Brussels)
- Commentator: Fredric Jameson (Program in Literature and Romance Studies, Duke)
March 25, 1997
Colloquium: "Science Wars: What About Peace?"
- Isabelle Stengers (Philosophy and History of Science, Free University of Brussels)
- Bruno Latour (Sociology of Science, Ecole des Mines, Paris)
- Commentator: Robert Brandon (Philosophy, Duke)
April 7, 1997
- Speaker: Mario Biagioli (History of Science, Harvard University): "Stress in the Book of Nature: The Supplemental Logic of Galileo's Mathematical Realism"
April 8, 1997
Colloquium: "Biomedical Journals and the Question of Authorship"
- Mario Biagioli (History of Science, Harvard University)
- Commentator: Michael Hardt (Literature, Duke)
April 21, 1997
- Speaker: Steven Shapin (History and Sociology of Science, University of California, San Diego): "Proverbial Philosophy: Science and Common Sense Once More"
April 22, 1997
Colloquium: “Truth"
- Steven Shapin (History and Sociology of Science, University of California, San Diego)
- Commentator: Tom Cohen (English, UNC-CH)