Natural Orders, Cultural Orderings: Classification & its Problems
March 21, 2002
Speakers:
- Paul Griffiths (History and Philosophy of Science, U of Pittsburgh: “Emotions as Natural and Normative Kinds”; Respondent: Robert Brandon (Philosophy, Duke)
- Susan Leigh Star (Communication, U of California, San Diego: “Severe Chronic Pain as a Lived Residual Category”; Respondent: Judith Farquhar (Anthropology, UNC-CH)
- Harriet Ritvo (History, MIT): “Ordering Creation, Or Maybe Not: Varieties of Victorian Taxonomy”; Respondent: Priscilla Wald (English, Duke)
- Geoffrey C. Bowker (Communication, U of California, San Diego): “Classification and Process: The Case of Biodiversity"; Respondent: Brian Cantwell Smith (Philosophy and Computer Science, Duke)
Co-Sponsors: the Department of Philosophy and the Center for Reflection on Science and Technology