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ISSUES AND TOPICS OF DISCUSSION
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Alternatively, what follows is a subject and name index, not to all
discussions of the Science Studies Group since its founding in the Fall of
1995, but to almost all presentations by Science Studies Group members, at
least up through 2001 or so. Subjects and names relate to members' research or
their interest in the history, philosophy, or social relations of science.
As such, it indicates the range of the Group's interests, and serves as a guide
to local Science Studies resources.
I. Subject Index:
Anthropology and Archaeology /
Biology /
Chemistry /
Computer Science /
Discourse and Communication /
Ecology /
Engineering /
Epistemology /
Experiment /
Feminist Critiques /
History of Medicine /
History of Science /
Instruments /
Mathematics /
Medicine /
Nursing /
Philosophy of Science /
Physics /
Public Health /
Psychology and Psychiatry /
Rhetoric of Science /
Social Sciences /
Sociology of Science/
Technology /
Theory of Knowledge
II. Name Index
(Historical and Contemporary Philosophers and Scientists)
- Philosophy of Biology, discussed by Daniel
Buxhoeveden (Physical Anthropology), Ed
Munn Sanchez(Philosophy), Todd
Grantham (Philosophy), Matt
Miller (Mathematics), Nawin
Mishra(Biology)
- Darwinism, discussed by Jim
Buggy (Medicine), Todd
Grantham (Philosophy), Alfred
Nordmann (Philosophy), Mike
Schuette (Physics)
- Ecology
- Entropy
and Evolution
- Eugenics
- Evolutionary psychology
- Genetics
and Behavior
- History of 18th and
19th century naturalism
- Passive
diffusion models (macro/micro-evolution, random drift)
- Statistics
vs. mathematical modeling
- Louis
Agassiz, John
Bachman, Michael
Behe, Charles Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard
Lewontin, Gregor
Mendel, Lee
Silvers, Alfred
Russell Wallace, Edmund
Wilson, James
Woodrow, Robert
Wright
- Discussed by David
Berube (Theatre and Speech), Caroline
Eastman (Computer Science), Christine
James (Philosophy), Pamela
Mack (History)
- Epistemological
issues
- Big
technology at NASA
- Scientific instruments
- Sustainable technology and environmental
engineering, discussed by Wally
Peters(Engineering), Gail
Wagner (Anthropology)
- Artificial
intelligence/expert systems, electric
motor, information/data-retrieval
systems, microscope,
sonar
technology (including acoustic
daylight imaging)
- Management
of natural resources
- Nanoscience and -technology, discussed by David
Berube (Theater and Speech), James
Tour(Chemistry)
- Transfer
of mathematical technology
- Bayesian
belief networks
- Causality discussed by Todd
Grantham (Philosophy), Marco
Valtorta (Computer Science), David
Willer (Sociology)
- Confirmation and evidence, discussed by John
Culler (Philosophy), Marco
Valtorta(Computer Science)
- Conventionalism
and empiricism (cf. also conventionality of simultaneity)
- Correspondence
theory of truth
- Creativity
(creative problem-solving)
- Empiricism
- Environmental
epistemology
- Ethnomethodological reconstructions of belief-systems, discussed by
Andrew
Gordon(Medical Anthropology), Gail
Wagner (Anthropology)
- Explanatory
pluralism (causal/non-causal explanations)
- Feminist critiques of traditional conceptions
of scientific method
- Laws of nature, discussed by Jeeva
Anandan, RIG
Hughes
- Logic
and experience
- Myth
and prejudice in science
- Naturalism (psychologism,.reductionism,
scientism) discussed by Anne
Bezuidenhout(Philosophy), Daniel
Buxhoeveden (Anthropology), Leigh
Hursh and David O'Donaghue(Pyschology/Philosophy), Ed
Munn Sanchez (Philosophy), Nawin
Mishra (Biology), Ignas
Skrupskelis(Philosophy), Keith
Topper (Politics)
- Conceptions of nature discussed by Jose
Vargas, Victoria
Voytko
- Conceptions of objectivity
- Pragmatism
- Reasoning skills and processes, discussed by Dan
Pesut (Nursing), Marco
Valtorta (Computer Science), Alice
Kasakoff (Anthropology)
- Representation, discussed by Joan
Gero, Andrew
Gordon, RIG
Hughes (vs. explanation), Jane
Przybysz
- Scientific
instruments and non-verbal scientific knowledge
- Standpoint
epistemology
- Statistical knowledge, discussed by Alice
Kasakoff (Anthropology), Matt
Miller(Mathematics)
- Stoic
and epicurean materialism
- Theories
of causal inference
- American science and technology, especially in the South (including
Anthropology, Medicine, Psychiatry, and Public Health), presented by
Ed
Beardsley (History), Allan
Charles (History), Joan
Gero (Anthropology), Pam
Mack (History), Peter
McCandless(History), Jane
Przybysz (McKissick Museum), Mike
Schuette (Physics), Ignas
Skrupskelis (Philosophy), David
Smith (Educational Psychology), Gail
Wagner(Anthropology)
- Historiography of science, discussed by John
Culler (Philosophy), Andrew
Gordon (Public Health/Medical Anthropology), Alfred
Nordmann (Philosophy), Jane
Przybysz (McKissick Museum)
- History
of Sciences at USC
- Relationship between History, Philosophy,
and Sociology of Science
- Science
in national contexts
- Social history of science and technology,
presented by David
Berube (Theatre and Speech), Ed
Beardsley (History), Allan
Charles (History), Joan
Gero (Anthropology), Andrew
Gordon (Public Health/Medical Anthropology), Pam
Mack (History), Peter
McCandless (History), Alfred
Nordmann (Philosophy), Jane
Przybysz (McKissick Museum), Mike
Schuette(Physics), David
Smith (Educational Psychology), Roy
Schwartzman (Theater and Speech)
- History
of engineering at NASA
- !8th and 19th century
naturalists in the American South, discussed by Jane
Przybysz(McKissick Museum), Mike
Schuette (Physics)
- History of eugenics, discussed by
Roy Schwartzman (Theater and Speech), David
Smith(Educational Psychology), Nawin
Mishra (Biology)
- History of evolutionary theory, presented by Alfred
Nordmann, Mike
Schuette
- History
of Nazi Racial Science
- Stoic
and epicurean materialism
- William
James and the American Society for Psychical Research
- Anaximander,
John
Bachman, Thomas
Cooper, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Michael
Faraday, William James, Francis
Peyre Porcher, James
Woodrow
- Discussed by Tom
Borg (Medicine), Jim
Buggy (Medicine), Andrew
Gordon (Public Health/Medical Anthropology), Dan
Pesut (Nursing)
- History of medicine discussed by Ed
Beardsley (History), Allan
Charles (History), Andrew
Gordon (Public Health/Medical Anthropology), Peter
McCandless (History), David
Smith(Educational Psychology)
- Causal
research on development and diseases of the heart
- Diagnostic
Reasoning
- Eugenics
- The
Fulani theory of malaria
- Hermeneutics
- Insanity
and Psychiatry in South Carolina
- Medical
Anthropology and Public Health
- Medical
Model in Psychology
- Nazi
Racial Science
- Neurophysiology and conceptions of the mind discussed by Jim
Buggy (Physiology/School of Medicine), Ed
Munn Sanchez (Philosophy), Leigh
Hursh and David O'Donaghue(Psychology/Philosophy), and Daniel
Buxhoeveden (Physical Anthropology)
- Funding
policies at the NIH
- Nursing
vs. medicine (issues of professionalization and specialization)
- Philosophy
as/and Psychology
- Reasoning
processes of expert nurses
- Discussed by Jeeva
Ananda (Physics/Philosophy), Davis
Baird (Philosophy), Anne
Bezuidenhout (Philosophy/Linguistics), Tom
Burke (Philosophy), John
Culler (Philosophy), Christine
James (Philosophy), Ron
Edge (Physics), Todd
Grantham (Philosophy), R.I.G.
Hughes (Philosophy), Alfred
Nordmann (Philosophy), Tom
Oberdan (Philosophy), Christopher
Preston (Philosophy), Ignas
Skrupskelis (Philosophy), Keith
Topper (Politics), Jose
Vargas (Physics), Victoria
Voytko (Philosophy), David
Willer (Sociology)
- Anaximander,
Thomas Bayes, George
Boole, Pierre
Bourdieu, Mario
Bunge, Rudolf
Carnap, John
Dewey, Paul
Feyerabend, Bas
van Fraassen, Gottlob
Frege, Peter
Galison, Ron
Giere, Clark
Glymour, Adolf
Grünbaum, Ian
Hacking, Sandra
Harding, Nancy
Hartsock, Edmund Husserl, William James, Mark
Johnson and George Lakoff, Immanuel
Kant, Thomas Kuhn, Imre
Lakatos, Karl
Marx, John Stuart Mill, Otto
Neurath, Steven
Pinker, Karl Popper, Hans
Reichenbach, Richard
Rorty, Moritz
Schlick, Max Weber, Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Causality
- Concepts of 'science', discussed by Alfred
Nordmann (Philosophy), Roy
Schwartzman (Theatre and Speech), Keith
Topper (Politics), David
Willer (Sociology)
- Explanatory
pluralism (causal/non-causal explanations)
- Feminist critiques of traditional
conceptions of scientific method, discussed by Joan
Gero (Anthropology), Christine
James (Philosophy), Jane
Przybysz (McKissick Museum), Christopher
Preston (Philosophy)
- Laws of nature
- (Logical) Positivism, the Vienna Circle, discussed by Alfred
Nordmann, Tom
Oberdan, Keith
Topper
- Models
- "Normal
science"
- Objectivity (discussed by Christine
James, Ron
Edge, Alfred
Nordmann, Christopher
Preston); "dialectical
objectivity"
- Philosophy of Biology
- Philosophy of Physics
- Philosophy of the Social Sciences
- Reductionism
- Relationship between History,
Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, discussed by John
Culler, Alfred
Nordmann, Roy
Schwartzman
- Representation (vs. explanation)
- Scientific instruments
- Simplicity
of theories
- Theory
and observation
- Theory
choice
- Unity/disunity
of science
Physics and Chemistry:
- History of Physics discussed by Jeeva
Anandan (Physics/Philosophy)
- Philosophy of Physics discussed by Jeeva
Anandan (Physics/Philosophy), Ron Edge
(Physics), Ralph
Howard (Mathematics), R.I.G.
Hughes (Philosophy), Jose
Vargas (Physics)
- Elie-Joseph
Cartan, Paul
Davies, Albert Einstein, Michael
Faraday, Richard
Feynman, Galileo
Galilei, Stephen
Hawking, John
Wheeler
- Anthropic
Principle
- Axiomatization
(relation to mathematics)
- Conventionality of simultaneity
- Entropy
- General
Relativity
- Geometry
- Nanoscience and -technology, discussed by David
Berube (Theater and Speech), James Tour
(Chemistry)
- Relativity
and quantum theory
- Symmetry
- Eugenics
- Evolutionary Psychology, discussed by Ed
Munn Sanchez (Philosophy) and Daniel
Buxhoeveden (Physical Anthropology)
- Feeble-mindedness
(diagnosis, treatment and sterilization programs)
- History
of Insanity and Psychiatry in South Carolina
- Psychic
Research
- Psychological
experiments and their philosophical presuppostions
- Psychologism
and Anti-Psychologism
- Theories of Mind (Mind-Body Dualism etc.) discussed by Anne
Bezuidenhout (Philosophy/Linguistics), Jim
Buggy (Medicine), Victoria
Voytko (Philosophy), Ed
Munn Sanchez(Philosophy), Leigh
Hursh and David O'Donaghue (Psychology/Philosophy), and Daniel
Buxhoeveden (Physical Anthropology)
- Sir
William Crooke, Michel
Foucault, Sigmund
Freud, Henry
Goddard, William James
- Anthropogenesis
(landscape and human action)
- Authors and authorship in science, discussed by Caroline
Eastman (Computer Science), Jane
Przybysz (McKissick Museum)
- Cold
War and Genetics
- Discourse and Communication in and about
Science and Technology
- Ethnomethodological
reconstructions of belief-systems
- The eugenics-movement
- Feminist critiques of science
- Funding
policies
- Impact
of gender on archaeological/anthropological research
- Industry
(manufacturing)
- Nazi
Racial Science
- Nursing
Science and the professionalization of nursing
- Relationship between History, Philosophy,
and Sociology of Science
- Science in national contexts
- Scientometrics,
citation-indexing, etc.
- Social History of Science
- Science and the social imagination, discussed by Nawin
Mishra (Biology), Ed
Munn Sanchez(Philosophy)
- Science and the supernatural (religion), discussed by Ignas
Skrupskelis (Philosophy), James
Tour (Chemistry), cf. Naturalism
- Supreme
Court on Eugenics and the Sterlization of Carrie Buck (Oliver
Wendell Holmes)
- Sustainable technology and environmental
engineering
Index of Names (Historical and Contemporary Philosophers and
Scientists):
- Louis
Agassiz
- Anaximander
- John
Bachman
- Thomas Bayes (discussed by John
Culler, Marco
Valtorta)
- Michael
Behe
- George
Boole
- Pierre
Bourdieu
- Mario
Bunge
- Santiago
Ramon y Cajal
- Rudolf
Carnap
- Elie-Joseph
Cartan
- Thomas
Cooper
- Sir
William Crooke
- ??
Crow
- Charles Darwin (discussed by Jim
Buggy, Todd
Grantham, Alfred
Nordmann, Mike
Schuette, Ignas
Skrupskelis)
- Paul
Davies
- John
Dewey
- K.
Eric Drexler
- Albert Einstein (discussed by Jeeva
Anandan, Ralph
Howard, Jose
Vargas)
- Michael
Faraday
- Paul
Feyerabend
- Richard
Feynman
- R.A.
Fisher
- Michel
Foucault
- Bas
van Fraassen
- Gottlob
Frege
- Sigmund Freud (discussed by Peter
McCandless, David
O'Donaghue)
- Galileo
Galilei
- Peter
Galison
- Eugene
Garfield
- Ron
Giere
- Clark
Glymour
- Henry
Goddard
- Stephen Jay Gould (discussed by Todd
Grantham, David
Smith, Ed
Munn Sanchez)
- Adolf
Grünbaum
- Ian
Hacking
- Norwood
Russell Hanson
- Sandra
Harding
- Nancy
Hartsock
- Stephen
Hawking
- Oliver
Wendell Holmes
- Edmund Husserl (discussed by Anne
Bezuidenhout, Andrew
Gordon)
- William James (discussed by Ignas
Skrupskelis, Daniel
Buxhoeveden)
- Mark
Johnson and George Lakoff
- Immanuel
Kant
- Robert
Koch
- Thomas Kuhn (discussed by Alfred
Nordmann, Tom
Oberdan, Keith
Topper)
- Imre
Lakatos
- Jean-Baptiste
Lamarck
- John
Leconte
- Richard
Lewontin
- Jean
Francois Lyotard
- Karl
Marx
- Gregor
Mendel
- Maurice
Merleau-Ponty
- Robert
K. Merton
- John Stuart Mill (discussed by Anne
Bezuidenhout, David
Willer)
- Marvin
Minsky
- Otto
Neurath
- Karl
Pearson
- Steven
Pinker
- Leonara
Piper
- Karl Popper (discussed by Alfred
Nordmann, Christopher
Preston)
- Francis
Peyre Porcher
- Hans
Reichenbach
- Richard
Rorty
- Moritz
Schlick
- Lee
Silvers
- Alan
Sokal
- Rudolf
Steiner
- Stephen
Toulmin
- Rudolf
Virchow
- Alfred
Russell Wallace
- Max Weber (discussed by Keith
Topper, David
Willer)
- John
Wheeler
- Edmund
Wilson
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (discussed by Ron
Edge, Tom
Oberdan)
- James
Woodrow
- Robert
Wright
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