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Heritable Disease Hypotheses: Occam vs. Murphy

Heritable Disease Hypotheses: Occam vs. Murphy

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Brain, Education, and Inquiry - Fall, 2010: Session 6

Brain, Education, and Inquiry

Bryn Mawr College, Fall 2010

Session 6

 

Class is itself an experiment in a particular form of education: co-constructive inquiry

Learning by interacting, sharing observations and understandings to create, individually and collectively, new understandings and new questions that motivate new observations

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Brain, Education, and Inquiry - Fall, 2010: Session 5

Brain, Education, and Inquiry

Bryn Mawr College, Fall 2010

Session 5

 

Class is itself an experiment in a particular form of education: co-constructive inquiry

Learning by interacting, sharing observations and understandings to create, individually and collectively, new understandings and new questions that motivate new observations

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Brain, Education, and Inquiry - Fall, 2010: Session 4

Brain, Education, and Inquiry

Bryn Mawr College, Fall 2010

Session 4

 

Class is itself an experiment in a particular form of education: co-constructive inquiry

Learning by interacting, sharing observations and understandings to create, individually and collectively, new understandings and new questions that motivate new observations

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Brain, Education, and Inquiry - Fall, 2010: Session 3

Brain, Education, and Inquiry

Bryn Mawr College, Fall 2010

Session 3

 

Class is itself an experiment in a particular form of education: co-constructive inquiry

Learning by interacting, sharing observations and understandings to create, individually and collectively, new understandings and new questions that motivate new observations

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"She's a woman": "Fact" or ... ?

Biology in Society Senior Seminar

Bryn Mawr College, Fall 2010

Session 3:
"She's a woman": "Fact" or ... ?

  • Are "woman" and "man" well-defined discrete categories?
  • Should we try and make them so?
  • Is biology relevant to such a discussion?
  • What does biology have to say?  How should it contribute?

Some thoughts from last session

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Brain, Education, and Inquiry - Fall, 2010: Session 2

Brain, Education, and Inquiry

Bryn Mawr College, Fall 2010

Session 2

 

Class is itself an experiment in a particular form of education: co-constructive inquiry

Learning by interacting, sharing observations and understandings to create, individually and collectively, new understandings and new questions that motivate new observations

Paul Grobstein's picture

Brain, Education, and Inquiry - Fall, 2010: Session 1

Brain, Education, and Inquiry

Bryn Mawr College, Fall 2010

Session 1

 

Class is itself an experiment in a particular form of education: co-constructive inquiry

Learning by interacting, sharing observations and understandings to create, individually and collectively, new understandings and new questions that motivate new observations

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Science and cultures/values

Biology in Society Senior Seminar

Bryn Mawr College, Fall 2010

Sessions 1,2: Science and Culture/Values

 

  • Is biology/science "objective", value-free, culture-independent, universal?
  • Should it be?
  • Is there a distinctive biology/science culture? set of values?
  • Should there be? 

BBC News Hour 26 August (1300 GMT) segment on medicine and religion 44:01-49:30)

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Brain, Education, and Inquiry - Fall 2010: Resources

Brain, Education, and Inquiry

Bryn Mawr College, Fall 2010

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