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Philosophy of Science 2008 - Additional discussion resources

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sun, 02/24/2008 - 12:51pm
Class discussions draw significantly on prior published work by both instructors. References to such work not included in class reading assignments are added here as their relevance emerges.
First 5 class sessions
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Emergence: Biological, Literary, and ....

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Wed, 02/13/2008 - 6:46pm

Evolution and Literature:
Notes on Change and Order

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Evolution/Science: Inverting the Relationship Between Randomness and Meaning

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Mon, 01/28/2008 - 7:19pm

The past Sunday's NY Times Book Review has a review of a book by Anne Harrington called The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine. Its interesting in its own right, directly relevant to a course I'm currently teaching, but connects in interesting ways to some other things bubbling around as well. The book is reviewed by Jerome Groopman, a cancer specialist, who writes ....

Neurobiology and Behavior, Spring, 2008

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Philosophy of Science 2008 - Schedule

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sat, 01/19/2008 - 1:26pm
 
22 Jan MK, PG Introduction and the demarcation problem past and present
 See Evolution and Intelligent Design: Perspectives and Lakatos
29 Jan MK Realism and the Aim of Science I

Philosophy of Science 2008

The overriding theme of this course is an exploration of the nature of scientific knowledge in the context of the realist/constructivist controversy in the philosophy of science. It will seek an accommodation between realism and constructivism. Further topics include evolution, complexity and emergence, the brain, and science as story telling as they bear on the overriding theme.

Phil 310 = Bio 310, Spring 2008, Tuesdays, 1-3:30

 

Reading Images, Imagining Forms

Notes towards Day 1 of
Emerging Genres

Reading Images, Imagining Forms

I. reading an image...


II. Reading another...

 

Brain, Behavior, and Human Well-Being

Senior Seminar in Neural and Behavioral Sciences
Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges
Spring 2008

 

"research on the brain, like nuclear physics and molecular genetics, creates both opportunities and risks for humanity sufficiently great so that special attention needs to be paid to them, both by researchers and by the public at large"

 

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Middlesex: How and Why Callie Became Cal

Submitted by MarieSager on Sat, 01/12/2008 - 10:14pm

“Sing now, O Muse, of the recessive mutation on my fifth chromosome! Sing how it bloomed two and a half centuries ago on the slopes of mount Olympus…Sing how it passed down through nine generations, gathering invisibly within the polluted pool of the Stephanides family. And sing how Providence … sent the gene flying again…” (p 4).

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Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities

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Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities has 50 remote-ready activities, which work for either your classroom or remote teaching.

Narrative is determined not by a desire to narrate but by a desire to exchange. (Roland Barthes, S/Z)

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