Bryn Mawr College

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Graduate education necessarily involves exploration in depth of the understandings and literature of particular disciplines, but is greatly faciliated by simultaneous explorations of the place of particular disciplines in broader intellectual and social discourse. This working group, organized by GSSWSR and Arts and Sciences graduate students, takes advantage of the availability of excellent semi-popular books on general interdisciplinary themes to encourage and facilitate the broader explorations. Anyone interested in thinking about intellectual issues which transcend particular discplinary borders are invited to join the working group by contacting Judie McCoyd, Liz Shea or Corey Shdaimah.

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Prior discussions (click for discussion summaries)

October 8, 2002	Emergence, by Steven Johnson
November 19, 2002	The Blank Slate, by Steven Pinker
January 29, 2003	On Being A Scientist
March 20, 2003	Women's Ways of Knowing (1990) by Mary Belenky et. al.
April 10, 2003	Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists (1984), edited by Ken Wilber
May 6, 2003	Teaching Seminar Discussion
May 30, 2003	The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities (2003) by Stephen Jay Gould
June 24, 2003	The Hedgehog ..., discussion continued
July 22, 2003	Toulmin's Return to Reason