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Dr. Alan Richardson

Alan Richardson is Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia. He is Vice President and President Elect of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS). His research deals with the history of philosophy of science in the 19th and 20th centuries and employs methods from across the STS spectrum. He is author of Carnap's Construction of the World (Cambridge UP, 1997) as well as co-editor of Origins of Logical Empiricism (U Minnesota P, 1996), Logical Empiricism in North America (U Minnesota P, 2003) and The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism (Cambridge UP, in press); he serves on the editorial board of The Open Court's Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap.

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Research and Development

Post-Doctoral Appointments:

2008-10: Jonathan Tsou,(PhD, University of Chicago, 2008 in Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science)
Graduate of University of Chicago and currently at Iowa State University.
See "Publications" for a list of his activity during his fellowship. Tsou left UBC after the first year of the postdoc to take up a tenure-track position in the Department of Philosophy at Iowa State.

2009-10: Flavia Padovani, (PhD, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
See "Publications" for a list of her activity during her fellowship. Padovani went on to a postdoc funded by the Swiss government at the Centre for Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences at the LSE and took up a tenure-track position in the Department of English and Philosophy at Drewel University in Philadelphia in January 2012.

Cluster PhD:
2012-13: Steve Maye

Cluster MA:
2009-10: Danielle [aka Dani] Hallet
Dani was very active co-organizing the Objectivity conference, the STS speaker series and conducting various administrative tasks for the Node.

Node News and Events

Evelyn Fox Keller: What Kind of Divide Separates Biology from Culture?

What Kind of Divide Separates Biology from Culture? Evelyn Fox Keller, History and Philosophy of Science, MIT April 4 2013 5pm (refreshments at 4:30) Room 130, Liu Institute, 6476 NW Marine...

Bodies in Motion: Translating Early Modern Science

Bodies in Motion: Translating Early Modern Science March 22-23, 2013 University of British-Columbia Theme(s): Geography and Sites of KnowingFinal report: See document belowKeynote: Anthony Grafton,...

Anthony Grafton: The Marriage of Divination and Philology: An Inquiry into the Terminology and Practice of Scholarship in Early Modern Europe (and some other places)

March 21 Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University and Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor at UBC “The Marriage of Divination and Philology: An...

Michael Ruse: “Debating Darwin: Mechanist or Romantic?”

Michael Ruse of the Florida State University Department of Philosophy delivers an STS colloquium talk titled “Debating Darwin: Mechanist or Romantic?” on Thursday, March 14, 5:00-6:30pm in Buchanan...

Lisa Cartwright: “Infrastructures of Power: New Topographies of Wind in Kansas”

“Infrastructures of Power: New Topographies of Wind in Kansas” Thursday, March 7 Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm, with reception to follow Location: Coach House, Green College Presented by Science and Society...

Deanna Kreisel: “‘The Insides of Things’: Higher-Dimensional Geometries and Victorian Theories of Space”

Deanna Kreisel of the UBC Department of English delivers an STS colloquium talk titled “‘The Insides of Things’: Higher-Dimensional Geometries and Victorian Theories of Space” on Thursday, February...

Jennifer Alexander: The Radical Religiosity of Jacques Ellul's Technological Critique

"THE RADICAL RELIGIOSITY OF JACQUES ELLUL'S TECHNOLOGICAL CRITIQUE" Thursday, February 7, 5:00-6:30pm, GREEN COLLEGE, Coach House (reception to follow) JENNIFER ALEXANDER, University of Minnesota,...

Angus Livingstone: Academy-Industry Relations: Great Fears, Great Expectations

Thursday, January 31, 5:00-6:30pm, Buchanan Tower 1197 ANGUS LIVINGSTONE, UBC Angus Livingstone is Managing Director of the University-Industry Liaison Office (UILO) at The University of British...

Lean Ceccarelli: At the Frontiers of Science

The STS Colloquium continues this Thursday, January 17. Please join us, and let others know (poster attached). "AT THE FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE: AN AMERICAN RHETORIC OF EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION"...

Todd Chambers: In Praise of Navel Gazing, Or an Argument for or against Bioethics Studies

In Praise of Navel Gazing, Or an Argument for or against Bioethics Studies Thursday, January 3, 5:00-6:30pm, Green College Coach House TOD CHAMBERS, Northwestern University As the discipline of...

Monica Brown: What Does Hand Washing Mean in the Twenty-First Century?

“What Does Hand Washing Mean in the Twenty-First Century?” Location: Buchanan Tower, Room 1197

Alejandra Bronfman: In Search of the Radiolette, In the Grip of Invisible Rays

“In Search of the Radiolette, In the Grip of Invisible Rays” Location: Buchanan Tower, Room 1197

Patrick Slaney: Scientific Freedom and the Limits of the Administrative State

Thursday, Nov. 8, 5:00-6:30pm, Buchanan Tower 1197 PATRICK SLANEY, UBCIn this talk I'll argue that public administration needs to be taken seriousl y as field concerned with the relationship between...

George Reisch: The Paranoid Style in American History of Science: On the Cold War Origins of Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions

George Reisch of the Northwestern Department of Philosophy delivers an STS colloquium talk entitled “The Paranoid Style in American History of Science: On the Cold War Origins of Thomas Kuhn’s...

Candis Callison: Co-producing Care, Navigating Climate and Media Change

"Co-Producing Care: Navigating Climate and Media Change" Candis Callison, School of Journalism, UBC Oct. 25th, 5PM Rm 1197, Buchanan TowerIn an era of immense media change where audiences, platforms...

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