Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science 4:1 is now available online

Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science is pleased to announce the publication of its latest issue at
http://spontaneousgenerations.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/SpontaneousGenerations.

We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest.

Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science 4:1 is now available online

going EASST virtually , 2nd - 4th Sept. 2010

“Practising science and technology, performing the social” is the title of the EASST010 conference in Trento (Italy) which takes place from 2nd to 4th September 2010 [0]. Many researchers in science and technology studies will go there, probably some technologists too. And a few students will be there too. There are usually much more students interested in conference themes than those who actually find the time and money to finally attend such a conference.

For all those who cannot physically go to this conference, we started this little project, to in return make our own conference visit possible (as we got some financial support for this project by the local students union). On our

CFP: Metaphysics & the Philosophy of Science, IHPST, Toronto 13-15 May 2011

METAPHYSICS & THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE CONFERENCE

Presented by the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and
Technology, University of Toronto and the Fishbein Center for the History of

Science and Medicine, University of Chicago

13-15 May 2011, University of Toronto

The philosophy of science has an illustrious history of attraction and
antipathy towards metaphysics. The latter was famously exemplified in the

Logical Positivist contention that metaphysical questions are meaningless,
but in the wake of the demise of Positivism, metaphysics has found its way
back into the philosophy of science. Increasingly, questions about the

nature of natural laws, kinds, dispositions, and so on have taken a
metaphysical cast. The metaphysics of science commands significant attention

An invitation to join a new research network

One-day Workshop -- From History of Economics to Histories about Economics -- Duke University, October, 2010

From History of Economics to Histories about Economics
October 16, 2010
Duke University, Center for the History of Political Economy
Rhodes Conference Room, Sanford School of Public Policy

This one-day conference will examine historical scholarship on economics from a non-disciplinary standpoint. Although most histories of economics have been written by historians of economics, scholars from other disciplines have on their own initiative engaged with the subject matter of economics in their narratives and analyses. In other words, the history of economics (broadly defined) is not, and has not been for some time, the sole province of historians of economics. Economic historians, sociologists, historians of science, literature scholars, and intellectual historians have dealt with the history of the subject and of economic thought. To us, this raises a number of interesting questions: Is this situation a passing fad, or does it signal long-term changes in the boundaries between academic disciplines in the human and social sciences? Does it signify a focus on economic culture – the place of economic ideas and knowledge in society – in human and social sciences? In what way does this historiography represent a challenge or, to the contrary, an opportunity for the history of economics community?

Historiographic debate often concludes with prescription, offering alien practices as models for history writing, ready for transplantation into the history of economics. Our goals are nonprescriptive. The one-day workshop will offer participants, from different disciplinary backgrounds, the opportunity to talk about how they work with economic subject matter. We invite participants to reflect on how economics or economic ideas fit in their narratives and analyses. We expect the meeting will conclude by showcasing avenues of research to the benefit of those that wish to engage with economics in historical research.

—Tiago Mata and Loïc Charles, organizers


Preliminary program

Session 1: Interactions

Lectureship in Politics and IR - Lincoln University, UK

Lectureship in Politics and IR - Lincoln University, UK

Lecturer in Politics/International Relations            Ref:  HLSS2339

Grade 7 

Permanent

The University of Lincoln seeks to employ a Lecturer to be based within the School of Social Sciences in the Faculty of Health, Life and Social Sciences.

CFA PhD Program in "Foundations of the Life Sciences and Their Ethical Consequences” at the European School of Molecular Medicin

Dear All, this is just to let you know that the new applications for the PhD Program in “Foundations of the Life Sciences and Their Ethical Consequences” (FOLSATEC) at the SEMM (European School of Molecular Medicine, Milano; www.semm.it/application_folsatec.php) are now open.

DEADLINE: September 26, 2010 DURATION: 4 years SALARY: 18.500 Euro per year LOCATION: Campus Ifom-Ieo (Milano) AWARDING BODY: University of Milano SCIENTIFIC COORDINATOR: Giovanni Boniolo TEACHING STAFF: Mark Bedau, Giovanni Boniolo, Marco Ferraguti, John Harris, Sheila Jasanoff, Matteo Mameli, Andrea Monti, Michel Morange, Richard Sullivan, Giuseppe Testa DESCRIPTION: The main aim of the PhD program is the creation of highly skilled scholars with both scientific and philosophical competences. Students will be involved in lab activities, and become members of one of the

CFP: IEEE Technology and Society, special section on "green computing"

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CFA: SAGE Green Technology

We are inviting academic editorial contributors to SAGE Green Technology, a new electronic reference for academic and public libraries. The title has approximately 150 articles ranging from 900 to 4,000 words. We are completing assignments with a FINAL submission deadline of September 23, 2010.

This comprehensive project will be published in stages by SAGE eReference and will be marketed to academic and public libraries as a digital, online product available to students via the library’s electronic services. The Series Editor is Paul Robbins, Ph.D., University of Arizona, and the General Editor for Green Technology is Dustin R. Mulvaney, Ph.D., UC - Berkeley. Both editors will be reviewing each submission to the project.

SAGE Publications offers an honorarium ranging from SAGE book credits for