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Schickore<br />

The role <strong>of</strong> unexplained coincidences in theory construction <strong>and</strong> theory choice, By Michel Janssen<br />

From realism to constructivism <strong>and</strong> back again: remarks on D. Bloor, B. Latour <strong>and</strong> I. Hacking, By<br />

Ofer Gal<br />

Experiments in history <strong>and</strong> philosophy <strong>of</strong> science, By Friedrich Steinle<br />

Techne <strong>and</strong> Expert Knowledge in Ancient Greece <strong>and</strong> Rome<br />

Chair: Heinrich von Staden<br />

Commentator: Heinrich von Staden<br />

<strong>Papers</strong>:<br />

Drawing the Line: Boundary Disputes in the Graeco-Roman Antiquity, By Serafina Cuomo<br />

A Geometry <strong>of</strong> Machines: Hero <strong>of</strong> Alex<strong>and</strong>ria's Mechanical <strong>and</strong> Mathematical Treatises, By Karin<br />

Tybjerg<br />

Does Technology Act Contrary to Nature?, By Astrid Schuermann<br />

Techne <strong>and</strong> Method in Ancient Medicine <strong>and</strong> Mechanics, By Mark Schiefsky<br />

The Life <strong>Science</strong>s <strong>and</strong> the Crisis <strong>of</strong> Ethics, 1870-1945<br />

Commentator: Edward Larson<br />

<strong>Papers</strong>:<br />

Darwinism, Monism, <strong>and</strong> the Search for a Scientific Ethics in Germany, 1890-1914, By Richard<br />

Weikart<br />

Atheism, Evolution, Nihilism, <strong>and</strong> a Transcendental Turn: The Question <strong>of</strong> Secular Ethics in France,<br />

1870-1914, By Jennifer Hecht<br />

Evolutionary Ethics <strong>and</strong> the Dilemmas <strong>of</strong> Darwinism in Late Nineteenth-Century British Thought, By<br />

Michael Hawkins<br />

Lives Not Worth Living: Charles Francis Potter, Darwinism, <strong>and</strong> the Origins <strong>of</strong> the Euthanasia Movement<br />

in America, By Ian Dowbiggin<br />

New Trends in the <strong>History</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Science</strong>: New World Experiences, Spain <strong>and</strong> the Study <strong>of</strong> Nature<br />

Commentator: James Bono<br />

<strong>Papers</strong>:<br />

Questionnaires <strong>and</strong> observing instruments: St<strong>and</strong>ardization, credibility, <strong>and</strong> control <strong>of</strong> empirical observations<br />

in Spain <strong>and</strong> Spanish America., By Alison S<strong>and</strong>man<br />

How Derivative was Humboldt? Microsomic Nature Narratives in Eighteenth-Century Spanish America<br />

<strong>and</strong> HUmboldt's Ecological Sensibilities., By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra<br />

The Casa de la Contratación <strong>and</strong> its Chamber <strong>of</strong> Knowledge: Empirical Activities in the Spanish<br />

Empire, By Antonio Barrera<br />

The <strong>Science</strong>s in Conversation with One Another: Meanings <strong>and</strong> Uses <strong>of</strong> Newtonianism in the<br />

Siècle des lumières<br />

Conjecture <strong>and</strong> Empiricism in Enlightenment Life <strong>Science</strong>, By Mary Terrall<br />

The 'Newtonian' Defense <strong>of</strong> Medical Vitalism in Eighteenth-Century France, By Elizabeth Williams<br />

Newton in the Public Sphere <strong>of</strong> Chemistry, By Mi Gyung Kim<br />

Gravitation <strong>and</strong> Generation: Hypothesis in the Thought <strong>of</strong> Charles Bonnet <strong>and</strong> Georges-Louis Le Sage,<br />

By James Evans

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