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Mary Henninger-Voss<br />

"There was no such thing as the Newtonian Revolution <strong>and</strong> the French Initiated It:" Newtonian Mechanics<br />

in France Before Maupertuis, By J.B. Shank<br />

Practicing the Human <strong>Science</strong>s in Fin-de-Siècle France<br />

Chair: John Brooks III<br />

Commentator: John Brooks III<br />

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

Durkheim, philosophers, <strong>and</strong> the moral guidance <strong>of</strong> the French public, By Daniela Barberis<br />

When Natural Space Meets Social Theory: The Circulation <strong>of</strong> Friedrich Ratzel's Models <strong>of</strong> Space in<br />

French Sociology, <strong>History</strong>, <strong>and</strong> Human Geography around 1900, By Iris Schroeder<br />

Dangerous minds? The <strong>Science</strong> <strong>of</strong> Children's Lies in Fin-de Siecle France, By Katharine Norris<br />

Extended Organisms: Brains, Mind, <strong>and</strong> Artificial Intelligence<br />

Chair: Nadine Weidman<br />

Mind <strong>and</strong> Network, By Hunter Crowther-Heyck<br />

The Brain as Technology, By Otniel Dror<br />

Playing Games: Chess, Automata, <strong>and</strong> Artificial Intelligence, By Matthew Wisnioski<br />

The Organism as Tape: Information Theory, Cybernetics, <strong>and</strong> the One-Dimensional Model <strong>of</strong> the Gene,<br />

By Joseph November<br />

From Pascal to Hacking: Discourses Concerning the Machine, By André LeBlanc<br />

Revising St<strong>and</strong>ard Histories<br />

The Element <strong>of</strong> the Table: Classifying Chemical Knowledge, from Affinity to Periodicity, By Benjamin<br />

Cohen<br />

Voluntarism <strong>and</strong> Early Modern <strong>Science</strong>, By Peter Harrison<br />

Different voices were heard: Genticists‚ views in the 1930s <strong>and</strong> 1940s on the consequences <strong>of</strong> race<br />

crossing, By Ernest Hook<br />

Biochemistry with a License: Tobacco Mosaic Virus <strong>and</strong> the Start <strong>of</strong> Molecular Biology Research in the<br />

Federal Republic <strong>of</strong> Germany, 1947-1965, By Jeffrey Lewis<br />

The <strong>Science</strong> <strong>of</strong> the 'Dismal <strong>Science</strong>:' Politics, Economics <strong>and</strong> <strong>Science</strong> in 19th Century Britain, By Laura<br />

Snyder<br />

Evolution <strong>and</strong> 20th Century Astronomy<br />

Chair: Mark Largent<br />

Commentator: Karl Hufbauer<br />

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

Evolutionary Thinking in American Astronomy from Lane to Russell, By David DeVorkin<br />

Cosmic Evolution <strong>and</strong> the Biological Universe, By Steven Dick<br />

Popular <strong>and</strong> Pedagogical Uses <strong>of</strong> Cosmic Evolution, By JoAnn Palmeri<br />

Beyond the Hallowed Halls: Careers in <strong>History</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Science</strong><br />

Chair: Nathaniel Comfort<br />

Commentator: Arnold Thackray<br />

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

Texts <strong>and</strong> Contexts in Medieval <strong>Science</strong>

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