HPS Matters

 The Leeds Centre for History and Philosophy of Science has a sensational spring seminar schedule.

HPS Matters

Shining a spotlight on research that showcases how history and philosophy of science can illuminate issues of current and real-world importance in our everyday lives.

Wednesdays, 3.15-5 GMT

All talks will be live streamed over TEAMS. Email the centre director at e.clarke@leeds.ac.uk to get the link and join the debate!

 27 January 2021: Laura Franklin-Hall (NYU): Genders as Historical Explanatory Kinds

10 February 2021: Alexander Franklin (KCL): Social Construction, Physical Construction, and Emergence

24 February 2021: Edward Jones-Imhotep (UToronto): Birth of a Notation: Charting Human and Machine Failure at the Dawn of the Jazz Age

10 March 2021: Jill Kirby (Sussex): Stress – the plague of modern life?

24 March 2021: Liz Chatterjee (Chicago): Late Acceleration: Indian Electricity and Planetary History

28 April 2021: Steven Shapin (Harvard): Hard vs soft science: What is at stake?

12 May 2021: Michael Stuart (Geneva): NASA's Minipublics: How NASA Uses Imagination to Shape the American Space Imaginary.

19 May 2021: Haixin Dang (Leeds): Social Epistemology of Science