Current Projects seminar: Carlo Martini

Carlo Martini, who is visiting the SCFS from its partner institution, TiLPS, The Netherlands, will be giving a paper on the problem of disagreement and consensus: "A Puzzle About Belief Updating."

Philosophy Common Room (USYD)
Monday 2 Aug, 1-2.30pm

International Ideas lecture: "Writing Science Lives" with Janet Browne, Harvard History of Science

What do we learn when we revisit scientists’ past worlds? How might one write a life as famous as Charles Darwin’s? Why is biography the best-selling genre of all? Pre-eminent Darwin scholar and Harvard Professor of the History of Science Janet Browne, talks with Sydney’s prizewinning historian Professor Iain McCalman, about the challenges and delights of the biographical genre for historians. In conversation with Alison Bashford, this is an evening that probes the intellectual life of these keen observers and interpreters of the world of Victorian science

The Seymour Centre, University of Sydney

12 August 2010, 6.30pm

More information here.

The programs for the AAHPSSS 2010 conference is available here:

AAHPSSS 2010 conference program