In Memoriam: Kuhn and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge
The 1997-98 Scientia Colloquia

Fall Colloquia

Tuesday, September 16, 1997
Richard Grandy
Professor of Philosophy, Rice University
"The Structure of the Kuhnian Revolution"
Bibliography to above talk

Bochner Lecture
Thursday, September 25, 1997
8:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Duncan Hall Auditorium
Steven Weinberg
Josey Regental Professor of Science, University of Texas at Austin
"Revisiting Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolution"

Tuesday, October 14, 1997
Helen Longino
Professor of Women's Studies, University of Minnesota
"Complexity, Plurality, and Context: Philosophy of Science after Kuhn"

See also Kalb Lecture, same day, 8-10pm, "Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives," Farnsworth Pavilion, reception to follow in Brown Garden

Tuesday, November 4, 1997
Peter Galison
Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and of Physics, Harvard
"Image and Logic: a Material Culture of Microphysics"

Tuesday, December 9, 1997
Hannu Miettinen
Professor of Physics, Rice University
"The Discovery of the Top Quark"

Spring Colloquia

Tuesday, January 20, 1998
John Zammito
Associate Professor of History, Rice University
"How Kuhn Became a Sociologist (and Why He Didn't Like It)"

Tuesday, 17 February 1998
Robert W. Smith
Chair, Department of Space History, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Adjunct Professor, Department of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
"Little Science, Normal Science, Big Science: Kuhn, Price, and Rethinking the Nature of the Scientific Enterprise"

Tuesday, 17 March 1998
Paul Rabinow
Professor of Anthropology
University of California at Berkeley
"Secede and Assemble, Reflections on Scientific Change"

Tuesday, 14 April 1998
Albert Van Helden
Lynette S. Autrey Professor of History
"Can Historians and Philosophers of Science Bridge the 'Two Cultures?'"

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