STS Seminar Series 2012-13
Department of Science and Technology Studies
University College London
All seminars are free and open to the public
Monday 8 October 2012
5.30pm
Venue: Chadwick G08
Building Location:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/estates/roombooking/building-location/?id=013
[This seminar is held in conjunction with the London Ancient Science Conference:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/sts-publication-events/2012_09_lasc
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Andrew Gregory, STS, UCL
“Thomas Kuhn On Ancient Science”
Abstract:
Kuhn’s work on the nature and development of science has had a major impact on studies of science since the publication of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1962. In SSR and other works, Kuhn makes some comments on the nature of science in the ancient world. This paper examines the nature of those claims, how scholarship since 1962 relates to those claims and asks how studies of science in the ancient world can be used to investigate the validity of some of Kuhn’s ideas.
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Forthcoming Seminars:
All forthcoming seminars will take place at 4.15pm
Venue: Room 105, 24 Gordon Square
Building Location:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/estates/roombooking/building-location/?id=026
Monday 22 October
Science in History Series (in collaboration with UCL HEP)
Peter Aitkens, Oxford
“The Nature of Energy”
Monday 12 November
Sabina Leonelli , Centre for Genomics and Society (Egenis), Exeter
“Life in the Digital Age: The Impact of Open Data and Data-Sharing Technologies on Biological Research”
Monday 26 November
Helen Curry, HPS, Cambridge
Atoms in agriculture: nuclear science as agricultural outreach in the United States, 1945-1960
Monday 10 December
Jack Stilgoe, STS, UCL
“Governing intent: Experiments in responsible geoengineering
