What If Darwin had never existed? Symposium with Peter Bowler
Date: Thu., May 8 – Fri., May 9, 2014
Venues: Y 311, D 406
The symposium tries to pinpoint Peter Bowler’s long-standing contributions to the history and philosophy of biology with a special focus on his most recent book „Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World without Darwin“ (Chicago 2013). While Professor Bowler’s introductory lecture on Thursday, May 8, 2014, centres on the reception of Darwinist thought in the general public in Great Britain since the early twentieth century, the workshop on Friday, May 9, 2014, is dedicated to a discussion of his aforementioned book and its relation to key PhD projects of our research unit.
Participants include Peter Bowler, Florian Ernst, Maximilian Huber, Bernhard Kleeberg, Vera Shibanova and Marcel Weber amongst others.
Please mail to johannes.schmitt(at)uni-konstanz.de for further information and registration.
Programme
| Thursday, May 8, 2014 | |
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| 5pm – 6:30 pm | Peter Bowler, Popular Darwinism in Twentieth-Century Britain, Room: Y 311 |
| Friday, May 9, 2014 | |
| 10:30 am – 1:15 pm | Discussion of Bowler’s book with comments by Bernhard Kleeberg and Marcel Weber |
| 2 pm – 3 pm | Guillaume Schlaepfer, Darwin’s Thought Experiments:An Epistemic Role for Fictional Illustrations in Evaluating Theoretical Models |
| 3 pm – 4 pm | Florian Ernst, Retelling History and Telling a Story? Max Weber, Ideal Types and the Reconstruction of Historical Arguments |
| 4.30 pm – 5:30 pm | Vera Shibanova, The Hominization of a Child: Human Evolution in the Biogenetic Approach of Soviet Paedology |
| 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm | Maximilian Huber, What, exactly, is biological possibility? A guided tour through Dennett’s Library of Mendel |