Invitation only. Please contact baron.17@nd.edu for details. …

HEAD GAMES The Inside Story of Football’s Concussion Crisis

• How one New York Times sportswriter exposed a massive N.F.L. cover-up, forced Congressional hearings and revolutionized sports safety.
• Exclusive league documents, notes and audio from real-time interviews with commissioner Roger Goodell and more.
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Please contact Jessica Baron at baron.17@nd.edu if you'd like to reserve a seat. …

HPS Graduate Student Workshop, March 2017
Thursday, March 23rd, 2017
101 DeBartolo, 12.30pm - 4.00pm

Nevin Climenhaga A Bayesian Network Analysis of Teleological Explanation 12.30pm - 1.00pm

Corey Dethier William Whewell's Semantic Account of Induction 1.05pm - 1.35pm

Char Brecevic What Is the Sex in Sex Difference? 1.40pm - 2.10pm…

The 2016 James T. Cushing Memorial Prize in History and Philosophy of Physics was awarded to Dr. Adam Caulton, currently assistant professor at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, for his paper, “The Role of Symmetry in the Interpretation of Physical Theories,” published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics…

Physics Old and New: Historical and Critical Perspectives on Physics and the Philosophy of Nature

Workshop in Honor of Katherine Brading

March 24, 2017

160 Mendoza

Lecture 8:00am-3:00pm   

with Mary Domsky (University of New Mexico), George Smith (Tufts), Alison Petermen (Rochester), Nick Huggett (University of Chicago), David John Baker (University of Michigan), and Tom Pashby (University of Chicago)…

Join the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values and the Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore for the launch of Ethics and Cyber Warfare by George Lucas. 

Books will be available for purchase at the event and a book signing will follow the reading. …

HPS Colloquium Presented by: Richard Bellon, Assistant Professor of History, Michigan State University

A Hodge-Podge of Philosophers and the Oxford Malignants: Science and High-Church Theology in the Age of Darwin

In June of 1832 Charles Darwin was in Rio de Janeiro when the second meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science took place in Oxford. This meeting unleashed cultural and religious politics that influenced deeply the context in which Darwin would develop and communicate his theory of evolution by natural selection. The Oxford high churchmen John Keble and John Henry Newman watched aghast as men of science of all variety of religious affiliation congregated in their Anglican university. They were particularly disgusted that Oxford granted honorary degrees to what Keble dismissed as a “hodge-podge of philosophers” (Michael Faraday, David Brewster, Robert Brown and John Dalton), none…