John Beatty: Darwin Bicentennial Colloquium
UConn Co-op Bookstore, Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 4pm
Gerd Gigerenzer , The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life.
John Beatty, Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, is a philosopher of science whose research focuses on the theoretical foundations, methodology, and socio-political dimensions of genetics and evolutionary biology. His current work is on the distinction between "history" and "science," the relationships between biology and "the state," from the Manhattan Project to the Human Genome Project, and the theological dimensions of the Darwinian revolution. He is the co-editor of Thinking about Evolution: Historical, Philosophical and Political Perspectives and co-author of The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life. (booksense)… (more)
John Beatty, Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, is a philosopher of science whose research focuses on the theoretical foundations, methodology, and socio-political dimensions of genetics and evolutionary biology. His current work is on the distinction between "history" and "science," the relationships between biology and "the state," from the Manhattan Project to the Human Genome Project, and the theological dimensions of the Darwinian revolution. He is the co-editor of Thinking about Evolution: Historical, Philosophical and Political Perspectives and co-author of The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life. (booksense)… (more)
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