Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies

“We have never been human.”
                                                                            -Donna Haraway
Science Studies is an interdisciplinary field that fosters dialog among humanists and scientists. Traditional questions in the humanities are being reinvigorated by emerging scientific research. For example, new findings f…[Read more]

The Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies presents:

Natural Divisions?  The Impact of Classification Schemes on Culture and Society

Friday, May 15th 2015 | 10:30-5:00 pm

Room 5307

A day long […]

Thursday February 14, 2013

9:00 – 9:45 am
Breakfast refreshments and registration (room 9205; registration desk will remain open until noon)

9:45-10:00 am
Welcoming remarks (room 9206/7)

10:00 – […]

Mattering: Feminism, Science & Materialism Panels
Agential Realism I: Applications
Anna Stetsenko: Transformative Activist Stance and Agential Realism

Marsha Rosengarten: What Barad’s Brittlestars can tell us […]

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Karen Barad is Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her Ph.D. is in theoretical particle physics. She held a tenured appointment in […]

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Call for Papers: Feminism, Science & Materialism conference

Graduate Center, City University of New York

February 14-15, 2013

Keynote Speaker: Karen Barad

In the past decade, feminist theory has […]

Is the mind a mirror or task master? Peter Godfrey-Smith connects age-old philosophical questions about the function of the mind with current research in biological evolution.

Peter […]

Is the mind a mirror or task master? Peter Godfrey-Smith connects age-old philosophical questions about the function of the mind with current research in biological evolution.

Peter […]

While everyone may associate certain emotions with certain bodily changes, many philosophers equate emotions with cognitive processes such as perception or judgement. But Daniel Shargel disagrees, arguing that […]