Videos

Debating Darwin
Debating Darwin Workshop series at the University of Chicago was headed by Robert J. Richards (Chicago) and Michael Ruse (Florida State).

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Natural-Historical Realism and the Epistemology of Darwin's Descent by Phillip Sloan
Phillip Sloan
September 30, 2011
Accentuate the Negative: A Puzzle about the Structure o Darwin's Origin Solved by James Lennox
James Lennox
October 14, 2011
Robert J. Richards and Michael Ruse
October 28, 2011
Robert J. RIchards (Chicago) and Michael Ruse (Florida State) square off and debate their two incommensurable takes on Charles Darwin's influences, perspectives, and meaning.
Lessons of the Galapagos
November 11, 2011
Gregory Radick (University of Leeds) reflects upon Darwin's trip to Galapagos Islands and his subsequent exhanges with Charles Lyell. Radick also looks at scientific and theological problems with the "No Desinger Worth His Salt" argument, and how the inhabitants of the Galapagos complicate it.
Thomas Kuhn Conference
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Roundtable Discussion
November 30, 2012
Discussion with the four speakers: Lorraine Daston, George Reisch, Daniel Garber, and Norton Wise.
A Smoker's Paradigm
December 1, 2012
Norton Wise, 50th Anniversary of Kuhn's Structures of Scientific Revolution