Announcing a SUNY "Conversations in the Disciplines" conference
(full information available here).
SUNY at Oswego
The conference features two guest lectures, co-sponsored by the SUNY Oswego College of Arts and Sciences:
Both lectures are free and open to the public.
He has been a visiting fellow, scholar, and professor at such institutions as Indiana University, the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), Cambridge University (England), and Harvard University. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Canada and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
A specialist in philosophy and biology, Prof. Ruse has written or edited nearly twenty books and scores of articles and reviews, most of them on the subjects of Darwin, natural selection, evolution, and ethics. He is the Founding Editor of the leading journal in his field, Biology and Philosophy, serves on the editorial boards of nine other refereed journals, and is editor of the Philosophy and Biology Series for the Cambridge University Press. His most recent books include: The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw, 2nd ed. (University of Chicago Press, 1999); Can a Darwinian Be a Christian? The Relationship Between Science and Religion (Cambridge University Press, 2000); The Evolution Wars (ABC-CLIO, 2000); and Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction? (Harvard University Press, 1999).
Prof. Caneva began his teaching career at the University of Utah (1972-76), taught in Amsterdam for two years (1976-78), and has been at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro since January 1979 as a member of the Department of History. He became an associate professor there in 1983 and a professor in 1995. He is the author of many articles and reviews in scholarly journals and has had one book published by Princeton University Press: Robert Mayer and the Conservation of Energy (1993).
The recipient of numerous grants and awards, Prof. Caneva was, most recently, awarded a research fellowship by MIT's Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology (1999-2000) for a project entitled "The Reconstruction of Scientific Knowledge: From Personal Conviction to Collective Acceptance." He also delivered a public lecture in November 2000 (for a series sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries), which is due to be published soon as The Form and Function of Scientific Discoveries.
Anyone interested in attending the entire conference should see http://www.oswego.edu/cas/lectures0001/cid.html.
Information can also be obtained from: Charles Echelbarger (Chair, Philosophy Department, SUNY Oswego) at 315-312-2249 or echel@oswego.edu; or from Douglas Deal (Director of General Education, SUNY Oswego) at 315-312-5631 or deal@oswego.edu.
Persons with disabilities, needing accommodations to attend this event, should contact David Bozak, College of Arts & Sciences at 315-312-2156 in advance.