History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Graduate
Student Conference 2005
The Transmission of Knowledge
The conference took pace on Friday, August 12, 2005.
8:30-10:00 Adopting the New and Novel I
Chris Parsons (UofT History)
Native Remedies and Early Canadians: The Transmission and
Non-Transmission of Medical Knowledge from Native to Newcomer in early
New France
Delia Gavrus (IHPST)
Cyclopropane: The Construction of a New Anesthetic Gas
Scott Campbell (IHPST)
Computing Practices at the University of Toronto, 1952-1958
10:30-11:30 Adopting the New and Novel II
Kiran van Rijn (IHPST)
Why Inevitable? The Introduction of CT to Two Vancouver
Hospitals, 1973-1982
Anthony Story (IHPST)
"Getting their Hands Dirty" Auditing the Hockey Stick: Canadian
Climate Skeptics Transfer Financial Practices to the Science of Global
Warming
11:30-12:30 Representing
Liz Burns (IHPST)
Ptolemy, the Natural World, and the Soul
Vivien Hamilton
Quantum vs Classical Descriptions of MRI
12:30-1:30 IHPST Director's Lunch
1:30-2:30 Professor Bernie Lightman (York)
From Practitioner to Transmitter: Huxley's Evolution as
Scientific Author
2:30-4:00 Science in Literature
Michelle Hoffman (IHPST)
Longevity in a Bottle? Aging and Rejuventation in Medicine and
Literature
Jonathan Turner (IHPST)
The Role of Science Fiction in Physics and Philosophy: Modal
Realism and The Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Stephanie Zubcic (Guelph)
Hannah Arendt's Reflections at the Dawn of the Modern World
4:30-6:00 Philosophy and Interdisciplinarity
Jeremy MacBean (Western)
Common-sense Realism? Wilfrid Sellars and Daniel Dennett on
Scientific Explanation
Alcibiades Malapi-Nelson (York)
The Failure of Artificial Intelligence as a Stage towards the
Completion of the History of Metaphysics
Joel Walmsley (UofT Philosophy)
Interdisciplinarity and the Future of Philosophy