Philosophy 363A / Economics 319: History and Philosophy of Economics from Ricardo to Keynes
Instructors: Margaret Schabas Section: 001 Term: 2 Meets: Tuesday + Thursday 3:30-5:00pm The development of economic thought from David Ricardo up to the present, including such figures as Malthus, Mill, Jevons, and Keynes, focusing primarily on the conceptual foundations of economics, particularly the problems of value, distribution and growth. Register here.
History 393 / Philosophy 360A: Introduction to History and Philosophy of Science
Instructors: Margaret Schabas Section: 201 / 001 Term: 2 Meets: Tuesday + Thursdays 11:00am-12:30pm An examination of historical, conceptual, and methodological conditions of scientific knowledge through detailed consideration of important episodes in the history of science. Register here.
History 585D: The Scale(s) of History—Delineating Frontiers of Space and Time through Historical Research
Instructor: Neil Safier Section: 201 Term: 2 Meets: Wednesdays 3:00-5:30pm How do historians choose the appropriate scale at which to carry out their research projects, understood in both spatial and temporal terms? How have these ideas about scale changed over time? By reading a broad range of secondary sources that deal with this broad yet essential […]
History 402E: The Nuclear Century—Scientists, Atoms, and the World Order since 1900
Instructor: Alexei Kojevnikov Section: 101 Term: 1 Meets: Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays 3:00-4:00pm Science and the military-industrial complex; quantum and relativistic revolutions in physics; nuclear energy and weapons of mass destruction; international tensions, environmental damage, and global perils. Register here.
English 492C: Scenes from Science and English Literature—Copernicus to Newton and Beyond
Instructor: Dennis Danielson Section: 003 Term: 2 Meets: Mondays 1:00-3:00pm Writers who wrote in English (or, in some cases, who received prominent translation into English) played a major role in a number of facets of early modern science, and the literary dimension of their accomplishment repays examination from a humanities as well as a scientific point […]
History 581D: Darwinian Revolution
Instructor: John Beatty Section: 101 Term: 1 Meets: Tuesdays 6:00-9:00pm In this 2012W, Term One course, we will discuss the development of evolutionary thought, paying special attention to Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. To broaden our perspective, we will consider not only the scientific, but also the social, political, economic, religious and philosophical sources of […]
Sociology 560A: Technology and Science
Instructor: Thomas Kemple Section: 001 Term: 1 Meets: Wednesdays 10:00am-1:00pm The sociology of culture and knowledge begins from the premise that beliefs, values, worldviews, and mental processes are always tied to historical times and places, and can therefore be understood as social practices and cultural discourses in their own right. Our seminar will examine a […]
Philosophy 560A: Evolution of Rationality and the Rationality of Evolution
Instructor: Christopher Stephens Section: 001 Term: 2 Meets: Tuesdays 6:00-9:00pm Note: This grad seminar is crosslisted with SFU and held at the SFU Harbour Centre campus. The focus of this course will be on the relationship between evolution and morality. Ever since Darwin, philosophers and biologists have made myriad claims about the relationship between evolution […]
English 561A: Discourses of Science, Race, and Health
Instructor: Margery Fee Section: 001 Term: 1 Meets: Wednesdays 10:00am-1:00pm The history of “scientific racism” provides a salutary lesson on how scientific discourses are interwoven with broader and more popular ones. The course will undertake a brief history of Western discourses around racial difference from the 18th century to the present, showing how some scientists […]
Philosophy 518A: Synthesizing Analytic Philosophy—The Rise of Analytic Philosophy in North America in the Middle of the Twentieth Century
Instructor: Alan Richardson Section: 001 Term: 1 Meets: Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:30am-11:00am “The old logic put thought in fetters, while the new logic gives it wings. It has, in my opinion, introduced the same kind of advance into philosophy as Galileo introduced into physics, making it possible at last to see what kinds of problems […]
