2012-13 Reading Group
2012-2013
Members of the SSC meet to read and discuss pre-circulated papers. The meetings are open to interested individuals, postgraduate and staff, from other areas of academic study.
| Date | Details |
|---|---|
| Friday, 12 October |
J. L. Yannielli (2011) 'A Yahgan for the killing: murder, memory and Charles Darwin ', British Journal for the History of Science, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087411000641 |
| Tuesday, 30 October |
A. R. Cashmore, 'The Lucretian swerve: the biological basis of human behaviour and the criminal justice system', PNAS 107: 4499-4504. |
| Tuesday, 20 November |
J. Phillips (2012)'Storytelling in Earth sciences: The eight basic plots', Earth-Science Reviews 115: 153-162. |
| Tuesday, 11 December |
R. Joyce (forthcoming) 'The evolutionary debunking of morality', in J. Feinberg and R. Shafer-Landau (eds) Reason and Responsibility, 15th ed.(Cengage). |
| Thursday, 17 January |
S. Williams (2012) 'Virtually Impossible: Deleuze and Derrida on the Political Problem of Islands', Island Studies Journal, 7: 215-234. |
| Tuesday, 5 February |
J. Marks (2012) 'Why be against Darwin: creationism, racism and the roots of anthropology', Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 55: 95-104. |
| Friday, 6 March |
D. P. Mindell (2013) 'The tree of life: metaphor, model and heuristic device', Systematic Biology [advance access] |
| Tuesday, 23 April |
H. Ritvo (2013) 'Edging into the wild', in J. Beardsley (ed). Designing Wildlife Habitats (Harvard University Press). |
The reading group normally meets at 1-2pm in Rm 01009, Elmwood Building
ALL WELCOME
Tuesday 5 February
