Ways of Knowing:
1994-1995 Scientia Colloquia

Fall:

Michael Watkins
Department of Psychology, Rice University
The Study of Memory: An Example of Science Losing its Mind
Tuesday, 20 September 1994

Pauline Rosenau
UT-Houston School of Public Health
Post-modern and Modern Science
Tuesday, 11 October 1994

Tom Haskell
Department of History, Rice University
Is Objectivity Obsolete?
Tuesday, 8 November 1994

Kathy Gibson
UT Dental Branch, Anatomy
Evolutionary Perspectives on the Human Congnitive Niche
Tuesday, 6 December 1994

Spring:

Patricia Seed
Department of History, Rice University
The Dawn of the Age of Discovery and the Age of the Scientific Revolution
Tuesday, 24 January 1995

Ronny Wells

Department of Mathematics, Rice University
"Intuition, Proof, and Rigor in Mathematical Understanding: a Dymanic Process over the Ages"
Tuesday, 21 February 1995

Richard Grandy
Department of Philosophy, Rice University
Maintaining Objectivity: Can We Repair the Crumbling Philosophical Foundations of Academic Inquiry?
Tuesday, 21 March 1995

John Lienhard
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston
How We Finally Wiped the Smile of Reason for Our Faces
Tuesday, 18 April 1995

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