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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=4
color=maroon face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:maroon'> “The Subway Series”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=maroon face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:maroon'>A Joint Colloquium Between Harvard History of Science and MIT
Program in Science, Technology, and Society<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=navy face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:navy;font-weight:bold'>The Adventures of Mr. Machine, with Morals<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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color=navy face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Jessica Riskin, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Stanford</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold'>Abstract:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The Enlightenment man-machine expressed a moral impulse: to
tame the rational self unleashed by Descartes and his contemporaries.
Reacting against the disembodiment of the human self, Enlightenment materialists
snatched the soul from the heavens and drove it into the earth, making it a
“soul of mud.” Thrusting the arrogant human “I”
into the material continuum of nature, the man-machine opened a conversation
about just where and how it fitted in. Embarking on this conversation,
Julien Offray de La Mettrie, author of the definitive man-machine, produced
some of the first glimmers of a modern (but deeply contingent, non-progressive)
theory of evolution. <br clear=all>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:
bold'>Monday, October 26, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:
bold'>Located at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">MIT</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> E51-095<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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