[bioundgrd] Fwd: Martin Eger Reading

[MacKenzie Outlund]

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> Readings from and discussions of Martin Eger's
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> Science, Understanding, and Justice
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>  (Open Court, 2006, edited by Abner Shimony, who is the reader)
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> will be given at:
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> *The Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge MA,
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> 3 PM, Friday March 16, 2007
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> and at
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> *Barnes and Noble at Boston University,
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> 5th floor Reading Room, 660 Beacon St., Boston MA,
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> 7 PM, Wednesday April 18, 2007.
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> Both readings are open to the public.
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> Martin Eger's work is the most insightful exploration of the social  
> context of the natural sciences since C.P. Snow's The Two Cultures,  
> and a vital contribution to contemporary debates over scientific  
> literacy. This collection of essays deals with controversial and  
> topical issues in philosophy of science, education, and morality.   
> Also included are exchanges between Eger and leading philosophers,  
> including a dialogue with Abner Shimony, who edits this volume and  
> contributes an account of Eger's life, work, and importance. A  
> professional physicist, Eger found that hermeneutic philosophy,  
> associated with Heidegger, Gadamer, and Habermas, had developed  
> techniques for unpacking meanings and for analyzing human claims to  
> knowledge that strikingly parallel the theses of post-empiricist  
> philosophers of physics such as Thomas Kuhn.  Eger's application of  
> hermeneutic methods enabled hermeneutics to be extended from social  
> investigations to investigations of nature, and defended the ideal  
> of objective truth against attacks by post-empiricist philosophers.
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>  "I can't think of a better introduction to current controversies  
> in philosophy of science and morality.  Eger's writing is  
> wonderfully clear.  One senses a person who is both erudite and  
> decent.  He successfully uses the methods of hermeneutics to  
> illuminate science education and the impact on the public of  
> popular books on cosmology and evolutionary biology."—Noretta  
> Koertge, Indiana  University.
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>  Martin Eger (1936-2002) received his bachelor's degree from MIT  
> and his doctorate from Brandeis University, both in physics. He was  
> Professor of Physics at City University of New York, College of  
> Staten Island, which he joined on its founding in 1967. He remained  
> there, with a few short breaks, throughout his professional career,  
> teaching not only physics but also its philosophical implications.
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>  Abner Shimony is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Physics at  
> Boston University.  He has contributed to the foundations of  
> quantum mechanics and to scientific methodology. His writings  
> include Search for a Naturalistic World View and the popular  
> scientific novel for children, Tibaldo and the Hole in the Calendar.
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