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The following event may be of interest to you:
HRP/STS: Evelyn Fox-Keller - "Innate Confusions"
Friday, October 21, 2005
Presented by Evelyn Fox-Keller, Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Conceptions of innateness, and of a meaningful distinction between innate and acquired, between nature and nurture, are so widespread as to seem to many to belong to a universal folk-biology. It has even been suggested that such distinctions are the products of a hard-wired (i.e., innate) mental module, a feature of human biology programmed in our genetic makeup, and serious research efforts are being made at identifying and clarifying the nature of such a module. But what if our attribution of innateness to such generic tendencies is itself an expression of those tendencies?
Time: 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Location: Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Sponsor: Human Rights Project; Science, Technology, and Society Program.
Contact: bridget Hanna.
E-mail: bhanna@bard.edu
Phone: 845-758-6822 x7110
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