The project
"MIRRORS
- Monitoring Ideas Regarding Research Organizations and Reasons in
Science" is financed
by the European Commission according to the 7th
Frame Program.
The Work programme topics addressed is:
SiS-2007-1.1.1.1 - Revisiting the challenges of the interaction
between science and politics in the European knowledge-based society.
It is a "Coordination and Support Actions", with a Grant Agreement
Number 217796.
The coordinator of the research is
prof. Francesco Coniglione and the participant
organization is the Dipartimento di Processi Formativi -
University of Catania.
International collaborators: International scholars who have
accepted to cooperate with our research team. |
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Interests
include: history and philosophy of science; science, technology, and
society; epistemology; philosophy of mind (cognitive aspects).
Current projects
include several papers on methodology of science.
Recent lecture and
conference appearances in London, Cambridge, Ghent, Berkeley, etc., at
the British Society for Philosophy of Science, History of Science
Society, Society for Social Studies of Science, etc. Edited
Thomas Kuhn (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Recent and forthcoming publications
in several journals, books, and encyclopedias.
Nickles is one of two dozen science studies people featured in
How to Take the Naturalistic Turn,
Univ. of Chicago, 1993. |
Courses Taught:
CH
201--Ancient and Medieval Cultures (Core Humanities)
CH
202--The Modern World
Phil 101--Introduction to
Philosophy
Phil 224--Introduction to the
Philosophy of Science
Phil 282--History of Science II
Phil 315--Survey of 20th Century
Anglo-American Philosophy
Phil 316--American Pragmatism
Phil 435/635--Philosophy of Mind
(formerly Phil 405/605)
Phil 438/638--Problems in the
History and Philosophy of Science (formerly Phil 481/681)
Phil 480--Capstone: Science,
Technology and Society
Phil 494--Selected Topics:
Normativity
Phil 494--Selected Topics: Levels
of Reality
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