Technoscience
Historical, Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives

14-15 JULY 2008

Programme

SUNDAY, 13 July 2008

Arrival. Check-In at the Hotel Dinner

MONDAY, 14 July 2008

10:00-12:00 EPS History of Physics Group Annual Meeting

12:30-14:00 Lunch

__________________ 18:00 -18:30 Conference Opening.
Chair: Peter Schuster
18:30 - 19:00 Henk Kubbinga: “Epicurus in recent light”
19:00 - 19:30 Peter Holmberg: “History of Physics and Science Teaching”
19:30 - 20:00 Alex Tillas: “Science Meets Psychology: An Empiricist Perspective on Concept Acquisition”
20:00 -20:30 Aikaterini Konstantinidou: “Argumentation as a Means for Understanding Science: Past and Present”

21:00 Dinner

TUESDAY, 15 July 2008

Chair: George N. Vlahakis

9:30 - 10:30 Steven Shapin: “The Life of Science. A Moral History of a late Modern Vocation”
10:30 - 11:30 Peter Schuster: “The Concealed Realness, and the Mind Chasing After.”
11:30 - 12:30 Denis Weaire: “Bubbles and Foams in Art, Architecture, Science and their intersections”
12:30 - 13:00 Byron Kaldis: “Technoscientific Reason”

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch

_____________ Chair: Byron Kaldis

17:30 - 18:00 Juraj Sebesta: “Science and Culture in modern Europe”
18:00 - 18:30 Carl Grandin: “Importing Physics: Solid-State Physics in Sweden”
18:30 - 19:00 Rajka Jurdana: “Science Culture building activities: the Croatian movement towards «the Knowledge Society»”
19:00 - 19:30 J.J. Yuann: “The Philosophical Significance of East Asian STS Studies”
19:30 - 20:00 Ali Gheissari: “Science and Technology in contemporary Iran”
20:00 - 20:30 George N. Vlahakis: “Science and Society in Greece”

21:00 Farewell Dinner

For further information please contact:
Byron Kaldis, bkaldis@eap.gr
George N. Vlahakis, gvlahakis@yahoo.com

List of Speakers

Ali Gheissari, University of San Diego, USA alig@sandiego.edu

Karl Grandin, Swedish Academy of Science, Sweden karlg@kva.se

Peter Holmberg, University of Helsinki, Finland
peter.holmberg@helsinki.fi
Rajka Jurdana, University of Rijeka, Croatia jurdana@ffri.hr

Byron Kaldis, Hellenic Open University, Greece bkald@eap.gr

Aikaterini Konstantinidou, University of Barcelona, Spain akonstko7@aet.ub.edu

Henk Kubbinga, University of Groenigen, The Netherlands h.h.kubbinga@home.nl

Peter Schuster, President, History of Physics Group, EPS, Austria peterschuster@eircom.net

Juraj Sebesta, Comenius University, Slovakia sebesta@fmph.uniba.sk

Steven Shapin, Harvard University, USA shapin@fas.harvard.edu

Alex Tillas, University of Bristol, UK a_tillas@yahoo.co.uk

George N. Vlahakis, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece gvlahakis@eie.gr

Denis Weaire, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland denis.weaire@tcd.ie

J.J. Yuann, National Taiwan University, Taiwan jjyuann@ntu.edu.tw