Jessica Riskin (Stanford University) "The Unquiet Clock" March 4, 2010

"The Unquiet Clock"

Jessica Riskin (Stanford University)

Jessica Riskin received her B.A. from Harvard University and her Ph.D.from the University of California at Berkeley and taught at Iowa State University and at MIT before coming to Stanford. Her research interests include Enlightenment science, politics and culture and the history of scientific explanation. She is the author of Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment (University of Chicago Press, 2002), which won the American Historical Association's J. Russell Major Prize for best book in English on any aspect of French history, and the editor of Genesis Redux: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life (University of Chicago Press, 2007). She is currently writing a book about how people began to understand living creatures as machines, beginning with Descartes and continuing through Darwin. The book is under contract with Basic Books; its working title is Mind Out of Matter.

Location:

55 W 13 St Room 304

Admission:
Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served

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