Mid: Crisis of European Sciences - Tobin Craig
October 29, 2009, 7:30pm–9:00pm
Michigan State University Union, Third Floor, Lake Ontario Room, E. Lansing, Michigan, View Map
Presented by Tobin Craig, PhD, Assistant Professor, MSU
Description
According to a familiar and influential view, modern science is born from medieval science and is decisively shaped by its origin. In particular, it has inherited certain unexamined metaphysical commitments, including some that are essentially theological, perhaps even Biblical in origin. This discovery, if it is indeed that, raises big questions about the theoretical status of modern science. And so, precisely to the extent we are friends of science, we must think this challenge through... We must be good, that is to say, philosophically serious, historians of science.
About the Speaker
Tobin Craig’s studies focus on the intersection between modern political philosophy and modern science and technology. He teaches in both the PTCD field and the STEPPS specialization. He is currently at work on a book length study of the unity of Francis Bacon’s scientific and political thought, and a study of the place of technology in American political thought. Dr. Craig’s dissertation was on Bacon’s New Atlantis and the place of technology in modern politics. His areas of interest center on the philosophic origins and criticisms, and the political and moral problems, of modern science and technology.
Additional Details
Free parking is available in MSU Parking Ramp 6 after 6 pm.
Cost: Free for students and Friends of the Center. $6 general admission.
Contact: Christian Orlic, , 517-575-7461
