Gregory Radick Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds gives the fourth talk in the Being Human series.About this Event
The present landscape of biological science raises many issues touching the meaning and challenges of ‘being human’, from AI to biological sex, consciousness, and free will. The Being Human lectures provide a focused exploration of these issues from leading experts in the philosophy of science, humanities, and other fields, offering a forum for broadening scientific thinking.
This series is co-organised by James DiFrisco and Güneş Taylor from the Crick with Professor Barry Smith from the University of London's Institute of Philosophy.
The lecture will be given by Professor Radick in the Crick Auditorium, followed by a facilitated panel discussion. These lectures are non-technical and accessible to a multidisciplinary audience. There will be a short reception and an opportunity to meet the speaker after the talk.
Our speaker: Gregory Radick is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds- specializing in the history of the modern biological and human sciences. Areas of expertise: He has published widely on the history of biology and the human sciences after 1800, with particular emphases on the history of Darwinism; history of genetics and eugenics; history of the mind, language and behaviour sciences; counterfactuals as a research tool in the history and philosophy of science
Publications: Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology (Chicago, 2023); The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language (Chicago, 2007), which received the 2010 Suzanne J. Levinson Prize of the History of Science Society for best book in the history of the life sciences and natural history; and, as co-editor, The Cambridge Companion to Darwin (Cambridge, 2003; 2nd edition, 2009).
Educated in history at Rutgers (BA 1992) and history and philosophy of science at Cambridge (MPhil 1996, PhD 2000), Greg has been at Leeds since 2000, serving as Director of the Centre for History and Philosophy of Science (2006–08) and Director of the Leeds Humanities Research Institute.
*This lecture series is a collaboration between the Francis Crick Institute and the School of Advanced Study’
Event Venue
The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London, United Kingdom
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