Heinrich von Staden
From its new series CDH Talks, the College of Humanities is giving you the opportunity to attend a unique lecture:
Can the sciences of Greek and Roman Antiquity contribute to “thinking the present”? by Professor Heinrich von Staden - Wednesday, 8 December 2010 - 18.00h, EPFL, Centre Midi, Room CM 4
Heinrich von Staden is Professor emeritus of Classical Studies and History of Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Before his appointment as Professor at this Institute in 1998, he was Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Yale University for many years. He is the author of numerous publications on ancient Greek and Roman medicine, biology and intellectual culture.
Claims concerning the relevance of earlier periods in the history of science for understanding contemporary science must be subjected to critical and even skeptical scrutiny, yet some perspectives evoked by the history of ancient science and medicine resonate with contemporary issues. These include the ancient recognition of the pervasiveness of observational and inferential errors; debates about scientific method; the uses of animal experimentation and human experimentation; and shifting notions of ‘evidence’ and ‘proof’.
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