The Jacques Loeb Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science

Interesting conference in progress!

Our reading club is back!

As usual, we will meet every two weeks, on Wednesdays from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in our seminar room, building 39, room -112.

Our first meeting will take place next week, on Wednesday, January 10th.
For the texts, please contact us at [email protected]
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The JLC Reading Club is back! 📚📖📚
Our meetings take place in person in our seminar room in building 39, room -112, bi-weekly, on Wednesdays from 16.00 – 17.00.
Our first meeting will be next week, 16. November 2022.
We will read and discuss a chapter of Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"
For more information, for receiving the text, and/or for joining our mailing list, please write to us at:
[email protected]

We are excited to announce our next international workshop:
"Plasticity and Constancy in Development and Evolution"
Dedicated to the memory of Eric Davidson, 1937-2015
When: May 9-10, 2022
Where: Auditorium, Bldg. 41, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Marcus Family Campus, Beer-Sheva
And here is the program:

Prof. Ute Deichmann, the director of The Jacques Loeb Centre, gave a fascinating talk at BGU's "Rector's Lecture Series". She spoke about "Hierarchy, Specificity, and Determinism as Basic Principles of Life."
Here are a few impressions

For those of you who missed our last workshop "The Problem of Irreproducibility," we will upload the talks and some pictures to our YouTube channel soon. Until then, here are a few snapshots of the event

Reminder: Our Workshop "Irreproducibility in Scientific Experimentation". Join us today at 10.30 at BGU!

Reading Club: 📚📖
Discussing Science, Philosophy, and Ideology
Our centre invites students from all departments to participate in our discussion meetings.
Our next meeting takes place this Wednesday, 9 March, 17.00-18.00
For the text and more information, please contact us: [email protected]

Our next international workshop is coming up on 14 March 2022:
The Problem of Irreproducibility in Scientific Experimentation: Is there a “Replication Crisis”?
For more information, see https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/loeb/Pages/The-Problem-of-Irreproducibility-in-Scientific-Experimentation.aspx

Reading Club: 📚📖
Discussing Science, Philosophy, and Ideology
Our centre invites students from all departments to participate in our discussion meetings.
Our next meeting takes place on Wednesday, 29 December, 17.00-18.00
For the text and more information, please contact us: [email protected]

Reading Club: 📚📖
Discussing Science, Philosophy, and Ideology
Our centre invites students from all departments to participate in our discussion meetings.
Our next meeting takes place on Wednesday, 17 November, 17.00-18.00
For the text and more information, please contact us: [email protected]

Reading Club:
Discussing Science, Philosophy, and Ideology

Our centre invites students from all departments to participate in our discussion meetings, starting in November 2021.
We will meet twice a month to discuss selected essays or book chapters. We will choose from a wide range of philosophical texts, including Aristotle, Bacon, Whewell, Mach, Bohr, Heisenberg, Popper, Polanyi, Hacking, Pearl, and Nye.
We will begin with the essay by Isaiah Berlin "The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History".
The meetings will take place on Wednesdays at 17.00, in person in our seminar room in building 39, room -112.

The first meeting will take place on Wednesday, 3 November 2021.
Refreshments will be served.

If you are interested, please send us a short e-mail: [email protected]

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