Event overview
Nobel Laureate Sir Tim Hunt and Professor Samir Okasha
Goldsmiths’ Centre of the Body presents ‘Exploring the Body: Interdisciplinarity in Practice’, a series of interdisciplinary dialogues exploring the human body.
The second event in the series focuses on science and philosophy, inviting inspirational scientist and Nobel Laureate, Sir Tim Hunt, and leading philosopher of science, Professor Samir Okasha, to explore whether philosophy has a role in inspiring scientific innovation, and whether cultural perceptions shape the questions that scientists ask themselves, or the directions in which they seek their answers.
True to the interdisciplinary nature of Goldsmiths, this series focuses on exploring the body through diverse approaches. It brings together scientists, artists, historians, philosophers, social scientists and others to explore how their different disciplines and practices dealing with the body can not only illuminate each other, but also inform each other.
Sir Tim Hunt
Nobel Laureate Sir Tim Hunt is a biologist whose discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle saw him awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (together with Sir Paul Nurse and Leland Hartwell).
His love for biology arose at an early age in Oxford, where his father was the Keeper of the Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. He spent most of his academic career in Clare College, Cambridge before joining Cancer Research UK, where he was conducting his research until his recent retirement.
Since winning the Nobel Prize he has been traveling the world, not only giving lectures about his discoveries, but being a sort of “spokesman for science”.
A truly inspirational scientist, Tim Hunt manages in his talks not only to convey his complex scientific discoveries to initiated and lay alike, but he often goes beyond science to the realms of philosophy or art to convey something of his own personal inspirational moments.
Professor Samir Okasha
Samir Okasha is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Bristol.
His research is primarily in philosophy of biology, evolutionary theory, epistemology, and rational choice theory. He is the author of two books and over sixty journal articles. His most recent book, Evolution and the Levels of Selection, was awarded the 2009 Lakatos Prize for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science. He is also the author of Philosophy of Science: a very short introduction (OUP 2002).
Find out more about the Centre of the Body: http://www.gold.ac.uk/centreofthebody
Dates & times
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7 Mar 2013 | 6:15pm - 8:15pm |
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