SEMINARS


Readings

September
The Two Cultures (CP Snow); "Two Cultures? The Significance of Lord Snow" (F.R. Leavis)

October
The One Culture? A Conversation about Science (edited by Harry Collins and Jay Labinger)

November
The Limits of Thought: Discussions (Krishnamurti and Bohm)

December
Unity of Knowledge and Transdisciplinarity: Contexts of Definition, Theory and the New Discourse of Problem Solving (J. T. Klein); From Alchemy to Chemistry (S. Feinsein)

January
The Robot in the Garden (K. Goldberg)

February
The Meno (Plato); The Elements, Books 1 and 2 (Euclid)

March
Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences (Galileo); Math, Metaphysics, and Modern Science (Heidegger)

April
Science, Truth, and Democracy (P. Kitcher)

May
Turning Good into Gold: A comparative Study of Two Environmental Invention Networks (Gorman, Mehalik)

Participants

Bernard Amadei
Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
amadei@spot.colorado.edu
Michael Jenson
Architecture and Urban Design
jenson@spot.colorado.edu
Gary Bardsley
Interdisciplinary Telecommunications
bards@boulder.colorado.edu

Clayton Lewis
Computer Science
clayton@cs.colorado.edu

David Beltran-del-Rio
Applied Math
beltrand@colorado.edu 
Roop Mahajan
Mechanical Engineering
Roop.Mahajan@colorado.edu

Mark Benassi
Comparative Literature
Mbenassi48@cs.com

Shelly Miller
Mechanical Engineering
Shelly.Miller@colorado.edu
Erik Fisher
Engineering Management Program
Erik.Fisher@colorado.edu
Joyce Nielsen
Sociology
Joyce.Nielsen@colorado.edu
Allan Franklin
Physics
Allan.Franklin@colorado.edu
Rolf Norgaard
Program for Writing and Rhetoric
norgaard@spot.colorado.edu
Bob Frodeman
Center for Science and Technology Policy Research
Robert.Frodeman@colorado.edu
Claudia van Gerven
Honors Program
Claudia.Vangerven@colorado.edu
John Hopkins
Fine Arts
jhopkins@uiah.fi
Will West
English
westw@spot.colorado.edu
Michael Jenson
Architecture and Urban Design
jenson@spot.colorado.edu
Mark Winokur
English / ATLAS
Mark.Winokur@colorado.edu