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Vol. 42, No. 2, April 2013
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New Executive Secretary and Treasurer of the PSA

The Governing Board of the Philosophy of Science Association is pleased to announce that Jessica Pfeifer, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will assume the position of the Executive Secretary and Treasurer of the PSA.

Professor Pfeifer received her Ph.D. in Philosophy/Science Studies from the University of California, San Diego and has taught at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County since 1998. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, has published papers in a range of topics in philosophy of science, and co-edited, with Sahotra Sarkar, The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia, Vols. 1 & 2 (Routledge, 2006).

In addition to expertise she has gained as a result of her extensive scholarly, editorial, and administrative work within academia, Professor Pfeifer brings to the Philosophy of Science Association a range of financial and bookkeeping skills gained outside academia, skills that will serve the PSA well in advancing its mission of promoting research, teaching, and discussion of issues within the philosophy of science from diverse viewpoints. Professor Pfeifer is interested particularly in improving the PSA's institutional memory, facilitating the mentoring of philosophers of science at the start of their careers, and making the scientific community and the general public aware of the philosophy of science and its value in public discourse.

Professor Pfeifer has already assumed several of the jobs of the PSA Executive Secretary and Treasurer, including managing posts to the PSA-L Announcement List and the PSA jobs listing. In the near future she will assume all the duties of the position. Items for the PSA-L list or the PSA jobs listing can be brought to her attention at psa@umbc.edu.

The Governing Board invites all members of the PSA and related academic societies to join us in congratulating Professor Pfeifer and welcoming her as the PSA's Executive Secretary and Treasurer.

Evidential Reasoning in Astronomy & Cosmology Workshop: Some Reflections

By Stephen Case (University of Notre Dame)

Steve Case addresses workshop attendees

One thing I quickly learned hosting the ISLA-Mellon workshop on Evidential Reasoning in Astronomy & Cosmology was the fallacy in assuming that only one of your speakers has a minor planet named in his honor. In fact, as I glanced around the table of assembled astronomers, philosophers, and historians in the concluding session that weekend, I realized a better question might have been, "Who here doesn't have a minor planet named after them?" With over forty attendees including philosophers of physics, historians of astronomy, and cosmologists, asteroids of the inner solar system were well represented at the workshop, which took place in the Jordan Hall of Science at the University of Notre Dame 22–24 February 2013.

The goal of this workshop was to assemble scientists, philosophers, and historians to share ideas on the role of evidence and reasoning in historical and contemporary research. As a historian of astronomy, I was curious what philosophers and astronomers had to say about the role that induction plays in the largest scales of space and time. I wanted to know more about how working cosmologists built their inductive ladders and what they did when those ladders led to unexpected results, such as in the case of dark energy. How are limited data sets like the Kepler Mission results translated into claims regarding the prolificacy of exoplanets throughout the galaxy? What assumptions are made in extra-galactic supernovae surveys? I also hoped for ideas about what a philosophy of astronomy might look like and how (or whether) it could it be distinct from a philosophy of cosmology.

The workshop drew a wide range of participants. Attendees that weekend included senior scholars such as Dr. Peter Garnavich of Notre Dame's physics department, Dr. George Smith of Tufts University and Stanford University, Dr. Bill Harper of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario (now Western University), Dr. Marv Bolt of the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, and Dr. Steven Dick, former NASA chief historian (who was unfortunately unable to attend due to illness but sent a paper to be read). There was also a strong showing of philosophy of cosmology graduate students from Western University and the University of Pittsburgh. Graduate students from Notre Dame included students from the program in the history and philosophy of science as well as history, philosophy, physics, theology, and even creative writing students.

The workshop was organized into three sessions loosely grouped by topic: the first explored the historical role of evidence in astronomy, the second focused on contemporary astronomical and cosmological research, and the third dealt with philosophical implications. In discussions at the conclusion of the workshop, Dr. Smith emphasized the need for a literature focusing on philosophical aspects of geophysics, astronomy, and cosmology. Such philosophical concerns were evident in the papers presented by philosophers of cosmology in the third session, which dealt with, among other issues, the role of data selection in supernovae evidence for the accelerating universe (Dylan Gault, Western University) and the role of essential idealizations in cosmology (Elay Shech, University of Pittsburgh). One set of issues that participants kept returning to was the philosophical implications of the use of evidence regarding regions of the universe that remain in principle unobservable.

For the second session, I asked working astronomers and cosmologists to speak on the role of evidence in their own work. Partway through this session I realized what a challenge I had set for the speakers: to present their research in a non-specialized form to an audience including their own colleagues and students as well as historians and philosophers of science. The feedback on this portion of the workshop, however, was quite positive. These talks, as well as a presentation on astronomical representation given in the Digital Visualization Theater by Dr. Keith Davis of Notre Dame, helped to frame a common intellectual context for the workshop. Matt Miexner, a Notre Dame physics graduate student who spoke on his work deriving an equation of state for supernovae core collapse, said that he welcomed the opportunity to discuss the role of evidence and modeling in his own research. Other talks by scientists in this session included Dr. Garnavich on evidence for the accelerating universe and Colin Littlefield, also from Notre Dame, on issues of exoplanetary detection.

One general theme that emerged from the workshop was the issue of what new considerations cosmology and astronomy bring to philosophy. In cosmology, the philosophical implications are readily apparent. Contemporary astronomy, on the other hand, is largely composed of overlapping fields—chemistry, physics, biology, planetary geology—making the notion of a distinct philosophy of astronomy problematic. Yet throughout its history astronomy has been the classical case for extending evidence and observation to reach conclusions on potentially-unreachable regions of the universe. This became especially clear in the first session of the workshop, which explored the role of evidence in the history of astronomy. As Dr. Dick's paper illustrated, the issue of classification can serve as a powerful tool for analyzing the problem of discovery in astronomy. The recent fervor over the status of Pluto has shown the necessity for clear reasoning on the definition of astronomical classes and the role such classes play in the process of discovery. This question was recently raised again with the discovery of Kepler-37b, the smallest exoplanet on record. Should such an object be considered a planet at all, or does it represent the discovery of a new class of astronomical object?

The role of evidence in the history of astronomy also may help to inform speculations on the possibility of life in the universe. As Dr. Michael Crowe of Notre Dame drew attention to in his paper on the extraterrestrial life debate, in the nineteenth century analogical reasoning was used as a powerful argument both for and against the existence of life throughout the solar system. Again, the implications for contemporary questions are clear as exobiologists, as well as the public, grapple with what conclusions can be reached as we try to connect the existence of extremophile bacteria on Earth to life elsewhere in the universe. It is in such episodes from the history of astronomy that the philosophical considerations of the role of evidence seem to have the most bearing for contemporary issues in astronomy.

Pseudo-Masha'allah, On the Astrolabe

By Ron B. Thomson (Fellow Emeritus, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto)

I am producing a critical edition of the astrolabe text of Pseudo-Masha'allah, to replace the defective edition published by Robert Gunther in the 1930s ("Science at Oxford" series). The critical edition of the Prologue and of chapters 1-6 have now been mounted on-line by the University of Oklahoma.

The material available online includes an introduction touching on various aspects of the project, including a manuscript list; the critical edition with apparatus, notes and diagrams and a facing English translation based on about 80 manuscripts; a Latin only version with diagrams and some notes (preserving the lineation of the critical edition); and an English only version with diagrams and some notes. I am currently working on the next section of the text (chapters 7 to 16: I have just completed a preliminary edition up to the end of chapter 12) which I hope to complete this summer in order to add it to the on-line text in the autumn.

As funds become available I will purchase copies of the few remaining manuscripts which I do not now have. I do not expect that this will produce any changes to the text; it will only increase the size of the apparatus. I expect to complete the whole project—Composition, Prologue to Chapter 24; Star Table; Uses—in about five years. As time passes I am willing to add comments that others might have on the text or translation to build a final edition based on the co-operation of scholars in the field. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me via thomson@chass.utoronto.ca.

New HIPAA Privacy Rule

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Description and Commentary from the January 2013 Amendments General Rules for Uses and Disclosures of Protected Health Information: Deceased Individuals

After considering the public comments, the final rule adopts the proposal. We believe 50 years is an appropriate period of protection for decedent health information, taking into account the remaining privacy interests of living individuals after the span of approximately two generations have passed, and the difficulty of obtaining authorizations from a personal representative of a decedent as the same amount of time passes. For the same reason, we decline to shorten the period of protection as suggested by some commenters or to adopt a 100-year period of protection for decedent information. We also believe the 50-year period of protection to be long enough so as not to provide an incentive for covered entities to change their record retention policies in order to profit from the data about a decedent once 50 years has elapsed.

With respect to commenters' concerns regarding protected health information about decedents that is sensitive, such as HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, or mental health information, or that involves psychotherapy notes, we emphasize that the 50-year period of protection for decedent health information under the Privacy Rule does not override or interfere with State or other laws that provide greater protection for such information, or the professional responsibilities of mental health or other providers.

Covered entities may continue to provide privacy protections to decedent information beyond the 50-year period, and may be required to do so under other applicable laws or as part of their professional responsibility. Alternatively, covered entities may choose to destroy decedent information although other applicable law may prescribe or limit such destruction.

We also decline to limit protections under the Privacy Rule to a certain period beyond the last date in the medical record. While we appreciate the challenges that may be present in determining the date of death of an individual in cases in which it is not sufficiently clear from the age of the record whether the individual is deceased, we believe that this determination is necessary in closer cases to protect the individual, as well as living relatives and others, who may be affected by disclosure of the information.

Further, as we stated in the NPRM, this modification has no impact on a covered entity's disclosures permitted under other provisions of the Privacy Rule. For example, a covered entity is permitted to disclose protected health information of decedents for research that is solely on the information of decedents in accordance with §164.512(i)(1)(iii), without regard to how long the individual has been deceased.

Finally, we clarify that the 50-year period of protection is not a record retention requirement. The HIPAA Privacy Rule does not include medical record retention requirements and covered entities may destroy such records at the time permitted by State or other applicable law. (We note that covered entities are subject to the accounting requirements at § 164.528 and, thus, would need to retain or record certain information regarding their disclosures of protected health information.) However, if a covered entity does maintain decedent health information for longer than 50 years following the date of death of the individual, this information will no longer be subject to the Privacy Rule.

Catapult Center for Digital Humanities

Catapult is a Center established by the College of Arts and Sciences of the IU Bloomington in 2012 for the promotion of digital humanities and the computational and material analysis of texts. The goal of the Center is to build a visible community of scholars and researchers from the humanities, social sciences, computer and information sciences, and materials sciences who wish to collaborate in seeking innovative solutions to problems that arise in textual and para-textual research. In order to achieve this goal, Catapult offers a Workshop and Training series that meets throughout the year and provides hands-on experience in computational techniques ranging from the preparation of online text editions and encyclopedias to data mining and linguistic analysis of electronic documents. In addition to these practical workshops, Catapult also offers a yearly Colloquium series where prominent figures in digital humanities and related areas of research are invited to speak. Topics range from computationally assisted study of text content and information visualization to materials analysis of text collections. For more information visit the website at http://www.indiana.edu/~catapult/.

Digitization of Botanical Archives from the India Office Records

The India Office Records at the British Library in London are a major resource for the history of science in pre-Independence India. Now, thanks to the generous support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, over 100 files relating to botany have been digitized and placed on-line.

The files, which range in date from 1780 to 1860, include the following topics: botanical gardens (Calcutta, Bangalore, Saharanpur, Dapuri, Ootacamund, Madras, Samulcotta, Darjeeling); plant-collecting expeditions (Afghanistan, Assam, the Spice Islands, the Himalayas, southern India); economic botany (cotton, spices, hemp, India rubber, tea, coffee, indigo, bread-fruit tree, cassava); medicinal plants (cinchona, senna); pioneering botanists (Robert Kyd, William Roxburgh, John Forbes Royle, Nathaniel Wallich, William Griffith).

The material, which is still being added to, is listed with links at https://bitly.com/RbQ54c. The digitized images are at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/ (search by keyword such as "Dapuri"). Files on the Calcutta Botanic Garden are also to be found at http://www.kew.org/wallich.

An Academic Roundtable on What Did the Romans Know?

An academic publication on Daryn Lehoux's What Did the Romans Know? An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking (2012) was published in the Villanova journal Expositions, Vol. 6, No. 2. Expositions is available at http://expositions.journals.villanova.edu/.

Digital Records on Museum Objects

Historians at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History are gradually creating digital records on Museum objects. We are first preparing entries for the Smithsonian-wide EDAN database and then preparing more extensive descriptions of like objects for the NMAH web site. Thus far there are online records for objects ranging from patent medicines and surgical instruments to surveying instruments to mechanical computing devices to celluloid objects to slide rules. These may be found by searching at the web address: http://collections.si.edu/search/. Some objects are also discussed together in groups at: http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups. More are coming!

1st European Autumn School on History of Science and Education: "Sources and Resources for Educational Purposes in the Era of Internet"

Barcelona, 14-16 November 2013

Societat Catalana d'Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (SCHCT); European Society for the History of Science (ESHS); Centre d'Història de la Ciència (CEHIC); Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB); Càtedra Unesco en Tècnica i Cultura. Centre de Recerca per la Història de la Tècnica (CRHT); Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

17th century chemistry lecture.

17th century chemistry lecture. Artwork showing local people attending a chemistry lecture by the French chemist Nicolas Lemery (1645-1715)

The Societat Catalana d'Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica is going to organize the 1st European Autumn School on History of Science and Education. The main goal of the School is to provide training and to encourage debate, participation and effective interaction among the attending public and the invited specialists, dealing with basic and practical aspects concerning the interplay between history of science and education.

The School is addressed mainly to students of doctorate or master degrees, post-doctorates, in-service teachers, scholars and researchers interested in the history of science as an interface with science and science education.

The topic of this first meeting is centred around the sources and resources of the history of science for educational purposes in the era of the internet. The digitization of libraries and museums collections has made accessible a significant part of the literary and material cultures of science worldwide. Furthermore, some museums and academic institutions, which preserve this material culture of science, produce virtual reconstructions of the past that can be used for teaching aims.

Concerning this topic, there are some salient and challenging aspects that might deserve reflexion and discussion: The assessment of sources of the history of science regarding their educational value, the relevance of the historiographical analysis of sources based in their authenticity and reliability in relation to their teaching usefulness, the remaking of historical sources to turn them into educational resources, or the management of application software, social media applications and learning environment systems as tools to include the history of science in science education. For further information, visit the School's webpage at http://schct.iec.cat/Web1AutumnSchool/FirstAutumnSchool.html.

Newton at the Worth Library Online Exhibition

Scholars may be interested in the following web site exhibition entitled "Newton at the Worth Library." This is one of a number of exhibitions exploring the scientific and medical collections of the Edward Worth Library, Dublin, and is part of Dublin City of Science 2012's program of events.

University of Oxford Philosophy and Psychiatry Summer School: Mind, Value and Mental Health

A one-week accredited residential summer school from 14 to 19 July 2013 presented by the Faculty of Philosophy and the Department for Continuing Education, and based at St. Catherine's College, Oxford.

We will explore the areas in which the philosophy of mind and ethics or the philosophy of value come into contact with issues about mental health.

The Summer School will appeal to a wide range of people with a professional or academic interest in the fields of philosophy and/or mental health. Further details are available at http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/ppss2.

Announcement of the 2012 Popper Prize

The Editors of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science are pleased to announce that the 2012 Popper Prize has been awarded to Dr. Elliot Wagner of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam for his paper "Deterministic Chaos and the Evolution of Meaning," 63(3):547 (2012).

Here follows the Editors' citation:

Sir Karl Popper made important contributions to the philosophy of social sciences as well as to the philosophy of natural sciences. A prominent trend in contemporary philosophy of social sciences takes its cue from David Lewis' signaling games, and more recently Brian Skyrms' work in this area. In linguistics, economics, and biology, the communication between a sender and a receiver can help us understand the emergence of meaning, decision-making strategies, and even animal behavior. Traditionally, in the literature on signaling games, the sender and the receiver are assumed to have common interests. In his paper, Wagner analyses signaling games where the receiver and the sender have totally opposed interests. He shows that even in the worst case of a zero-sum interaction, partial information transfer and hence communication can be sustained due to non-convergent adaptive dynamics.

This is a timely, original contribution to a fast-growing area in the philosophy of social sciences, which brings together technical details and philosophical insight, and is a worthy recipient of the 2012 Sir Karl Popper Prize.

Fall 2013 Relocation of Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine from Imperial College to King's College

King's College London announces today that it will welcome the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine to the Department of History beginning in August 2013. The move from Imperial College London follows work to identify the best academic home for the Centre to develop its research activities in the long term. The Centre will be strengthened not only by existing staff at King's but also by two new appointments. A new MA program is expected to start in 2013 with up to five full MA studentships as well as an enhanced Ph.D. program, supported by a continuing program of Hans Rausing scholarships.

During its time at Imperial the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHoSTM) topped the RAE tables for history in 2008 and became widely recognized for the excellence of its research and its strong record in winning high profile grants. It is known for its distinctive approach to modern history of science, technology and medicine, integrating the study of science, technology and medicine and being particularly concerned to address big historical and policy questions, addressed to many audiences.

An endowment of over £2.5m, drawing on existing endowed funds, will be provided by the Arcadia Fund to King's to fund M.A. and Ph.D. studentships within the Centre.
CHoSTM will be joining one of the strongest history departments in the country, with a strong reputation for both teaching and research. The Department at King's has in recent years been developing into a truly global department. Long renowned as a leading center for, among other things, the history of the British Empire and of medieval Britain and Europe, it now has noted strengths in African, Chinese and Australian history. CHoSTM will also intersect with other important investments at King's, such as the recent creation of the new Department of Social Science and Medicine and the development of the History and Policy unit.

New Ph.D. Program Philosophy (in English) at Fatih University, Istanbul

The Philosophy Ph.D. program at Fatih University, Istanbul has been approved. From the spring term 2013, Fatih University Istanbul is offering a Ph.D. program in philosophy (taught in English). Areas of interest include the history and philosophy of science and medicine.

For inquiries regarding specific topics, please contact rbromer@fatih.edu.tr. For general information about the department, see http://felsefe.fatih.edu.tr/?&language=EN. To find out about the areas of specialization of the faculty, go to http://felsefe.fatih.edu.tr/?staff&language=EN. Informal inquiries about enrolment could be sent to the head of department Şengül Çelik scelik@fatih.edu.tr and the convening professors Manuel Knoll mknoll@fatih.edu.tr and Marc Rölli marcmroelli@gmail.com.

New York Academy of Medicine Rare Book Reading Room Closed for Renovations

Due to a planned renovation project to improve the environmental conditions in the space, the Coller Rare Book Reading Room at The New York Academy of Medicine will be closed to readers beginning 1 February 2013. The room will reopen for use on 1 June 2013.

While some materials will continue to be accessible for use, portions of the rare book collection will not be available throughout the renovation period, and readers will be relocated to another space in the building. We will do our best to accommodate readers and reference requests, but please note that response times will be slower and appointment times may be limited.

If you have plans to use the collections this spring, please contact Acting Curator and Reference Librarian for Historical Collections Arlene Shaner at history@nyam.org or 212-822-7313 as soon as you have information about your plans, to verify whether the materials you would like to see will be available for use.

We are looking forward to welcoming readers back to a much-improved space in the early summer and thank you in advance for your patience during our renovations. Updates on the project and reopening will be made on our blog.

Journal of Philosophy, Science & Law Accepting Articles

The Journal of Philosophy, Science & Law, an online peer-reviewed journal, is soliciting original manuscripts from scholars writing at the relevant intersection.

The Journal is a forum for lawyers, philosophers, scientists, engineers, historians, sociologists, and other interested scholars to express and exchange their views. The homepage for the Journal is: http://www.miami.edu/ethics/jpsl/. Topics of interest to the Journal include: Bioethics, Engineering Ethics, Environmental Ethics and Law, and the Ethical and Legal Implications of Emerging Technologies.

If you have any questions about the Journal, please send your inquiries to borenstein@gatech.edu. More information on submissions can be found at http://www6.miami.edu/ethics/jpsl/submission.html or the general web site: www.miami.edu/ethics/jpsl.

InScribe: Palaeography Learning Materials, a New Online Training Platform

InScribe is an online course for the study of Palaeography and Manuscript Studies developed by several of the institutes within the School of Advanced Study (including the Institute of Historical Research and Institute of English Studies), with support from Senate House Library and Exeter Cathedral Library & Archives. Devised by Prof. Michelle Brown (IES) and Dr. Jane Winters (IHR), InScribe aims to support the teaching of Palaeography and Manuscript Studies at a postgraduate level.

At present we are releasing the introductory module which introduces some basic notions about Palaeography and provides an overview of the evolution of script in the medieval period (with particular reference to the English context). Similarly, it gives students the chance to transcribe text from a selection of newly digitized manuscripts from Senate House Library and Exeter Cathedral Library & Archives. Later in the year, new modules will be released that will provide advanced training on Diplomatic, Script and Translation, Codicology and Illumination. The introductory module is free of charge. To know more about InScribe click here: http://www.history.ac.uk/research-training/courses/online-palaeography.

Latest History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium Release

The History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, is pleased to announce the latest release of its History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium. The Consortium now indexes over 3,600 finding aids from 35 institutions and supports a search-and-discovery tool for archival resources in the health sciences that are described by finding aids and held by various institutions throughout the United States (and one Canadian). As with previous releases the new content crawled consists of finding aids delivered as EAD, PDF and HTML from a diverse institutional cohort.

NLM invites libraries, archives and museums with finding aids for collections in the history of medicine and health sciences to join the Consortium. For more information about the project or to request to join the Consortium, please visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/consortium/about.html.

Call for Contributions to The Gazette of the Society for the Social History of Medicine

The Society for the Social History of Medicine is always interested in receiving contributions for The Gazette, which is sent out with their journal. Conference reports and pictures (500 words maximum), advertisements for conferences, lectures, events or awards, links to blogs or digitization projects, general news in the field...all are welcome! Please send your contributions, or questions about potential contributions, to Katherine Foxhall via foxhall@sshm.org. The submission deadlines for 2013 are 16 April, 16 July, and 15 October.

Lloyd Library—Varro E. "Tip" Tyler Papers Now Available

The Lloyd Library is pleased to announce the completed processing and accessibility of the Varro E. "Tip" Tyler Papers.

The collection consists of the manuscript records of Varro E. Tyler, from 1926 to 2001. Included are personal and biographical materials, correspondence with individuals and organizations, publications organized into four sub-series, records regarding conferences, speaking engagements and travel, and an extensive collection of medicinal herbs and plants data arranged alphabetically. The collection is approximately 50 linear feet, 98 boxes.

Varro E. "Tip" Tyler was born December 19, 1926 in Auburn, Nebraska. He had a classical education and loved history, poetry, travel, philately, and books. Tyler enrolled at the University of Nebraska, and graduated in pharmacy with high distinction in 1949. He attended Yale University as an Eli Lilly Research Fellow in 1950. After Tyler earned his MS and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Connecticut in 1951 and 1953, he was appointed Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pharmacognosy at the University of Nebraska. He served with merit at the University of Washington for ten years. Dr. Tyler accepted the appointment as dean of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences at Purdue University in 1966. He studied medicinal and toxic constituents of higher fungi, phytochemical analysis, alkaloid biosynthesis, drug plant cultivation, and herbal medicine. Tyler's outstanding career at Purdue culminated in the designation of the Lilly Distinguished Professor of Pharmacognosy, Emeritus. Service as the first president of the American Society of Pharmacognosy (1959–1961), president of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (1970–1971), and president of the Institute of the History of Pharmacy (1993–1995) are among Tyler's many notable achievements. Dr. Tyler's stature in the field of pharmacognosy is evident through national and international recognition by his peers, honorary degree awards, appointments to editorial boards, and his hundreds of publications. Tyler died 22 August 2001.

The finding aid is available on the Lloyd Library web site at http://www.lloydlibrary.org/archivescollections.html. For reference questions and inquiries contact the Archivist, Devhra BennettJones, Devhra@Lloydlibrary.org.

University of Pennsylvania Announces Online Medical History Publication

The University Archives and Records Center of the University of Pennsylvania is proud to announce the online publication of Medical History at the University of Pennsylvania.

Created by Senior Archivist Joseph-James Ahern and edited by the Director of University Archives Mark Frazier Lloyd, this guide is designed to assist researchers in accessing the Archives' holdings related to Medical History. Included are faculty minutes, student records, lecture notes, administrative records, and publications. The guide is organized by the headings: Hospitals, Medical Education (including Administration, Faculty, and Students), Medical Research, and Physicians Papers.

The University Archives and Records Center is the official repository for historically significant documents and other materials for the University of Pennsylvania. The holdings extend to all aspects of the history of the University, including the personal and professional papers of prominent persons associated with the University. The collections also document the history of institutions of higher learning in the United States, American intellectual life, and the Philadelphia community in which the University lives. The University Archives strives to ensure the timeless preservation of these historically significant materials and to make these materials available to researchers. Located at 3401 Market Street, Suite 210 in the University City section of Philadelphia, the University Archives is open to the University community and the scholarly public Monday–Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Additional information on the University Archives can be found at http://www.archives.upenn.edu/.

Call for Papers: Antennae—The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture

For Bataille, "every animal is in the world like water in water." In other words, the animal is indissoluble in its immediacy and urgency from what makes it animal in an imminent world. Antennae is currently soliciting material from academics, artists and independent writers on the subject of one of the currently still under scrutinized area in human-animal studies: the underwater. Although Bataille's conceit of the animal as 'water in water' is not representative of the multifaceted complexity with which the field of animal-studies currently approaches its subjects of scrutiny, would there be a case for claiming that those animals and other organisms living underwater currently present us with a heightened level of elusiveness than those living on dry land? With the environmental collapse of our oceans this seems a prescient time to discuss fish and their relation to our overall ecosystem and survival of the planet and this relationship to contemporary art/media. As per usual, the journal will feature a selection of artist's works, academic essays and interview on the subject.

Please contact Giovanni Aloi, Editor in Chief of Antennae in order to discuss proposals and submissions. This issue of Antennae is co-curated by Professor Ken Rinaldo (Ohio State University). Academic essays = maximum length 8000 words; Interviews = maximum length 10000 words; Fiction = maximum length 8000 words; Submission Deadline: 1 June 2013.

More info at: www.antennae.org.uk. Submission e-mailed to: antennaeproject@gmail.com

Hagley Museum and Library Announces Research Grant Fellowship Recipients

The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library recently awarded research grant fellowships for 8 Exploratory Grants, for eight H. B. du Pont Fellowships; and for two H. B. du Pont Dissertation Fellowships.

As the nation's leading business history archive and library, Hagley offers research grants for scholars interested using our collections. Exploratory research grants support one-week visits by scholars who believe that their project will benefit from Hagley research materials. Henry Belin du Pont Research grants enable scholars to pursue advanced research in Hagley's collections for periods of up to 8 weeks.

Applications for Exploratory and Henry Belin du Pont Research Grants are considered tri-annually and are due March 31, June 30, and October 31, with a decision within 45 days of the deadline. Proposals are accepted annually by November 15 for Hagley's Henry Belin du Pont Dissertation Fellowships intended for graduate students who have completed all course work for the doctoral degree. All grants require use of Hagley's collections for advanced research. For more information on these grant programs please go to http://www.hagley.org/library/center/grants.html.

New List Launched by H-Net: H-PhysicalSciences

H-PhysicalSciences provides a communication channel and resource nexus for historians of the physical sciences. Its topical scope covers the physical sciences broadly understood, including but not limited to: physics; chemistry; earth, space, and atmospheric science; astronomy; and materials science. H-PhysicalSciences encourages active dialogue between scholars studying a wide range of topics across the physical sciences, and promotes integration with the larger discipline of history of science.

For more information, please visit: http://www.h-net.org/~physicalsciences/. To subscribe, please follow the link in the web page menu or send an e-mail to listserv@h-net.msu.edu with: sub H-PhysicalSciences your name, institution and follow the instructions provided by the Listserv.

24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine—Registration Now Open

Registration for the 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine (iCHSTM 2013), to be held in Manchester, UK from Sunday 21 to Sunday 28 July, is now open.

To register, please go to http://www.ichstm2013.com/registration/ and follow the link to open the registration form. Registration will be available at the early discounted rate until Sunday 14 April, and at a higher rate until Monday 1 July, which is the final deadline. Please note that the registration process is managed by the University of Manchester's conference services group. If you have any queries about registration, please direct them to mcc.reg@manchester.ac.uk.

Also, the first draft listing of pre-arranged symposia, including individual abstracts for around 1100 papers, is now available and can be seen at http://www.ichstm2013.com/programme/guide/.

Stand-alone papers are not yet listed; they are still in the process of being grouped, and will be added to the program around the beginning of March. Timetable/ scheduling information will also be added around the same time.

If you are involved in the Congress as a presenter, symposium organizer, session chair or commentator, you should recently have received further details directly. If not, please contact us at submissions@ichstm2013.com and we will advise. For the latest updates, you can also sign up to the Congress mailing list.

The Monist Accepting Submissions for Their Issue on Models and Simulations

In 2014, The Monist will publish an issue devoted to Models and Simulations. Submissions are invited for this issue. Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the Advisory Editor, Paul Humphreys, University of Virginia (pwh2a@virginia.edu) for further information and to ensure suitability of content. Papers must have a maximum length of 7,500 words. Deadline for Submissions is 31 October 2013.

The introduction of computer simulation methods has radically changed certain scientific fields. Among the philosophical issues involved are: Why have some fields such as astrophysics embraced simulations while others such as economics resisted their introduction? What are the differences and similarities between laboratory experiments and computer simulations? Are very large scale simulations such as those used in climate models essentially different from smaller scale simulations? What is the status of data from simulations? How can simulation models be tested and validated and what is their relation to traditional theory and models?

Contributions that answer these and other, as yet unaddressed, issues in the area of models and simulations are invited. Papers dealing with general philosophical topics or with applications to specific sciences will be the focus of this issue; those addressing topics in biology and medicine are particularly welcomed.

Call for Works for the History and Philosophy of Biology

Pickering and Chatto is looking for manuscripts to be considered for this new series of academic monographs and essay collections that focus on significant developments and issues in the life sciences and includes all aspects of the biological sciences. In particular, they are looking for studies relating to evolutionary theory, environmental sciences, systems biology, biotechnology, bioethics, race and sex, but will consider more broadly constructed themes within the history of the life sciences. You can read more at http://www.pickeringchatto.com/series/50-history-and-philosophy-of-biology.

Send your dissertation abstract, your completed proposal, or your in-process idea that you'd like to propose, to Dawn.Digrius@stevens.edu, or to the commissioning editor at Pickering & Chatto, Ruth Ireland, rireland@pickeringchatto.co.uk.

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