Matter, Ideas and Nature: A Conference in Memory of David Marcus Knight
Durham University, 14-15 June 2019
SHAC’s spring meeting is being organised jointly with Durham University’s Department of Philosophy and will take place at Durham University’s Business School on Friday 14 and Saturday 15 June 2019.
The registration fee for the meeting will be £20.
Please visit the following link to book a place at the conference
https://www.dur.ac.uk/conference.booking/details/?id=1205
FRIDAY 14TH JUNE
| 10:00 | Introduction Matthew Eddy and Robin Hendry |
| 10:30 | David Marcus Knight (1936-2018): An Appreciation Prof William H. Brock (Leicester University) |
| 11:30 | Voyaging in Strange Seas: Science and Storytelling Ms Sarah Day (Journalist and Novelist) |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 | Whitehead and Wells on the ‘Invention of Invention’ Prof Peter Bowler (Queens University Belfast) |
| 14:30 | Young Wallace: New light on the globe-trotting land-surveyor to whom Darwin wrote ‘May all your theories succeed’ Prof Jim Moore (Open University) |
| 15:30 | Break |
| 16:00 | Beyond the Exotic Anomaly: The European Reception of the Kangaroo Dr Sophie Forgan (Linnean Society of London) |
| 17:00 | Trust in Science Prof Nancy Cartwright (Durham University) |
| 18:00 | End |
| 19:30 | Conference Dinner |
SATURDAY 15TH JUNE
| 10:00 | Trust in Chemistry Prof Robin Hendry (Durham University) |
| 11:00 | The Very Young Humphry Davy Prof Frank A. J. L. James (University College London and the Royal Institution) |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 | The Life of Thomas Garnett Prof Robert Fox (Oxford University) |
| 14:00 | Rethinking Joseph Black’s Matter Theory Prof Matthew Daniel Eddy (Durham University) |
| 15:00 | Closing Remarks Matthew Eddy and Robin Hendry |
| 15:30 | End |