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HAPS Co-ordinator for the College of Arts:Dr Philip CattonEmail: philip.catton@canterbury.ac.nz Philip has published on the philosophy of spacetime physics, ecology, scientific methodology, and environmental ethics. He is researching and writing the following nexus of books: 1. Philosophy in the Reflection of its Epoch1. Inside Knowledge: Ethics, Physics, Logic and the hold of human reason. Book 1: Wonder, Self and World. Book 2: Mathematics and Meaning. Book 3. Science and the Systematicity of Nature. 2. Induction, Measurement and Morals: Theory, Practice, Synthesis. Book 1: The Philosophy of Measurement. Book 2. Immanence, Ideality and Truth. Book 3. Morality, Scientific Experience and the Limits of Nature. 3. Measuring and Valuing: Science, Ethics and the Crisis of Modernity. Book 1: Modernity and the Most Measured Understanding of Things. Book 2. Nature's Non-cooperation with Morality. Book 3. Thought Itself and Eco-Catastrophe. |
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HAPS Co-ordinator for the College of Engineering:Dr Clemency MontelleEmail: clemency.montelle@canterbury.ac.nz Clemency publishes on ancient mathematics and astronomy. Her research interests include history and philosophy of mathematics, the preparation, translation, and commentary of ancient mathematical texts in Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Arabic and Akkadian, and ancient mathematical astronomy and modelling. |
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HAPS Co-ordinator for the College of Science:Dr Andy PrattEmail: andy.pratt@canterbury.ac.nz Andy is a boorganic chemist, and as such has a range of interdisciplinary research interests, involving collaborative research with biologists and an emphasis on evolutionary issues. Apart form publications in his science, his published output includes: Pratt, A J, Scientific controversies: Debate and dissent, in Challenging Science, K Dew and R Fitzgerald eds, pp223-239, Dunmore Press, 2004. |
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Prof Douglas BridgesEmail: douglas.bridges@canterbury.ac.nz Douglas has published extensively in the areas of mathematical logic and the philosophically lively area of constructive mathematics. |
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Dr Derek BrowneEmail: derek.browne@canterbury.ac.nz Derek has research interests in philosophy of biology - in particular, philosophical issues in the sciences of animal cognition and behaviour, genetics and biotechnology - and the epistemology of science. He is presently working on innateness, animal consciousness, and ethical issues in genetics and biotechnology. |
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Dr Jane BuckinghamEmail: jane.buckingham@canterbury.ac.nzOffice Room 315, History Building Phone: 6277 Jane's research interests include the history of medicine, especially on the Indian subcontinent, and she is working towrds the imminent publication of a research mongraphy Power and Compassion: Crime, Poverty and Marginalisation in early Colonial South India. She is chair of the Editorial Board for Social History of Medicine, an OUP publication, and research consultant for South Asia and the South pacific for the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine International Legrosy Association Global Leprosy Project. |
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Dr Chris ConnollyEmail: chris.connolly@canterbury.ac.nz Chris's main interests are in comparative Australian and New Zealand history, world history, historiography and philosophy of history. He is currently writing a book on democracy in world history. |
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Prof Jack CopelandEmail: jack.copeland@canterbury.ac.nz Jack is widely published in logic, computation and philosophy of artificial intelligence and has completed a book on Alan Turing. He has edited two issues of the on-line Rutherford Journal: The New Zealand Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. |
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Dr Rob DavisEmail: rob.davis@canterbury.ac.nz Rob researches the effects of siesmic events on soil stability mechanics and the history of civil engineering. |
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Dr Peter FieldEmail: peter.field@canterbury.ac.nz Peter has broad interests in intellectual history as well as more specialist interests in cultural and political aspects of American history. His publications include Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Making of a Democratic Intellectual , Latham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2002. |
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Dr Amy FletcherEmail: amy.fletcher@canterbury.ac.nz Amy's fields of expertise are comparative politics and public policy, with an emphasis on science and technology, and environmental politics. In 2008, her major research project is a book-length analysis of the controversies surrounding the use of animal transgenics in human health, as well as forthcoming publications on the regulation of synthetic biology and assisted reproduction in wildlife management. |
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Dr Mark FrancisEmail: mark.francis@canterbury.ac.nz Mark recently published Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life , Cornell University Press 2007. His research interests in the history of political thought roundly intersect with history of science. |
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Mr Colin GoodrichEmail: colin.goodrich@canterbury.ac.nz Colin is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. His current research and teaching interests are in environmental sociology. He has considerable international experience training practitioners in Social Impact Assessment. |
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Dr Joanna GovenEmail: joanna.goven@canterbury.ac.nz Joanna is Deputy Director and Social Science Leader for the Centre for Integrated Research in Biosafety. Her research interests lie at the intersection of technoscience and democracy, and focus on: the social and political implications of science and technology; the role of democratic publics in relation to science and technology; government consultation strategies on technoscience-related issues; and the interaction between all of the above and neoliberalism. |
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Dr Brian HaigEmail: brian.haig@canterbury.ac.nzOffice: Rm 209B, School of Psychology Phone: 7972 Courses: HAPS416
Brian's research interests range across the subject areas of theoretical psychology, research methodology, educational theory and science studies. And his work in these areas is characterized and held together by a commitment to a scientific realist view of science. |
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Dr John HannahEmail: john.hannah@canterbury.ac.nz John researches abstract and linear algebra, mathematics education and the history of mathematics. |
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Prof John Hearnshaw Email: john.hearnshaw@canterbury.ac.nz John is a senior member of the university's astronomy group in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and has published extensively on the history of stellar spectroscopy and other aspects of the history of astronomy. His books "The Analysis of Starlight" and "The Measurement of Starlight" have been widely acclaimed. Along with Philip Catton, he is also one of the HPS course coordinators. |
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Associate Professor Jack HeinemannEmail: jack.heinemann@canterbury.ac.nz Jack researches: the genetics and molecular biology of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms; horizontal gene transfer, particularly conjugation; effects of stress, particularly induced by antibiotics; evolution and risk assessment; influence of language on science, eugenics. |
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Dr Philippa Mein SmithEmail: philippa.meinsmith@canterbury.ac.nz Philippa researches trans-Tasman history, looking at divergences, convergences are relations between Australia and new Zealand. She thus studies how New Zealand history relates to other histories. Her publications include A Concise History of New Zealand, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. |
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Dr Yann MontelleEmail:yann.montelle@canterbury.ac.nz Office: Room 309, Sociology & AnthropologyPhone: 4963 Yann researches human evolution behavioural archaeology; establishing workable templates for reconstructing human behaviior using archaeological evidence; sourcing lithic; and most importantly investigating the epistemological question of how early anatomically modern humans constructed the 'reality/ies' they lived in. He recently published Paleoperformance:The Emergence of Theatricality as Social Practice (Enactments), Seagull Books., 2008. |
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Dr George MullengerEmail: george.mullenger@canterbury.ac.nz George researches continuum mechanics and history of civil engineering. |
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Associate Professor Diane ProudfootEmail: diane.proudfoot@canterbury.ac.nz Diane's current research is in philosophy of language, Wittgenstein, and cognitive science. |
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Dr Anne ScottEmail: a.scott@canterbury.ac.nz Anne's main areas of research are feminist theory, biotechnology, gender/science/technology, information and communication technologies; globalisation, health, illness and embodiment. |
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Jim TullyEmail: jim.tully@canterbury.ac.nz Jim's main research interests are media ethics, science communication and foreign news. |