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November 2009 - named to the advisory board of the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, an online-only, open-access, peer-reviewed journal. The first issue is scheduled for publication in 2011. The archives of the precursor of this jouranl, The Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal are available here.


Forthcoming articles:


Invited commentary, “Robots, Theology, and the Sociological Cogito,” Erwägen Wissen Ethik, November, 2009.


“Science Studies,” Encyclopedia of Cultural Studies, M. Ryan (editor) (scheduled for 2010). With Jennifer Croissant.


Recent lectures: Invited Lecture, “Ask Einstein’s Brain; and Did Shakespeare Have One? Reflections on the Social Life of the Brain,” 27th November, James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization, Said Business School, Oxford University, Oxford UK, 2008.


Seminar on “Mathematics, Society, and Social Justice,” Dr. Monica Mesquita’s Adult Study Group, New University of Lisbon, 5th December, Lisbon, Portugal. Jointly with Dr. Maria de Carmo of the University of Sao Paulo, 2008.


Invited panelist, Session on “social constructionism in science and technology studies,” annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, April 8-11, San Diego CA, 2009.


Nicholas C. Mullins Lecture, “The Social Life of the Brain,” Department of Science and Technology in Society, Virginia Technological University, April 24, 2009, Blacksburg, Virginia.


“Six Adult Mathematical Workers on Literacy, Numeracy, and Technoracy for Life,” paper presented at the Numeracy Works for Life (London South Bank University 7th National Numeracy Conference and Adults Learning Mathematics 16 Conference), July 6-9, London, 2009. With MonicaMesquita and Jorge, Trinidade, Margarida, Isaura, Conceição and Mª São José (representingD.A.R. à Costa – Tr@nsFormArte, Costa da Caparica, Portugal).

Sal Restivo

 

Department of Science and Technology Studies

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

 

STS and the Unabomber

 

Romancing the Robots

 

The Will to Mathematics: Minds, Morals, and Numbers

 

The Mysterious Morphology of Immiscible Liquids: A Study of Scientific Practice

 

Theory Of Mind, Social Science, And Mathematical Practice

 

Bodies in Motion in the Information Age: Singing the Body Information

 

Social Constructionism in Science and Technology Studies (Handbook of Constructionist Research, ed. J.A. Holstein & J.F. Gubrium (Guilford, NY 2008, 213-229

 

Politics of Latour; A review of Bruno Latour, Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy.

And see Steve Fuller's review of Politics of Nature here...

 

Invention of Science

 

The Myth of the Kuhnian Revolution

 

"The Elusive Sociological Imagination and the Pursuit of the Hard Case," 1976 and all That." Plenary panel "Fireside Chat", 30th Anniversary Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Vancouver, BC, November 2-4, 2006.

 

Mathematics

 

Society, Social Construction, and the Sociological Imagination, response to: Target article: Ernst von Glasersfeld, “Who Conceives of Society?” Constructivist Foundations Volume 3 Number 2.

 

 


 

 

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