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Contact Email jobg...@mail.h-net.org URL https://www.h-net.org/jobs/ Read more or reply Repost Back to top New Book Series: Liverpool Studies in Environmental History [Announcement] Chris Pearson New Book Series: Liverpool Studies in Environmental History We are delighted to announce a new book series: Liverpool Studies in Environmental History. Published by the Liverpool University Press (UK), we hope that it will provide a platform for innovative scholarship in environmental and ecological history. It aims to examine the complex and unequal entanglements between humans and non-humans across different historical contexts. Through an interdisciplinary and global approach, it advances fresh perspectives on environmental justice, climate change, colonialism, capitalism, and the lived experience of environmental transformations. Full details here:  https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/book-series/liverpool-studies-in-environmental-history We will work with authored books or edited collections and can publish OA too. All proposals and manuscripts are peer reviewed. To submit a proposal or discuss any ideas, contact the commissioning editor Michael Ainsley: michael...@liverpool.ac.uk Series editors: Dr Sarah Arens, University of Liverpool Dr Rohan Deb Roy, University of Reading Professor Chris Pearson, University of Liverpool Dr Shirley Ye, University of Birmingham Contact Information Professor Chris Pearson, Chaddock Chair of Economic and Social History, University of Liverpool, UK     Contact Email chris....@liverpool.ac.uk URL https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/book-series/liverpool-studies-… Read more or reply Repost Back to top H-Sci-Med-Tech: New posted content Joao Cortese, Institute of Biosciences, University of Sao Paulo: "How general could an (evolutionary) theory be?" [Announcement] William deJong-Lambert Please join the Working Group on Evolution and Heredity in Brazil (https://www.chstm.org/group/history-evolution-and-heredity-brazil) for a talk by Dr. Joao Cortese on "How general could an (evolutionary) theory be?" April 25, at 1 p.m. EDT.  Abstract: In which way biology—the science of the singular, the concrete, the exceptional, and the temporal—can lend itself to generalization? More particularly, how can evolutionary theories can be said “general” and what sense should be attributed to this? As is it very well known, Dobzhansky famously wrote in 1973 that “Nothing in Biology Makes Sense except in the Light of Evolution”. Should we say in particular that “nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of an evolutionary (general) theory”? What can be meant by that? One way to understand the generalizability of evolutionary theories is by recognizing that different forms of generalization are possible in biology. Philosopher Evelyn Fox Keller (1936-2023) emphasizes that distinct scientific cultures assign different values to “generality” (Fox Keller 2016). Historian of mathematics Karine Chemla notes that within mathematics, generality does not always arise through abstraction; it can also manifest through paradigmatic examples—specific cases that reveal how other situations can be understood through their similarities (Chemla 2003). In biology, it is well known that the discipline does not require “laws” to be considered a science: “there are many ways to practice science besides seeking laws” (Fox Keller 2016, p. 7). In this talk, I will examine the kinds of generality that can emerge in the structure of evolutionary theories. 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