THE ATHENAEUM BULLETIN
The Athenaeum Presents:
Sustainability: Water, Urban Growth, & Biodiversity


Save the Sea Lion: Community Science in the Galápagos Archipelago

Michael Weisberg

November 25, 3:00pm

Michael Weisberg is professor and chair of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the philosophy of science, especially the role of idealization in modeling. His other research includes social and cultural evolutionary theory, the nature of the chemical bond, the division of cognitive labor, and the public understanding of evolution and climate change. Professor Weisberg is also a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Annenberg Center for Public Policy, a faculty affiliate of the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and a member of the governing board of the Philosophy of Science Association.
Designing a Planet- for better or worse?

Richard Weller

December 10, 3:00pm

This lecture will explore ways in which planners, designers and conservationists are now trying to reconcile urban growth and environmental values on a planetary scale.Richard Weller is the Meyerson Chair of Urbanism and Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture and co-executive director of the McHarg Center at The University of Pennsylvania. In over 30 years of practice he has worked simultaneously as an academic and a consultant specializing in the formative stages of design and planning projects ranging across all scales.
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