Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC Philosophy Department’s Stephen M. Straker Memorial Lecture. Professor Smith (Duke University) is a leading literary theorist and critic, and also a major contributor to Science and Technology Studies, bringing together insights from literary and critical theory with those from history and philosophy of science. Among her honours are visiting appointments at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the US National Humanities Center, and the Rockefeller Foundation Center at Bellagio. She is also the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Smith, B. H., & Ebrary Academic Complete (Canada) Subscription Collection. (2009). Natural reflections: Human cognition at the nexus of science and religion. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press. [Link]
Smith, B. H., & Ebrary Academic Complete (Canada) Subscription Collection. (2005). Scandalous knowledge: Science, truth and the human. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Link]
Smith, B. H. (1997). Belief and resistance: Dynamics of contemporary intellectual controversy. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
Smith, B. H. (1988). Contingencies of value: Alternative perspectives for critical theory. London, Eng; Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
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