My interests include social and cultural studies of science; history and philosophy of math and social epistemology more generally; gender studies and politics.

Writings and such

  • The sexual politics of genius
  • Arguing from repugnance: Episodes in the manipulation of shared intuition
  • The geometry of gender: Taxonomies in social life

    (links coming soon, or papers by request)

    Courses

  • WS 483, Feminist Science Studies, University of Michigan, Winter 2010
  • Math 111, History of Mathematics, UC Davis Winter 2008, Winter 2007
  • GSTU 101, Problems in Gender Studies, University of Chicago (co-taught with Elaine Hadley), Spring 2003

    Talks

  • Interdisciplinary lecture for University of Chicago Center in Paris (April 2009)
  • Conference of the Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of the Physical Sciences
    (University of Notre Dame, February 2005)
  • Graduate Student Philosophy Conference in Ethics and Epistemology
    (New School University, April 2004)
  • Graduate Student Philosophy Conference in Social-Political Thought and Value Theory
    (Michigan State University, February 2004)

    Book reviews

  • Zoontologies, for Foundations of Political Theory, Feb 2005
  • Putting Science in Its Place, for Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, Sep 2005, Vol. 36, No. 1: 197--205
  • Leaps in the Dark, for Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, Mar 2005, Vol. 35, No. 2: 371--382

    Active projects/work in progress

  • On purity and ideology in mathematics
  • The sociology of numbers, or, in what way is 2+2=4 true? (After Bloor.)
  • University of Chicago Alumnae Project
    P.S. I'm looking for a database coder to help me make this more wieldy.

    More things I like

    Other people's art


     
     


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    mduchin@umich.edu