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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh invites you to join us for our Lunch Time Talk. Attend in person, Room 1117 on the 11th floor of the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh or visit our live stream on YouTube at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg" title="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg</a>. </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>LTT – <a href="https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/fellows/daniel-nicholson/" title="https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/fellows/daniel-nicholson/">Dan Nicholson</a></span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> Friday, December 1st @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Title: The New Physics Behind the Old Biology and the Old Physics Behind the New Biology: A Tale of Two Revolutions (in Three Acts)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> Abstract: In this talk I tell the story of the physics-biology dialectic in the twentieth century. It is a tale of two revolutions: one that seemed inevitable but which never came to pass, and another that unfolded spectacularly but in a manner radically different from the way intended by those who triggered it. The first of these intellectual revolutions has been almost completely forgotten, while the second stands today as the most transformative event of twentieth-century biology. The first is the failed organicist revolution that throughout the interwar years seemed imminent and inescapable. The second is the triumphant molecular revolution that transformed biology in the second half of the twentieth century. Despite appearing very different, these two historical episodes are intimately connected, and neither can be fully understood in isolation from the other, or so I will argue. I tell this tale in three acts, opening with a prelude that provides a starting point for my analysis, and closing with a coda that adds a twenty-first century update to my tale. I end by drawing lessons for the historian, for the philosopher, and for the scientist.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>