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‘Emotional and Other Adventures of Mr Machine’, by Professor Jessica Riskin

Wednesday 26th January, 2011

6pm, Lock-keeper's Cottage

Jessica Riskin is Professor of History at Stanford University and author of Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment. In this talk, she introduces her current book project, Mind out of Matter: The Animal-Machine from Descartes to Darwin.

Her draft paper is available here: Riskin on the Animal Machine