Evelyn Fox Keller will talk about genetics. Well, actually, she'll be talking not so much about genetics as about the way we study genetics. And how we haven't been seeing the big picture.
She delivers the 1993 Tanner Lecture on Human Values on Thursday, Feb. 18, at 8 p.m., in the Museum of Fine Arts Auditorium, University of Utah campus.Keller is a mathematical biologist and science historian. Her 1985 book, "Reflections on Gender and Science," outlined her argument that science is shaped by a masculine ideology.
The masculine ideology influences what is chosen to be investigated and how it is investigated and what conclusions are drawn, Keller believes.
Helen Logino, professor of philosophy at Rice University, and John Maynard Smith, professor of biology at the University of Sussex, will comment on Keller's lecture. Logino delivers a lecture of her own Thursday, Feb. 18, at 2 p.m., 334 Orson Spencer Hall; and Smith speaks at 4 p.m., 310 James E. Talmage Building.
On Friday, Feb. 19, at noon in the Alumni House, Longino, Smith and Keller will be together again for a panel discussion.