Bill Wimsatt deliveres the keynote address at the Society for Engineering and Philosophy: "Fundamental Design Principles in the Architecture of Technology and Nature"

In May, 2018, Bill Wimsatt delivered the plenary keynote lecture address at the Society for Engineering and Philosophy, University of Maryland. His lecture was titled, "Fundamental Design Principles in the Architecture of Technology and of Nature."

William C. Wimsatt

Headshot of William Wimsatt, professor of liberal arts at the University of Minnesota

Bill Wimsatt is Senior Fellow at the Center for the Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, and emeritus professor at the University of Chicago. He has worked on functional organization and explanation, complexity, mathematical modeling, reductionism and emergence, levels of organization, robustness, the analysis of heuristics and biases in scientific problem-solving, generative entrenchment in adaptive evolution in biology, technology and culture, and works now primarily on cultural evolution.

Date: 
May, 2018