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Edited by Shona Russell, Bob Frame & James Lennox. Chapter 9 has incorrect title page., The Old Problems New Solutions programme examined how water governance has unfolded through disciplinary lenses of law, social science and economics, providing perspectives on a range of different water challenges facing communities, industry, government agencies and the research community. Specific issues include governance arrangements, participation in decision-making processes and the contribution of research for sustainability. We have sought out spaces and places in which water governance is created and undertaken by communities, to support decision-making around water governance for sustainability. This book is a culmination of work from a number of researchers that brings together insights framed within boundaries – a somewhat difficult task in that environmental issues often permeate many aspects of society and humanity's relationship with the world. Each chapter and the book offers, first, a perspective on water governance – about practices to enable action for water, and second, conversation starters through which to engage with issues of water governance and the contribution of research to address issues of sustainability.

Proceedings of the Pittsburgh Workshop in History and Philosophy of Biology, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, March 23-24 2001 Session 1: Eugenics Narrative and Reproductive Engineering

A critique of portions of Prof. Diane Paul's paper presented at the Pittsburgh 2002 History and Philosophy of Biology workshop. Lennox poses questions about Paul's claims regarding the narratives linking genetic engineering to eugenics, insisting that the situation is more complex than suggested.

Titles and abstracts for the Pitt-London Workshop in the Philosophy of Biology and Neuroscience: September 2001

Kuhn closed the Introduction to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions with what was clearly intended as a rhetorical question: How could history of science fail to be a source of phenomena to which theories about knowledge may legitimately be asked to apply? (Kuhn 1970, 9) This paper argues that there is a more fruitful way of conceiving the relationship between a historical and philosophical study of science, which is dubbed the 'phylogenetic' approach. I sketch an example of this approach, and take a first pass at an abstract characterization of the method.