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Q & A - Eric Davidson
No full textEric Davidson graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1954 and received his PhD from Rockefeller University in 1963. He remained at Rockefeller until 1971 when he moved to Caltech in Pasadena, California. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1985, and is at present Norman Chandler Professor of Cell Biology in the Division of Biology, Caltech. He is the author of 5 books and over 400 papers on developmental gene regulation and evolution of genomic programs for development. For the last decade his work has focused on theory and operation of developmental gene regulatory networks
Eric Davidson Collection 1830-1982
No full textThe collection consists primarily of newspaper clippings and other published materials regarding various Jewish communities, topics, and personalities, all compiled by Eric Davidson. Also included is the correspondence to and from Davidson that helped to acquire these materials.The following individuals are mentioned in this collection:Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.; Arnsberg, Paul, 1899-1978; Bab, Julius, 1880-1955; Baeck, Leo, 1873-1956; Ballin, Guenther, 1909-1982; Bato, Ludwig, 1886-; Bauer, Fritz, 1903-1968; Beer-Hofmann, Richard, 1866-1945; Blumenthal, Michael W., 1926-; Boas, Franz, 1858-1942; Born, Max, 1882-1970; Braun, Julie (Vogelstein), 1883-1971; Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981; Brilling, Bernhard, 1906-1987; Buber, Martin, 1878-1965; Carlebach, Joseph, 1883-1942; Davidson, Eric; Dessauer, Max, 1893-; Diamant, Paul J; Doeblin, Alfred, 1878-1957; Dolbin, Benedikt Fred, 1883-1971; Dubnov, Semen Markovich, 1860-1941; Ehrlich, Paul, 1854-1915; Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955; Einstein, Carl, 1885-1940; Eisner, Kurt, 1867-1919; Elbogen, Regi; Kahnweiler, Daniel-Henry, 1884-1979; Kantor-Berg, Friedrich, 1908-1979; Kerr, Alfred, 1867-1948; Liebermann, Max, 1847-1935; Roda Roda, Alexander Friedrich Ladislaus, 1872-1945; Roth, Joseph, 1894-1939; Scherzer-Auslaender, Rose, 1901-1988; Scherzer-Auslaender, Rose, 1901-1988baeck, l; Struck, Hermann, 1876-1944; Ury, Lesser, 1861-1931; Van Dyck, Richard; Wassermann, Jakob, 1873-1934; Wolfskehl, Karl, 1869-1948The following Jewish communities are mentioned in this collection:Bad Neustadt; Bad Orb; Bensheim; Birkenfeld (District); Bremen; Breslau; Buchau am Federsee; Buckeling; Butzbach; Celle; Chemnitz; Darmstadt; Dieburg; Dresden; Drove; Friedberg; Fulda; Gewlstein; Giessen; Kellberg; Kleinbandorf; Kyllhug; Miltenberg; Munich; Offenbach; Pohlheim; Rhina; Saalfed; Schluechtern; Schmalkalden; Schnaittach; Seligenstadt; Sobernheim; Solingen; Sondershausen; Sonneberg; Stadthagen; Stadthagen; Steinach; Stettin; Strasbourg; Stutgart; Suhl; Ulm; Worms; ZulpichSee inventory
Eric Davidson, friend, colleague and mentor
No full textMy interactions with Eric Davidson started later in his life; first when he invited me to teach in the Embryology Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory and solidifying after I joined the Caltech faculty in 1996. Then in his 50's, Eric was still a motor cycle-riding, football-playing and overall imposing figure who did not suffer fools and said exactly what was on his mind. Needless to say, I was intimidated when I first met him—both by his insightful and piercing intellect and assertive manner. But there was also a gentle and caring side of Eric. He was always a strong supporter of women in science, before it was “politically correct” and popular. He loved nothing better than an active and lively exchange of scientific ideas and testing the boundaries of knowledge
Inquiries into the status of truth-claims in religious discourse: some interpretations of the philosophical system of Donald Davidson
No full textThis work reflects its title in that it is in two parts. The first two chapters attempt to show that truth is not the property of statements or propositions alone but is directly related to the beliefs or intentions (or other dispositions) which they encode. The role of Christian expectation as a truth-bearer is given some prominence. The third chapter begins the interpretative aspect of the analysis. The truth-theory of Donald Davidson is outlined against the background of his whole philosophical system. This leads to a new understanding of propositional attitudes, for they are now seen to express a causal relationship with the reality which underlies them. Davidson's method of seeking a correspondence with that reality via a coherence theory of truth is then analysed. This relies upon a so-called 'Convention of Charity' embodying a holistic agreement about what it is to call a thing 'real'. Considerable attention is given to the way that Davidson is continually developing his philosophy in this respect. The fourth chapter discusses the ways in which the truth-conditional theory of Davidson could be applied to religious discourse. The problems of religious divergence and of figurative or metaphorical language are singled out for special attention. The final chapter attempts to unite the study by evaluating this interpretation in the light of the claims for truth which theologians might make. This involves outlining the form which a new non-foundationalist theological epistemology might take, given the application of a Davidsonian philosophical system. This study is seen as particularly fruitful in generating areas for future research. A secondary aim of this analysis has been to investigate what sort of realism is possible for religious discourse
My time with Eric Davidson
No full textI first encountered Eric Davidson in 1969 when, as a graduate student in the MBL Embryology Course, I heard him lecture. He spoke in general about the role of the nucleus in development. I now realize he organized his lecture on the basis of the introduction to his 1968 book, Gene Activity in Early Development and included some of the ideas published in his 1969 Science paper written with Roy Britten. That paper presented ideas that he built on throughout his career. In my naïve view, it seemed like Eric was belaboring an established tenet. Did not everyone accept that DNA in the nucleus was the genetic material and the blueprint for development? But it was not until much later in my education that I realized he was reacting to ongoing controversies occupying the last 16 years since the publication of the structure of DNA by Watson and Crick. To emphasize that controversy I remember that Lionel Jaffe, who studied the role of calcium waves in many kinds of biological processes including development, several times during the lecture refuted Eric's focus on the nucleus
Eric Davidson: Steps to A Gene Regulatory Network for Development
No full textEric Harris Davidson was a unique and creative intellectual force who grappled with the diversity of developmental processes used by animal embryos and wrestled them into an intelligible set of principles, then spent his life translating these process elements into molecularly definable terms through the architecture of gene regulatory networks. He took speculative risks in his theoretical writing but ran a highly organized, rigorous experimental program that yielded an unprecedentedly full characterization of a developing organism. His writings created logical order and a framework for mechanism from the complex phenomena at the heart of advanced multicellular organism development. This is a reminiscence of intellectual currents in his work as observed by the author through the last 30-35 years of Davidson's life
Virtual Book Launch: Russ Davidson author of: Joaquín Ortega: Forging Pan-Americanism at the University of New Mexico
No full textRuss Davidson, author of Joaquín Ortega: Forging Pan-Americanism at the University of New Mexico In conversation with Felipe Gonzales and Christine Sierra
Russ Davidson served as a curator of Latin American and Iberian collections and was a professor of librarianship at the University of New Mexico from 1979 to 2004.
Phillip b. (Felipe) Gonzales is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of New Mexico. As a historical sociologist, his research has primarily focused on the Nuevomexicano Hispanic group of New Mexico. He is the author, co-author, or editor of four books and numerous articles on Nuevomexicano identity, politics, and economic status.
Christine Marie Sierra is a professor emerita of political science at the University of New Mexico and a former director of the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute. Her teaching career at UNM spanned twenty-eight years, and her research has focused on the study of race, ethnicity, and gender in US politics, Mexican American activism on immigration policy, and Hispanic politics in New Mexico.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/laii_events/1091/thumbnail.jp
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