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Peter L. Galison is Joseph Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard, and Director of Harvard's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments. He is interested in the intersection of philosophical and historical questions such as: What, at a given time, convinces people that an experiment is correct? How do scientific subcultures form interlanguages of theory and things at their borders? More broadly, is main work explores the complex interaction between the three principal subcultures of twentieth-century physics - experimentation, instrumentatiion, and theory. He was named a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 1997, and his books include How Experiments End (University of Chicago Pr., 1987), Image and Logic (University of Chicago Pr., 1997), and Building, Crashing, Thinking (forthcoming).

Free and open to all. Reception follows. The Sapientia Lecture Series is funded by The Mark J. Byrne 1985 Fund in Philosophy.