Mason Tattersall – Senior Lecturer in History & Philosophy of Science & Medicine

2019 German Studies Association Conference

By masontattersall January 30, 2023Conferences

In the Fall of 2019 I delivered a paper on the Dadaist, medical doctor, and psychoanalyst Richard Huelsenbeck. Abstract: “Dada, Destruction, + Definition: Richard Huelsenbeck from Analysis to Synthesis” This…

BJHS Review

By masontattersall January 30, 2023Book Reviews

I’ve Reviewed Olivier Darrigol’s excellent book on Bolzman for The British Journal for the History of Science. BJHS Homepage. Citation: Tattersall, Mason, Review of Darrigol, Olivier, Atoms, Mechanics, and Probability:…

2018 History of Science Society Conference

By masontattersall January 30, 2023Conferences

I’m delivering a paper at the 2018 annual meeting of the History of Science Society in November. It’s in the “Scientific And Religious Communities In Victorian Britain, And After” panel.…

2018 Austrian Studies Conference

By masontattersall January 30, 2023Conferences

I had a wonderful time at the 2018 Austrian Studies Conference this year in Burlington Vermont. I commented on a fantastic panel with my Doctorvater David Luft, and the excellent…

BJHS Review

By masontattersall January 30, 2023Book Reviews

I’ve reviewed Dennis Danielson’s lovely book Paradise Lost and the Cosmological Revolution for the March 2016 edition of the British Journal for the History of Science. BJHS Homepage. Citation: Tattersall,…

Faust’s Dog: Kierkegaard, Despair, & the Chimera of Meaning

By masontattersall January 30, 2023Publications

My article “Faust’s Dog: Kierkegaard, Despair & The Chimera of Meaning” appears in the new edition of Eras. Click here for the journal’s website.

Decadence, Degeneration, & The End: Studies in the European fin de Siecle

By masontattersall January 30, 2023Publications

My chapter, “Thermal Degeneration: Thermodynamics & the Heat-Death of the Universe in Victorian Science, Philosophy, & Culture” leads off this new book from Palgrave. Many thanks to the excellent editors…

Some Older Book Reviews

By masontattersall January 30, 2023Book Reviews

For Metapsychology: Tattersall, Mason, Review of Kosman, Aryeh, The Activity of Being: An Essay on Aristotle’s Ontology (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013) for Metapsychology Vol. 17, No. 50 (2013). LINK…

Hugo von Hofmannsthal & the Austrian Idea: Selected Essays & Addresses, 1906-1927

By masontattersall January 30, 2023Publications

David Luft’s translations of Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s essays & addresses is available now from Purdue University Press. I worked as Dr. Luft’s research assistant on this project, editing translations, providing…

Horning Lecture Series

By masontattersall January 30, 2023Lecture Series

A couple of the Horning lecture series I worked on as David Luft’s assistant: An Adventure of the Mind: Lectures in Modern European Intellectual History (2011-12). This series brought five…