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Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science

2005–2006

46th Annual Program

September 12, 2005
Medicine’s story: limits of the medical record
Moderator: Daniel Dugan, Emanuel Medical Center
Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University
Taking Medical Ethics Seriously
William Donnelly, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine
Developing a Patient-Centered Medical Record
Lawrence Weed, Problem-Knowledge Coupler Corporation
Pathways To and From the Medical Record

September 19, 2005
On the Nature of Science
Moderator: William Devlin, Boston University
Paul Hoyningen-Huene, University of Hannover

September 22–23, 2005
The Robert S. Cohen Forum: Contemporary Issues in Science Studies
Values, Ethics, and Medical Science: The New medical school curriculum
Moderator: Marjorie Clay, University of Massachusetts
Introduction: Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University
Vineet Arora, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Discontinuity of Patient Care: Implications for Medical Training
Richard Gunderman, Indiana University School of Medicine
The Ecology of Biomedical Science and Ethics
Randolph Schiffer, Texas Tech University
Doctors’ Mistakes: The Matrixation of the Patient and Related Category Errors in Medical Education

Moderator: Richard Cooper, University of Pennsylvania
Debra Litzelman, Indiana University School of Medicine
The New Formal and Informal Curriculum at
Indiana University: Overview and Five-Year Review

Moderator: Eugene Corbett, University of Virginia
Thomas Glick, Harvard Medical School
Improving Medical Education in the Early 21st Century
Lynda Means, Indiana University School of Medicine
Using Unannounced Standardized Applicants to Change Admissions Officers’ Interviewing Skills
David Cole, Independent Scholar
The “A” Plan: A Developmental Path to Medical Education Reform
Steven Kanter, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
In-Depth Learning Experiences Enable Full Integration of the Human Dimensions of Medicine

Moderator: Michael Whitcomb, Association of American Medical Colleges
Sharon Dobie, University of Washington
Are We Willing to Look Inside?
Margaret Gaffney, Indiana University School of Medicine
A Conscience-Sensitive Approach to Ethics and Teaching Caring Attitudes
Linda Welsh, University of Pennsylvania
Enter the Doctor: Sociodrama in Medical Education
Arlene Brewster, Northeast Ohio University College of Medicine
The Overlooked Curriculum: The Emotional Component in Ethical Conduct
Robert Russell, Medical College of Wisconsin
Learning the Practice of Ethics: Institutionalization of Lived Ethics in Medical Education

October 7, 2005
C. H. Waddington: A Centenary Celebration
Moderator: Constantinos Mekios, Boston University
Robert Root-Bernstein, Michigan State University
Behind Appearance: Waddington on the Relationship of the Arts to the Sciences
Brian Hall, Dalhousie University
Waddington, Man and Metaphor: The Epigenetic Landscape

Moderator: Gal Kober, Boston University
Denis Walsh, University of Toronto
The Strategy of the Organism
Richard Lewontin, Harvard University
Did Waddington Really Understand Canalization?
Scott Gilbert, Swarthmore College, and Katherine McCain, Drexel University
C. H. Waddington and the Transfer of Information: Flows and Networks in Embryos and in Research

October 20, 2005
Making Molecules Matter: Topics in the Philosophy of Chemistry
Moderator: Lee McIntyre, Boston University
Nalini Bhushan, Smith College
What Is a Chemical Property?
Jeff Ramsey, Smith College
Calibrating and Constructing Models of Protein Folding
Roald Hoffman, Cornell University
What Might Philosophy of Science Look Like If Chemists Built It?

November 3, 2005
University-Industry Relations: Getting Perspective
Moderator: Alisa Bokulich, Boston University
Steven Shapin, Harvard University
Commentator: Sheldon Krimsky, Tufts University

November 14, 2005
Informational Models in 1950s Selective Theories of Antibody Formation
Moderator: Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University
Andrea Grignolio, Boston University
Commentator: Scott Podolsky, Harvard University

December 5, 2005
Einstein: A Man for the Next MillenNium?
Moderator: Peter Bokulich, Boston University
John Stachel, Boston University

January 30, 2006
The Legacy of J. J. Gibson
Moderator: Luciana Garbayo, Boston University
Robert Briscoe, Loyola University
Vehicles of Perception
Alva Noë, University of California Berkeley
Perception Without Representation
Ruth Millikan, University of Connecticut
Postulating Perceptual Representations in a Way That Actually Supports Gibson’s Central Insights

February 13, 2006
Levinas and Medical Ethics
Moderator: Simon Keller, Boston University
Lazare Benaroyo, University of Lausanne
Vulnerability, Hospitality, and Trust: The Significance of Levinas for an Ethics of Care
Peter Kemp, The Danish University of Education
Levinas in Bioethics
Roger Burggraeve, Catholic University Leuven
“Not to Let the Other Alone:” Levinas on the Responsibility of the Medical Profession for the Suffering and the Dying
Laurie Zoloth, Northwestern University
The Self Turned Inside Out: From Autonomy to Hospitality in Bioethics
Robert Gibbs, University of Toronto
Suffering, Responsibility, and Bioethics

February 27, 2006
Gödel’s Philosophy
Moderator: Juliet Floyd, Boston University
Juliette Kennedy, University of Helsinki
Two Observations in the Introduction to Gödel’s Thesis, or Must Meaningful Questions Be Decided?
Palle Yourgrau, Brandeis University
On Data of the Second Kind
Mark van Atten, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Sets and Monads: On Gödel and Leibniz

March 24–25, 2006
Foundations of Quantum Information and Entanglement
Opening Remarks: Abner Shimony, Boston University
Moderator: Alisa Bokulich, Boston University
Don Howard, University of Notre Dame
The Early History of Quantum Entanglement: 1905–1935
Lorenza Viola, Dartmouth College
Entanglement as an Observer-Dependent Notion: Entanglement and Subsystems, Entanglement Beyond Subsystems, and All That
Sandu Popescu, University of Bristol, Royal Fort
Nonlocality Beyond Quantum Mechanics

Moderator: Gregg Jaeger, Boston University
Leah Henderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quantum Information and Entropy
Chris Timpson, University of Leeds
Information, Immaterialism, Instrumentalism: Old and New in Quantum Information
Wojciech Zurek, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Probabilities from Entanglement: Born’s Rule from Invariance

Moderator: Alisa Bokulich, Boston University
Wayne Myrvold, University of Western Ontario
There and Back Again: From Physics to Information Theory and Back
Hans Halvorson, Princeton University
Otherworldly Information Theory
Lucien Hardy, The Perimeter Institute
Beyond Quantum Theory: Information and Entanglement in General Probabilistic Frameworks

Moderator: Gregg Jaeger, Boston University
Adrian Kent, The Perimeter Institute
Relations Between Cryptographic and Physical Principles
Jeffrey Bub, University of Maryland
Quantum Computation: Where Does the Speed-up Come From?
Anton Zeilinger, Universität Wien
Experimental Quantum Communication and Quantum Computation with Entangled Photons

April 3, 2006
Darwin: Class, Race, and Gender Equality
Moderator: Andrew Berry, Harvard University
Joy Harvey, Independent Scholar
Brains, Blood, and Beauty: Darwin’s Correspondents on Race, Gender, and Class
Diane Paul, University of Massachusetts
Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill, and the Origins of the Modern Nature-Nurture Debate
Janet Browne, University College London
The Natural Economy of Households: Charles Darwin’s Account Books

April 10, 2006
Phenomenology and Philosophy of Science
Moderator: Mirja Hartimo, Tufts University
Judson Webb, Boston University
Geometry and the Crisis of European Sciences
John Stachel, Boston University
Hermann Weyl’s Changing Concept of Mathematics
Walter Hopp, Boston University
Foundationalism, Phenomenology, and the Sciences
Richard Cobb-Stevens, Boston College
Husserl’s Incomplete Philosophy of Science

April 24, 2006
Russian and Chinese Fathers of the H-Bomb
Moderator: Priscilla McMillan, Harvard University
Gennady Gorelik, Boston University
A Russian-American Perspective on the Fathers of the H-Bombs
Tian Yu Cao, Boston University
Mao, Qian, Yu, and the Genesis of China’s H-Bomb