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Colloquia
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
2011–2012
52nd Annual Program
Secrecy and Transparency in Science
Friday, September 23, 2011, 2:00-5:00pm
Barristers Hall, Law School, 765 Commonwealth Ave.
"Secrets and Lies: Science Versus Market as Arbiter of Truth in Early Recombinant DNA Research"
Elizabeth Popp Berman, Dept. of Sociology, State University of New York at Albany
"Transparency Revisited: The Climatic Research Unit Emails, Democratic Accountability & Scientific Progress"
Wendy Parker, Dept. of Philosophy, Ohio University
"The Ontology of Secrets: What Counts as Forbidden Knowledge?"
Peter Galison, Dept. of the History of Science and Dept. of Physics, Harvard University
Present at the Creation: the Promise and Peril of the Large Hadron Collider
Friday, October 14, 2011, 4:00-5:30pm
Law School, Room 1420, 765 Commonwealth Ave.
Amir Aczel, Visiting Researcher, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University
Representation in Science and Art
Friday, November 4, 2011
The Castle, 225 Bay State Road
2:00–5:00 pm
“Scientific Representation: Visual Representation, Models, and the Relevance of Depiction”
Laura Perini, Dept. of Philosophy, Pomona University
“The Scientific Image: Discovery and Dissemination”
Eric J. Heller, Dept. of Physics and Dept. of Chemistry, Harvard University
“Representation as Inference in Art and Science”
Mauricio Suárez, Dept. of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Complutense University of Madrid
Human Evolution: Culture, Cognition, and Human Nature
Friday, December 2, 2011
Barristers Hall, Law School, 765 Commonwealth Ave.
1:00–5:00 pm
“What is Cultural Fitness?”
Grant Ramsey, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
“Darwinism and Cultural Change ”
Peter Godfrey-Smith, Dept. of Philosophy, City University of New York
“Biological Evolution in a Technological Species”
Russell Powell, Dept. of Philosophy, Boston University
“Cultural and Morphological Change in Human Prehistory”
Matt Cartmill, Dept. of Anthropology, Boston University
The Robert S. Cohen Forum
50 years since Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions (co-sponsored by BU Center for the Humanities)
Friday, March 23, 2012, 10:00am–5:30 pm
Photonics Center, Colloquium Room (Room 906), 8 St. Mary's St., 9th floor
“Footnotes to Structure”
John Heilbron, Dept. of History, University of California, Berkeley
“Navigating among the Two Kuhns”
David Kaiser, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“On Kuhn's Development Before and After Structure”
Paul Hoyningen-Huene, Institute of Philosophy, Leibniz University, Hannover
“Kuhn's Social Epistemology and the Sociology of Science"
K. Brad Wray, Dept. of Philosophy, State University of New York, Oswego
“'Living in a New World': Kuhn, Constructivism, and Mind-Dependence"
Michela Massimi, Dept. of Science and Technology Studies, University College, London
“The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and the Naturalistic Study of Science"
Alexander Bird, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Bristol
Are Men and Women Like Different Species? Critical Perspectives on Sex-Difference Research
Friday, April 27, 2012, 10:00am–5:00pm
Barristers Hall, Law School, 765 Commonwealth Ave.
“The Politics of Sex-Based Biology: Categories, Standards, and the Logics of Inclusion and Difference"
Steven Epstein, Dept. of Sociology, Northwestern University
“How Social Meanings Drive Scientific Investigation (and Vice Versa)"
Helen Longino, Dept. of Philosophy, Stanford University
“Conceptualizing Sex-Differences in the Human Genome"
Sarah Richardson, Dept. of the History of Science and Studies, of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
“Trading Essence for Potential: Feminist Moves Against the Homonculus in the Hormones"
Rebecca Jordan-Young, Dept. of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College
“Gender Identity in Children: Formulating a Dynamic, Developmental Model"
Anne Fausto-Sterling, Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Brown University
The Karbank Symposium in Environmental Philosophy
Scientific Assessments and Environmental Policy
Thursday, May 3, 2012, 2:00pm–6:00pm
Photonics Center, Colloquium Room (Room 906), 8 St. Mary's St., 9th floor
“The Timescale of Climate Change: Challenges and Responsibilities"
Daniel Schrag, Depts. of Geology and Environmental Science & Engineering, Harvard University
“The Role of Value Judgments in Policy-Relevant Environmental Science"
Kevin Elliott, Dept. of Philosophy, University of South Carolina
“Science and Environmental Policy: How do Scientists Assess Scientific Knowledge for Action"
Naomi Oreskes, Dept. of History, University of California, San Diego
How Can the History and Philosophy of Science Contribute to U.S. Science Teaching?
(This event has been postponted until Fall 2012)
This colloquium, co-hosted by the School of Education, will bring together historians, scientists, philosophers, and science educators to explore different ways to integrate HPS content into the science classroom curriculum. It will be followed on Saturday and Sunday by an interdisciplinary workshop for invited participants actively working in this area. Details TBA.
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