The Robert S. Cohen Forum and the Alfred I. Tauber Forum are dedicated to two of the past directors of the Center.

The Robert S. Cohen Forum: Contemporary Issues in Science Studies

The Forum, an annual lecture series, explores selected controversies in philosophy, history, and sociology of science that provide wide resonances in other academic disciplines. In an intellectual context accessible to the nonspecialist, a single theme is discussed with the aim of establishing the foundations, conceptual boundaries, and interdisciplinary implications of the given topic. This series is named in honor of Professor Robert S. Cohen, who founded the Boston Colloquium and served as its director for more than thirty years.

The Alfred I. Tauber Forum: Integrating Scientific Knowledge and/with Human Needs

Scientific knowledge and theory construction rests in a comlpex array of epistemic and non-epistemic values. The Tauber Forum examines how scientific knowledge is produced, disseminated, employed, and intrpreted to better understand the complex dynamics of values at play as scientific facts are translated to social policy, notions of human nature, and moral discourses.