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Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science

2000–2001

41th Annual Program

October 4, 2000
Protecting Human Research Subjects:
The Challenge of Informed Consent and Risk Management
Moderator: David Berndt, Boston University
George Annas, Boston University
Protecting the Rights and Welfare of Research Subjects: Lessons from Twenty-five Years of Federal Regulations on Informed Consent and Peer Review
Michael Grodin, Boston University
Protecting Human Subjects in the Shadow of the Holocaust:
From Nuremberg through Tuskegee to the Human Genome Project
Susan Frey, Boston University
Avoiding Misrepresentations and Material Omissions:
A Legal Perspective on Protection of Human Subjects
Leonard Glantz, Boston University
Subjects Who Are Incapable of Giving Consent:
The Legal and Ethical Issues
Roundtable: Peter Doeringer, Boston University, Referee

October 16, 2000
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 asits director for more than thirty years.

Constructivism and The Courts
Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University
Law’s Knowledge: Science and Evidence in American Litigation
Joseph Cecil, Federal Judicial Center
Litigation Science: How Much Science? How Much Advocacy?
David Ozonoff, Boston University
Is the Legal ‘Cause-in-fact’ in Fact a Cause?

Falsifiability Revisited: The Daubert Case and Beyond
Kenneth Rothman, Boston University
The Scientific Issues that Prompted the Daubert Lawsuit
David Horrobin, Medical Hypotheses
The Place for Reasoned Speculation in Generating Scientific
and Medical Innovation
Mark Notturno, Boston University
Popper, Daubert, and Kuhn

October 23, 2000
Beliefs of Science: An Anthropological Perspective
Byron Good, Harvard Medical School
The Nature of Scientific Belief: Anthropological Perspectives
Paul Root-Wolpe, University of Pennsylvania
All Science Is Social Science: Belief Structures and Background Assumptions
Robert Rubenstein, Syracuse University
Science as Cognitive Process
David Hufford, Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University
Escaping the ‘Skeptical Bog’ with Liberty Intact: Knowledge as
One Kind of Belief, and Science as One Kind of Rationality

October 26–27, 2000
The Analytic Tradition: A Tribute to Burton Dreben
Co-sponsored with the Philosophy Department of Harvard University and The Blossom Fund
History of logic
Moderator: Stanley Rosen, Boston University
Introduction: Warren Goldfarb, Harvard University
William Hart, University of Illinois, Chicago
Skolem Redux
Aki Kanamori, Boston University
The Empty Set, the Singleton, and the Ordered Pair
Charles Parsons, Harvard University
Realism and the Debate on Impredicativity, 1917–44

Wittgenstein I
Moderator: Dennis Berkey, Boston University
Warren Goldfarb, Harvard University
Das Überwinden: Anti-Metaphysical Readings of the Tractatus
Hilary Putnam, Harvard University
Wittgenstein
Stanley Cavell, Harvard University
Silence, Voices, Noises

Wittgenstein II
Moderator: Anat Biletzki, Tel Aviv University
Edward Minar, University of Arkansas
Reading Wittgenstein’s On Certainty
Andrew Lugg, University of Ottawa
Wittgenstein After Wittgenstein
Jaakko Hintikka, Boston University
Wittgenstein’s Epistemology

Carnap and Quine
Moderator: Charles Griswold, Boston University
Peter Hylton, University of Illinois, Chicago
Reflections
Thomas Ricketts, University of Pennsylvania
Nonsense
Michael Friedman, University of Indiana
The Legacy of Ernst Mach: Pragmatism and Logical Empiricism

November 2, 2000
Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato’s Theory of Number
Moderator: David Roochnick, Boston University
John Cleary, Boston College
Commentator: Judson Webb, Boston University

November 13, 2000
Perspectives On The Philosophy of Jaakko Hintikka
Introduction: Dennis Berkey, Boston University
Moderator: Robert S. Cohen, Boston University
Mathieu Marion, University of Ottawa
March 1928: On the Philosophical Relation
Between Brouwer and Wittgenstein
Judson Webb, Boston University
Hintikkian Intuition

Moderator: Charles Griswold, Boston University
Risto Hilpinen, University of Miami
Hintikka on Epistemic Logic and Epistemology
Juliet Floyd, Boston University
Hintikka on Kant and Frege on the Verb ‘to Be’
Hans Sluga, University of California, Berkeley
Last Words

November 15, 2000
Randomized Clinical Trials: Historical Origins and Future Perspectives
Co-sponsored by the Dibner Fund, through the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology

Moderator: Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University
Louis Lasagna, Tufts University
Controlled Clinical Trials: Past, Present, and Future
Ted Kaptchuck, Harvard Medical School
Gold Standard vs. Golden Calf: The Double-Blind Randomized
Controlled Trial in Historical and Scientific Perspective
Wayne Jonas, Uniform Services University of the Health Sciences
Finding a Home for the Randomized Trial in Global Medicine

January 25, 2001
The Things Between Relations
Commentator: Robert S. Cohen, Boston University
John Stachel, Boston University

February 2, 2001
Animal Rights in The Eighteenth Century
Co-sponsored by the Dibner Fund, through the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology

Moderator: Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University
Aaron Garrett, Boston University
‘The Cry of Nature’: The Changing Meaning of Animal Rights
in the Eighteenth Century
Anita Guerrini, University of California, Santa Barbara
Animals and Public Anatomy in the Early Eighteenth Century

February 26, 2001
Biological Warfare: The Role of Public Discourse
Moderator: Robert S. Cohen, Boston University
Sheldon Harris, California State University, Northridge
The American Cover-up of Japanese Biological Warfare War Crimes,
and the Long-Term Ethical Consequences
Conrad Crane, United States Military Academy, West Point
Biological Warfare During the Korean War: Rhetoric and Reality

Richard Falk, Princeton University
Preventing Biological Warfare: The World Order Challenge
Milton Leitenberg, University of Maryland
Current Understandings of the Biological Warfare Threat
to the United States: Ethical/Moral Implications
Matthew Meselson, Harvard University
Averting the Hostile Exploitation of Biotechnology

March 1, 2001
The Science of The Moral Sciences: A Boston University Symposium
Co-sponsored by the Dibner Fund, through the Dibner Institute
for the History of Science and Technology

Moderator: Henry Allison, Boston University
Knud Haakonssen, Boston University
From ‘Demonstrative’ to ‘Empirical’ Science of Morals
Aaron Garrett, Boston University
The Deductive Science of Morals and the Geometry of the Passions
Charles Griswold, Boston University
Moral Realism and the Construction of Value

April 12, 2001
Kant on the sciences
Co-sponsored by the Dibner Fund, through the Dibner Institute
for the History of Science and Technology

Moderator: John Silber, Boston University
Henry Allison, Boston University
Kant’s Reflective Judgments and the Application of Logic to Nature
Michael Friedman, University of Indiana
Transcendental Philosophy and Mathematical Physics
Paul Guyer, University of Pennsylvania
Natural Ends and the End of Nature: Kant on the Experience of Organisms