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Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science

2001–2002

42th Annual Program

September 21, 2001
Identity—A Relation Neither Definable Nor Reducible Nor Supervenient
Moderator: Charles Griswold, Boston University
David Wiggins, Oxford University and Boston University

October 1 , 2001
A Dialogue on Quantum Dialogue:
The Making of a Revolution
Mara Beller, Hebrew University
Don Howard, University of Notre Dame
John Stachel, Boston University

October 15 , 2001
Explanatory Models in Development Biology
Moderator: Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University
Evelyn Fox Keller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
On Seeing and Knowing: The Visual Culture of Molecular Embryology
Scott Gilbert, Swarthmore College
Bottom-up and Top-down Explanation in Development Biology:
Must Gene Expression Remain the Gold Standard?
Susan Oyama, CUNY Graduate Center, Emeritus
Boundary Issues

November 1, 2001
Concerning Symmetries and Unification
Moderator: Tian Cao, Boston University
Margaret Morrison, University of Toronto
Symmetries: Physics or Metaphysics?
Michael Dickson, Indiana University
Philosophical Foundations for the Bohr-Dirac Program of “Quantization”
Alisa Bokulich, Boston University
Chaos, Models, and Unification

November 6, 2001
Scientific Biography and the Biographer
Moderator: Horce Freeland Judson, Boston University
Pnina Abir-am, Rockefeller University and Harvard University
Isomorphic Displacement as Formative of the Critical Imagination
Eric Wilson, Wake Forest University
Science, Biography, and Identity
Alfred Tauber, Boston University
Autobiography as Biography: The Naturalists’ Journal
 
Moderator: Robert S. Cohen, Boston University
Thomas Soderqvist, University of Copenhagen
Plutarch Revisited: Varieties of Science Writing in the 1990’s
Nathaniel Comfort, George Washington University
Vision, Revision, and the Scientific Life
Janet Browne, Wellcome Institute
Darwin’s Life in Letters: Sources as Strategy

December 3, 2001
Tarski on Truth: A Centennial Celebration
Moderator: Aki Kanamori, Boston University
Jodi Azzouni, Tufts University
Tarski, Quine, and the Transcendence of the Vernacular ‘True’
Van McGee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reflection Principles and Tarski’s Theory of Consequence

Michael Glanzberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reflection, Hierarchies, and the ‘Essentially Richer’ Metalanguage
Richard Heck, Harvard University
‘T-Sentences’
Jaakko Hintikka, Boston University
Tarski’s Philosophical Assumptions

February 4, 2002
Between Philosophy and Psychiatry:
Historical and Current Themes
Moderator: Robert S. Cohen, Boston University
Susan Lanzoni, Harvard University
Bridging Phenomenology and the Asylum:
Ludwig Binswanger’s Existential Analysis
Bettina Bergo, Loyola College and Harvard University
The Psychiatric Unconscious: Before and After Freud
David Brendel, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Philosophy of Mind in the Clinic: The Relation Between Causal
and Meaningful Explanation in Psychiatry
Jennifer Radden, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Persecutory Paranoid Delusion: A Philosophical Evaluation
of Subjectivity and Propositional Content

February 25, 2002
Sense, Meaning, and Quantification in Frege
Moderator: Juliet Floyd, Boston University
Commentator: Hugh Baxter, Boston University
Thomas Ricketts, University of Pennsylvania and Boston University

March 11, 2002
Normativity and Objectivity in Law
Moderator: Frederick Lawrence, Boston University
Commentator: Hugh Baxter, Boston University
Dennis Patterson, Rutgers University

March 25, 2002
Understanding How the Brain Sees: From Marr to Grossberg
Moderator: Alisa Bokulich, Boston University
John Symons, University of Texas, El Paso
Marr and Computational Functionalism
Dan Lloyd, Trinity College
Vision, As Seen From Within
Michael Gazzaniga, Dartmouth College
Is Cognitive Neuroscience Getting the Job Done?
Stephen Grossberg, Boston University
Models of How the Brain Sees

April 1, 2002
Fate of the Enlightenment:
Perspectives on the Philosophy os Stanley Rosen
Moderator: David Roochnik, Boston University
Paul Rah, University of Tulsa
The Enlightenment Project: Aristophanic Reflections
Laurent Jaffro, Institut Universitaire de France
The Ambiguity of ‘Common Sense’ in the British Enlightenment
Charles Griswold, Boston University
Reconciliation with Imperfection:
Conflicts of Enlightenment and Unenlightenment

Moderator: Herbert Mason, Boston University
Michael Gillespie, Duke University
Multiplicitous Enlightenment
Robert Pippin, University of Chicago
Counter-Enlightenment
Alasdair MacIntyre, University of Notre Dame
Transformation of Enlightenment:
Plato, Rosen, and the Postmodern

April 15, 2002
Nature, The Natural, and The Supernatural:
American Perspectives on Nature
Moderator: Stephen Prothero, Boston University
Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edwin Delattre, Boston University
William James
Victor Kestenbaum, Boston University
John Dewey
H. Daniel Peck, Vassar College
Georgia O’Keeffe

June 1–2, 2002
Immunology and Molecular Biology, 1955–1990:
Converging Research Programs
A Workshop Cosponsored with the George Washington University
Center for History of Recent Science