1963-1964
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
4th Annual Program
- October 10, 1963 | What is Perception Really – Or the Red Spot Mystery
- October 29, 1963 | Numbers and Nature: Analogous Studies
- November 19, 1963 | Explanation in 19th Century Biology
- December 12, 1963 | Explanation
- January 7, 1964 | Quantification into Causal Contexts
- February 13, 1964 | Husserl’s Critique of Science in “Die Krists Der Europaischen Wissenscharten”
- March 3, 1964 | A Whiteheadian Interpretation of the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
- March 19, 1964 | Scientific and Literary Language
- April 30, 1964 | Methodological Reflections on Aquinas and Freud
- May 14, 1964 | The Myth of Frozen Passage: The Status of Becoming in Physics
What is Perception Really – Or the Red Spot Mystery
October 10, 1963
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Jerome Y. Lettvin, M.I.T.
Commentator: B.F. Skinner, Harvard University
Numbers and Nature: Analogous Studies
October 29, 1963
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Norwood R. Hanson, Yale University
Commentator: A. Siegel, Boston University
Explanation in 19th Century Biology
November 19, 1963
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Everett Mendelsohn, Harvard University
Commentator: Ernst Mayr, Harvard University
Explanation
December 12, 1963
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J.J.C. Smart, University of Adelaide and Harvard University
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Commentator: Hilary Putnam, M.I.T.
Quantification into Causal Contexts
January 7, 1964
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Degfinn Follesdal, Harvard University
Husserl’s Critique of Science in “Die Krists Der Europaischen Wissenscharten”
February 13, 1964
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Herbert Marcuse, Brandeis University
- Commentator: Aron Gurwitsch, New School
A Whiteheadian Interpretation of the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
March 3, 1964
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Abner Shimony, M.I.T.
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Commentator: J.M. Burgers, Maryland
Scientific and Literary Language
March 19, 1964
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Norman Rudich, Wesleyan University
Methodological Reflections on Aquinas and Freud
April 30, 1964
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Rev. Michael J. Stock, Dominican House of Studies
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Commentator: Victor Gourevitch, Wellesley College
The Myth of Frozen Passage: The Status of Becoming in Physics
May 14, 1964
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Milic Capek, Boston University
- Commentator: Donald Williams, Harvard University