1965-1966
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
6th Annual Program
- October 11, 1965 | Science in Flux: Footnotes to Popper
- November 1, 1965 | Theory in History
- November 29, 1965 | Relativity and Causality
- January 10, 1966 | Matter, Space and Logic
- January 17, 1966 | On the Methods of Refutation in Metaphysics
- February 14, 1966 | Conceptual Revolutions inScience
- February 28, 1966 | Somatocentricism
- March 21-22, 1966 | Problems of Empiricism
- April 4, 1966 | Unity, Beauty, and Economy in Physics
- April 18, 1966 | Akrasia and the Practical Syllogism
- May 2, 1966 | The Philosophy of Praxis
- May 9, 1966 | From Frege to Godel
- May 23, 1966 | Perception and the Mind-Body Problem
- June 6, 1966 | The Role of Models in Theoretical Physics
- June 13, 1966 | On Teleological Statements in Biology
Science in Flux: Footnotes to Popper
October 11, 1965
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Joseph Agassi, Boston University
Commentator: Judith Jarvis Thomson, M.I.T.
Theory in History
November 1, 1965
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Leon Goldstein, Harpur College, SUNY
Commentators: Samuel Beer, Harvard University; John Lavely, Boston University
Relativity and Causality
November 29, 1965
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Peter Havas, Temple University
Commentators: John Stachel, Boston University; Philip Morrison, M.I.T.
Matter, Space and Logic
January 10, 1966
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David Finkelstein, Yeshiva University
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Commentators: Laszlo Tisza, M.I.T.; Hilary Putnam, Harvard University
On the Methods of Refutation in Metaphysics
January 17, 1966
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J.O. Wisdom, University of London and University of Southern California
Conceptual Revolutions in Science
February 14, 1966
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Stephen Toulmin, Boston University
- Commentator: Louis O. Mink, Wesleyan University
Somatocentricism
February 28, 1966
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Asher Moore, University of New Hampshire
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Commentator: Michael Martin, Boston University
Problems of Empiricism:
I. Epistemology
II. Aesthetics
March 21-22, 1966
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Paul K. Feyerabend, University of California at Berkeley
- Commentators: Norman Rudich, Wesleyan University; Marx W. Wartofsky, Boston University; Peter Achinstein, M.I.T. and John Hopkins University
Unity, Beauty, and Economy in Physics
April 4, 1966
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Eugene Guth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Commentator: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Radcliffe College
Akrasia and the Practical Syllogism
April 18, 1966
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Gerasimos Santas, Brandeis University
- Commentators: Henry L. Ruf, Boston University; John Rawls, Harvard University
The Philosophy of Praxis
May 2, 1966
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Gajo Petrovic, University of Zagreb
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Commentators: Eva Berczeller, Boston University; Dirk J. Struik, M.I.T.
From Frege to Godel
May 9, 1966
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John van Heijenoort, Brandeis University
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Commentators: Willard van Orman Quine, Harvard University; Hartley Rogers, M.I.T.
Perception and the Mind-Body Problem
May 23, 1966
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Gyorgy Markus, Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Commentator: James Thomson, M.I.T.
The Role of Models in Theoretical Physics
June 6, 1966
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Reinhold Furth, University of London
Commentators: Philip Morrison, M.I.T.; Peter Bergmann, Syracuse University
On Teleological Statements in Biology
June 13, 1966
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Zdzislaw Kochanski, University of Cracow and Rockefeller University
Commentators: Charles Gross, Harvard University; Everett Mendelsohn, Harvard University; Milic Capek, Boston University; Ernst Mayr, Harvard University