Cooperation in Evolution

October 5th, 1982
Room 314
George Sherman Union

• Lynn Margulis, Biology, Boston University

  Commentator: Michael McElroy, Atmospheric Sciences, Harvard University

• Chair: Robert S. Cohen, Boston University

Why the Study of Human Behavior Can Never be Scientific

October 19th, 1982
CLA 204

• Hubert L. Dreyfus, Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley

  Commentator: Mark Okrent, Philosophy, Bates College

• Chair: Marx X. Wartofsky, Boston University

The Quantum View of the World

October 26th, 1982

• Michael L.G. Rehead, History and Philosophy of Science, Chelsea College and the University of London

  Commentator: Abner Shimony, Philosophy and Physics, Boston University

• Chair: Kenneth Brecher

Symposium on the Vienna Circle: the Schlick/Neurath Centenary

Chair: Louise Antony

I. Reflections on the Vienna Circle

November 5th, 1982

• Hilary Putnam, Philosophy, Harvard University

I. Positivism and Politics: The Vienna Circle as a Social Movement

November 5th, 1982

• Marx W. Wartofsky, Philosophy, Boston University

II. Reminiscences of Carnap on Induction

November 6th, 1982

• Abner Shimony, Philosophy and Physics, Boston University

II. Carnap on Artificial Languages and Artificial Lives

November 6th, 1982

• Richard Jeffrey, Philosophy, Princeton University

II. Schlick vs. Neurath

November 6th, 1982

• Robert S. Cohen, Physics and Philosophy, Boston University

Darwinian Theories and Current Controversies

November 9th, 1982

• Ernst Mayr, Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

  Commentator: S. S. Schweber, Physics, Brandeis College

• Chair: Diana Long Hall

Symposium: Spinoza and Science

Chair: Marjorie Grene

I. Science in the Century of Spinoza

November 12th, 1982

• Nancy Maull, History and Philosophy of Science, Harvard University

I. Spinoza, Philosopher of Natural Science and the Social Sciences

November 12th, 1982

• Davis Savan, Philosophy, University of Toronto

I. Spinoza’s Physics

November 12th, 1982

• Davis R. Lachterman, Philosophy and History of Science, Vassar College

II. From Here to eternity

November 12th, 1982

• Marx W. Wartofsky, Philosophy, Boston University

II. spinoza’s version of the eternity of the mind

November 12th, 1982

• Genevieve Lloyd, History of Philosophy, Australian National University, Canberra

III. Self-knowledge as self-preservation?

November 13th, 1982

• J. Thomas Cook, Philosophy, Rollins College

III. spinoza and the science of politics: machiavelli, hobbes, spinoza

November 13th, 1982

• Joseph Agassi, Philosophy, Boston, York, and Tel-Aviv Universities

The Metaphysics of Lévi-Strauss’s Structuralism: Two Views

November 23rd, 1982

• Robert L. Zimmerman, Philosophy, Sarah Lawrence College

  Commentator: Bernard Kaplan, Psychology, Clark University

• Chair: Marx W. Wartofsky

Symposium: Goethe and the Sciences

Chair: Joseph Agassi

I. Goethe and Helmholtz: science and sensation

December 3, 1982

• Jeffrey Barnouw, German Studies, Boston University

I. Are Goethe’s Color theory and Morphology Prototype Alternative Sciences?

December 3, 1982

• F. J. Zucker, Microwave Physics, System Theory, Philosophy of Nature, KGHW Research and Development Associates, Belmont

II. Goethe and Psychoanalysis

December 3, 1982

• Joseph Margolis, Philosophy, Temple University

II. Getting Goethe’s Gotter: Farbenlehre From a Modern View

December 3, 1982

• Jerome Y. Lettvin, Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Riddle of the Nebulae

December 7th, 1982

• Michael Hoskin, History of Science, Churchill College, Cambridge

  Commentator: S. S. Schweber, Physics, Brandeis University

• Chair: Kenneth Brecher

The Manufacture of Knowledge: Descriptive Epistemology of Scientific Work

December 14th, 1982

• Karin Knorr-Cetina, Sociology, Wesleyan University

  Commentator: Joseph Agassi, Philosophy, Boston, York, and Tel-Aviv Universities

• Chair: Robert S. Cohen

Symposium: Marx and Science

I. Chair: Anthony Leeds

II. Chair James W. Schmidt

III. Chair: Thomas McCarthy

I. Karl Marx and the Outcome of Classical Marxism

February 11, 1983

• Marx W. Wartofsky, Philosophy, Boston University

I. Was Marx A Historical Materialist Historian of Political Economy?

February 11, 1983

• Patrick Murray, Philosophy, Creighton University

I. Individual, Society, and Culture: A Dialectical Materialist Formulation

February 11, 1983

• Eleanor Leacock, Anthropology, The City College, CUNY

II. Engels and the Evolution of Upright Posture — Marxist Thought and Human Origins

February 11, 1983

• Stephen Jay Gould, Paleontology, Harvard University

II. Contradiction in Biology

February 11, 1983

• Richard Levins, Biology, Harvard University

II. Science and the Crisis of U.S. Capitalism

February 11, 1983

• John N. Pappademos, Physics, Social Aspects of Science, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle

III. Science and Capitalism

February 12, 1983

• John Stachel, Physics, Boston University and the Einstein Project, Princeton

III. Labor and Technology in the Historical Process

February 12, 1983

• Willis H. Truitt, Philosophy, University of South Florida

III. Marx and the Problem of Technology

February 12, 1983

• Gyorgy Markus, Philosophy, University of Sydney

IV. Friedrich Engels: the social sciences model for the natural sciences

February 12, 1983

• Erwin N. Hiebert, History of Science, Harvard University

IV. Criteria For Choice in the Construction of Scientific Knowledge

February 12, 1983

• Marcello Cini, Physics and Political Economy of Science, University of Rome

IV. Science at the Crossroads: Beyond Hessen

February 12, 1983

• Robert S. Cohen, Physics and Philosophy, Boston University

Cosmology as Science and as Religion

February 16, 1983

• Stephen Toulmin, Philosophy, University of Chicago

  Commentator: Sissela Bok, Philosophy, Harvard University

• Chair: Robert C. Mayfield

Symposium: The Decay of the Brain Sciences

Chair: J. M. Harrison

February 22, 1983

The Neurological Vampire and the Philosophical Cross

• Norman Geschwind, Neurology, Harvard University and Beth Israel Hospital

The Original Sin of Final Cause

• Jerome Y. Lettvin, Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Of Sticks and Stones

March 2nd, 1983

• W. V. O. Quine, Philosophy, Harvard University

  Commentator: Louisa Antony, Philosophy, Boston University

• Chair: Thomas McCarthy

What do you want to be when you grow up: Science Career Aspirants, a profile

March 15th, 1983

• Gabriel Haim, Sociology, Boston University

  Commentator: Carol Gilligan, Developmental Psychology, Harvard University

• Chair: Sol Levine

Symposium: Feminism and Science

I & II. Chair: Evelyn Fox Keller

III. Chair: Seyla Benhabib

I. How Masculine is Science?

March 18, 1983

• Hegla Nowotny, Sociology of Science, European Center for Social Welfare, Vienna

II. The Science Question in Feminism

March 18, 1983

• Sandra Harding, Philosophy, University of Delaware

II. Critique as Masculine Ideology: Western Marxism and Socialist Feminism

March 18, 1983

• Roger Gottlieb, Social Philosophy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

III. Feminism, Women’s Nature, and Freedom

March 19, 1983

• Nancy Holmstrom, Philosophy, Rutgers University

III. Feminism and the definition of problems in science

March 19, 1983

• Caroline Whitbeck, Philosophy of Science, Clinical Reasoning, Feminist Philosophy, MIT Center for Policy Alternatives and Boston University Center

III. Salad Dressings, socks, and science

March 19, 1983

• Hilde Hein, Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross

Science as Symbol

March 23, 1983

• Huston Smith, Religion, Syracuse University

  Commentator: Robert S. Cohen, Physics and Philosophy, Boston University

• Chair: Ernest L. Fortin

Symposium: The Reception of the Theory of Relativity

Chair: John Stachel

March 25, 1983

I. Is It Possible to Popularize Relativity Theory? A Case Study: France in the early 1920s

• Michel Biezunski, History of Science, University of Paris

I. The Italian Mathematicians of Relativity

• Judith R. Goodstein, History of Science, California Institute of Technology

II. Einstein in a Latin Key: His Journeys and Intellectual Impact in Spain, Argentina, and Brazil, 1923-1925

• Thomas F. Glick, History and Geography, Boston University

II. The Assimilation of Relativity in America: Putting New Wine in Old Bottles

• Stanley  Goldberg, History of Science, Hampshire College

Hypotheses and Mr. Newton

April 5, 1983

• John  Worrall, Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science

  Commentator: Laurence Breiner, English, Boston University

• Chair: Robert S. Cohen

Chinese Visions of Nature

April 6th, 1983

• Tu Wei-Ming, Chinese History and Philosophy, Harvard University

  Commentator: Ishwer C. Oiha, Political Science, Boston University

• Chair: James D. Purvis

From the Axioms of Lucretius Toward a Philosophy of Spatial Structure

April 12th, 1983

• Alan L. McKay, Crytallography, Birkbeck College, University of London

  Commentator: Cecil Schneer, Geology, University of New Hampshire

• Chair: Kenneth Brecher

New and Old World Healers–1519

April 26th, 1983

• Guido Maino, Pathology, and History of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical Center

  Commentator: Gary Orgel, Philosophy, Boston University

• Chair: Mark W. Wartofsky