1987-1988

Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
28th Annual Program

Main Events directory, single talk events not included in anchor list. Full details below.

TEMPORAL BECOMING MINUS THE MOVING NOW

September 8, 1987
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

  • David Zeilicovici, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

    Commentator: Abner Shimony, Boston University

  • Chairman: Robert S. Cohen

THE LONELINESS OF GIORDANO BRUNO: SIGNIFICATION AND AUTHORITY IN THE ASH WEDNESDAY SUPPER

September 29, 1987
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

  • Rivka Feldhay and Adi Ophir, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

    Commentator: William Newman, Stonehill College, North Easton, Massachusetts

  • Chair: Aryeh L. Motzkin

LITERATURE AND SCIENCE AS MODES OF EXPRESSION: A SYMPOSIUM

October 8-11, 1987
Worcester Marriot Hotel

  • An interdisciplinary conference: 75 papers, on literature, science, and language. Plenary lectures: Gillian Beer, Stephen Jay Gould, G.S. Rousseau (In association with the Society for Literature and Science, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

HOW SCIENTISTS REALLY THINK: BEYOND INDUCTION, DEDUCTION, AND ABDUCTION

October 13, 1987
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

  • Robert Root-Bernstein, Michigan State University

    Commentator: John Statchel, Boston University

  • Chair: Leroy Rouner

CIRCLES AND CEDAR: NATIVE AMERICAN EPISTEMOLOGY AND CLINICAL ISSUES

October 20, 1987
Room 525, School of Theology

  • Terry Tafoya, Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington

    Commentator: Thomas Csordas, Harvard Medical School

  • Chair: Richard Sens

SCIENCE, THEOLOGY AND FREEDOM: A NEW LOOK AT THE GALILEO CASE

October 21, 1987
School of Nursing Auditorium

  • James L. Langford, University of Notre Dame

    Commentator: John Boswell, Yale University

  • (In association with the Institute for Philosophy and Religion)

THE BIRTH OF THE EXPERIMENTAL METHOD: AN EXTERNALIST APPROACH

October 27, 1987
Conference Auditorium
George Sherman Union

  • Alberto Elena, Universidad Autonoma, Madrid

    Commentator: Jurgen Renn, Einstein Papers, Boston University

  • Chair: Mordecai Feingold

IS THERE COMPLETENESS IN MATHEMATICS AFTER GODEL?

November 10, 1987
Conference Auditorium
George Sherman Union

  • Jaakko Hintikka, Florida State University

    Commentator: Burton S. Dreben, Harvard University

  • Chair: Robert S. Cohen

GEORG SIMMEL: A SYMPOSIUM

November 24, 1987
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union
2pm and 8pm

  • Reality as an Aesthetic Object

          David Frisby, University of Glasgow

  • The World as Human Creation

         Michael Kaern, Boston University

  • Simmel’s Process Philosophy

          Birgitta Nedelmann, European University Institute, Florence

  • Simmel on the Ratio of Subjective Values to Objective Cultural Possibilities

          O.K. Moore, University of Pittsburgh

  • Chair: Kurt Wolff

INVENTING CONVENTIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY, 1885-1935

December 1, 1987
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

  • Stephen Turner, University of South Florida and Boston University

    Commentator: Lorraine Daston, Brandeis University

  • Chair: Susan Eckstein

REDISCOVERING THE CONTEXT OF DISCOVERY: UNDERSTANDING THE MACROSCOPIC QUANTUM PHENOMENON

January 19, 1988
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

  • Kostas Gavroglu, National Technical University, Athens

    Commentator: Eugene Gross, Brandeis University

  • Chair: Eugene Stanley

NOT ON DARWIN’S SHOULDERS: A CRITIQUE OF EVOLUTIONARY EPISTEMOLOGY

January 26, 1988
School of Nursing Auditorium

  • Massimo Piatelli-Palmerini, Harvard University

    Commentator: Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard University

  • Chair: Abner Shimony

HOW CAN WE BUILD A BETTER WORLD? FROM KNOWLEDGE TO WISDOM

February 2, 1988
Conference Auditorium

  • Nicholas Maxwell, University College, London

    Commentator: Peter Buck, Harvard University

  • Chair: Victor Kestenbaum

THREE VIEWS OF THE END OF PHILOSOPHY AND PHILOSOPHY’S REFUSAL TO END; OR, IS THERE PHILOSOPHY AFTER SCIENCE?

February 16, 1988
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

  • Pantelis Nicolacopoulos, National Technical University, Athens

    Commentator: Erazim Kohak, Boston University

  • Chair: Robert S. Cohen

THE SENSE OF BUHLER’S LANGUAGE THEORY

February 18, 1988
Room 525, School of Theology

  • Robert Innis, University of Lowell

    [In association with the Program in Semiotic Studies]

AUTONOMY OF SCIENCE AS A PROBLEM IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

February 23, 1988
Conference Auditorium
George Sherman Union

  • Ewa Chmielecka, Central School of Planning and Statistics, Warsaw, and Boston University

    Commentator: Everett Mendelsohn, Harvard University

  • Chair: Robert Paul Wolff

SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT WITH OTTO NEURATH

March 1, 1988
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

  • Paul Neurath, Institute for Sociology, Vienna, and Queens College, CUNY

    Commentator: Jeffrey Coulter, Harvard University

  • Chair: Robert S. Cohen

THREE STAGES OF CONSTITUTION: HISTORICAL CHANGES IN THE ONTOLOGICAL STATUS OF THE SCIENTIFIC OBJECT

March 15, 1988
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

  • Max Wartofsky, Baruch College, CUNY

    Commentator: Hilary Putnam, Harvard University

  • Chair: Robert S. Cohen

IN MEMORY OF DAVID ZILBERMAN: A SYMPOSIUM

March 22, 1988
Room 525, School of Theology
2pm and 8pm

  • Zilberman and the Environment

          David Allan, Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • Zilberman and the Philosophy of Science

         Christopher Youngdahl, University of Manitoba

  • Modal Methodology and Classic Marxism

          Michael Vitkin, University of Manitoba

  • The Religious Status of the Communist Party

          Thomas Blakely, Boston College

  • Zimberman’s Idea of Philosophy as an Object of Science

          Alexander Piatigorsky, University of London

  • Zilberman as a Scholar and Personality

         Yuri Glasov, University of Dalhousie, Nova Scotia

  • Zilberman’s Hindu Epistemology

          Robert S. Cohen, Boston University

              Chair: Kurt Wolff

    TRUTH

    March 23, 1988
    School of Nursing Auditorium

    • W. V. O. Quine, Harvard University

      Commentator: Judson Webb, Boston University

    • Chairman: Dennis Berkey

    • (In association with the Institute for Philosophy and Religion)

    LAWS, THEORIES, AND PRINCIPLES: THE FABRIC OF SCIENCE

    March 29, 1988
    Room 525, School of Theology

    • Max Wartofsky, Baruch College, CUNY

      Commentator: Hilary Putnam, Harvard University

    • Chair: Robert S. Cohen

    DIVINE FOREKNOWLEDGE AND THE ORIGINS OF PROBABILITY

    April 25, 1988
    Room 525, School of Theology

    • Amos Funkenstein, Stanford and Tel-Aviv Universities

      Commentator: John Cleary, Boston College

    • Chair: Robert S. Cohen

    ATOMISM AND HOLISM IN THE VIENNA CIRCLE PHILOSOPHY

    April 12, 1988
    Terrace Lounge
    George Sherman Union

    • Rudolf Haller, University of Graz

      Commentator: Don Howard, University of Kentucky

    • Chair: Willis Truitt

    COMPARING THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION WITH THE KINETIC THEORY OF GASES

    April 19, 1988
    Terrace Lounge
    George Sherman Union

    • Abner Shimony, Boston University

      Commentator: Silvan S. Schwebb, Brandeis University

    • Chair: Laszlo Tisza

    DEEP ECOLOGY

    April 26, 1988
    School of Nursing Auditorium

    • Arne Nass, University of Oslo

      Commentator: Peter Taylor, University of California, Berkeley

    • Chair: Erazim Kohak

    THE RELEVANCE OF FORMAL PROPERTIES OF MATHEMATICAL TEXTS IN CHINESE TRADITION

    May 3, 1988
    Terrace Lounge
    George Sherman Union

    • Karine Chelma, CNRS, Paris

      Commentators: Chad Hansen, University of Vermont and Wu Zhong, Tianjin

    • Chair: Robert S. Cohen