REVOLUTIONS IN PHYSICS

October 18, 1988
Room 525, School of Theology

• Murad Akhundov, Institute of Philosophy, Soviet Academy of Sciences

         Commentator: Silvan Schweber, Brandeis University

• Chairman: Robert S. Cohen

CAN THE MIND DO MORE THAN THE BRAIN?

October 25, 1988
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

• Hao Wang, Rockefeller University

• Commentator: Daniel Dennett, Tufts University

• Chairman: Abner Shimony

THE QUESTION OF GENRE IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NATURAL PHILOSOPHY

November 8, 1988
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

• Lynn Sumida Joy, University of Notre Dame

          Commentator: Lorraine Daston, Brandeis University

• Chair: Stephen Weininger

THE A PRIORI: PLATO’S TWO WORLDS

November 15, 1988
Conference Auditorium, GSU

• W.W. Tait, University of Chicago

• Commentator: George Boolos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Chair: Steven Gerrard

REPORTING EXPERIMENTS

November 22, 1988
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

• Robert Ackermann, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Commentator: R.V. Dusek, University of New Hampshire

• Chairman: Robert Paul Wolff

PROBLEM SOLVING IN PHYSICS AS A PROCESS OF PRODUCTION

November 29, 1988
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

• Aristides Baltas, National Technical University, Athens

• Commentator: John Statchel, Boston University

• Chairman: Robert S. Cohen

THEORY AND METHOD IN THE CULTURAL DISCIPLINES

December 6, 1988
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

• Joseph Margolis, Temple University

• Commentator: Erazim Kohak, Boston University

• Chairman: Richard Sens

THE MICHAELSON/MORELY EXPERIMENT IN THE LIGHT OF ELECTRODYNAMICS CIRCA 1900

January 17, 1989
Conference Auditorium
George Sherman Union

• Jed Buchwald, University of Toronto

• Commentator: Peter Harman, University of Lancaster, England

• Chair: Richard Sens

ECONOMISTS’ UNDERSTANDING AND UNDERSTANDING ECONOMISTS: THE ROLES OF METABELIEFS

January 24, 1989
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

• John Pomery, Purdue University

• Commentator: Paul Streeten, Boston University

• Chair: Peter Doeringer

MAX WEBER AND THE GENERAL PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION

January 31, 1989
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

• Agnes Erdelyi, Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Science

• Commentator: Peter Buck, Harvard University

• Chair: Robert Hullot-Kenter

HYPOTHETICO-DEDUCTIVISM AND THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN ARGUMENT

February 7, 1989
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

• Peter Achinstein, Johns Hopkins University

• Commentator: Catherine Elgin, Wellsley College

• Chair: Robert S. Cohen

BETWEEN ANGLO-SAXON AND CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPICAL TRADITION: THE PROBLEM OF KNOWLEDGE

February 14, 1989
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

• Vilmos Sos, Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Science

• Commentator: Lawrence Cahoone, Boston University

• Chair: Robert Neville

THE 1923-24 DEBATE ON SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY IN CHINESE ACADEMIC CIRCLES

February 21, 1989
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

• Fan Dainian, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing

• Commentator: Peter Buck, Harvard University

• Chair: Merle Goldman

LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS OF SOVIET SCIENCE POLICY: LENIN, TROTSKY, BUKHARIN

February 28, 1989
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

• Mark Kuchment, Harvard University

• Commentator: Loren Graham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Chair: Robert S. Cohen

IN MEMORY OF RICHARD M. MARTIN: A SYMPOSIUM

March 16, 1989
Room 525, School of Theology
4p.m. and 8p.m.

• Paul Weiss, Catholic University of America

          Chair: Introduction

• Richard M. Martin and Traditional Philosophy

          Hans Burkhardt, Philosophia Verlag, Munich

• Probabilism and Logical Empiricism

          Richard Jeffrey, Princeton University

• States of Affairs

         Frederic Sommers, Brandeis University

• On the Locally Standard Grammar of Propositional Attitudes

         Albert Sweet, Rutgers University

• Logic versus Logics

         Horst Wessel, Humboldt University, Berlin, G.D.R

THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL STATUS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS

March 21, 1989
Room 525, School of Theology

• Morris Eagle, York University and New School for Social Research

• Commentator: Richard Sens, M.D.

  Peter Wolff, M.D.

• Chair: Otto Marx, M.D. 

SPINOZA AND THE PLASTICITY OF MIND

March 21, 1989
Room 525, School of Theology

• Thomas Cook, Rollins College

• Commentator: Paul Hoffman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Chair: Bernard Elevitch

FROM LEVIATHAN TO LILLIPUT: BEYOND NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY

March 29, 1989
School of Education Auditorium, 605 Commonwealth Avenue

• Stephen Toulmin, Northwestern University

• Commentator: Hermann Eilts, Boston University

• Chair: John Statchel

[In association with the Institute for Philosophy and Religion]

HELMHOLTZ AND THE CIVILIZING POWER OF SCIENCE

April 4, 1989
Terrace Lounge
GSU

• David Cahan, University of Nebraska

• Commentator: Richard Kremer, Dartmouth College

• Chair: Robert Schulmann

HOW CAN UNIVERSITIES LIVE WITH THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT? SHOULD THEY?

April 11, 1989
Terrace Lounge
GSU

• Carl Kaysen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Commentator: Harvey Brooks, Harvard University

• Chair: Leroy Rouner

GENETICS IN THE ATOMIC AGE

April 18, 1989
Terrace Lounge
GSU

• John Beatty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Commentator: Everett Mendelsohn, Harvard University

• Chair: David Shepro

SCIENTIFIC CHANGES IN CONTEXT: THE CHEMICAL REVOLUTION AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT

April 25, 1989
Terrace Lounge
GSU

• John McEvoy, University of Cincinnati

• Commentator: Scott Mohr, Boston University

• Chair: Kenneth Brecher

WILLIAM WHEWELL’S COMING OF AGE: AN EROTETIC ANALYSIS

May 2, 1989
Terrace Lounge
GSU

• Menachem Fisch, Tel Aviv University, Israel

• Commentator: Michael Martin, Boston University

• Chair: Erwin Hiebert