THE SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF MEANING AND TRUTH

September 12, 1989
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

• Jiang Tianji, Wuhan University, People’s Republic of China

  Commentator: Robert S. Cohen, Boston University

• Chairman: Aryeh Motzkin

   

WITTGENSTEIN ON THE LAWS OF THOUGHT/THINKING

October 3, 1989
Room 525, School of Theology

• Stuart Shanker, York University

  Commentator: Steven Gerrard Boston University

• Chairman: Jeffrey Coulter

THE ANTHROPIC-COSMOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE

October 10, 1989
Room 525, School of Theology

• Errol E. Harris, Boston University, Northwestern University (Emeritus)

• Commentator: Robert S. Cohen, Boston University

• Chairman: Peter Buck

GIOVANNI VAILATI: PRAGMATISM AND THE ANALYSIS OF MEANING

October 12, 1989
Room 525, School of Theology

• Robert Innis, University of Lowell

  [In Association with the Program in Semiotic Studies]

THE PLURALIST ONTOLOGY OF PHYSICAL THEORIES

October 17, 1989
Room 525, School of Theology

• Fritz Rohrlich, Syracuse University

  Commentator: Abner Shimony, Boston University

• Chairman: John Statchel

WRITING AND PAINTING: THE OBJECT OF PERCEPTION IN PLATO AND KANT

November 14, 1989
Room 525, School of Theology

• Stanley Rosen, Pennsylvania State University

  Commentator: Erazim Kohak, Boston University

• Chairman: Robert S. Cohen

DIALECTICAL DEMONSTRATION IN ARISTOTLE’S BIOLOGY

November 28, 1989
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

• William Wians, Boston University

  Commentator: Martha Nussbaum, Brown University

• Chairman: Arthur Madigan

TREATING MADNESS: HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS ON PSYCHOLOGY AND BASIC SCIENCE

December 5, 1989
Room 525, School of Theology

• Otto Marx, Brattleboro Retreat

  Commentator: Michael Sokal, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

• Chairman: Richard Sens

TAUTOLOGY

December 12, 1989
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

• Burton Dreben, HarvardUniversity

  Commentator: George Boolos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Chairman: Steven Gerrard

VISIONS AND REVISIONS: PRIOR AND POSTERIOR ELEMENTS IN SCIENTIFIC INFERENCE

January 30, 1990
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

• Abner Shimony, Boston University

  Commentator: Thomas Kuhn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Chairman: Robert S. Cohen

DIRECTED MUTATIONS AND NON-DARWINIAN EVOLUTION: WHERE WE STAND TODAY

February 13, 1990
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

• Sahotra Sarkar, Boston University

  Commentator: Stephen J. Gould, Harvard University

• Chairman: Everett Mendelsohn

SPONTANEOUS BREAKDOWN OF SYMMETRY: REDISCOVERY AND INTEGRATION INTO QUANTUM FIELD THEORY

February 27, 1990
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

• Cao Tianyu, Harvard

  Commentator: Howard Schnitzer, Brandeis University

• Chairman: Kenneth Brecher

THE FOUNDERS OF EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS: A CENTENARY SYMPOSIUM

March 6, 1990
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

Afternoon Session, 2pm

• Fisher on the Design of Experiments

         Teddy Seidenfeld, Carnegie-Mellon University

• Haldane’s Cost of Selection and Kimura’s Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution

         William Provine, Cornell University

• Model Building in the Localization of Genes of Chromosomes

          William Wimsat, University of Chicago

Evening Session, 7:30pm

• Fisher on Evolutionary Biology

         John R. G. Turner, University of Leeds

• Muller’s Rome in Evolutionary Biology

         James Crow, University of Wisconson

• Chairman: Sahotra Sarkar

CONCEIVABILITY AND CHURCH’S THESIS

March 13, 1990
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

• Tamara Horowitz, University of Pittsburgh

  Commentator: Judson Webb, Boston University

• Chairman: Frederic Sommers

THE SEMIOTICS OF HISTORY

March 27, 1990
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

• Boris Uspensky, Moscow State University

  Commentator: Thomas Winner, Boston University

• Chair: Irene Winner

ORGANISM AND THE ORIGIN OF SELF: A SYMPOSIUM

Aoril 3-4, 1990
Law School Auditorium

April 3, 7:30pm

• Definition of Self in Medicine and Immunology

  Alfred Tauber, Boston University School of Medicine

  Herbert Benson, Harvard Medical School

April 4, 3pm

• Embryo as Organisim

  Leo Buss, Yale University

  Scott Gilbert, Swarthmore College

April 4, 7:30pm

• Evolution of the Self

  Lynn Margulis, University of Massachusetts

  Elliott Sober, University of Wisconsin

CHANGES IN THE TECHNOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE: THE TEMPORAL DIMENSION OF TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

April 17, 1990
Room 525, School of Theology

• Svante Lindquist, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

  Commentator: Merritt Roe Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Chairman: Yoram Neumann

THE KEKULE BENZOL FEST 100 YEARS LATER

April 23 and 24, 1990

Chairman: John H. Wotiz

Speakers:

G. Bergerhoff, Bonn University

W.H. Brock, University of Leicester

J. Brooke, University of Lancaster

A. Bruylants, University of Louvain

K. Hafner, Darmstadt Technical University

R. Larsen, Texas Technical University

C. Meinel, Institute fur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften

O.B. Ramsey, Eastern Michigan University

A. Rock,  Case-Western Reserve University

A. Rothenberg, Austen Riggs Center

S. Rudofsky, University of Chicago

C.A. Russell, Open University

G. Schiemenz, Kiel University

W. Schwartz, Harvard Medical School

A.N. Shamin, Academy of Sciences of USSR

M. Sutton, Newcastle Polytechnic

L. Tansjo, Lund University

J. Traynham, Louisiana State University

J.H. Wotiz, Southern Illinois University

[In association with the American Chemical Society].