Quantum Mechanics and Gravity

September 4, 1991
Room 325, Metcalf Science Center
590 Commonwealth Ave

• Roger Penrose, Oxford University

  Chairman: E. C. Booth

• The Benson Chertok Memorial Lecture
  (In association with the Department of Physics)

What is Analytic Philosophy? An Inaugural Lecture

September 24, 1991
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union
775 Commonwealth Ave

• Burton Dreben, Boston University

  Chairman: Robert S. Cohen, Boston University

A Theory of Languages and Information: The Work of Zellig Harris

October 8, 1991
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave.

• Thomas Ryckman, Northwestern University

  Introduction: Hilary Putnam, Harvard University

• Commentator: Michael Gottfried, Washington University
• Chairman: Paul Mattick, JR.

There are no Anti-Realists in the Laboratory

October 15, 1991
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave.

• Allan Franklin, University of Colorado and CalTech

  Commentator: Robert Ackermann, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Chairman: Silvan S. Schweber,

In Memory of Rudolf Carnap A Centenary Symposium

October 22, 1991
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

Morning Session, 9am-12pm

• Epistemology in the Aufbau

  Michael Friedman, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle

• Carnap’s Construction of the World from Recollection

  Judson Webb, Boston University

• Chairman: Sahotra Sarkar

Afternoon Session, 1:30pm-3:30pm

• Logic in Carnap’s Logical Syntax of Language

  Sahotra Sarkar, Boston University

• Carnap’s Conventionalism

  Richard Creath, Arizona State University

• Chairman: Ghita Holstrom-Hintikka

Afternoon Session, 4pm-6pm

• On Carnap

  Burton Dreben, Boston University

• Carnap and Mathematical Truth

  Jaakko Hintikka, Boston University

• Chairman: Steven Gerrard

Evening Session, 7:45pm-9:30pm

• Reflections of a Metaphysical Student

  Abner Shimony, Boston University

• Was Carnap Entirely Wrong, After All?

  Howard Stein, University of Chicago

• Chairman: Robert S. Cohen

Reflections on the Development of the Conceptual Foundations of Biology

November 5, 1991
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• Ernst Mayr, Harvard University

  Commentator: Lynn Margulis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Chairman: Everett Mendelsohn,

On Frege’s Introduction of Logical Objects

November 12, 1991
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union
775 Commonwealth Ave

• Matthias Schirn, University of Munich

  Commentator: George Boolos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Chairman: Akihiro Kanamori,

Of Exact and Inexact Essences in Modern Physical Science

November 19, 1991
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• Pierre Kerszberg, Pennsylvania State University

  Commentator: Jürgen Renn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Chairman: John Stachel, Boston University

Cosmic Simplicity: Its Origins and Limits

December 3, 1991
Room B12, College of Liberal Arts
725 Commonwealth Ave

• Philip Morrison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Chairman: Kenneth Brecher

New Studies in Aristotle’s Philosophical Development A Symposium on Logic, Science, Metaphysics and Practical Philosophy

January 18-20, 1992
Law School Auditorium
765 Commonwealth Ave

• Does Aristotle’s Conception of Dialectic Develop?

  Michael Friedman, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle

• The Consistency of Aristotle’s Thoughts on Substance

  Klaus Brinkmann, Boston University

• Cosmology and Mathematics in Aristotle’s Development

  John Cleary, Boston College

• Focal Meaning and the Development of Aristotle’s Ethical Treatises

  Alan Code, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• Aristotle’s Theory of Forms

  Russell Dancy, Florida State University

• The Poetics in Relation to Aristotle’s Ethical Treatises

  Cynthia Freeland, University of Houston

• The Metaphysics of Motion

  Daniel Graham, Brigham Young University

• Aristotle’s Methodology as a Clue to His Development

  Jaakko Hintikka, Boston University

• Aristotle’s Biological Development: The Balme Thesis

  James Lennox, University of Pittsburgh

• Aristotle on the Unity of Substance

  Frank Lewis, University of Southern California

• Aristotle’s Epistemology: One or Many Theories?

  Deborah Modrak, University of Rochester

• On the “Platonic” Part of Aristotle’s Politics

  Pierre Pellegrin, C.N.R.S. Paris

• Some Philosophical Reflections on Studying Aristotle’s Development

  John M. Rist, University of Cambridge and University of Toronto

• Apodeixis Haplos: Demonstrative Practices and Aristotle’s Development

  William Wians, Boston University

• Motivations for Developmental Interpretations of Aristotle

  Charlotte Witt, University of New Hampshire

• Chairman: William Wians

On the Origins of Modern Psychiatry

January 28, 1992
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• Mario Galzigna, University of Venice

• Chairman: Dennis Costa,

How To Be An Experimental Philosopher

February 11, 1992
Terrace Lounge, GSU

• Rose-Mary Sargent, Merrimack College

  Commentator: Abner Shimony, Boston University

• Chairman: Everett Mendelsohn,

Niels Bohr: The Philosopher As Working Scientist

February 18, 1992
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• Ulrich Rosenberg, Institute of Philosophy, Berlin

• Chairman: Robert S. Cohen, Boston University

In Memory of Morris Weitz A Symposium

February 25, 1992
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

• On Textual Interpretation: Plato and Maimonides

  Marvin Fox, Brandeis University

• The Immanence Doctrine of Time: Morris Weitz, T.S. Eliot and Scotus Erigena

  Theodore Euhling, University of Minnesota

• On the History of Concepts

  Marx Wartofsky, Baruch College, CUNY

• Open of Closed Concepts? Weitz on Tragedy and Morality

  Nelson Lande, University of Massachusetts, Boston

• Guest of Honor: Margaret Collins Weitz, Suffolk University

• Chairman: Aryeh L. Motzkin, 

Natural Kinds

March 3, 1992
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

• Sylvain Bromberger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Chairman: Steven Gerrard,

Adam Smith on the Rhetoric of the Sciences An Inaugural Lecture

March 17, 1992
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

• Charles Griswold, Boston University

• Chairman: Dennis D. Berkey,

The Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences: Fallacies, Metaphors, and Transfers

March 24, 1992
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

• I. Bernard Cohen, Harvard University

• Commentator: Peter Buck, Harvard University
• Chairman: Thomas Glick

Academic Colleagueship and Teaching

March 25, 1992
School of Education, Room 130
605 Commonwealth Ave

• • David Riesman, Harvard University

  • Commentator: Robert S. Cohen, Boston University

[In Association with the Institute for Philosophy and Religion]

British Physicists Confront Relativity: Lamor and Lodge

March 31, 1992
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave.

• Jose M. Sanchez-Ron, Autonomous University of Madrid

• Commentator: John Stachel, Boston University
• Chairman: Silvan S. Schweber,

The Development of the Foundations of Mathematics A Symposium

April 5-7, 1992
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave.

• T.B.A.

  George Boolos, 

• On Skolem and Weyl

  William Boos, 

• On Frege’s Foundations

  Burton Dreben, 

• Between Kronecker and Cantor

  Harold Edwards, 

• The Evolution of Continuity

  Philip Ehrlich, 

• Godel and Husserl

  Dagfinn Follesdal, 

• Husserl and Hilbert on Completeness

  Claire Hill, 

• The Standard-Nonstandard Distinction as a Watershed in the Foundation of Mathematics

  Jaakko Hintikka, 

• From Lebesgue to Godel: The Emergence of Descriptive Set Theory

  Akihiro Kanamori, 

• On Dedekinds’s Free Creation

  David McCarty, 

• On Hausdorff’s Contribution to Finite Set Theory

  Gregory Moore, 

• On Borel

  Jan Von Plato, 

• History of Logical Number Theory

  Craig Smorynskis, 

• Effects of Model-Theoretic Thinking: From Beltrami to Hilbert

  Judson Webb, 

• On Tarski and the Polish Context

  Jan Wolenski, 

• Co-chairmen Jaakko Hintikka and Robert S. Cohen

Marxism and the Natural Sciences: Critical Reflections A Symposium

April 21, 1992
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave.

• Modes of Production and Modes of Sciences

  Robert S. Cohen, 

• The Legacy of Marxist Epistemology Today

  Sandra Harding, 

• Objectivity and the Social Construction of Science

  Sheldon Krimsky, 

• Engels’ Dialectics of Nature in the Context of Contemporary History of Science

  Wolfgang Lefevre, 

• Praxis in Science

  Joseph Margolis, 

• The Political Economy of Cancer Research

  Robert Proctor, 

• What Einstein Could Have Learned from Engels

  Jurgen Renn, 

• Engels, Haldane and the Dialectics of Living Matter

  Sahotra Sarkar, 

• Science and Capitalism

  John Stachel, 

• Honorary Chairman: Dirk J. Struik 

Wittgenstein on Mathematics

April 28, 1992
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union

• Juliet Floyd, City College, CUNY

  Commentator: Paul Horwich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Chairman: Burton Dreben