Probabilistic Risk Assessment: Ethical Dilemmas At Yucca Mountain

September 22, 1992
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• Kristin Shrader-Frechette, University of Southern Florida

  Commentator: Sheldon Krimsky Tufts University

• Chairman: Ghita Holmstrom-Hintikka

The Revival of Empiricist Philosophy of Social Science A Symposium

October 2, 1992
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

Social Scientific Laws: For and Against, 9:30am-12pm

• Complexity and Social Scientific Laws

  Lee McIntyre, Boston University

• On the Scope and Limits and Generalizations in the Social Sciences

  Daniel Little, Colgate University

• Chairman: Michael Martin

Reduction, Individualism, and Social Explanation, 1:30pm-3:30pm

• The Empirical Nature of the Individualism-Holism Dispute

  Harold Kincaid, University of Alabama, Birmingham

• Positivism, Prediction, and the Role of Scientific Knowledge

  Alexander Rosenberg, University of California, Riverside

• Chairman: Alfred I. Tauber

Laws and Confirmation in the Special Sciences: The Case of Archeology, 1:30pm-3:30pm

• On the Possibility of the Lawful Explanation in Archeology

  Merrilee Salmon, University of Pittsburgh

• Evidential Constraints: Pragmatic Empiricism in Archeology

  Alison Wylie, University of Western Ontario

• Chairman: Brian Fay, Wesleyan University

On Truth and Truth Definitions A Symposium

October 23-24, 1992
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

Session 1

• Truth, Paradox and Gödel’s Theorem

  W.V. Quine, Harvard University

• Meaning and Truth

  Anil Gupta, Indiana University

• Chairman: Klaus Brinkman

Session 2

• Who’s Afraid of Alfred Tarski? Some Consequences of the Definability of Truth

  Jaakko Hintikka, Boston University

• Semantical Paradoxes in the Independence-Friendly Logic

  Gabriel Sandu, University of Helsinki

• On Two Conceptions of Truth

  Aladdin Yaqûb, Florida State University

• Chairman: Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University

Session 3

• T.B.A.

  Scott Soames, Princeton University

• The Consistency View of Truth

  Charles Parsons, Harvard University

• Chairman: George Boolos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Session 4

• Should We Try to Define Truth

  Donald Davidson, University of California, Berkeley

• Some Views of Truth

  Burton Dreben, Boston University

• Chairman: Jaakko Hintikka, Boston University

Session 5

• On Analyzing Truth and Logical Truth

  John Etchemendy, Stanford University

• Against Truth as Coherence

  Jan Wolenski, University of Krakow

• Truth and the Use Theory of Meaning

  Paul Horwich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• What Does Truthlikeness Have to Do with Truth?

  Ilkka Niiniluoto, University of Helsinki

• Chairman: Barbara Partee, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

On Humane Education An Inaugural Lecture

October 27, 1992
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union
775 Commonwealth Ave

• Roger Scruton, Boston University and University of London

• Chairman: Charles Griswold, Boston University

Fritz London and the Beginning of Quantum Chemistry: The Dilemmas for a Biographer

November 3, 1992
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave
Supported by the Dibner Institute for the History of Science

• Kostas Gavroglu, National Technical University of Athens

  Commentator: Steve Heims Brandeis University

• Chairman: Silvan Schweber, Brandeis University

New Directions in the Judicial Doctrines of Informed Consent: Informing Patients About Medical Risk and Conflict of Interest

November 10, 1992
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• Dennis Mazur, Oregon Medical University

  Commentator: Michael Grodin Boston University

• Chairman: Jaakko Hintakka, Boston University

The Elusive Synthesis: Aesthetics and Science A Symposium

November 17-18, 1992
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave
Supported by the Dibner Institute for the History of Science

Tuesday

• Otto Neurath and Visual Education: Art and Science in the Social and Economic Museum in Vienna

  Robert S. Cohen, Boston University

• Physics and Art: Philosophical Presuppositions of Comparison

  Catherine Chevalley, CNRS, Paris

• Beauty and the Beast: Atoms and the Aesthetics of Nature

  Jürgen Renn, Boston University

• Is Mathematics Beautiful?

  Gian-Carlo Rota, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Beauty and Fractals

  H. Eugene Stanley, Boston University

• Chairman: Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University

Wednesday

• The Art of Displaying Science: Museum Exhibitions

  Hilde Hein, College of the Holy Cross

• Being and Becoming: The Aesthetics of Developmental Biology

  Scott Gilbert, Swarthmore College

• Beautiful Experiments in the Life Sciences

  Larry Holmes, Yale University

• On Goethe

  Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard University

• On the Aesthetic Construction of Darwin’s Theory

  David Kohn, Drew University

• Chairman: Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University

Physics, Community, and the Crisis in Physical Theory

December 1, 1992
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• Silvan Schweber, Brandeis University

  Commentators: Peter Galison, Harvard University, and Cao Tienyu, Boston University

  Chairman: Robert S. Cohen, Boston University

Wittgenstein on Propositions: “I’ll Teach You The Differences”

January 26, 1993
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• Mathieu Marion, Boston University

  Commentator: Juliet Floyd, Boston University

  Chairman: Judson Webb

The New Science in Colonial Latin America: José Celestino Mutis

February 2, 1993
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• On Mutis and Newton

  Luis Carlos Arboleda, University of Calí, Columbia

• On Mutis and Linnaeus

  Thomas F. Glick, Boston University

• Chairman and Commentator: I. Bernard Cohen, Harvard University

Varieties of Philosophical Interest in Quantum Mechanics

February 2, 1993
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• Jon Jarrett, Cornell University

  Commentator: Abner Shimony, Boston University

  Chairman: John Stachel, Boston University

On Scientific Biographies: Two 19th-Century Psychologists and Polymaths

February 2, 1993
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• On Herman Lotze

  William Woodward, University of New Hampshire

• On Francis Galton

  Raymond Fancher, York University, Toronto

• Chairman and Commentator: Michael Sokal, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Circular Wounds and Mathematical Beauty: Aristotle’s Science of the Hypokeimenon

March 2, 1993
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• William Wians, Boston University

  Chairman: Charles Griswold, Boston University

On Critical Editing in Science A Symposium

March 18-19, 1993
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

On Problems of Archives and Editing Thursday 1:30-5:30pm

• Herman Saatkamp, Texas A&M University

• Nathan Reingold, Smithsonian Institution

• Rudolf Haller, University of Graz

• Chairman Howard B. Gotlieb, Director, Boston University Libraries

On Einstein Friday 9am-12pm

• John Stachel, Boston University

• Jürgen Renn, Boston University

• Robert Schulmann, Boston University

• On Lorentz

  Anne Kox, University of Amsterdam and Einstein Papers, Boston University

• Chairman: Jaakko Hintikka, Boston University

Friday 1:30pm-4:30pm

• On Wittgenstein

  Sir Anthony Kenny, Oxford University

• On Wittgenstein

  Jaakko Hintikka, Boston University

• On Leibniz

  Heinrich Schepers, University of Münster

• On Gödel

  John W. Dawson, Pennsylvania State University, York

Aristotelian Self-Evidence and Aristotelian Epistemology

April 6, 1993
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• Robin Smith, Kansas State University

  Commentator: William Wians, Boston University

  Chairman: Charles Griswold, Boston University

Carnap, Quine, and the Limits of Naturalized Epistemology

April 13, 1993
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• Sahotra Sarkar, Boston University

  Commentator: Abner Shimony, Boston University

  Chairman: Robert S. Cohen, Boston University

Ethics, Earth, and Technology: Nature as a Moral Category

April 20, 1993
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• Eric Katz, New Jersey Institute of Technology

  Commentator: Peter Buck, Harvard University

  Chairman: Ghita Holmstrom-Hintakka

Divine Will and Mathematical Truth: On Contingency and Necessity on Gassendi and Descartes

April 27, 1993
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• Margaret Osler, University of Calgary

  Commentator: Klaus Brinkmann, Boston University

  Chairman: Alfred Tauber, Boston University

Historicism: Theories of Science and of History A Symposium

April 27, 1993
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

Afternoon Session 2:30-5:30pm

• Ulrich Rösenberg, Institute of the History of Science, Berlin

• David Carr, Emory University

• Tom Rockmore, Duquesne University

• Chairman: Jaakko Hintikka, Boston University

Evening Session 8-10pm

• Philip Kitcher, University of California, San Diego

• Joseph Margolis, Temple University

• Chairman: Robert Cohen, Boston University

Conceptual Issues in Immunology: Experimental and Clinical Foundations A Symposium

May 5-6, 1993
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

Wednesday

• Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University

• Arthur Silverstein, Johns Hopkins University

• Horace Judson, Stanford University

• Barbara Rosencranz, Harvard University

• Anne-Marie Moulin, INSERM, Paris

• Thomas Soderqvist, Roskilde University

• Chairman: Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University

Thursday

• Alberto Cambrosio, McGill University

• Peter Keating, University of Quebec

• Pauline Mazumdar, Victoria College, Toronto

• Harry Smit, Rijksuniversiteit Limburg (Maastricht)

• Ilana Löwy, INSERM, Paris

• Craig Stillwell, Michigan State University

• Chairman: Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University