Archives: 1997-1998

Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
38th Annual Program

 

In Memoriam: Marx Wartofsky

September 22, 1997
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Morning Session, 9 a.m. – Noon

  • Moderator: Joseph Polak Hillel Foundation, Boston University
  • Embodied Politics

    Carol Gould Stevens Institute of Technology

  • Art as a Reflective Praxis

    Gregg M. Horowitz Vanderbilt University

  • Towards a Cultural Historical Epistemology of Dreaming

    Gary Smith Einstein Forum, Potsdam

Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

  • Moderator: Robert S. Cohen Boston University, Emeritus
  • “Representations” in the Natural Sciences

    Stephen Toulmin University of Southern California

  • Critical Realism

    John Stachel Boston University, Emeritus

  • Naturalizing and Historicizing Normativity

    Alasdair MacIntyre Duke University

The Fate of Melancholy in the Age of Depression

September 25, 1997
2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Robert S. Cohen Boston University, Emeritus

Depression and Disappointment: A Melancholy View of Love

Michael Vincent Miller Boston Gestalt Institute

The Cruelty of Depression: On Melancholy

Jacques Hassoun Cercle Freudien, Paris

Melancholy and Depression: To Treat or Not to Treat

Marianne Kardos Harvard Medical School

Implications of Human Cloning: A Boston University Workshop

September 29, 1997
1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Conference Auditorium, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Cosponsored with the Health Law Department, Boston University School of Public Health

Moderator: Michael Grodin School of Public Health, Department of Philosophy

George Annas School of Public Health and School of Law
Charles Delisi College of Engineering
Ruth Hubbard Department of Molecular Biology, Harvard University
David Roochnik Department of Philosophy
Roger Shattuck The University Professors, Emeritus
Alan Speight Department of Philosophy and Core Curriculum

Fun and Games: Windows Into The Mind

October 9, 1997
2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

What’s Luck Got To Do with It?: Games and Gambling in Medieval Spain

Dwayne Carpenter Boston College

Joycean Mind at Play

John Kidd Boston University

Philosophy of Chemistry: An Emerging Discipline

November 5, 1997
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Morning Session, 10 a.m. – Noon

  • The Emergence of the Philosophy of Chemistry

    Lee McIntrye Colgate University

  • The Self-Image of the Chemist as Philosopher-Historian

    Erwin Hiebert Harvard University, Emeritus

Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

  • Chemistry and Sellars’s Manifest Image

    Japp Van Brakel University of Leuven

  • Butlerov’s Edict: The Timeless, the Transient and Representation of Chemical Structure

    Steve Weininger Worchester Polytechnic

  • Realism, Essentialism and Intrinsic Properties: The Case of Molecular Shape

    Jeffry Ramsey Oregon State University

Thomas Kuhn Beyond His Domain: Influences in The Humanities and Social Sciences

November 20, 1997
Conference Auditorium, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Alfred I. Tauber Boston University

Morning Session, 9 a.m. – Noon

  • Incommensurable Cultures and Their “Ethnosciences”

    Meera Nanda Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • A French Resistance?

    Jeffrey Mehlman Boston University

  • Paradigms Lost: The Artworld and Kuhn

    Caroline Jones Boston University

Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

  • Progress and Its Discontents: Conformity and Change in Economic Science

    Glenn Loury Boston College

  • Kuhn’s Impact on the Practice of Science

    Stephen Jay Gould Harvard University

Making Medical Decisions at The Bedside: Critical Questions

December 2, 1997
Keefer Auditorium
BU School of Medicine
80 East Concord St.

Morning Session, 9 a.m. – Noon

  • How Do Physicians View Their Decisions?

    Jerome Kassirer New England Journal of Medicine

  • Do Algorithms and Guidelines Limit Thinking?

    Carmi Margolis Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

  • Does Medical Ethics Affect Individual Decision Making?

    Shimon Glick Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

  • Is Decision Analysis Relevant at the Bedside?

    Stephen Pauker New England Medical Center

  • How to Use the Bedside to Teach Clinical Decision Making

    Richard Kopelman New England Medical Center

  • Has Decision-Making Psychology Impacted Bedside Choices by Patients and Physicians?

    Arthur Elstein Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine, University of Illinois

  • How Should the Patient be Involved in Clinical Decision Making?

    Susan Pauker Harvard Medical School

Can Science Explain Intentionality?

December 8, 1997
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Morning Session, 9 a.m. – Noon

  • Consciousness, Experience and Intentionality

    Karl Pribram Stanford University, Emeritus

  • Chaos and Poincaré’s Intentionality: A Physicist’s Perspective

    Michel Baranger Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Merleau-Ponty’s Critique of Mental Representation

    Hubert L. Dreyfus University of California at Berkeley

Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

  • The Biology of Consciousness and Intentionality

    Walter Freeman University of California at Berkeley

  • Representation and Reconstruction in Sensory Perception

    Mriganka Sur Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Can Science Explain Intentionality?

    Tien Yu Cao Boston University

Theories of Meaning

January 21, 1998
2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: W.V. Quine, Harvard University, Emeritus

Jaakko Hintikka Boston University

Donald Davidson The University of California at Berkeley, Emeritus

The Robert S. Cohen Forum: Contemporary Issues in Science Studies

Comparative Historiography in the Life Sciences

February 5–April 21, 1998
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.
George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Thursday, February 5th, 1998 | 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)

  • On the Coexistence of Different Time Frames in Historical Accounts of Scientific Practices

    Alberto Cambrosio McGill University

Tuesday, February 10th, 1998 | 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)

  • Method and Knowledge in Natural History

    Eileen Crist Virginia Polytechnic

Thursday, February 12th, 1998 | 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)

  • Contextualizing Scientific Ideas: The Comparative Method

    Thomas Glick Boston University

Thursday, February 19, 1998 | 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)

  • Constructing Disease in the Historiography of Medicine

    Allan Brandt Harvard University

Thursday, February 26th, 1998 | 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)

  • A Book of Life? How DNA became a Language

    Lily Kay Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thursday, March 5th, 1998 | 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)

  • Reconstituting Resistance: The Ecological View from Theobold Smith (1859–1934) to René Dubos (1901–1982)

    Barbara Rosenkrantz Harvard University, Emeritus

Tuesday, March 24th, 1998 | 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)

  • Tracking the Investigative Trail: Where It Can Lead

    Larry Holmes Yale University

Thursday, March 26th, 1998 | 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)

  • Consequences in Historical Epistemology for the History and Sociology of the Biomedical Sciences

    Peter Keating Montreal University

Thursday, April 9th, 1998 | 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Conference Auditorium, George Sherman Union (GSU)

  • High Culture and Fish Culture: Thoughts on the Cultural Foundations of American Biology

    Philip Pauly Rutgers University

Thursday, April 16th, 1998 | 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Conference Auditorium, George Sherman Union (GSU)

  • Experimental Systems and Models in Twentieth-century Biomedicine

    Angela N. Creager Princeton University

Tuesday, April 21st, 1998 | 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Conference Auditorium, George Sherman Union (GSU)

  • Historiography after Kuhn: From Metaphysical Musings to Laboratory Practices

    Alfred I. Tauber Boston University

Origins of Analytic Philosophy

April 23, 1998
Conference Auditorium, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Burton Dreben Boston University

Morning Session, 9 a.m. – Noon

  • David Pears University of Oxford

  • Frege and the Early Wittgenstein

    P.M.S. Hacker University of Oxford

Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

  • On the Theory of Symbolism, 1879–1930

    Juliet Floyd Boston University

  • Frege and Russell

    Peter Hylton University of Illinois at Chicago

  • To be announced

    Cora Diamond University of Virginia

When Einstein Got The Wrong Result: The Case of The Einstein/Besso Manuscript

May 5, 1998
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Michel Janssen Boston University