Archives: 1999–2000

Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
40th Annual Program

 

From Laboratory to Product: Conceptual Strategies in Industrial Innovation

September 27, 1999
2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Deborah Stroud Massachusetts General Hospital

Industrial Innovation: A Historical Perspective

James Utterback Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Technology of Technology Management: A Practitioners Perspective

John Bush Gillette Company

Science and Technology Management: The Individual and the Organization

Gerald Gordon Boston University

Epistemological Musings

October 12–13, 1999
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Vadim Sadovsky Institute of Systems Research, Russian Academy of Science

Alexandre Bogdanov’s Empiriomonism and Tektology

Karl Popper and Russia

Evolutionary Epistemology

Intuition in Mathematics

October 21, 1999
2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: David Kazhdan Harvard University

The Obviousness of Elementary Arithmetic

Charles Parsons Harvard University

The Theory-Ladenness of Intuitions

Jaakko Hintikka Boston University

On Mathematical Modeling of The Mind

November 2, 1999
1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Robert Richardson University of Cincinnatti

A Mathematical Model of Intentionality

Sunny Auyang

Emergence, Causality and Mathematics in the Brain Sciences

John Symons Boston University

How the Cerebral Cortex Works

Stephen Grossberg Boston University

Large Scale Models of Mind

Marvin Minsky Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Epistemology of Testimony

November 10, 1999
1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Word Giving, Word Taking

Catherine Elgin Harvard University

Trust, Confidence and Testimony

Adam Seligman Boston University

Science and Values in Legal Proceedings

Nicholas Ashford Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Building Epistemic Ladders between Non-experts: Some Methodological Questions

Scott Brewer Harvard University

Inductive Metaphysics: Why Philosophers Should Take Another Look at Quantum Mechanics

December 1, 1999
4 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Commentator: John Stachel Boston University

Christoph Lehner Einstein Papers Project, Boston University

Poincaré On Convention

January 24, 2000
4 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Commentator: Judd Webb Boston University

Yemima ben Menachem Hebrew University

Hobbes On Science

February 2, 2000
2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Hobbes on Language

Anat Biletzki Tel Aviv University

Hobbes on Rationality

Bernard Gert Dartmouth College

Hobbes on Skepticism

Richard Tuck Harvard University

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

Reflectons on Twentieth Century History and Philosophy of Science

February 14, 2000
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Robert S. Cohen Boston University

Morning Session, 10 a.m. – Noon

  • From Context to Construction: Changing Alliances in the History of Science

    I.B. Cohen Harvard University

  • TBA

    Arthur Fine Northwestern University

Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

  • What Happened to Clio-Urania?

    Gerald Holton Harvard University

  • TBA

    Hilary Putnam Harvard University

  • Philosophy, Physics and Psychology: A Twentieth Century Tale of Entanglement

    Patrick Suppes Stanford University

Husserl’s Logical Investigations

March 27, 2000
8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Morning Session, 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

  • Introduction: Daniel O. Dahlstrom Boston University

  • First Investigation

    Dagfinn Føllesdal Stanford University

  • Second Investigation

    Gail Soffer New School for Social Reserach, New York

  • Third Investigation

    John Drummond Fordham University and St. Mary’s College

Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

  • Fourth Investigation

    J.H. Mohanty Temple University

  • Fifth Investigation

    Richard Cobb-Stevens Boston College

  • Sixth Investigation

    Robert Sokolowski The Catholic University of America

Untimely Musings: Nietzsche’s and The Ideal of Scienctific Truth

April 24–25, 2000

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

Moderator: Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University

Session I

Monday, 10 a.m. – Noon

  • Nietzsche’s Critical Path and the Highway of Science

    Holger Schmid University of Halle-Wittenberg

  • Science in the New Century: Banal Utopia or Tragic Recompense?

    Barry Allen McMaster University

Session II

Monday, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

  • Gay Science

    Robert Pippin University of Chicago

  • Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Indifference

    Robin Small Monash University, Australia

  • Nietzsche’s Philosophy as Criticism of Truth and Science

    Walter Zimmerli Phillipps University, Marburg

Session III

Tuesday, 10 a.m. – Noon

  • How Nietzsche Became What He Was—and Was Not

    Daniel Conway Pennsylvania State University

  • Nietzsche and Anthropology

    Alphonso Lingis Pennsylvania State University

Session IV

Tuesday, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

  • Nietzschean Cognitivism

    Richard Schacht University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Nietzsche’s Critique of Truth as the Link Between Analytic and Continental Modalities of Philosophy Round-table Discussion

    Babette Babich Fordham University

Max Planck and The Quantum

May 3, 2000
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Sponsored by Dibner Fund, through the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology

Moderator: Laszlo Tisza Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Emeritus

Morning Session, 9 a.m. – Noon

  • Planck’s Derivation of His Black Body Radiation Law Revisited

    Michel Janssen Boston University

  • Helmholtz, Planck and Berliner Theory

    Edvard Jurkowitz University of Chicago

  • The Centenary of What? The Historians Disagreement over the Meaning of Planck’s Quanta

    Olivier Darrigol CNRS, Paris

Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

  • The Institutional and Experimental Background of Planck’s Radiation Law

    Dieter Hoffman Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

  • Exploring the Limits of Classical Physics: Planck, Einstein, and the Structure of a Scientific Revolution

    Jürgen Renn Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

  • Wien and Einstein React to the Planck Spectrum: Where is the Discontinuity?

    John Stachel Boston University