Archives: 2000–2001

Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
41st Annual Program

 

Protecting Human Research Subjects: The Challenge of Informed Consent and Risk Management

October 4, 2000
1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Conference Auditorium, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: David Berndt Boston University

Protecting the Rights and Welfare of Research Subjects: Lessons from Twenty-five Years of Federal Regulations on Informed Consent and Peer Review

George Annas Boston University

Protecting Human Subjects in the Shadow of the Holocaust: From Nuremberg through Tuskegee to the Human Genome Project

Michael Grodin Boston University

Avoiding Misrepresentations and Material Omissions: A Legal Perspective on Protection of Human Subjects

Susan Frey Boston University

Subjects Who Are Incapable of Giving Consent: The Legal and Ethical Issues

Leonard Glantz Boston University

Roundtable

Referee: Peter Doeringer Boston University

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

Constructivism and The Courts

Monday and Tuesday, October 16-17, 2000
2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Constructivism and The Courts

Monday, October 16, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

  • Law’s Knowledge: Science and Evidence in American Litigation

    Sheila Jasanoff Harvard University

  • Litigation Science: How Much Science? How Much Advocacy?

    Joseph Cecil Federal Judicial Center

  • Is the Legal ‘Cause-in-fact’ in Fact a Cause?

    David Ozonoff Boston University

Falsifiability Revisited: The Daubert Case and Beyond

Tuesday, October 17, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

  • The Scientific Issues that Prompted the Daubert Lawsuit

    Kenneth Rothman Boston University

  • The Place for Reasoned Speculation in Generating Scientific and Medical Innovation

    David Horrobin Medical Hypotheses

  • Popper, Daubert, and Kuhn

    Mark Notturno Boston University

Beliefs of Science: An Anthropological Perspective

October 23, 2000
1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

The Nature of Scientific Belief: Anthropological Perspectives

Byron Good Harvard Medical School

All Science Is Social Science: Belief Structures and Background Assumptions

Paul Root-Wolpe University of Pennsylvania

Science as Cognitive Process

Robert Rubenstein Syracuse University

Escaping the ‘Skeptical Bog’ with Liberty Intact: Knowledge as One Kind of Belief, and Science as One Kind of Rationality

David Hufford Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University

The Analytic Tradition: A Tribute to Burton Dreben

Co-sponsored with the Philosophy Department of Harvard University and The Blossom Fund History of Logic
October 26–27, 2000
9 a.m. – 5 p.m. each day
Alumni Lounge, 7th Floor
Office of Development and Alumni Relations
Boston University
599 Commonwealth Avenue

History of Logic

Thursday, 9 a.m. – Noon

  • Moderator: Stanley Rosen Boston University

  • Introduction: Warren Goldfarb Harvard University

  • Skolem Redux

    William Hart University of Illinois, Chicago

  • The Empty Set, the Singleton, and the Ordered Pair

    Aki Kanamori Boston University

  • Realism and the Debate on Impredicativity, 1917–44

    Charles Parsons Harvard University

Wittgenstein I

Thursday, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

  • Moderator: Dennis Berkey Boston University

  • Das Überwinden: Anti-Metaphysical Readings of the Tractatus

    Warren Goldfarb Harvard University

  • Wittgenstein

    Hilary Putnam Harvard University

  • Silence, Voices, Noises

    Stanley Cavell Harvard University

Wittgenstein II

Friday, 9 a.m. – Noon

  • Moderator: Anat Biletzki Tel Aviv University

  • Reading Wittgenstein’s On Certainty

    Edward Minar University of Arkansas

  • Wittgenstein After Wittgenstein

    Andrew Lugg University of Ottawa

  • Wittgenstein’s Epistemology

    Jaakko Hintikka Boston University

Carnap and Quine

Friday, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

  • Moderator: Charles Griswold Boston University

  • Reflections

    Peter Hylton University of Illinois, Chicago

  • Nonsense

    Thomas Ricketts University of Pennsylvania

  • The Legacy of Ernst Mach: Pragmatism and Logical Empiricism

    Michael Friedman University of Indiana

Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato’s Theory of Number

November 2, 2000
4 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: David Roochnick Boston University

John Cleary Boston College

Commentator: Judson Webb Boston University

Perspectives On The Philosophy of Jaakko Hintikka

November 13, 2000
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Session I, 10 a.m. – Noon

  • Introduction: Dennis Berkey Boston University

  • Moderator: Robert S. Cohen Boston University

  • March 1928: On the Philosophical Relation Between Brouwer and Wittgenstein

    Mathieu Marion University of Ottawa

  • Hintikkian Intuition

    Judson Webb Boston University

Session II, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

  • Moderator: Charles Griswold Boston University

  • Hintikka on Epistemic Logic and Epistemology

    Risto Hilpinen University of Miami

  • Hintikka on Kant and Frege on the Verb ‘to Be’

    Juliet Floyd Boston University

  • Last Words

    Hans Sluga University of California, Berkeley

Randomized Clinical Trials: Historical Origins and Future Perspectives

Co-sponsored by the Dibner Fund, through the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology
November 15, 2000
2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Alfred I. Tauber Boston University

Controlled Clinical Trials: Past, Present, and Future

Louis Lasagna Tufts University

Gold Standard vs. Golden Calf: The Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial in Historical and Scientific Perspective

Ted Kaptchuck Harvard Medical School

Finding a Home for the Randomized Trial in Global Medicine

Wayne Jonas Uniform Services University of the Health Sciences

The Things Between Relations

January 25, 2001
4 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Commentator: Robert S. Cohen Boston University

John Stachel Boston University

Animal Rights in The Eighteenth Century

Co-sponsored by the Dibner Fund, through the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology
February 2, 2001
2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Alfred I. Tauber Boston University

‘The Cry of Nature’: The Changing Meaning of Animal Rights in the Eighteenth Century

Aaron Garrett Boston University

Animals and Public Anatomy in the Early Eighteenth Century

Anita Guerrini University of California, Santa Barbara

Biological Warfare: The Role of Public Discourse

February 26, 2001
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

  • The American Cover-up of Japanese Biological Warfare War Crimes, and the Long-Term Ethical Consequences

    Sheldon Harris California State University, Northridge

  • Biological Warfare During the Korean War: Rhetoric and Reality

    Conrad Crane United States Military Academy, West Point

Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

  • Preventing Biological Warfare: The World Order Challenge

    Richard Falk Princeton University

  • Current Understandings of the Biological Warfare Threat to the United States: Ethical/Moral Implications

    Milton Leitenberg University of Maryland

  • Averting the Hostile Exploitation of Biotechnology

    Matthew Meselson Harvard University

The Science of The Moral Sciences: A Boston University Symposium

Co-sponsored by the Dibner Fund, through the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology
March 1, 2001
2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Henry Allison Boston University

From ‘Demonstrative’ to ‘Empirical’ Science of Morals

Knud Haakonssen Boston University

The Deductive Science of Morals and the Geometry of the Passions

Aaron Garrett Boston University

Moral Realism and the Construction of Value

Charles Griswold Boston University

Kant on the sciences

Co-sponsored by the Dibner Fund, through the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology
April 12, 2001
2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: John Silber Boston University

Kant’s Reflective Judgments and the Application of Logic to Nature

Henry Allison Boston University

Transcendental Philosophy and Mathematical Physics

Michael Friedman University of Indiana

Natural Ends and the End of Nature: Kant on the Experience of Organisms

Paul Guyer University of Pennsylvania