Archives: 2002-2003

Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
43rd Annual Program

 

Perspectives in Medical Ethics

September 23, 2002
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Peter Schwartz Boston University

Morning Session, 9 a.m. – Noon

  • Historical Ethics—A New Approach for Bioethics?

    Gary Belkin Harvard University

  • Bad Philosophers and Slum Landlords

    Carl Elliott University of Minnesota

Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

  • Medical Ethics and Human Rights: Odd Couple Meant for Each Other?

    George Annas Boston University

  • Autonomy Gone Mad

    Alfred I. Tauber Boston University

  • The Common Good and Private Goods: Can They Be Reconciled?

    Daniel Callahan The Hastings Center

Hume’s Skeptical Science

September 30, 2002
1 p.m – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Knud Haakonsen Boston University

Experience, Common Opinion, and Science in Hume’s Science of Man

Stefan Kalt Boston University

A Skeptical Science?

Robert McCarthy Key School

The Relation of Science and Philosophy in Hume’s Epistemology

Nicholas Capaldi Loyola University New Orleans

Skepticism and Naturalism in Hume’s Science of Man

Don Garrett University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret War Against the World’s Most Famous Scientist

October 3, 2002
7 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Robert S. Cohen Boston University

Fred Jerome Syracuse University, author of The Einstein File

Commentator: John Stachel Boston University

Seventy-Five Years of Complementarity

October 15, 2002
2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: John Stachel Boston University

Black Holes, Complementarity, and Quantum Gravity

Peter Bokulich Boston University

Complementarity in Quantum Field Theory

Hans Halvorson Princeton University

Classical Concepts in Contemporary Quantum Theory

Steve Weinstein Dartmouth College

Phenomenology and Time: On the Occasion of the Publication of Husserl’s Bernau Manuscripts

October 18–19, 2002
The Photonics Center, 9th Floor Colloquium Room
8 St. Mary’s Street

Welcoming Remarks: Daniel Dahlstrom Boston University

Morning Session, 10 a.m. – Noon

  • Moderator: James Dodd New School University

  • Intuition and Time in Husserl and Descartes

    Richard Cobb-Stevens Boston College

  • How Does Time Make All the Difference in the World?—The Bernau Manuscripts and the Analysis of Urzeitigung

    Ronald Bruzina University of Kentucky

  • The Puzzle of Time Consciousness as Both One and Many

    John Brough Georgetown University

  • Time, Consciousness, and the Threat of Infinite Regress

    Dan Zahavi Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen

Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

  • Moderator: Nicolas DeWarren Wellesley College

  • Temporality and Individuation

    Rudolf Bernet Husserl Archief de Leuven

  • Affection, Individuation, Temporality

    Anthony Steinbock Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

  • Roundtable Discussion

Does Biomedicine Entail the Successful Reduction of Pathology to Biology?

November 4, 2002
4 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Alfred I. Tauber Boston University

Peter Keating Université du Québec à Montréal

Conceptual Analysis and Method in Philosophy of Biology

November 15, 2002
1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Alfred I. Tauber Boston University

Conceptual Analysis in the Function Debate and Beyond

Peter Schwartz Boston University

Exaptation and Function

Elisabeth Lloyd Indiana University

Fitness, Probability, and the Principles of Natural Selection

Alex Rosenberg Duke University

Carnap and the Caterpillar

Philip Kitcher Columbia University

The Health of Nations: How Social Inequalities Determine Health Inequalities

December 2, 2002
4 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Peter Schwartz Boston University

Bruce Kennedy Harvard School of Public Health

Have Philosophers Forfeited the Concept of Information?

January 27, 2003
4 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Judson Webb Boston University

Jaakko Hinikka Boston University

The Tempo and Mode of Medical Evolution: The Treatment of Pneumonia with Anti-serum (1892–1942) and the Nature of the Antibiotic “Revolution”

February 3, 2003
4 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Susan Lanzoni Boston University

Scott Podolsky Harvard University

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

Science and Human Values, Revisited— A Boston University Symposium in Honor of Leroy Rouner

February 10, 2003
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Robert C. Neville School of Theology

Morning Session, 10 a.m. – Noon

  • Competing Virtues: Literate Humanism, Scientific Curiosity, and Social Values

    Wesley J. Wildman School of Theology

  • God, Humanity, and the Emergence of the “New Psychology” in America

    Jon H. Roberts Department of History

Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

  • Scepticism: East and West

    Aaron Garrett Department of Philosophy, and David Eckel Department of Religion

  • Do Theoretical Values Change? Kuhn and Longino Revisited

    Alisa Bokulich Department of Philosophy

  • The Paradox of Religion

    Robert S. Cohen Emeritus, Department of Philosophy and Department of Physics

Perspectives on Quantum Gravity: A Tribute to John Stachel

March 6, 2003
9 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

  • A Brief History of Spacetime

    John Stachel Boston University

  • Philosophical Issues in Attempts at a Quantum Theory of Gravity

    Tian Yu Cao Boston University

  • Measurability Analysis and the Search for Observable Consequences in Quantum Gravity

    Giovanni Amelino-Camelia University of Rome La Sapienza

Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

  • Physical Ramifications of Quantum Geometry

    Abhay Ashtakar Pennsylvania State University

  • Spacetime in String Theory

    Brian Greene Columbia University

  • Why Gravity Must Change the Rules of Quantum Mechanics

    Roger Penrose University of Oxford

From Practice to Engagement: Science Studies Addresses Heterogeneous Complexity

March 24, 2003
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Alisa Bokulich Boston University

Morning Session, 10 a.m. – Noon

  • Metaphysical Commitments and Scientific Practice: Reductionism and Holism in Cancer Research

    James Marcum Baylor University

  • To Be Announced

    Sharon Traweek University of California, Los Angeles

  • Reconstructing Unruly Ecological Complexities

    Peter Taylor University of Massachusetts, Boston

Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

  • Experimental Complexities

    Hans-Jorg Rheinberger Max Plank Institute, Berlin

  • Hybrid Controversies: DNA Profiling, Fingerprinting, and the Questionable Scientific Status of Forensic Practice

    Michael Lynch Cornell University

  • Reflections on Studying Practice

    Andrew Pickering University of Illinois