Archives: 2004-2005

Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
45th Annual Program

September 20, 2004 | Trust in the Medical Setting: The Challenge of Corporate Interests
September 27, 2004 | The Impact of Microscopy and Telescopy on 17th-century Philosophy
October 5, 2004 | The Seven Virtues of Biographies
October 14, 2004 | The Overdue Intellectual Rehabilitation of Boris Hessen: Marxist Historiography of Science
October 22, 2004 | Seventeenth-Century Mathematics and Its Philosophical Context
November 8, 2004 | Maimonides: Philosopher and Scientist
November 22, 2004 | Wittgenstein and the Inexpressible
December 6, 2004 | The Einstein Centenary (Second of the Einstein Centennial Series)
January 31, 2005 | What is the Real Logic of Quantum Theory?
February 14, 2005 | Structural Approaches in Philosophy of Physics
February 25, 2005 | The Findlay Lecture: Nature and Value
March 21, 2005 | The Robert S. Cohen Forum: Challenges from Philosophy of Science for Philosophy of Mind

Trust in the Medical Setting: The Challenge of Corporate Interests

September 20, 2004
1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Adam Seligman Boston University

Introduction: The Moral Calculus of Trustworthiness

Alfred I. Tauber Boston University

Trust, Law, and Medicine

Mark Hall Wake Forest University

Trust in Organized Medicine

Russell Hardin New York University

Trust in the Managed Care Medical Setting

Wendy Mariner Boston University

The Impact of Microscopy and Telescopy on 17th-century Philosophy

September 27, 2004
2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Aaron Garrett Boston University

Enthusiasm and Resistance: Philosophers’ Reactions to Early Microscopical Discoveries

Catherine Wilson University of British Columbia

Scholastic Responses to Galileo’s Telescopic Observations

Roger Ariew Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Microscopical Eyes and the Metaphysical Imagination: Locke and Leibniz on the Sub-Visible

Daniel Garber Princeton University

The Seven Virtues of Biographies

October 5, 2004
4 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Alfred Tauber Boston University

Thomas Söderqvist University of Copenhagen

The Overdue Intellectual Rehabilitation of Boris Hessen: Marxist Historiography of Science

October 14, 2004
4 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Nir Eisikovits Boston University

Gideon Freudenthal Tel Aviv University

Seventeenth-Century Mathematics and Its Philosophical Context

October 22, 2004
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Judson Webb Boston University

A Clockwork Universe

Mark Wilson University of Pittsburgh

Descartes’ Early Mathematics and Reading the Regulae

Ken Manders University of Pittsburgh

Maimonides: Philosopher and Scientist

November 8, 2004
9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Commemorating the 800th anniversary of the death of Moshe ben Maimon, more commonly known as Maimonides, this colloquium is jointly sponsored with Boston University’s Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies.

Moderator: Steven Katz Boston University

Morning Session, 9 a.m. – Noon

Maimonides’ Doubts about Astronomy

Kenneth Seeskin Northwestern University
In the Inner Chamber of the Ruler’s Palace: Maimonides’ Physics

Josef Stern University of Chicago
Maimonides and the Sufi Strand in Jewish Thought

Diana Lobel Boston University
Maimonides and Maimonideanism in Southern France: On the Growth and Development of a Philosophical Tradition

Fred Rosner Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 6 p.m.

The Medical Legacy of Maimonides

James Robinson University of Chicago
Philosophy and Revelation in Alfarabi and Maimonides

Carlos Fraenkel McGill University
Arousing Suspicion Against a Prejudice: Leo Strauss and the Study of Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed

Michael Zank Boston University

Wittgenstein and the Inexpressible

November 22, 2004
2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Robert Briscoe Boston University

Wittgenstein, Cavell, Travis, and the Conditions of ‘Saying That’

Avner Baz Tufts University

Wittgenstein, Gödel, and Showing vs. Saying

Juliet Floyd Boston University

Showing

Warren Goldfarb Harvard University

The Einstein Centenary

December 6, 2004
7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue
(Second of the Einstein Centennial Series)

Moderator: Debra Daugherty Boston University

Einstein’s Miraculous Year

John Stachel Boston University

Creative Moment: Making Special Relativity

Alberto Martínez California Institute of Technology

What is the Real Logic of Quantum Theory?

January 31, 2005
4 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Peter Bokulich Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology

Jaakko Hintikka Boston University

Structural Approaches in Philosophy of Physics

February 14, 2005
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Debra Daugherty Boston University

Morning Session, 10 a.m. – Noon

Structural Realism: A Neo-Kantian Perspective

Michela Massimi Cambridge University
Structuralism and the Objects of Physics

Katherine Brading University of Notre Dame

Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

A Structural Approach to Intertheoretic Relations

Alisa Bokulich Boston University
Structures and Duality

Elena Castellani University of Florence
Shared Structure Need Not Be Shared Set-Structure

Elaine Landry University of Calgary

The Findlay Lecture:

Nature and Value

February 25, 2005
4 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Charles Griswold Boston University

Kenneth Winkler Wellesley College and Spring 2005 John Findlay Visiting Professor at Boston University

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

Challenges from Philosophy of Science for Philosophy of Mind

March 21, 2005
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

The Robert S. Cohen Forum, an annual lecture series, explores selected controversies in philosophy, history, and sociology of science that provide wide resonances in other academic disciplines. In an intellectual context accessible to the nonspecialist, a single theme is discussed with the aim of establishing the foundations, conceptual boundaries, and interdisciplinary implications of the given topic. This series is named in honor of Professor Robert S. Cohen, who co-founded with Professor Marx Wartofsky the Boston Colloquium and served as its director for more than thirty years.

Moderator: Stephen Grossberg Boston University