Archives: 2005–2006

Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
46th Annual Program

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Medicine’s story: limits of the medical record

September 12, 2005
2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
The Castle, Boston University
225 Bay State Road

Moderator: Daniel Dugan Emanuel Medical Center

Taking Medical Ethics Seriously

Alfred I. Tauber Boston University

Developing a Patient-Centered Medical Record

William Donnelly Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine

Pathways To and From the Medical Record

Lawrence Weed Problem-Knowledge Coupler Corporation

On the Nature of Science

September 19, 2005
4 p.m.
The Castle, Boston University
225 Bay State Road

Moderator: William Devlin Boston University

Paul Hoyningen-Huene University of Hannover

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

Values, Ethics, and Medical Science: The New medical school curriculum

September 22–23, 2005
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Thursday Morning Session, 9 a.m. – Noon

  • Moderator: Marjorie Clay University of Massachusetts

  • Introduction: Alfred I. Tauber Boston University

  • Discontinuity of Patient Care: Implications for Medical Training

    Vineet Arora University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

  • Ecology of Biomedical Science and Ethics

    Richard Gunderman Indiana University School of Medicine

  • Doctors’ Mistakes: The Matrixation of the Patient and Related Category Errors in Medical Education

    Randolph Schiffer Texas Tech University

Thursday Afternoon Session, Part I, 1 – 2 p.m.

  • Moderator: Richard Cooper University of Pennsylvania

  • The New Formal and Informal Curriculum at Indiana University: Overview and Five-Year Review

    Debra Litzelman Indiana University School of Medicine

Thursday Afternoon Session, Part II, 2 – 6:30 p.m.

  • Moderator: Eugene Corbett University of Virginia

  • Improving Medical Education in the Early 21st Century

    Thomas Glick Harvard Medical School

  • Using Unannounced Standardized Applicants to Change Admissions Officers’ Interviewing Skills

    Lynda Means Indiana University School of Medicine

  • The “A” Plan: A Developmental Path to Medical Education Reform

    David Cole Independent Scholar

  • In-Depth Learning Experiences Enable Full Integration of the Human Dimensions of Medicine

    Steven Kanter University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Friday Morning Session, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

  • Moderator: Michael Whitcomb Association of American Medical Colleges

  • Are We Willing to Look Inside?

    Sharon Dobie University of Washington

  • A Conscience-Sensitive Approach to Ethics and Teaching Caring Attitudes

    Margaret Gaffney Indiana University School of Medicine

  • Enter the Doctor: Sociodrama in Medical Education

    Linda Welsh University of Pennsylvania

  • The Overlooked Curriculum: The Emotional Component in Ethical Conduct

    Arlene Brewster Northeast Ohio University College of Medicine

  • Learning the Practice of Ethics: Institutionalization of Lived Ethics in Medical Education

    Robert Russell Medical College of Wisconsin

C. H. Waddington: A Centenary Celebration

October 7, 2005
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Morning Session, 10 a.m. – Noon

  • Moderator: Constantinos Mekios Boston University

  • Behind Appearance: Waddington on the Relationship of the Arts to the Sciences

    Robert Root-Bernstein Michigan State University

  • Waddington, Man and Metaphor: The Epigenetic Landscape

    Brian Hall Dalhousie University

Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

  • Moderator: Gal Kober Boston University

  • The Strategy of the Organism

    Denis Walsh University of Toronto

  • Did Waddington Really Understand Canalization?

    Richard Lewontin Harvard University

  • C. H. Waddington and the Transfer of Information: Flows and Networks in Embryos and in Research

    Scott Gilbert Swarthmore College + Katherine McCain Drexel University

Making Molecules Matter: Topics in the Philosophy of Chemistry

October 20, 2005
2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
The Castle, Boston University
225 Bay State Road

Moderator: Lee McIntyre Boston University

What Is a Chemical Property?

Nalini Bhushan Smith College

Calibrating and Constructing Models of Protein Folding

Jeff Ramsey Smith College

What Might Philosophy of Science Look Like If Chemists Built It?

Roald Hoffman Cornell University

University-Industry Relations: Getting Perspective

November 3, 2005
4 p.m.
The Castle, Boston University
225 Bay State Road

Moderator: Alisa Bokulich Boston University

Steven Shapin Harvard University

Commentator: Sheldon Krimsky Tufts University

Informational Models in 1950s Selective Theories of Antibody Formation

November 14, 2005
4 p.m.
The Castle, Boston University
225 Bay State Road

Moderator: Alfred I. Tauber Boston University

Andrea Grignolio Boston University

Commentator: Scott Podolsky Harvard University

Einstein: A Man for the Next Millennium?

December 5, 2005
7 p.m.
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Peter Bokulich Boston University

John Stachel Boston University

The Legacy of J. J. Gibson

January 30, 2006
2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
The Castle, Boston University
225 Bay State Road

Moderator: Luciana Garbayo Boston University

Vehicles of Perception

Robert Briscoe Loyola University

Perception Without Representation

vAlva Noë University of California Berkeley

Postulating Perceptual Representations in a Way That Actually Supports Gibson’s Central Insights

Ruth Millikan University of Connecticut

Levinas and Medical Ethics

February 13, 2006
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
The Castle, Boston University
225 Bay State Road

Moderator: Simon Keller Boston University

Vulnerability, Hospitality, and Trust: The Significance of Levinas for an Ethics of Care

Lazare Benaroyo University of Lausanne

Levinas in Bioethics

Peter Kemp The Danish University of Education

“Not to Let the Other Alone:” Levinas on the Responsibility of the Medical Profession for the Suffering and the Dying

Roger Burggraeve Catholic University Leuven

The Self Turned Inside Out: From Autonomy to Hospitality in Bioethics

Laurie Zoloth Northwestern University

Suffering, Responsibility, and Bioethics

Robert Gibbs University of Toronto

Gödel’s Philosophy

February 27, 2006
2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
The Castle, Boston University
225 Bay State Road

Moderator: Juliet Floyd Boston University

Two Observations in the Introduction to Gödel’s Thesis, or Must Meaningful Questions Be Decided?

Juliette Kennedy University of Helsinki

On Data of the Second Kind

Palle Yourgrau Brandeis University

Sets and Monads: On Gödel and Leibniz

Mark van Atten Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Foundations of Quantum Information and Entanglement

March 24–25, 2006
The Photonics Center, Colloquium Room, 9th Floor
Boston University
8 St. Mary’s Street

Friday Morning Session, 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

  • Opening Remarks: Abner Shimony Boston University

  • Moderator: Alisa Bokulich Boston University

  • The Early History of Quantum Entanglement: 1905–1935

    Don Howard University of Notre Dame

  • Entanglement as an Observer-Dependent Notion: Entanglement and Subsystems,
    Entanglement Beyond Subsystems, and All That

    Lorenza Viola Dartmouth College

  • Nonlocality Beyond Quantum Mechanics

    Sandu Popescu University of Bristol, Royal Fort

Friday Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

  • Moderator: Gregg Jaeger Boston University

  • Quantum Information and Entropy

    Leah Henderson Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Information, Immaterialism, Instrumentalism: Old and New in Quantum Information

    Chris Timpson University of Leeds

  • Probabilities from Entanglement: Born’s Rule from Invariance

    Wojciech Zurek Los Alamos National Laboratory

Saturday Morning Session, 9 a.m. – Noon

  • Moderator: Alisa Bokulich Boston University

  • There and Back Again: From Physics to Information Theory and Back

    Wayne Myrvold University of Western Ontario

  • Otherworldly Information Theory

    Hans Halvorson Princeton University

  • Beyond Quantum Theory: Information and Entanglement in General Probabilistic Frameworks

    Lucien Hardy The Perimeter Institute

Saturday Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

  • Moderator: Gregg Jaeger Boston University

  • Relations Between Cryptographic and Physical Principles

    Adrian Kent The Perimeter Institute

  • Quantum Computation: Where Does the Speed-up Come From?

    Jeffrey Bub University of Maryland

  • Experimental Quantum Communication and Quantum Computation with Entangled Photons

    Anton Zeilinger Universität Wien

Darwin: Class, Race, and Gender Equality

April 3, 2006
2p.m. – 5p.m.
The Castle, Boston University
225 Bay State Road

Moderator: Andrew Berry Harvard University

Brains, Blood, and Beauty: Darwin’s Correspondents on Race, Gender, and Class

Joy Harvey Independent Scholar

Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill, and the Origins of the Modern Nature-Nurture Debate

Diane Paul University of Massachusetts

The Natural Economy of Households: Charles Darwin’s Account Books

Janet Browne University College London

Phenomenology and Philosophy of Science

April 10, 2006
2p.m. – 6p.m.
The Castle, Boston University
225 Bay State Road

Moderator: Mirja Hartimo Tufts University

Geometry and the Crisis of European Sciences

Judson Webb Boston University

Hermann Weyl’s Changing Concept of Mathematics

John Stachel Boston University

Foundationalism, Phenomenology, and the Sciences

Walter Hopp Boston University

Husserl’s Incomplete Philosophy of Science

Richard Cobb-Stevens Boston College

Russian and Chinese Fathers of the H-Bomb

April 24, 2006
4p.m. – 6p.m.
Department of Philosophy, Room 525
Boston University
745 Commonwealth Avenue

Moderator: Priscilla McMillan Harvard University

A Russian-American Perspective on the Fathers of the H-Bombs

Gennady Gorelik Boston University

Mao, Qian, Yu, and the Genesis of China’s H-Bomb

Tian Yu Cao Boston University