Archives: 2010–2011
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
51st Annual Program
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- September 24th, 2010 | Empiricism, Then and Now
- October 22nd, 2010 | The Robert S. Cohen Forum: 50 Years of the Center for Philosophy and History of Science
- November 12th, 2010 | The Alfred I. Tauber Forum: The Race Debate in Public Health Genomics
- February 11th, 2011 | Animal Minds: Methodological Issues in Cognitive Ethology
- March 25th, 2011 | Reduction, Explanation, and the Thermodynamic Limit
- April 15th, 2011 | The Karbank Symposium in Environmental Philosophy: The Science, Ethics, and Politics of Climate Change
- May 6th, 2011 | On Hertz’s Mechanics and Schrödinger’s Equation
Empiricism, Then and Now
Friday, September 24, 2010
4:00pm-6:00pm
Barristers Hall, Law School
765 Commonwealth Ave.
Pierre Wagner Philosophy, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Research Fellow, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University
Commentator: Cheryl Chen Philosophy, Harvard University
The Robert S. Cohen Forum: Contemporary Issues in Science Studies
50 Years of the Center for Philosophy and History of Science
Friday, October 22, 2010
9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Barristers Hall, Law School
765 Commonwealth Ave.
Morning Session, 9:30am-12:30pm
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From Vienna Circle to Harvard Square and to Boston University
Gerald Holton Physics and History of Science, Harvard University
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Founding the Center and Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Robert Cohen Philosophy and Physics, Boston University
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You Must Remember This: Highlights from the Last 50 Years
John Stachel Center for Einstein Studies and Physics, Boston University
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Reminiscences
Abner Shimony Philosophy and Physics, Boston University
Afternoon Session, 2:00pm-5:00pm
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American Philosophers of Science At Work in the 1950s: Philipp Frank, Ernest Nagel, and the Prospects for an Empirical History of Philosophy of Science in America
Alan Richardson Philosophy, University of British Columbia
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Creating the Disciplinary Space of Philosophy of Science: A History of the PSA before 1970
Heather Douglas Philosophy, University of Tennessee
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Philosophy of Science Breaks Loose: Some Milestones
Ernan McMullin History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame
The Alfred I. Tauber Forum:
The Race Debate in Public Health Genomics
Friday, November 12, 2010
Barristers Hall, Law School, 765 Commonwealth Ave.
Morning Session, 9:00am–12:00pm
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Reexamining the Biological Race Debate
Quayshawn Spencer Philosophy, University of San Francisco
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Race and IQ in a Genomic Age
Sarah Richardson History of Science & Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
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What is the ‘Environment’ in Gene-Environment Interaction?: Implications for Health Disparities Research
Sara Shostak Sociology, Brandeis University
Afternoon Session, 2:00pm–5:00pm
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Race for Cures: Ethnic Drugs as Public Health?
Ruha Benjamin Sociology, Boston University
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Excavating Difference: Race and Drugs in the Age of Personal Genomics
Sandra Soo-Jin Lee Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University School of Medicine
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Race and the Other Possibilities for Personalized Medicine
David Jones Science, Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Animal Minds: Methodological Issues in Cognitive Ethology
Friday, February 11, 2011
Barristers Hall, Law School
765 Commonwealth Ave.
Morning Session, 9:00am–12:00pm
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What the Red Sox Can Teach Us about Studying Animal Minds
Eric Saidel Dept of Philosophy, George Washington University
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Studies on the Cognitive Ethology of Grey Parrots
Irene M. Pepperberg Dept of Psychology, Harvard University and Brandeis University
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Knowledge of Other Minds: What’s Science Got to Do With It?
Dale Jamieson Dept of Philosophy, Dept of Environmental Studies and Law School, New York University
Afternoon Session, 2:00pm–5:00pm
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Reflections of Animal Minds
Diana Reiss Dept of Psychology, Hunter College and the Biopsychology & Behavioral Neuroscience Program, The Graduate Center, CUNY
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Animal Minds and Animal Emotions: What We Know, How We Know It and Why It Really Matters
Marc Bekoff Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder
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Models, Mechanisms, and Animal Minds
Colin Allen Dept of History & Philosophy of Science and Program in Cognitive Science, Indiana University, Bloomington
Reduction, Explanation, and the Thermodynamic Limit
Friday, March 25, 2011
1:00pm–5:00pm
The Castle
225 Bay State Road
Limits and the Emergence of Special-Science Properties
Peter Bokulich Dept of Philosophy, Boston University
Two Routes to Metaphysical Emergence in the Thermodynamic Limit
Jessica Wilson Dept of Philosophy, University of Toronto
The Limits of Representation
Laura Ruetsche Dept of Philosophy, University of Michigan
Reductionism, Naturalism, and the Thermodynamic Limit
Sorin Bangu Dept of Philosophy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Karbank Symposium in Environmental Philosophy:
The Science, Ethics, and Politics of Climate Change
Friday, April 15th, 2011
2:00pm–6:00pm
Barristers Hall, Law School
765 Commonwealth Ave.
Scientifically Flawed Solutions to Climate Change
Kristin Shrader-Frechette Dept of Philosophy and Dept of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame
What Humanists Need to Know About the Science of Climate Change
Robert K. Kaufmann Department of Geography and Environment & Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Boston University
International Climate Ethics in a Time of Uncertain Climate Policy
Andrew Light Dept of Philosophy, George Mason University and Center for American Progress
On Hertz’s Mechanics and Schrödinger’s Equation
Friday, May 6th, 2011
4:00pm–6:00pm
Department of Philosophy
Room 525
745 Commonweath Avenue
Ricardo Lopes Coelho Visiting Fellow, Center for Einstein Studies, and Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University
Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Lisbon
Privatdozent, Technical University of Berlin