Zilberman’s Modal Methodology: A New Approach to Philosophy-Building

October 18, 1993
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• Helena Gourko, Boston University and University of Minsk

  Commentator: Leon Chernyak Boston University

• Chairman: Robert S. Cohen Boston University

Pushing Against the Age An Inaugural Lecture

October 26, 1993
Barrister’s Hall
BU School of Law

• Edwin Delattre, Boston University

• Chairman: President John Silber Boston University

Computation, Psychology and Naturalization

November 1, 1993
4:00pm
Barrister’s Hall
BU School of Law

• Stephen Horst, Wesleyan University

  Commentator: Sarah Patterson Tufts University

• Chairman: Stephen Grossberg Boston University

Hilbert’s Philosophy of Mathematics A Symposium

November 8-9, 1993
Room 202, College of Liberal Arts
725 Commonwealth Ave

November 8th

Evening session, 8pm

• Hilbert’s Constructive Model Theory

  Burton Dreben, Boston University

• Finitism and Intuitive Knowledge

  Burton Dreben, Boston University

November 9th

Morning session, 9am – 12pm

• Hilbert’s Formalism and the Arithmetization of Mathematics

  Judson Webb, Boston University

• Finitism Versus Intuitionism

  Michael Detlefsen, University of Notre Dame

• Hilbert and Positivism

  Warren Goldfarb, Harvard University

Afternoon session, 2pm – 6pm

• Was Hilbert a Formalist?

  Jaakko Hintikka, Boston University

• From the Arithmetic Continuum to All Numbers Great and Small

  Philip Ehrlich, Boston University

• Hilbert and Set Theory

  Akihiro Kanamori, Boston University

• Axiomatization of Geometry Based on Separatism Principles: Point and Line Apartness and Line Convergence

  Jan Von Plato, Academy of Science, Finland

Kinds and a New Approach to Commensurability

November 16, 1993
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• Jed Buchwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Dibner Institute

  Commentator: Thomas Kuhn Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Chairman: Robert S. Cohen Boston University

Postmodern Non-Relativism: Imre Lakatos and Alasdair MacIntyre

November 19, 1993, 4pm
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• Nancy Murphy, Fuller Theological Seminary

• Chairman: Charles Griswold Boston University

Symbiosis, Evolution by Association: A Historic Perspective

December 2, 1993,
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• Jan Sapp, York University, Toronto

  Commentator: Lynn Margulis University of Massachusetts

• Chairman: Robert Tamarin Boston University

Reflections on Nature: Realism and the Comparative Sociology of Science A Symposium in Honor of Robert S. Cohen

December 15-16, 1993
Barristers Hall, School of Law
765 Commonwealth Ave.

December 15th

Afternoon session, 1pm – 5:30pm

• Rethinking the Enlightenment

  Yehuda Elkana, Tel Aviv University

• Nature, Gender and Practical Knowledge

  Caroline Whitbeck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Realism, Constructivism, Conventionalism, and Scientific Progress

  Marx Whartofsky, Baruch College and Graduate Center, CUNY

• Chairman: Leroy S. Rouner Boston University

Evening session, 8pm

• Romantic Realism

  Erazim Kohak, Boston University

• “Love hath reason, reason none

  Norman O. Brown, UC Santa Cruz

• Chairman: Alfred I. Tauber Boston University

December 16th

Afternoon session, 2:30pm – 5:30pm

• Some Reflections on Complementarity

  Abner Shimony, Boston University

• The Natural Sciences in their Multiple Contexts

  Stephen Toulmin, University of Southern California

• Chairman: Charles Griswold Boston University

Evening session, 8pm

• Realism and the Unity of Science

  Rudolf Haller, Karl Franzens – Universitat Graz

• The Joys and Sorrows of the Vienna Circle in Exile

  Gerald Holton, Harvard University

• Chairman: Adolf Grunbaum University of Pittsburgh

Sakharov and the Soviet Atomic Project

January 20, 1994
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• Gennady Gorelik, Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences

  Commentator: Philip Morrison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Chairman: S.S. Schweber Brandeis University

The Foundations of American Bioethics A Symposium

February 7, 1994
Conference Auditorium, George Sherman Union
775 Commonwealth Ave

Morning session, 8:30am – 12pm

• Historical and Philosophical Roots of Medical Ethics: An Overview

  Michael Grodin, Boston University

• The Principled Approach: Principles, Rules, and Actions

  Raymond Devettere, Emmanuel College
  Commentator: Robert Truog, Harvard University

• The Communitarian Critique: Theology and Virtue

  Thomas Shannon, Worcester Polytechnical Institute
  Commentator: Ralph Potter, Harvard University

• Chairman: Michael Grodin, Boston University

Afternoon session, 1:30pm – 5:30pm

• Dominance of law in American Bioethics

  George Annas, Boston University
  Commentator: Jay Healy, University of Connecticut

• Medical Stories: Narrative and Phenomenological Approaches

  Martha Montello, Harvard University
  Commentator: Lachlan Forrow, Harvard University

• Power, Oppression, Class and Gender: The Feminist Critique

  Margaret Farley, Yale University
  Commentator: Adrienne Asch, Boston University

• Chairpersons: Wendy Mariner and Leonard Glantz, Boston University

Evening session, 8pm

• Towards a Philosophy of Medicine: From the Norm to the Ideal

  Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University

  Chairman: Dennis D. Berkey, Boston University

Aristotle’s Epistemology and Methodology A Symposium

February 15, 1994
Barristers Hall, School of Law
775 Commonwealth Ave

Afternoon session, 2pm – 5:30pm

• Varieties of Aristotelian Dialectic

  Arthur Madigan, Boston College

• Circular Wounds and Mathematical Beauty: Kind-Crossing in Aristotelian Science

  Williams Wians, Boston University

• The Conceptual Assumptions of Aristotle’s Methodology

  Jaakko Hintikka, Boston University

• Chairman: John Murdock, Harvard University

Evening session, 8pm

• Teleology in Aristotelian Science and Metaphysics

  Charlotte Witt, University of New Hamphire

• “Better known to us, and better known in nature”

  Aryeh Kosman, Haverford College

• Chairwoman: Gisela Striker, Harvard University

Erotetic Logic: A Dialogue

February 22, 1994
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• The Logic of Questions as a Theory of Erotetic Arguments

  Andrzej Wisniewski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

• What is the Answer to This Question (Or Any Other?)

  Sylvain Bromberger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Modeling Revolutionary Temperament: Empirical Studies in Science and Social Thought

March 3, 1994
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• Frank Sulloway, Dibner Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Commentator: Zella Luria, Tufts University

• Chairman: Victor Kestenbaum, Boston University

What’s Social About Constructivism?

March 17, 1994
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• Jan Golinski, Dibner Institute and University of New Hampshire

  Commentator: Evelyn Fox Keller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Chairman: Sahotra Sarkar, Dibner Institute

Artificial Reality: Simulations Between Experiment and Theory

March 29, 1994
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• Peter Galison, Harvard University

  Commentator: Hilary Putnam, Harvard University

• Chairman: Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University

Theory – Its Levels and Functions – In Man and Psychoanalysis

April 19, 1994
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave

• Jean Laplanche, University of Paris

  Commentator: Stanley Cavell, Harvard University

• Chairman: Jeffrey Mehlman, Boston University

Are There Post-Modern Effects in Science? A Symposium

April 27-28, 1994
Barrister’s Hall, School of Law
765 Commonwealth Ave.

Wednesday 1pm – 5pm

• The Resurrection of the Body

  Scott Gilbert, Swarthmore College

• Post-Modernism and Immune Selfhood

  Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University

• Pluralism, Relativism, and Post-Modernist Philosophy of Biology

  Timothy Shanahan, Loyola Marymount University

• Shifting Valence of Organisms: From Telegraph to Computer

  Evelyn Fox Keller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Chairman: Evelyn Fox Keller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Wednesday 8pm

• Political Metaphysics: Heidegger, The Question, and Post-Modernism

  Robert Pippin, University of Chicago

• The Upshot for Literature

  Christopher Ricks, Boston University

• Chairman: Alfred Tauber, Boston University

Thursday 2-5pm

• Towards Defining the Place of Science in a Post-Modern World

  Lawrence Cahoone, Boston University

• From Pre-Modern Reconstruction to Post-Modern Deconstruction: What Would a Modernist Historiography of Twentieth-Century Physics Have Been?

  Sahotra Sarkar, Dibner Institute

• Post Modern Physics?

  Steven Weinberg, University of Texas

• Chairman: Roger Shattuck, Boston University

Thursday 8pm

• The Post-Modern Mode of Knowledge Reproduction: Technical, Responsible, Incommensurable

  Paul Forman, Smithsonian Institute and New York University

• How Plastic is Science?

  Gerald Holton, Harvard University

• Chairman: Robert S. Cohen, Boston University

The Rise of the Fifth Force

May 18, 1994
Room 525, School of Theology
745 Commonwealth Ave.

• Allan Franklin, University of Colorado and Dibner Institute

  Commentator: Tien Yu Cao, Boston University and Dibner Institute

• Chairman: S.S. Schweber, Brandeis University