Archives 1972-1973

Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
13th Annual Program

October 10, 1972 | Confirmation and Relevance
October 17, 1972 | Toward a Rational Philosophical Anthropology
October 24, 1972 | Teleological and Teleonimic, a New Analysis
November 14, 1972 | Metaphysics vs. Experiment: the Dynamics of Theory Selection
November 21, 1972 | Domestic Causes and Purposes of Wars: A Methodological Inquiry
November 28, 1972 | The Cartesian Circle: Descartes’ Defense of Reason as a Valid Response to 17th Century Skepticism
December 12, 1972 | A New Look at Phenomenology and the ‘Idea’ of Physics
January 16, 1973 | Round Table: Quantum Mechanics and Common Sense
January 23, 1973 | Explanation and Evolution
February 6, 1973 | On the Relationship Between Quantum Mechanics and Mathematics
February 13, 1973 | Round Table: Science and Philosophical Materialism in the Soviet Union
February 27, 1973 | Fresnel Drag and the Principle of Relativity
March 13, 1973 | Round Table: Research Strategies vs. the Relativity of Science
March 20, 1973 | Against Method
March 22 – April 26, 1973 | Scientific Rationality and the Growth of Knowledge
March 18, 1973 | Historical Narrative: The Rhetorical Structure of Hegel’s Logic
March 27, 1973 | Quantum Theory of Measurement
April 3, 1973 | Round Table: The Works of God’s Hand; the Books of His Revelations, and the Machinery of Nature: 11th-17th Centuries
April 10, 1973 | Newton’s Relational Theory of Space and Time
April 17, 1973 | On Systematic Realism, With a Particular Application to Non-Conventionalism in Physics
May 1, 1973 | Space-Time Indeterminacies and Space-Time Structure
May 8, 1973 | Reproduction, Translation and Social Science

Confirmation and Relevance

October 10, 1972

Wesley Salmon, Indiana University

Commentator: James Thomson, M.I.T.

Toward a Rational Philosophical Anthropology

October 17, 1972

Joseph Agassi, Boston University and Tel Aviv University

Teleological and Teleonimic, a New Analysis

October 24, 1972

Ernst Mayr, Harvard University

Commentators: Ronald Munson, University of Missouri at St. Louis; Hilde Hein, College of the Holy Cross (Worcester)

Metaphysics vs. Experiment: the Dynamics of theory selection

November 14, 1972

Stanley Goldberg, Hampshire College

Commentators: Milic Capek, Boston University; Miller Brown, Trinity College (Hartford)

Domestic Causes and Purposes of Wars: A Methodological Inquiry

November 21, 1972

Arno J. Meyer, Princeton University

Commentators: Joseph Boskin, Boston University; Louis O. Mink, Wesleyan University

The Cartesian Circle: Descartes’ Defense of Reason as a Valid Response to 17th Century Skepticism

November 28, 1972

Edmond Curley, Australian National University and John Hopkins University

Commentator: Harry G. Frankfurt, The Rockefeller University

A New Look at Phenomenology and the ‘Idea’ of Physics

December 12, 1972

Francis J. Zucker, Max-Planck-Institut (starnburg)

Commentator: Patrick Heelan, SUNY, Stony Brook

Round Table: Quantum Mechanics and Common Sense

January 16, 1972

Michael R. Gardner, Mount Holyoke College

Commentators: Armand Seigel, Boston University; Michael Horne, Stonehill College; E.P. Gross, Brandeis University

Explanation and Evolution

January 23, 1973

Marjorie Grene, University of California, Davis and Boston University

Commentators: Kenneth Schaffner, University of Pittsburgh; Lynn S. Margulis, Boston University

On the Relationship Between Quantum Mechanics and Mathematics

February 6, 1973

Paul Benioff, Argonne National Laboratory

Commentator: Hilary Putnam, Harvard University

Round Table: Science and Philosophical Materialism in the Soviet Union

February 13, 1973

Loren Graham, Columbia University

Commentators: Thomas Blakeley, Boston College; Dirk Struik, M.I.T. Marx Wartofsky, Boston University; Robert S. Cohen, Boston University; William McBride, Yale University

Fresnel Drag and the Principle of Relativity

February 27, 1973

Ronald Newburgh, Microwave Physics Laboratory, AFCRL-Bedford
Commentators: Huseyin Yilmaz, Perception Technology Cooporation; Arthur I. Miller, Harvard University and Lowell Technological Institute

Round Table: Research Strategies vs. the Relativity of Science

March 13, 1973

Noretta Koertge, Indiana University

Commentators: Marx Wartofsky, Boston University; Philip Quinn, Brown University; Sheldon Krimsky, University of South Florida

Against Method

March 20, 1973

Paul Feyerbend, University of California, Berkeley
Commentator: Imre Lakatos, London School of Economics and Boston University

Scientific Rationality and the Growth of Knowledge: 5 Lectures

March 22, 29, 1973; April 5, 12, 26, 1973

Imre Lakatos, London School of Economics

Quantum Theory of Measurement

March 27, 1973

Gen-Ichiro Nagasaka, Nanzan University (Nagoya) and Boston University

Commentators: John Stachel, Boston University; Paul Roman, Boston University

Round Table: The Works of God’s Hand; the Books of His Revelations, and the Machinery of Nature: 11th-17th Centuries

April 3, 1973

Benjamin Nelson, New School of Social Research

Commentators: John Murdoch, Harvard University; Ann Brinkley, Boston University; A. I. Sabra, Harvard University

Newton’s Relational Theory of Space and Time

April 10, 1973

Arnold Koslow, CUNY, Brooklyn College

Commentator: Howard Stein, Case Western Reserve University

On Systematic Realism, With a Particular Application to Non-Conventionalism in Physics

April 17, 1973

Clifford Hooker, University of Western Ontario

Commentators: Laszlo Tisza, M.I.T.; Robert S. Cohen, Boston University

Space-Time Indeterminacies and Space-Time Structure

May 1, 1973

Clark Glymour, Princeton University

Commentator: John Graves, M.I.T.

Reproduction, Translation and Social Science

May 8, 1973

Richard Rudner, Washington University

Commentator: Thomas McCarthy, Boston University