Archives: 1979-1980
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
20th Annual Program
- September 25, 1979 | Phenomenology and Marxism: Critical Remarks on the Methodology of the Social Sciences
- October 2, 1979 | What King of Science? Aristotelian Foundations of Marxist Theory
- October 16, 1979 | The Method of Idealization and Factualization in Science
- October 23, 1979 | Ideological and Technical Functions of the Metasciences: Capitalism and the Philosophy of Science
- October 30, 1979 | Dialectics of Language and Unified Science
- November 6, 1979 | A Skeptical History of Micro-Economic Theory
- November 27, 1979 | Concepts and Categories in Psychology and Philosophy
- December 4, 1979 | The Influence of Renaissance Art on the Scientific Revolution: The Birth of the Modern Scientific Illustration
- December 11, 1979 | Causality and Law: Philosophical Problems of Modeling
- January 15, 1980 | Genetic Epistemology and the Psychology of Physical Explanation
- January 22, 1980 | Ethnomethodological Studies of Naturally Occurring Human Interaction
- January 29, 1980 | A Critique of the Maximum Entropy Principle
- February 5, 1980 | Relativistic Thermodynamics, Planck Versus OTT: A Cautionary Tale
- February 19, 1980 | The Place of Fact in a World of Value
- February 26, 1980 | Untitled
- March 11, 1980 | The Scientist as Author: The Conserving Function of Literature
- March 25, 1980| Scientific Rationality and Rational Reconstruction
- April 8, 1980 | Visual Resource Management: Remarks on Nature as a Commodity
- April 15, 1980 | Philosophical Significance of Piaget’s Researches on the Genesis of the Concept of Time
- April 22, 1980 | Scientific Disorders of the Second Kind
- April 29, 1980| Can One Assess the “Quality” of Science?
- May 1, 1980 | Irreversibility as a Limit of Classical Physics
- May 6, 1980 | Stegmuller’s Dynamics of Science: A Critical Appraisal
Phenomenology and Marxism: Critical Remarks on the Methodology of the Social Sciences
September 25, 1979
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Mihaly Vajda, University of Bremen
Commentator: Erazim Kohak, Boston University
What King of Science? Aristotelian Foundations of Marxian Theory
October 2, 1979
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Heinz Lubasz, University of Essex
Commentator: Boston University
The Method of Idealization and Factualization in Science
October 16, 1979
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Wladyslaw Krajewski, University of Warsaw
Commentator: Philip Morrison, M.I.T.
Ideological and Technical Functions of the Metasciences: Capitalism and the Philosophy of Science
October 23, 1979
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Jost Halfmann, University of Osnabrück
Commentator: Allan Janik, Wellesley College
Dialectics of Language and Unified Science
October 30, 1979
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Joachim Israel, Lund Unversity
Commentators: Frederick M. Gordon, Boston University; Joseph Agassi, Boston University
A Skeptical History of Micro-Economic Theory
November 6, 1979
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Alexander Rosenberg, Syracuse University
Commentator: David Ellerman, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Concepts and Categories in Psychology and Philosophy
November 27, 1979
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Stephen Toulmin, Dartmouth College and University of Chicago
Commentator: Thomas Bever, Columbia University
The Influence of Renaissance Art on the Scientific Revolution: The Birth of the Modern Scientific Illustration
December 4, 1979
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Samuel E. Edgerton, Boston University
Commentator: I. B. Cohen, Harvard University
Causality and Law: Philosophical Problems of Modeling
December 11, 1979
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Herbert Hörz, Academy of Science, Berlin-GDR
Commentator: I. Scheffler, Harvard University
Genetic Epistemology and the Psychology of Physical Explanation
January 15, 1980
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Barbel Inhelder, University of Geneva
Commentator: Marx W. Wartofsky
Ethnomethodological Studies of Naturally Occurring Human Interaction
January 22, 1980
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George Psathas, Boston University
Commentator: Davis Rasmussen, Boston College
A Critique of the Maximum Entropy Principle
January 29, 1980
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Abner Shimony, Boston University
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Commentator: Ralph Bajerlein, Wesleyan University
Relativistic Thermodynamics, Planck Versus OTT: A Cautionary Tale
February 5, 1980
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Ronald Newburgh, Rome Air Development Center
Commentators: Charles R. Willis, Boston University; Peter L. Kellerman, Boston University
The Place of Fact in a World of Value
February 19, 1980
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Alasdair MacIntyre, Boston University
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Commentator: Roger Gottlieb, Tufts University
Untitled
February 26, 1980
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Steven Weinberg, Tufts University
The Scientist as Author: The Conserving Function of Literature
March 11, 1980
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Wolf Lepenies, Free University of Berlin and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Commentator: Marx W. Wartofsky, Boston University
Scientific Rationality and Rational Reconstruction
March 25, 1980
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C. G. Hempel, University of Pittsburgh
Commentator: Nelson Goodman, Harvard University
Visual Resource Management: Remarks on Nature as a Commodity
April 8, 1980
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William Leiss, York University
Commentator: Langdon Winner, M.I.T.
Philosophical Significance of Piaget’s Researches on the Genesis of the Concept of Time
April 15, 1980
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Milic Capek, Boston University, Emeritus
Commentator: Bernard Kaplan, Clark University
Scientific Disorders of the Second Kind
April 22, 1980
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Sheldon Krimsky, Tufts University
Commentator: Paul Durbin, University of Delaware
Can One Assess the “Quality” of Science?
April 29, 1980
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Gerald Holton, Harvard University
Commentator: Dorothy Nelkin, Cornell University
Irreversibility as a Limit of Classical Physics
May 1, 1980
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I. Prigogine, University of Brussels and University of Austin, Texas
Stegmiller’s Dynamics of Science: A Critical Appraisal
May 6, 1980
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Mario H. Otero, National University of Mexico
Commentator: John J. Stachel, Boston University and Princeton University