October 2nd, 1996

Morning Session, 9 a.m. – Noon

• Modeling Systems that Learn

  Tomaso Poggio Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Where is the Mind? Not in the Brain

  Daniel Dennett Tufts University

• Computation and the Biology of Language

  Robert Berwick Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 6 p.m.

• Prototaxis: Evolution of Superorganisms

  Lynn Margulis University of Massachusetts

• What is Unique About Biology?

  Richard Lewontin Harvard University

• Organization and Self-Organization

  Evelyn Fox Keller Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Information Versus Epistemology in Transplantation Immunology

  Thomas Starzl University of Pittsburgh

October 3rd, 1996

Morning Session, 9 a.m. – Noon

• The Future of Genetic Testing

  Walter Gilbert Harvard University

• The Rosetta Stone of Modern Biology

  Temple Smith Boston University

• Beyond the Gene: The Next Decade

  Jan Sapp York University

Afternoon Session, 2 a.m. – 5 p.m.

• Will Biology Force Psychology to Recognize the Social Sciences?

  William Wimsatt University of Chicago

• Philosophy of Biology 1996: Problems and Prospects

  Marjorie Grene Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Emeritus

• “Concluding Unscientific Postscript”

  Alfred Tauber Boston University

Morning Session, 10 a.m. – Noon

• Paul Feyerabend and Thomas Kuhn

  Paul Hoynigen-Huene University of Konstanz

• Feyerabend’s +

  Rudolph Haller Karl-Franzens University, Graz

Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

• Incommensurability and Relativism: Feyerabend’s Point of View

  Sergio Benvenuto Italian Council for Scientific Research

• If “Anything Goes?” What Goes In or Out?

  Robert Cohen Boston University, Emeritus

• Rhetoric and Responsibility: What I Learned from Paul Feyerabend

  Noretta Koertge Indiana University

December 18th, 1996

Morning Session, 10 a.m. – Noon

• Are There Places Between the Poles? Historical and Critical Reflections on the Logic of “Mind/Body” Medicine

  Anne Harrington Harvard University

• The Romantic Cast of the Biological Mind

  Robert Richards University of Chicago

Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

• Broken Brains and Distressed Minds: Complementary Metaphors in Psychiatry

  Theo Manschreck Brown University

• Syndromes and Symbols: Neurobiology, Psychoanalysis, and the Management of Care

  Paul Summergrad Harvard University

• The Interface of Neurobiology and Psychoanalysis

  Arnold Modell Harvard University

Evening Session, 8 p.m. – 10 p.m.

• Noetics and Poetics

  Geoffrey Hill Boston University

• Commentator: Sacvan Bercovits Harvard University

December 19th, 1996

Afternoon Session, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.

• The Social Mind: Does It Have or Need a Brain?

  Arthur Kleinman Harvard University

• Isn’t What Works What Matters?

  Leon Eisenberg Harvard University

• Unraveling the World Knot: Mind-Body Problems in Clinical Practice

  Laurence J. Kirmayer McGill University

• Empathy, Medical Knowledge, and Embodied Cognition

  Evan Thompson York University

February 5th, 1997

Morning Session, 9 a.m. – Noon

• Socrates’ Dreams

  David Roochnik Boston University

• Dream as Interpretation in Judaism during Late Antiquity

  Reuven Kimelman Brandeis University

• Dreams as the Beginning of the Kabbalah

  Moshe Idel Hebrew University

Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 6 p.m.

• The Dreams of Witches and the Possibility of Knowledge, 1400-1700

  Walter Stephens Dartmouth College

• Religious Dream Quests: Their Role in the Construction of Individual and Social Identity

  Laurence Sullivan Harvard University

• The Dream in Art

  Hellmut Wohl Boston University

• “Dream Logic” and the Politics of Intelligibility

  Jan Zwicky University of Victoria

February 6th, 1997

Morning Session, 10 a.m. – Noon

• Cryptomnesia, Implicit Memory, and the Collective Unconscious: Jung, Jungians, and the Problem of Truth

  Richard Noll Harvard University

• The Dream-Text of Literature

  Jeffrey Mehlman Boston University

Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

• Freud’s Neurobiological Dream Theory

  Adolf Grunbaum University of Pittsburgh

• Dreams Contextualize Emotion: A Contemporary Theory of the Nature and Functions of Dreams

  Ernest Hartmann Tufts University

• Dreams as Delirium: A Brain Based Account

  J. Allan Hobson Harvard University

March 3rd, 1997

Morning Session, 10 a.m. – Noon

• Welcome

  Jon Westling President of Boston University

• The Rediscovery of General Relativity in Berlin

  Jurgen Renn and Tilman Sauer Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

• Einstein, De Sitter, and the Relativity of Inertia

  Michel Janssen Einstein Papers/Boston University

  Commentator: John Norton University of Pittsbugh

Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

• The Role of Einstein’s Early Papers on Gravitational Waves in Raising Doubts About the Existence of Gravitational Radiation

  Daniel Kennefick California Institute of Technology

• Klein and Noether on Energy Conservation in General Relativity

  David Rowe University of Mainz

  Commentator: Jed Buchwald The Dibner Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Evening Session, 8 p.m. – 10 p.m.

• Einstein as an Organizer of Science

  Hubert Goenner University of Gottingen, and

  Giuseppe Castagnetti Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

• Models of Research: Science Policy in Germany, 1911-1921

  Robert Schulmann Einstein Papers/Boston University

March 4th, 1997

Morning Session, 10 a.m. – Noon

• Einstein, Nernst, and the Third Law of Thermodynamics

  A.J. Kox Einstein Papers and University of Amsterdam

• Einstein and Quantum Theory

  John Stachel Boston University

  Commentator: Martin Klein Einstein Papers and Yale University

Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

• Einstein’s Cosmology and the Evaporation Argument

  John Norton University of Pittsburgh

• Not By Relativity Alone: Some of Einstein’s Side-Interests in Physics

  Jozsef Illy Einstein Papers

  Commentator: Gerald Holton Harvard University

• Roundtable Discussion

Evening Session, 8 p.m. – 10 p.m.

• Einstein Discovers His Jewish identity

  John Stachel Boston University

• Einstein in Politics

  Britta Scheideler Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and

  Hubert Goenner Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

  Commentator: Thomas Glick Boston University