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<\/a><\/p>\n September 17th, 2003 Moderator: Alfred I. Tauber<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Memories of Stephen J. Gould<\/p>\n Ernst Mayr<\/strong> Harvard University<\/p>\n Hierarchical Selection Theory<\/p>\n Elisabeth Lloyd<\/strong> Indiana University<\/p>\n What Should Evolutionary Theory Be Trying to Explain?<\/p>\n Richard Lewontin<\/strong> Harvard University<\/p>\n Propinquity of Descent of Genome Acquisition<\/p>\n Lynn Margulis<\/strong> University of Massachusetts<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n September 29, 2003 Moderator: Alfred I. Tauber<\/strong> Department of Philosophy<\/p>\n Morning Session, 9 a.m. – Noon<\/strong><\/p>\n James Watson, Shirley Temple Black, and Claude Vorilhon: The Ghost of DNA Ethics Past and Prospects for the Future<\/p>\n George Annas<\/strong> Health Law Department<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Bentham and Biotechnology<\/p>\n Michael Baram<\/strong> School of Law<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Genetics and the Future of the Human Species<\/p>\n Charles Cantor<\/strong> Department of Biomedical Engineering<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tampering with Our Food<\/p>\n Hans Kornberg<\/strong> The University Professors and Biology Department<\/p>\n<\/li>\n DNA and Research Involving Human Subjects: New Heresies in Natural Philosophy<\/p>\n Joseph Loscalzo<\/strong> Department of Medicine<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Can the Past Continue to Inform the Future?<\/p>\n Charles DeLisi<\/strong> College of Engineering<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Co-sponsored by the Reid Society and the Boston University Humanities Foundation Moderator: Knud Haakonssen<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Morning Session, 9 a.m. – Noon<\/strong><\/p>\n Causality, Common Sense, and Science in Reid and His Successors<\/p>\n John P. Wright<\/strong> Central Michigan University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Reid and Smith on Visual Localization<\/p>\n Lorne Falkenstein<\/strong> University of Western Ontario<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Priestley on Reid, or How Not to Be a Unitarian of the Mind<\/p>\n Aaron Garrett<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n Reid on the Character of a Science of the Mind<\/p>\n James Harris<\/strong> St. Catherine\u2019s College, Oxford<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The Rise of Modern Science and the Problem of Common Sense Experience<\/p>\n Benjamin Redekop<\/strong> Kettering University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Thomas Reid and the Tree of the Sciences<\/p>\n Paul Wood<\/strong> University of Victoria<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Follow-up Seminar<\/p>\n October 11, 2003: 11 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n School of Theology, Room 525 M. A. Stewart<\/strong> University of Aberdeen<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Rebecca Copenhaver<\/strong> Lewis and Clark College<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n October 22, 2003 Moderator: Stanley Rosen<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Morning Session, 9 a.m. – Noon<\/strong><\/p>\n The Language of Freedom<\/p>\n Yemima Ben-Menahem<\/strong> Hebrew University of Jerusalem<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \u201cThe Meaning of \u2018Meaning\u2019\u201d in Historical Context<\/p>\n Juliet Floyd<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Prudence and Particularity<\/p>\n Charles Travis<\/strong> Northwestern University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Call for a Moral Epistemology<\/p>\n Alfred I. Tauber<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Outwards from the Entanglement Thesis: Generality, Universality, and Disagreement in Ethics<\/p>\n David Wiggins<\/strong> Oxford University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Concluding Comments<\/p>\n Hilary Putnam<\/strong> Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n November 3, 2003 Moderator: Alisa Bokulich<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Chirality and Transcendental Idealism<\/p>\n Anja Jauernig<\/strong> University of Notre Dame<\/p>\n Geometric Space, Lived Space in Kant<\/p>\n Alfredo Ferrarin<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n The Regularity Account of Space<\/p>\n Nick Huggett<\/strong> University of Illinois at Chicago<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Co-sponsored by the Dibner Fund via the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology Moderator: Daniel Dahlstrom<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n John McCumber<\/strong> University of California at Los Angeles<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n November 17, 2003 Moderator: Allen Speight<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Does Reflexivity Separate the Human Sciences from the Natural Sciences?<\/p>\n Roger Smith<\/strong> Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Moscow<\/p>\n Reflexivity, Reflection, Language and Thought: Self-Organization and Organization of Self<\/p>\n Klaus Brinkman<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Reflexivity and the Psychologist<\/p>\n Jill Morawski<\/strong> Wesleyan University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Co-sponsored by the Center for Einstein Studies Moderator: Robert S. Cohen<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n John Stachel<\/strong> Boston University\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Co-sponsored by the Dibner Fund via the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology Moderator: George Smith<\/strong> Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology and Tufts University<\/p>\n Newton on Time and the \u201cPhilosophy of Clockwork\u201d\n<\/p>\n Judson Webb<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Leibniz to the Limit<\/p>\n Samuel Levey<\/strong> Dartmouth College<\/p>\n Dis-connecting Newton? The Unitary Author and the Science-Religion Relationship in Newton\u2019s Work<\/p>\n Robert Iliffe<\/strong> Imperial College<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n February 9, 2004 Moderator: Peter Bokulich<\/strong> Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology<\/p>\n Taking the Measure of the Universe: Probabilities in Cosmology<\/p>\n Christopher Smeenk<\/strong> University of California at Los Angeles<\/p>\n Whose Mass Is It Anyway? Forging the Interface Between Particle Physics and Gravitation<\/p>\n David Kaiser<\/strong> Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n Eternal Inflation<\/p>\n Alexander Vilenkin<\/strong> Tufts University<\/p>\n Inflationary Cosmology and the Accelerating Universe<\/p>\n Alan Guth<\/strong> Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n February 23, 2004 Moderator: Gary Belkin<\/strong> Harvard University<\/p>\n Authenticity and the Contours of the Self<\/p>\n Susan Lanzoni<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Against Depression<\/p>\n Peter D. Kramer<\/strong> Brown University<\/p>\n The Vitality of Neurosis<\/p>\n Paul Roazen<\/strong> York University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Co-sponsored by the Dibner Fund through the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology Moderator: Simon Keller<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Thomas Glick<\/strong> Boston University\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Co-sponsored by the Dibner Fund through the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology Moderator: Peter Schwartz<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\nThe Structure of Evolutionary Theory: A Tribute to Stephen Jay Gould<\/h3>\n
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Thomas Reid and the Sciences<\/h3>\n
\nOctober 10, 2003
\nThe Castle
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\nBoston University
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Putnam on the Fact\/Value Distinction<\/h3>\n
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Chirality in Kant and Contemporary Ethics<\/h3>\n
\n2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
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\n225 Bay State Road<\/p>\nNo Knowledge without Self Knowledge? Philosophy and Truth in McCarthyite America<\/h3>\n
\nNovember 10, 2003
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\n225 Bay State Road<\/p>\nReflexivity Redux<\/h3>\n
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\n225 Bay State Road<\/p>\nThe Young Einstein: Poetry and Truth<\/h3>\n
\nDecember 1, 2003
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\nThe Castle
\n225 Bay State Road<\/p>\nPhysics in Conflict: The Case of Leibniz Cookies or Fig Newtons<\/h3>\n
\nJanuary 26, 2004
\n2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
\nThe Castle
\n225 Bay State Road<\/p>\nThe Fate of Inflationary Cosmology<\/h3>\n
\n1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
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\n225 Bay State Road<\/p>\nThe Robert S. Cohen Forum: Contemporary Issues in Science Studies<\/h6>\n
Ethics of Psychopharmacology<\/h3>\n
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\n225 Bay State Road<\/p>\nA Comparative Perspective on Medieval Scientific Translation Movements: The Invention of “Hebrew Science”<\/h3>\n
\nMarch 1, 2004
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\n225 Bay State Road<\/p>\nGenes and Human History<\/h3>\n
\nMarch 15, 2004
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