{"id":3103,"date":"2016-06-03T13:53:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T17:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/?page_id=3103"},"modified":"2016-07-07T14:11:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T18:11:46","slug":"1995-1996","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/colloquium\/1995-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Archives: 1995-1996"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"past-year\">Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science<br \/>\n36th Annual Program<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>November\u00a05, 1995 | <a href=\"#anchor1\">Culture&#8217;s Technology\/ Technology&#8217;s Culture<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November\u00a013-17, 1995 | <a href=\"#anchor2\">Philosophies of Nature<\/a><\/li>\n<li>December 6, 1995 |<a href=\"#anchor3\">Biology and Romanticism<\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 25, 1996 |<a href=\"#anchor4\">Wittgenstein and Mathematics<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 12, 1996 |<a href=\"#anchor5\">Proof and Progress in Mathematics<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 1-3, 1996 |<a href=\"#anchor6\">Historical Examination and Philosophical Reflection on the Foundation of Quantum Field Theory<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 11-13, 1996 |<a href=\"#anchor7\">Judaism and the Sciences<\/a><\/li>\n<li>May 6-7, 1996 |<a href=\"#anchor8\">Topics in French Philosophy of Science<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"anchor1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Culture&#8217;s Technology\/ Technology&#8217;s Culture<\/h3>\n<p>November\u00a05, 1995<br \/>\nCFA Concert Hall, Boston University College of Fine Arts<br \/>\n855 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\n<p><strong>Perry Hoberman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Leo Marx,\u00a0<\/b>Massachusetts Institute of Technology,<em> emeritus<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Commentator:\u00a0<strong>Caroline Jones,\u00a0<\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Philosophies of Nature: A Boston University Symposium In Honor of Erazim Koh\u00e1k<\/h3>\n<p>November 13-17, 1995<br \/>\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union<br \/>\n775 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">November 13th<\/p>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Afternoon Session, 1pm &#8211; 5pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">God and Nature, and Early Greek Poetry<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Stephen Scully,\u00a0<\/strong>Department of Classical Studies<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Plato and Nature<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Stanley Rosen<\/strong>, Department of Philosophy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Aristotle on the Politics of Male, Female and Androgynous Human Nature<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Judith Swanson,\u00a0<\/strong>Department of Political Science<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Nature and Modern Concepts of the Classic: Observations on the History of Aesthetic Norms<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Wolfgang Haase,<\/strong> Institute for the Classical Tradition<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"title\">November 14th<\/p>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Morning\u00a0Session, 9am &#8211; noon<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">The Contingency of Nature<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Robert Neville,\u00a0<\/strong><em>Dean<\/em>, School of Theology<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Revolution and Reformation<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Alan Olson,\u00a0<\/strong>Department of Religion<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Nature as an Exegetical Principle in Medieval Judaism<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Marvin Fox,\u00a0<\/strong>Department of Religion and Department of Philosophy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Afternoon\u00a0Session, 2pm &#8211; 5pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Is There a Buddhist Philosophy of Nature<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>David Eckel,\u00a0<\/strong> Department of Religion<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Human Nature: Anxiety, Sin and the Future<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Leroy Rouner,\u00a0<\/strong>Institute for Philosophy and Religion<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Yin and Yang: The Natural Dimension of Evil<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Livia Kohn,\u00a0<\/strong>Department of Religion<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"title\">November 15th<\/p>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Morning\u00a0Session, 9am &#8211; noon<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Nature, Beauty, and Morality: Reflections on Adam Smith<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Charles Griswold,\u00a0<\/strong> Department of Philosophy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Limits to Human Nature: Moral Marginalia in the Enlightenment<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Knud Haakonsen,\u00a0<\/strong>Department of Philosophy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Aristotelian and Newtonian Models in Hegel&#8217;s Philosophy of Nature<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Alfredo Ferrarin,\u00a0<\/strong>Department of Philosophy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Afternoon Session, 2pm &#8211; 6pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">The Natural and Supernatural in Human Nature: Hegel on the Soul<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Klaus Brinkmann,\u00a0<\/strong> Department of Philosophy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Nature and Hope: The Project on Humanist Marxism<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Robert Cohen,\u00a0<\/strong>Department of Philosophy and Department of Physics <em>emeritus<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Eternal Recurrence<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Krzysztof Michalski,\u00a0<\/strong>Department of Philosophy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">The Rationality of Conduct: Dewey and Oakeshott<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Victor Kestenbaum,\u00a0<\/strong>Department of Philosophy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"title\">November 16th<\/p>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Afternoon\u00a0Session, 1pm &#8211; 5pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">What&#8217;s Human about Human Nature?<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Alan Wolfe,\u00a0<\/strong> Department of Sociology and The University Professors<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Whose Nature? Which Morality?<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Lawrence Cahoone,\u00a0<\/strong>Department of Philosophy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Nature as Presence and Experience<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Erazim Koh\u00e1k,\u00a0<\/strong>Department of Philosophy <em> emeritus<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Modernism and Human Nature<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>John Westling,\u00a0<\/strong>Provost<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"title\">November 17th<\/p>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Afternoon\u00a0Session, 1pm &#8211; 5pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Biology&#8217;s &#8220;Epistemological Contradiction&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Alfred Tauber,\u00a0<\/strong> Center for Philosophy and History of Science<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Decoding Relativity<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>John Stachel,\u00a0<\/strong>Department of Physics<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Monism, But Not through Reductionism<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Tian Yu Cao,\u00a0<\/strong>Department of Philosophy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">The Relationship Between Philosophy and Physics<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Abner Shimony,\u00a0<\/strong>Department of Physics and Department of Philosophy <em>emeritus<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"anchor3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Biology and Romanticism<\/h3>\n<p>*Funded in part by The Dibner Fund, through the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, December 6, 1995<br \/>\n1-6pm<br \/>\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union<br \/>\n775 Commonwealth Ave<\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Coleridge and the Doctors<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Trevor Levere, <\/strong>University of Toronto and the Dibner Institute<\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Apocalypse in White&#8217;s <em>Natural History of Shelbourne<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Stuart Peterfreund, <\/strong>Northeastern University and The Dibner Institute<\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Who were the <em>Naturphilosophen?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Frederick Gregory, <\/strong>University of Florida, Gainesville and The Dibner Institute<\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Romantic Biology<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Robert Richards, <\/strong>University of Chicago and The Dibner Institute<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"anchor4\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Wittgenstein on Mathematics<\/h3>\n<p>Thursday, January 25, 1996<br \/>\n7-10pm<br \/>\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union<br \/>\n775 Commonwealth Ave<\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Wittgenstein and Mathematics<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Hilary Putnam, <\/strong>Harvard University<\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Wittgenstein, G\u00f6del, and the Ineffability of Model Theory<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Jaakko Hintikka, <\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<p>Moderator: <strong>Burton Dreben, <\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"anchor5\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Proof and Progress in Mathematics<\/h3>\n<p>Monday, February 12, 1996<br \/>\nConference Auditorium, George Sherman Union<br \/>\n775 Commonwealth Ave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Morning\u00a0Session, 9am &#8211; Noon<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">The Evolution of Mathematics in the 1900s<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Arthur Jaffe, <\/strong>Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Physics Distorts, Proof is Essential<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Saunders MacLane, <\/strong>University of Chicago, <em>emeritus<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">What is a Proof and What does it Prove?<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Jaakko Hintikka, <\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Afternoon\u00a0Session, 2pm &#8211; 5pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">The Phenomenology of Mathematical Proof<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Gian-Carlo Rota, <\/strong>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Conjectures<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Barry Mazur, <\/strong>Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Moderator: <strong>David Kazhdan, <\/strong>Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor6\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Historical Examination and Philosophical Reflection on the Foundation of Quantum Field Theory<\/h3>\n<p>Cosponsored by the Boston University Physics Department<br \/>\nMarch 1st-3rd, 1996<br \/>\nConference Auditorium, George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Ave<br \/>\n&amp; Department of Physics, Metcalf Center, 590 Commonwealth Ave<\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">March 1st<\/p>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Morning\u00a0Session 1, 9:30am &#8211; 10:30am<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Philosophers&#8217; Interests in Quantum Field Theory<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Chairman, <strong>Robert Cohen<\/strong>, Boston University <em>emeritus<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tian Yu Cao, <\/strong>Boston University<br \/>\n<strong>Michael Redhead, <\/strong>Cambridge University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Morning\u00a0Session 2, 11:00am &#8211; 12:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Chairman, <strong>Lawrence Sulak<\/strong>, Boston University<br \/>\n<strong>Sheldon Glashow, <\/strong>Boston University and Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Afternoon\u00a0Session, 2:00pm &#8211; 5:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Three Approaches to the Foundation of Quantum Field Theory<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Chairman, <strong>Abner Shimony<\/strong>, Boston University<br \/>\n<strong>Arthur Wightman, <\/strong>Princeton University<br \/>\n<strong>Howard Georgi, <\/strong>Harvard University<br \/>\n<strong>David Gross, <\/strong>Princeton University<br \/>\nCommentator<strong>Sam Treiman, <\/strong>Princeton University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Evening\u00a0Session, 8:00pm &#8211; 10:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Quantum Field Theory and the Final Theory<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Chairman, <strong>Gerald Holton<\/strong>, Harvard University<br \/>\n<strong>Steven Weinberg, <\/strong>University of Texas<br \/>\nCommentator<strong>Laurie Brown, <\/strong>Northwestern University<br \/>\nCommentator<strong>Abner Shimony, <\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"title\">March 2nd<\/p>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Morning\u00a0Session, 9:00am &#8211; 12:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Mathematics, Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Chairman, <strong>Yakir Aharonov<\/strong>, Boston University<br \/>\n<strong>Michael Fisher,<\/strong> University of Maryland<br \/>\n<strong>Arthur Jaffe,<\/strong> Harvard University<br \/>\n<strong>Roman Jackiw,<\/strong> Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br \/>\nCommentator: <strong>Howard Schnitzer,<\/strong> Brandeis University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Afternoon\u00a0Session, 1:30pm &#8211; 4:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Quantum Field Theory and Space-Time<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Chairman and Commentator, <strong>John Stachel<\/strong>, Boston University<br \/>\n<strong>Bryce DeWitt,<\/strong> University of Texas<br \/>\n<strong>Chris Isham,<\/strong> Imperial College, London<br \/>\n<strong>Andy Strominger,<\/strong> University of California, Santa Barbara<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Roundtable Discussion<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Moderator, <strong>James Cushing<\/strong>, University of Notre Dame<br \/>\n<strong>Sidney Coleman,<\/strong> Harvard University<br \/>\n<strong>Sheldon Glashow,<\/strong> Boston University and Harvard University<br \/>\n<strong>Michael Redhead,<\/strong> Cambridge University<br \/>\n<strong>Steven Weinberg,<\/strong> University of Texas<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"title\">March 3rd<\/p>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Workshop Morning\u00a0Session, 9:00am &#8211; 12:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">The Ontology of Particles or Fields<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Workshop Afternoon\u00a0Session, 1:30pm &#8211; 3:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Non-abelian Gauge Theory<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Workshop Afternoon\u00a0Session 2, 4:00pm &#8211; 6:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Renormalization Group<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor7\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Judaism and the Sciences: Medieval Encounters and Modern Resonances<\/h3>\n<p>March 11-13, 1996<br \/>\nHillel House, 233 Bay State Road<br \/>\nCosponsored with Boston University Hillel House<\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">March 11th<\/p>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Morning\u00a0Session, 10:00am &#8211; 12:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Maimonides&#8217; Allegiances to Science and to Judaism<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Menachem Kellner, <\/strong>University of Haifa<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">The Logical and Scientific Premises of Maimonides&#8217; Thought<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Alfred Ivy, <\/strong>New York University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Afternoon\u00a0Session, 2:00pm &#8211; 6:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Medical Astronomy from a Jewish Perspective<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Bernard Goldstein, <\/strong>University of Pittsburgh<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">The Role of Singularities in the Cosmogonies of Gersonides, Rosenzweig, and Contemporary Physics<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Norbert Samuelson, <\/strong>Temple University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Natural Science in the Biblical Commentary of Abraham ibn Ezra<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Herbert Davidson, <\/strong>University of California Los Angeles<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Science and Cuzari<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Tzvi Langermann, <\/strong>National Library, Jerusalem<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"title\">March 12th<\/p>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Morning\u00a0Session, 9:00am &#8211; 1:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Science in the Jabne Stories: The Constructive Skepticism of the Bavli&#8217;s Foundational Mythology<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Menacham Fisch, <\/strong>Tel Aviv University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">The Impact of the Scientific Imagination on Kabbalistic Ontology, Cosmology, and Epistemology<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Elliot Wolfson, <\/strong>New York University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Maimonides&#8217; Treatise on Logic andn al-Farabi&#8217;s Paraphrase of the Organon<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Joel Kraemer, <\/strong>University of Chicago<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">When the Jews Learned Logic from the Pope: Hebrew Versions and Commentaries of the Tractatus of Peter of Spain<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Charles Manekin, <\/strong>University of Maryland<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Afternoon\u00a0Session, 3:00pm &#8211; 5:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Jewish Responses to Early Modern Science<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>David Ruderman, <\/strong>University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Jews and the Royal Society During the Early Modern Period<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Matthew Goldfish, <\/strong>University of Arizona<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"title\">March 13th<\/p>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Morning\u00a0Session, 9:00am &#8211; 1:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Science in Kabbalstic Works of the Modern Period<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Moshe Idel, <\/strong>Hebrew University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Modern Traditional Judaism and Science: Why so Little so Late?<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Jay Harris, <\/strong>Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Orthodox Perceptions of Science and Technology in the Modern Period<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Michael Silber, <\/strong>Hebrew University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Halakhic Responses to Modern Science and Technology<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Shlomo Sternberg, <\/strong>Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Afternoon\u00a0Session, 3:00pm &#8211; 5:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Jewish Responses to Science in Totalitarian Societies: Insiders and Outsiders<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Yakov Rabkin, <\/strong>Universite de Montreal<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Judaism Faces Up to AIDS<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Gad Freudenthal, <\/strong>Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor8\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Topics in French Philosophy of Science: A Franco-American Dialogue<\/h3>\n<p>May 6-7, 1996<br \/>\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union<br \/>\n776 Commonwealth Ave.<br \/>\nCosponsored with the Cultural Service of the French Embassy<\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">May 6th<\/p>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Afternoon\u00a0Session, 1:00pm &#8211; 5:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Mathematics and Rationality in the Works of Jean Cavaill\u00e8s<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Gilles Gaston Granger, <\/strong>Coll\u00e8ge de France<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Jean Cavaill\u00e8s: Spinozist or Bourbakist?<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>G\u00e8rard Jorland, <\/strong>\u00c8cole des Haute \u00c8tudes en Sciences Sociales<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Cavaill\u00e8s&#8217;s Philosophy of Mathematics<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Hourya Sinaceur, <\/strong>Universit\u00e8 de Paris I and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Commentator:<strong> Santiago Ramirez, <\/strong>UNAM Mexico<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Evening\u00a0Session, 7:00pm &#8211; 10:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Epistemological Issues in the 1930s and Current Resonances<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Claude Imbert, <\/strong>\u00c8cole Normale Sup\u00e8rieure<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">National Contrasts in Cotemporary Philosophy of Science<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Pierre Jacob, <\/strong>Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Commentator:<strong> Stanley Rosen, <\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"title\">May 7th<\/p>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Morning\u00a0Session, 9:00am &#8211; 12:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Canguilhem and the Idea of Life<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Henri Atlan, <\/strong>H\u00f4pital de l&#8217;Hotel-Dieu and Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Canguilhem&#8217;s Conceptions on the Normal and the Pathological<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Claude Debru, <\/strong>Institute de Recherche sur les Fondemonts et les Enjeux de Sciences et des Techniques<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">To Be Announced<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Jean Grayon, <\/strong>Universit\u00e8 de Bourgogne<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Commentator:<strong> Arthur Goldhammer and Arthur Kleinman, <\/strong>Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Afternoon\u00a0Session, 2:00pm &#8211; 6:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Foucault: A Paradoxical Link Between Canguilhem and SSK<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Fran\u00e7ois Balibar, <\/strong>Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">The French Foucault and the American One<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Christian Delacampagne, <\/strong>French Consulate<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"title\">Text Archaeology in French History and Philosophy of Science<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Catherine Chevalley, <\/strong>Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique<\/p>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Commentator:<strong> Jeffrey Mehlman, <\/strong>Boston University and <strong>Louis-Georges Schwartz, <\/strong>University of Iowa\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"time-date\"><strong>Evening\u00a0Session, 8:00pm &#8211; 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