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October\u00a018, 1993
\nRoom 525, School of Theology
\n745 Commonwealth Ave<\/p>\n
Helena Gourko,\u00a0<\/strong>Boston University and University of Minsk<\/p>\n Commentator: Leon Chernyak <\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Chairman: Robert S. Cohen <\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n October\u00a026, 1993 Edwin Delattre,\u00a0<\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Chairman: President John Silber <\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n November 1, 1993 Stephen Horst,\u00a0<\/strong>Wesleyan University<\/p>\n Commentator: Sarah Patterson <\/strong>Tufts University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Chairman: Stephen Grossberg <\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n November 8-9, 1993 November 8th<\/p>\n Evening session, 8pm<\/strong><\/p>\n Hilbert’s Constructive Model Theory<\/p>\n Burton Dreben,\u00a0<\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Finitism and Intuitive Knowledge<\/p>\n Burton Dreben,\u00a0<\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n November 9th<\/p>\n Morning session, 9am – 12pm<\/strong><\/p>\n Hilbert’s Formalism and the Arithmetization of Mathematics<\/p>\n Judson Webb,\u00a0<\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Finitism Versus Intuitionism<\/p>\n Michael Detlefsen,\u00a0<\/strong>University of Notre Dame<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Hilbert and Positivism<\/p>\n Warren Goldfarb,\u00a0<\/strong>Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Afternoon session, 2pm – 6pm<\/strong><\/p>\n Was Hilbert a Formalist?<\/p>\n Jaakko Hintikka,\u00a0<\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n From the Arithmetic Continuum to All Numbers Great and Small<\/p>\n Philip Ehrlich,\u00a0<\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Hilbert and Set Theory<\/p>\n Akihiro Kanamori,\u00a0<\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Axiomatization of Geometry Based on Separatism Principles: Point and Line Apartness and Line Convergence<\/p>\n Jan Von Plato,\u00a0<\/strong>Academy of Science, Finland<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n November 16, 1993 Jed Buchwald,\u00a0<\/strong>Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Dibner Institute<\/p>\n Commentator: Thomas Kuhn <\/strong>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Chairman: Robert S. Cohen <\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n November 19, 1993, 4pm Nancy Murphy,\u00a0<\/strong>Fuller Theological Seminary<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Chairman: Charles Griswold <\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n December 2, 1993, Jan Sapp,\u00a0<\/strong>York University, Toronto<\/p>\n Commentator: Lynn Margulis <\/strong>University of Massachusetts<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Chairman: Robert Tamarin <\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n December 15-16, 1993 December 15th<\/p>\n Afternoon session, 1pm – 5:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n Rethinking the Enlightenment<\/p>\n Yehuda Elkana,\u00a0<\/strong>Tel Aviv University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Nature, Gender and Practical Knowledge<\/p>\n Caroline Whitbeck,\u00a0<\/strong>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Realism, Constructivism, Conventionalism, and Scientific Progress<\/p>\n Marx Whartofsky,\u00a0<\/strong>Baruch College and Graduate Center, CUNY<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Chairman: Leroy S. Rouner <\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Evening session, 8pm<\/strong><\/p>\n Romantic Realism<\/p>\n Erazim Kohak,\u00a0<\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n “Love hath reason, reason none<\/p>\n Norman O. Brown,\u00a0<\/strong>UC Santa Cruz<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Chairman: Alfred I. Tauber <\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n December 16th<\/p>\n Afternoon session, 2:30pm – 5:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n Some Reflections on Complementarity<\/p>\n Abner Shimony,\u00a0<\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The Natural Sciences in their Multiple Contexts<\/p>\n Stephen Toulmin,\u00a0<\/strong>University of Southern California<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Chairman: Charles Griswold <\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Evening session, 8pm<\/strong><\/p>\n Realism and the Unity of Science<\/p>\n Rudolf Haller,\u00a0<\/strong>Karl Franzens – Universitat Graz<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The Joys and Sorrows of the Vienna Circle in Exile<\/p>\n Gerald Holton,\u00a0<\/strong>Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Chairman: Adolf Grunbaum <\/strong>University of Pittsburgh<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n January 20, 1994 Gennady Gorelik,\u00a0<\/strong>Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences<\/p>\nPushing Against the Age An Inaugural Lecture<\/em><\/h3>\n
\nBarrister’s Hall
\nBU School of Law<\/p>\n\n
Computation, Psychology and Naturalization<\/h3>\n
\n4:00pm
\nBarrister’s Hall
\nBU School of Law<\/p>\n\n
Hilbert’s Philosophy of Mathematics A Symposium<\/em><\/h3>\n
\nRoom 202, College of Liberal Arts
\n725 Commonwealth Ave<\/p>\n\n
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Kinds and a New Approach to Commensurability<\/h3>\n
\nRoom 525, School of Theology
\n745 Commonwealth Ave<\/p>\n\n
Postmodern Non-Relativism: Imre Lakatos and Alasdair MacIntyre<\/h3>\n
\nRoom 525, School of Theology
\n745 Commonwealth Ave<\/p>\n\n
Symbiosis, Evolution by Association: A Historic Perspective<\/h3>\n
\nRoom 525, School of Theology
\n745 Commonwealth Ave<\/p>\n\n
Reflections on Nature: Realism and the Comparative Sociology of Science A Symposium in Honor of Robert S. Cohen<\/em><\/h3>\n
\nBarristers Hall, School of Law
\n765 Commonwealth Ave.<\/p>\n\n
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Sakharov and the Soviet Atomic Project<\/h3>\n
\nRoom 525, School of Theology
\n745 Commonwealth Ave<\/p>\n\n