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<\/a><\/p>\n September 24, 1998 Moderator: David Roochnik<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Morning Session, 10 a.m. – Noon<\/strong><\/p>\n The Developing Sciences in Antiquity<\/p>\n Emilie Kutash<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Place, Surface, and Form: Limits for Physics, Mathematics, and Metaphysics<\/p>\n Helen Lang<\/strong> Trinity College<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n Aristotle\u2019s Physics<\/p>\n Johannes Fritsche<\/strong> The New School for Social Research<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Aristotle\u2019s Method of Scientific Investigation and Beyond<\/p>\n John McGinnis<\/strong> University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n September 25, 1998 Co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, Boston University and supported by the Boston University Humanities Foundation<\/p>\n Moderator: Charles L. Griswold, Jr.<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n David Wiggins<\/strong> New College, University of Oxford\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n October 7, 1998 Moderator: Bruce Fraser<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n The Symbolic Species<\/p>\n Terrence Deacon<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n The Evolution of Language and Mind<\/p>\n Steven Pinker<\/strong> Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n October 8, 1998 Moderator: Jaakko Hintikka<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Morning Session, 9 a.m. – Noon<\/strong><\/p>\n Experiment and Thought-Experiment in Descartes and Boyle: Sensation and the Nature of Matter<\/p>\n Justin Broaches<\/strong> Brown University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Groping for Something Modern in Science and Philosophy: Descartes and J.B. Morin<\/p>\n Judson Webb<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Leibniz on Natural Curiosities<\/p>\n Roger Ariew<\/strong> Virginia Polytechnic Institute<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n Applied Metaphysics<\/p>\n Jerome Lettvin<\/strong> Massachusetts Institute of Technology\n<\/li>\n Where Is the Science in Spinoza\u2019s Scientia Intuitiva?<\/p>\n Aaron Garrett<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Making the Sensible Intelligible: Cudworth and Locke on Matter<\/p>\n Kenneth Winkler<\/strong> Wellesley College<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n November 12, 1998 Moderator: Robert S. Cohen<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Morning Session, 10 a.m. – Noon<\/strong><\/p>\n A Material Faith: Thoreau and the Science of Life<\/p>\n Laura Dassow Walls<\/strong> Lafayette College<\/p>\n Thoreau\u2019s Notion of Time: An Ontology, a Metaphysic, an Ethic<\/p>\n Alfred I. Tauber<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Egocentrists\u2019 Thoreau<\/p>\n Lawrence Buell<\/strong> Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The Ecocentrists\u2019 Thoreau<\/p>\n Leo Marx<\/strong> Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Thoreau\u2019s Landscape: Two Visions of Nature<\/p>\n Daniel Peck<\/strong> Vassar College<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n December 7, 1998 Moderator: John Clayton<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Morning Session, 10 a.m. – Noon<\/strong><\/p>\n The History of the Human Sciences as a Human Science<\/p>\n Roger Smith<\/strong> Lancaster University, Emeritus<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Uncertain Sciences<\/p>\n Bruce Mazlish<\/strong> Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n To be announced<\/p>\n Irving Velody<\/strong> University of Bristol<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The Human Sciences: An Anthropologist\u2019s Perspective<\/p>\n Michael Fisher<\/strong> Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Verstehen and the Boundaries of the Human Sciences<\/p>\n Michael Martin<\/strong> Boston University, Emeritus<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n January 25, 1999 Moderator: Abner Shimony<\/strong> Boston University, Emeritus<\/p>\n Time\u2019s Passing<\/p>\n Daniel Dahlstrom<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Kurt G\u00f6del: Time Travel and the Ideality of Time<\/p>\n Palle Yourgrau<\/strong> Brandeis University<\/p>\n The Twin Paradox and an Unorthodox Solution to the Problem of Absolute Space<\/p>\n Michel Janssen<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n January 29\u2013February 9, 1999 Moderator: Steven Horst<\/strong> Wesleyan University<\/p>\n Part I<\/p>\n Friday, January 29, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n Morning Session, 10 a.m. – Noon<\/strong><\/p>\n Should Nature Be \u201cNaturalized\u201d?<\/p>\n Joseph Rouse<\/strong> Wesleyan University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Naturalism: Its Sources, Status, and Claims<\/p>\n Jaegwon Kim<\/strong> Brown University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mind: Archeology and Critical Analysis<\/p>\n Steven Horst<\/strong> Wesleyan University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Imaging the Mind<\/p>\n William Bechte<\/strong> Washington University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The Intellectual Responsibilities of Naturalism<\/p>\n Abner Shimony<\/strong> Boston University, Emeritus<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Part II<\/p>\n Tuesday, February 2, 1999: 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n Philosophical Anthropology, Old and New<\/p>\n Lenny Moss<\/strong> Northwestern University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Construction, Connection, and C. Elegans: What the Worm Can Tell Philosophers<\/p>\n Kenneth Schaffner<\/strong> George Washington University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Making Sense of Life: Explanation in Developmental Biology<\/p>\n Evelyn Fox Keller<\/strong> Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Part III<\/p>\n Tuesday, February 9, 1999: 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n A Naturalistic Approach to the Philosophy of Science: An Evolutionary Case Study<\/p>\n Michael Ruse<\/strong> University of Guelph<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Complexity, Epigenesis, and the Future of Naturalism<\/p>\n David Depew<\/strong> University of Iowa<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Infelicities of Evolutionary Naturalism<\/p>\n Robert Richardson<\/strong> University of Cincinnati<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n March 30, 1999 Supported by the Dibner Fund, through the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology<\/p>\n Moderator: John Stachel<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Commentator: Mario Biagioli<\/strong> Harvard University<\/p>\n Maurice A. Finocchiaro<\/strong> University of Nevada, Las Vegas\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n April 27, 1999 Moderator: Jaakko Hintikka<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Why There Are No Rules of Language<\/p>\n Ruth Millikan<\/strong> University of Connecticut<\/p>\n Normativity and Modality<\/p>\nConceptual Origins of Science in Antiquity<\/h3>\n
\n10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
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Consequentialism and The Right and The Good<\/h3>\n
\n4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
\n775 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\nDebating the Biology of Language<\/h3>\n
\n2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
\n775 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\nThe Scientific Image in Early Modern Philosophy<\/h3>\n
\n9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
\n775 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\n\n
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Thoreau\u2019s Natural Philosophy<\/h3>\n
\n10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
\n775 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\n\n
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The Boundaries of The Human Sciences<\/h3>\n
\n10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
\n775 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\n\n
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Does Time Flow? In Memory of Milic Capek<\/em><\/h3>\n
\n2 a.m. – 5 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
\n775 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\nThe Robert S. Cohen Forum: Contemporary Issues in Science Studies<\/h6>\n
Naturalism and Its Discontents<\/h3>\n
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
\n775 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\n\n
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The Galileo Affair From John Milton to John Paul II<\/h3>\n
\n4 a.m. – 6 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
\n775 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\nNorms of Language<\/h3>\n
\n2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
\n775 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\n