Download the 50th Annual Program<\/a><\/p>\n Throughout calendar year 2009, the Boston Colloquium\u2019s entire program is devoted to examining and celebrating the life, work, and influence of Charles Darwin (1809\u20131882). This year marks the bicentennial of Darwin\u2019s birth and the sesquicentennial of the publication of The Origin of Species<\/em>. Not only did Darwin stimulate the transformation of a largely descriptive \u201cnatural history\u201d tradition into the scientific field we now call biology, but his theory has also deeply influenced all the human sciences. Further, Darwinism affects the way Western societies conceive of themselves and their citizens. In short, Darwinian evolution is more than a science; it has become integral to our metaphysics.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Monday, October 19, 2009 Moderator: David Liebesman<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Nietzsche and Darwin<\/p>\n Babette Babich<\/strong> Fordham University<\/p>\n Evolution, Human Agency, and the Late Victorians<\/p>\n Roger Smith<\/strong> Lancaster Univeristy<\/p>\n Freud, Darwin, and Diachronic Scientific Explanation<\/p>\n Patricia Kitcher<\/strong> Columbia University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Friday, November 6, 2009 Moderator: Alfred Tauber<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Morning Session: 10 a.m.\u2013Noon<\/strong><\/p>\n The Arrival of the Fittest: Developmental Sources of Variation Evolutionary Theory in the Molecular Age<\/p>\n Scott Gilbert<\/strong> Swarthmore College<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Soft Inheritance in the 21st Century<\/p>\n Eva Jablonka<\/strong> Tel Aviv University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Afternoon Session: 2\u20135 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n Evolution Under Stress: Mechanisms of Adaptive Mutation in Escherichia Coli<\/p>\n Patricia Foster<\/strong> Indiana University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The Future of Darwinism<\/p>\n David Depew<\/strong> The University of Iowa<\/p>\n<\/li>\n What, If Anything, Is \u201cRandom\u201d About the Evolutionary History of Life?<\/p>\n Lynn Margulis<\/strong> University of Massachusetts<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Friday, November 20, 2009, 1\u20135 p.m. Moderator: Robert Cohen<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Why Are Old Evolutionary Concepts Still New in Medicine?<\/p>\n Randolph Nesse<\/strong> University of Michigan<\/p>\n Darwin and Public Health: Convergence or Conflict?<\/p>\n Gerald Keusch<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Prader-Willi Syndrome and the Evolution of Human Childhood<\/p>\n David Haig<\/strong> Harvard University<\/p>\n Aging and Immunosenescence in a Darwinian Perspective<\/p>\n Claudio Franceschi<\/strong> University of Bologna<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Monday, December 7, 2009 Moderator: Alisa Bokulich<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Developmental Biology and Stem Cells in the Context of Evolution<\/p>\n Jane Maienschien<\/strong> Arizona State University<\/p>\n Clonal Selection Theory and the Neo-Darwinian Transformation of Immunology<\/p>\n Scott Podolsky<\/strong> Harvard University<\/p>\n What Is Selecting What? Reviewing Darwinism at the Molecular-Ground Level<\/p>\n Lenny Moss<\/strong> University of Exeter<\/p>\n Naturalizing Epistemology: How Brains Get a Grip on Unfolding Structures in Time<\/p>\n Paul Churchland<\/strong> University of California, San Diego<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n *THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. The Boston University Center for Philosophy & History of Science, which sponsors the Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science, was established in 1960 by Professors Marx Wartofsky and Robert S. Cohen. They conceived a forum of scholarly exchange in the broadest interdisciplinary framework to characterize the natural and human sciences in their cultural and historical contexts. The Colloquium, which began as a Boston-based, informal inter-university collaboration, has become a premier stage for national and international dialogue on all aspects of the philosophy and history of science, mathematics, and logic. 2010 marks the Jubilee celebration of the Colloquium\u2019s founding and the final year of Professor Alfred Tauber\u2019s seventeen-year directorship of the Center.\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n
2009 Darwin Celebration<\/h4>\n
\n <\/p>\nDarwin and Metaphysics<\/h3>\n
\n2pm\u20135pm
\nThe Castle
\n225 Bay State Road<\/p>\nTheories of Evolution Today and Tomorrow<\/h3>\n
\nThe Castle
\n225 Bay State Road<\/p>\n\n
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Evolutionary Concepts in Medicine and Public Health<\/h3>\n
\nThe Castle
\n225 Bay State Road<\/p>\nDarwinism Today: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives<\/h3>\n
\n1\u20135 p.m.
\nThe Castle
\n225 Bay State Road<\/p>\nThe Boston Colloquium Jubilee<\/h4>\n
\n*REGISTRATION NOT REQUIRED.<\/p>\n