Download the 49th Annual Program<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Monday, September 15, 2008 Moderator: Murray Cohen<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Freud, Lacan, and the Philosopher’s Desire<\/p>\n William Egginton<\/strong> Johns Hopkins<\/p>\n Contagion, Suggestibility and Identification in Freud\u2019s Group Psychology<\/p>\n Jennifer Radden<\/strong> University of Massachusetts Boston<\/p>\n The Mysterious \u201cNature of the Subject\u201d: Philosophy at the Interface of Psychoanalysis<\/p>\n Jurgen Reeder<\/strong> Stockholms Universitet<\/p>\n Brentano, Kant, and Freud<\/p>\n Alfred Tauber<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Friday, September 26, 2008 Moderator: John Tietze<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Causal Foundationalism<\/p>\n Doug Kutach<\/strong> Brown University<\/p>\n The Better Best System Theory of Laws of Nature<\/p>\n Craig Callender<\/strong> University of California, San Diego<\/p>\n Reduction vs. the Occurrent\/Nomic Distinction<\/p>\n Peter Bokulich<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n The Rule of Law — and of Meta-Law<\/p>\n Marc Lange<\/strong> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Thursday, October 23, 2008 Moderator: Alessandro Torza<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Jaakko Hintikka<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Commentator: Judson Webb<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Monday, November 3, 2008 Moderator: Peter Bokulich<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n The Many Types of Infinity in Ancient Philosophy and in Late Antiquity<\/p>\n Emilie Kutash<\/strong> St. Joseph\u2019s College<\/p>\n The Formal Quantification of Infinity and the Advent of Transfinite Arithmetic in the 1870’s: The Age of Cantor, Set Theory and Modern Mathematics<\/p>\n Jean Nicolas Pestieau<\/strong> State University of New York, Suffolk<\/p>\n Infinity and Modern Philosophy<\/p>\n Judson Webb<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Life without Infinity: Varieties of Finitism<\/p>\n Mihai Ganea<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Monday, November 17, 2008 Moderator: Conevery Bolton Valencius<\/strong> Harvard University<\/p>\n Seth Shulman<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Monday, December 1, 2008 Moderator: Aaron Garret<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Amir Aczel<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Throughout the calendar year of 2009 the Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science will devote its entire program to examining and celebrating the life, work, and influence of Charles Darwin (1809-1882). 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 “natural history” tradition into the scientific field we now call biology, but his theory has also deeply influenced all the humans sciences. Further, Darwinism affects the way Western societies conceive themselves and their citizens. In short, Darwinian evolution is more than a science; it has become integral to our metaphysics.\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Monday, January 26, 2009 Moderator: Gal Kober<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Evolution before Evolution: Some Philosophical Perspectives<\/p>\n Daniel Dahlstrom<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Progress \u2013 Evolution\u2019s Evil Doppelganger?<\/p>\n Michael Ruse<\/strong> Florida State University<\/p>\n Romantic Biology and the Origin of \u201cOrigins\u201d<\/p>\n Robert Richards<\/strong> University of Chicago<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Thursday, February 12, 2009 Introduction by Provost David K. Campbell<\/p>\n Moderator: Alfred I. Tauber<\/strong> Department of Philosophy<\/p>\n Morning Session: 9 a.m. – Noon<\/strong><\/p>\n 150 Years without Darwin Is Enough! The Belated Impact of Darwinian Theory on the Study of Human Evolution<\/p>\n Matt Cartmill<\/strong> Department of Anthropology<\/p>\n<\/li>\n How Evolution Helps Us Think about Mental Disorders<\/p>\n Michael Lyons<\/strong> Department of Psychology<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Survival of the Fittest in Games, Decisions, and Markets<\/p>\n Bart Lipman<\/strong> Department of Economics<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Afternoon Session: 2 p.m. \u2013 5 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n Evolution in World Politics<\/p>\n Neta Crawford<\/strong> Department of Political Science<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Some Reflections on the Impact of \u201cThe Descent of Man\u201d on the Trajectory of the Behavioral Sciences<\/p>\n Jeff Coulter<\/strong> Department of Sociology<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Darwin among the Historians<\/p>\n James Johnson<\/strong> Department of History<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The Karbank Symposium, an annual lecture series, offers a forum for discussing issues in environmental philosophy broadly construed. Topics range from biodiversity, transgenic respeciation and global warming to nature aesthetics. The colloquia are designed to provide a forum for distinguished philosophers of various backgrounds to address their work to a broad audience. The Symposium is named in honor of Steven Karbank, a generous benefactor of the Boston University Department of Philosophy and major sponsor of the series.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Monday, March 23, 2009 Moderator: Daniel Star<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n The Ecosystem Concept: Adapting an Atomic Age Idea to the Modern World<\/p>\n Sharon Kingsland<\/strong> Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n The Biosphere as System: Toward a Critical Analysis<\/p>\n Eileen Crist<\/strong> Virginia Tech Blacksburg Campus<\/p>\n From the Milieu Interior to the Functioning Ecosystem: Concepts of Stability and Equilibrium<\/p>\n Sahotra Sarkar<\/strong> University of Texas at Austin<\/p>\n The Dynamics of Developing Systems in Rre-Darwinian German Biology, from Johann Friedrich Kielmeyer to Heinrich Georg Bronn<\/p>\n Sander Gliboff<\/strong> University of Indiana<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Friday and Saturday, April 3 – 4, 2009 Friday, April 3: The Periphery<\/p>\n Moderator: Eve-Marie Engels<\/strong> University of T\u00fcbingen<\/p>\n 2 p.m. \u2013 5 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n Opening presentation<\/p>\n Thomas F. Glick<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Translating Darwin: Reception in 19th-Century Hungary<\/p>\n Katalin Straner<\/strong> Central European University, Budapest; fellow, Harvard Univeristy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The reception of Darwinism in Estonia<\/p>\n Ken Kalling<\/strong> University of Tartu<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The Reception of Darwinism by the Brazilian Intelligentsia<\/p>\n Thomas F. Glick<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Saturday, April 4: Europe<\/p>\n Moderator: Thomas F. Glick<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Morning Session: 10 a.m. – Noon<\/strong><\/p>\n Reception of Darwin and Development of Darwinism in France<\/p>\n Jean Gayon<\/strong> University of Paris, Sorbonne<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Inspiration in the Harness of Daily Labor: Darwin, Orchids and the Triumph of Evolution, 1858-1872<\/p>\n Richard D. Bellon<\/strong> Michigan State University – England<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Afternoon Session: 2 p.m. \u2013 5 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n Darwinism and Marxism: Cultural Resources of Soviet Biology<\/p>\n Nikolai Krementsov<\/strong> University of Toronto<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Before and After Darwin: the Italian Case<\/p>\n Pietro Corsi<\/strong> University of Oxford<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The Reception and Construction of Charles Darwin in 19th Century Germany<\/p>\n Eve-Marie Engels<\/strong> University of T\u00fcbingen<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Friday, April 24, 2009 Moderator: Wesley Wildman<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Darwin\u2019s Challenge to Religion<\/p>\n Jon Roberts<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Darwin and Race<\/p>\n Paul Farber<\/strong> Oregon State University<\/p>\n Post-Darwinian Natural Theologies in Britain and the United States: Asa Gray and Charles Kingsley<\/p>\n Piers Hale<\/strong> University of Oklahoma<\/p>\n Science, Religion and Race in Antebellum American: The Origin of the Human Species and Pro-Slavery Thought<\/p>\n Paul Finkelman<\/strong> Albany Law School<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Friday, May 1, 2009 Moderator: Rebecca Kinraide<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Morning Session: 10 a.m. – Noon<\/strong><\/p>\n Is your Darwin, My Darwin?<\/p>\n Janet Browne<\/strong> Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Industrious and Persevering Traveler: Alfred Russel Wallace’s Journey<\/p>\n Andrew Berry<\/strong> Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Afternoon Session: 2 p.m. \u2013 5 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n Darwin, the Unknown<\/p>\n Richard Milner<\/strong> American Museum of Natural History<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Charles Darwin: to the Greenhouse Born<\/p>\n David Kohn<\/strong> American Museum of Natural History<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Putting Darwin and Wallace Onstage: Creating ‘Trumpery’<\/p>\n Peter Parnell<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n Panel discussion, 5 p.m. \u2013 6 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n Trumpery, by Peter Parnell<\/p>\n Peter Parnell’s play, Trumpery, about Darwin’s relationship with Alfred Russel Wallace, will be playing at Boston University’s Huntington Theatre, Thursday April 30th, Friday May 1st, and Saturday, May 2nd. For further information, consult the CD09 webpage<\/a>.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Neuphi, the Philosophy of Neuroscience Group at Boston University, is organized by graduate students in the Department of Philosophy to seek a common integrative framework for the study of the mind. The meetings, supported by the Department of Philosophy and the Center for Philosophy and History of Science, are designed to enrich the interplay between empirical and conceptual investigations through a critical examination of the explanatory strategies, major models, and logic employed in neuroscience. To this end, leaders in philosophy of mind and the cognitive sciences present their work in an interdisciplinary setting. For 2008-2009, the tentative schedule of speakers includes Peter Cariani (September), Hakwan Lau (October), Patricia Churchland (November), Christof Koch (November), Susanna Siegel (December), Steven Grossberg (January), Alex Byrne (March), David Chalmers (April), and Alva Noe (April). For further information and schedule of events, email organizers@neuphi.com (to be included on the mailing list) or consult http:\/\/www.neuphi.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science 49th Annual Program Download the 49th Annual Program September 15th, 2008 | The Robert S. 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The Robert S. Cohen Forum: Contemporary Issues in Science Studies<\/h6>\n
Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher<\/h3>\n
\n1 p.m. \u2013 5 p.m.
\nBoston University, The Castle
\n225 Bay State Road<\/p>\nNatural Laws and Scientific Reduction<\/h3>\n
\n1 p.m. \u2013 5 p.m.
\nPhotonics Center, Colloquium Room, 9th floor
\n8 St. Mary\u2019s Street<\/p>\nThe Past, Present, and Future of Set Theory<\/h3>\n
\n4 p.m.
\nBoston University, The Castle
\n225 Bay State Road<\/p>\nThe Philosophy of Infinity<\/h3>\n
\n1 p.m. \u2013 5 p.m.
\nBoston University, The Castle
\n225 Bay State Road<\/p>\nThe Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell’s Secret<\/h3>\n
\n4 p.m.
\nBoston University, The Castle
\n225 Bay State Rd.<\/p>\nDescartes’ Life and Science<\/h3>\n
\n4 p.m.
\nBoston University, The Castle
\n225 Bay State Rd.<\/p>\n 2009 Darwin Celebration<\/a><\/h3>\n
Evolution before Darwin<\/h3>\n
\n2 p.m. \u2013 5 p.m.
\nThe Castle
\n225 Bay State Road<\/p>\nProvost’s Colloquium: The Impact of Darwinism on the Human Sciences<\/h3>\n
A Boston University Symposium<\/h3>\n
\nThe Metcalf Trustee Center, 9th floor
\nOne Silber Way<\/p>\n\n
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The Karbank Symposium<\/h6>\n
The Karbank Symposium in Environmental Philosophy<\/h6>\n
Systems Biology Framed by Ecology: Historical and Contemporary Conceptual Perspectives<\/h3>\n
\n1 p.m. \u2013 5 p.m.
\nBoston University, The Castle
\n225 Bay State Rd.<\/p>\nThe Reception of Darwinism: Trans-cultural Differences<\/h3>\n
\nThe Photonics Center, Colloquium Room 9th floor
\n8 St. Mary’s Street<\/p>\n\n
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Darwinism\u2019s Impact in the United States<\/h3>\n
\n1 p.m. \u2013 5 p.m.
\nThe Castle
\n225 Bay State Road<\/p>\nCharles Darwin in Biography: The Lives behind the Origin of Species<\/h3>\n
\n10 a.m.-6 p.m.
\nThe Photonics Center, Colloquium Room 9th floor
\n8 Saint Mary’s Street<\/p>\n\n
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Neuphi 2008-2009:<\/h3>\n