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External Semiotic Anchors, Hybrid Representations, Affordances<\/p>\n Lorenzo Magnani<\/strong> University of Pavia<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Logical Proofs through von Neumann Algebras<\/p>\n Mario Piazza<\/strong> University of Chieti<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Monday, 2:00-5:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n Moderator: Elisabeta Sarca<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Connecting the Objectivity of Becoming with the Conventionality of Simultaneity<\/p>\n Mauro Dorato<\/strong> University of Rome, 3<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Towards an Explication of ‘Life’ and ‘Death’<\/p>\n Giovanni Boniolo<\/strong> University of Padua<\/p>\n<\/li>\n An Epistemological Framework for Evolution Based Medicine<\/p>\n Gilberto Corbellini<\/strong> University of Rome, La Sapienza<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Tuesday, 9:00 a.m.- noon<\/strong><\/p>\n Moderator: Elisabeta Sarca<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n The Learning Cell: From Immune to Neural Memory, via Darwinism<\/p>\n Andrea Grignolio<\/strong> University of Rome, La Sapienza<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Logical Proofs through von Neumann Algebras<\/p>\n Massimo Stanzione<\/strong> University of Cassino<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Language Reference and Natural Science<\/p>\n Marcello Frixione<\/strong> University of Salerno<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Tuesday, 2:00-5:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n Moderator: Alessandro Torza<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Philosophy of Science Meets Philosophy of Mind: the Mind-Body Identity Theory<\/p>\n Simone Gozzano<\/strong> University of L’Aquila<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Models, Metaphors and Paradigms in Cognitive Science<\/p>\n Roberto Cordeschi<\/strong> University of Rome, La Sapienza<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Evaluating the Predictive Adequacy of Qualitative Theories in Social Sciences<\/p>\n Roberto Festa<\/strong> University of Trieste<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Monday, September 24th, 2007<\/strong> Moderator: Abraham Fuks<\/strong> McGill University<\/p>\n Monday, 10 a.m.-Noon<\/strong><\/p>\n Health as Intra-Systemic Integrity: Rethinking the Foundations of the Biopsychosocial Model of Medicine<\/p>\n George Khushf<\/strong> University of South Carolina<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Theories, Disease and the Philosophy of Science<\/p>\n Harold Kincaid<\/strong> University of Alabama at Birmingham<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Monday, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n Humanizing the Biomedical Model<\/p>\n James Marcum<\/strong> Baylor University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Risk and Disease<\/p>\n Peter Schwartz<\/strong> Indiana University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n A Model-Based Approach to Diseases<\/p>\n Jeremy Simon<\/strong> Columbia University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Moderator: Alan Schechter<\/strong> National Institutes of Health<\/p>\n Tuesday, 10 a.m. – Noon<\/strong><\/p>\n Philosophy of Medicine Is What Philosophers of Medicine Do<\/p>\n William Stempsey<\/strong> College of the Holy Cross<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Recent Epistemological Paradigms in Clinical Medicine<\/p>\n Miriam Solomon<\/strong> Temple University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Tuesday, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n Constructing a Philosophy of Medicine<\/p>\n Alfred I. Tauber<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Mental Illness From the Perspective of Theoretical Neuroscience<\/p>\n Paul Thagard<\/strong> University of Waterloo<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Evidence and Ethics in Medicine<\/p>\n John Worral<\/strong> London School of Economics<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Friday, October 12, 2007 Moderator: Dimitri Constant<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Dialogue in Martin Eger’s Philosophy and Friendship<\/p>\n Abner Shimony<\/strong> Boston University, Emeritus<\/p>\n Physics, Ethics, and the Life of Practice<\/p>\n Alasdair MacIntyre<\/strong> University of Notre Dame<\/p>\n Eger on Missing Contexts and Larger Meanings<\/p>\n Victor Kestenbaum<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Monday, Oct. 29, 2007 Moderator: Peter Bokulich<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Eli Dresner<\/strong> Tel Aviv University<\/p>\n Commentator: Judson Webb<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Friday, November 16, 2007 Moderator: Charles Capper<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Thoreau as a Climate Change Scientist<\/p>\n Richard Primack<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Thoreau’s Anticipations of Human Agency in Ecological Context<\/p>\n Max Oelschlaeger<\/strong> Norther Arizona University<\/p>\n Thoreauvian Science and the Environmental Subject<\/p>\n William Rossi<\/strong> University of Oregon<\/p>\n Thoreau’s Pantheism and the Birth of American Environmentalism<\/p>\n Alfred I. Tauber<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Friday, November 30, 2007 On the Naturalness of Mathematics: Towards a Relativised Ontology for Mathematics<\/p>\n Pierre Cartier<\/strong> Institut Des Hautes \u00c9tudes Scientifiques, Paris<\/p>\n Saturday, 9 a.m. – Noon<\/strong><\/p>\n Living in a Contradictory World: Categories Versus Sets<\/p>\n Pierre Cartier<\/strong> Institut Des Hautes \u00c9tudes Scientifiques, Paris<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Generality Versus Unity in Geometry<\/p>\n Colin McLarty<\/strong> Case-Western Reserve University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Saturday, 2 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n Euler, Maxwell, Grothendieck, and the Nature of Space<\/p>\n F. William Lawvere<\/strong> SUNY, Buffalo<\/p>\n<\/li>\n From Klein to Kan: the Algebra of Space and the Space of Algebra<\/p>\n Jean-Pierre Marquis<\/strong> University of Montreal<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Grothendieck’s Universe<\/p>\n M. Iftime<\/strong> Boston University and Massachusetts College of Pharmacy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Sunday, 9 a.m. – Noon<\/strong><\/p>\n What Does Quantum Gravity Tell Us about the Nature of Spacetime?<\/p>\n Louis Crane<\/strong> Kansas State University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n An Axiomatic Approach to Einstein’s Vacuum Field Equations<\/p>\n Gonzalo E. Reyes<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Sunday, 2 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Twin Paradox without Acceleration<\/p>\n Shawn Westmoreland<\/strong> Kansas State University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Geometrogenesis<\/p>\n F. Markopoulou<\/strong> Perimeter Institute<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Internal Relativity<\/p>\n O. Dreyer<\/strong> MIT<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Friday, Dec. 7, 2007 Roy Wagner<\/strong> Tel Aviv University\/Boston University\n<\/div>\nThe Robert S. Cohen Forum: Contemporary Issues in Science Studies<\/h6>\n
Contemporary Issues in Science Studies Trends in Italian Philosophy of Science<\/h3>\n
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Future Horizons for Philosophy of Medicine<\/h3>\n
\nBU School of Law, Room 1270 (12th Floor)
\n765 Commonwealth Avenue
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\nBU School of Law, Barristers Hall (1st Floor)
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Contributions of Martin Eger to the Philosophy of Science, Education, and Human Behavior<\/h3>\n
\n1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\n775 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\nTuring on Computation, Memory, and Behavior<\/h3>\n
\n3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
\nThe Castle
\n225 Bay State Road<\/p>\nKarbank Symposium in Environmental Philosophy<\/h6>\n
Thoreau and Environmentalism<\/h3>\n
\n1:00 p.m. – 5 p.m.
\nThe Castle
\n225 Bay State Road<\/p>\nTrends in the Mathematical Representation of Space: Philosophical and Historical Perspectives<\/h3>\n
\n3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
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Post Structural Readings of a logico-mathematical text: \u201cDangerous shifts of meaning\u201d in G\u00f6del\u2019s proof of his first incompleteness theorem<\/h3>\n
\n12 p.m. – 2 p.m.
\nSchool of Theology, Room 525
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