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<\/a><\/p>\n October\u00a05th, 1982 Lynn Margulis,<\/strong>\u00a0Biology,\u00a0<\/em>Boston University<\/p>\n Commentator: Michael McElroy,<\/strong>\u00a0Atmospheric Sciences,\u00a0<\/em>Harvard University<\/li>\n Chair:\u00a0Robert S. Cohen,\u00a0<\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n October\u00a019th, 1982 Hubert L. Dreyfus,<\/strong>\u00a0Philosophy,\u00a0<\/em>University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n Commentator: Mark Okrent,<\/strong>\u00a0Philosophy,\u00a0<\/em>Bates College<\/li>\n Chair: Marx X. Wartofsky,<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n October 26th, 1982<\/p>\n Michael L.G. Rehead,<\/strong> History and Philosophy of Science<\/em>, Chelsea College and\u00a0the University of London<\/p>\n Commentator: Abner Shimony,<\/strong> Philosophy<\/em> and Physics,\u00a0<\/em>Boston University<\/li>\n Chair:\u00a0Kenneth Brecher<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Chair: Louise Antony<\/p>\n November 5th, 1982<\/p>\n Hilary Putnam,<\/strong>\u00a0Philosophy, <\/em>Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n November 5th, 1982<\/p>\n Marx W. Wartofsky,<\/strong>\u00a0Philosophy, <\/em>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n November 6th, 1982<\/p>\n Abner Shimony,<\/strong>\u00a0Philosophy and Physics, <\/em>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n November 6th, 1982<\/p>\n November 6th, 1982<\/p>\n Robert S. Cohen<\/strong>, Physics and Philosophy<\/em>, Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n November 9th, 1982<\/p>\n Ernst Mayr,<\/strong>\u00a0Evolutionary Biology, <\/em>Harvard University<\/p>\n Commentator: S. S. Schweber,<\/strong>\u00a0Physics, <\/em>Brandeis College<\/li>\n Chair: Diana Long Hall<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Chair: Marjorie Grene<\/p>\n November 12th, 1982<\/p>\n Nancy Maull,<\/strong>\u00a0History and Philosophy of Science, <\/em>Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n November 12th, 1982<\/p>\n Davis Savan,<\/strong> Philosophy,<\/em> University of Toronto<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n November 12th, 1982<\/p>\n Davis R. Lachterman,<\/strong> Philosophy and History of Science,<\/em> Vassar College<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n November 12th, 1982<\/p>\n Marx W. Wartofsky,<\/strong> Philosophy,<\/em> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n November 12th, 1982<\/p>\n Genevieve Lloyd,<\/strong> History of Philosophy,<\/em> Australian National University, Canberra<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n November 13th, 1982<\/p>\n J. Thomas Cook,<\/strong> Philosophy,<\/em> Rollins College<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n November 13th, 1982<\/p>\n Joseph Agassi,<\/strong> Philosophy,<\/em> Boston, York, and Tel-Aviv Universities<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n November 23rd, 1982<\/p>\n Robert L. Zimmerman,<\/strong> Philosophy,<\/em> Sarah Lawrence College<\/p>\n Commentator: Bernard Kaplan<\/strong>, Psychology<\/em>, Clark University<\/li>\n Chair: Marx W. Wartofsky<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Chair: Joseph Agassi<\/p>\n December 3, 1982<\/p>\n Jeffrey Barnouw,<\/strong>\u00a0German Studies, <\/em>Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n December 3, 1982<\/p>\n F. J. Zucker,<\/strong> Microwave<\/em> Physics, System Theory, Philosophy of Nature, <\/em>KGHW Research and Development Associates, Belmont<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n December 3, 1982<\/p>\n Joseph Margolis,<\/strong> Philosophy,<\/em> Temple University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n December 3, 1982<\/p>\n Jerome Y. Lettvin,<\/strong> Biology,<\/em> Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n December 7th, 1982<\/p>\n Michael Hoskin<\/strong>, History of Science, <\/em>Churchill College, Cambridge<\/p>\n Commentator: S. S. Schweber<\/strong>, Physics<\/em>, Brandeis University<\/li>\n Chair: Kenneth Brecher<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\nCooperation in Evolution<\/h3>\n
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Why the Study of Human Behavior Can Never be Scientific<\/h3>\n
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The Quantum View of the World<\/h3>\n
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Symposium on the Vienna Circle: the Schlick\/Neurath Centenary<\/h1>\n
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I. Reflections on the Vienna Circle<\/h3>\n
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I. Positivism and Politics: The Vienna Circle as a Social Movement<\/h3>\n
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II. Reminiscences of Carnap on Induction<\/h3>\n
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II. Carnap on Artificial Languages and Artificial Lives<\/h3>\n
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II. Schlick vs. Neurath<\/h3>\n
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\nDarwinian Theories and Current Controversies<\/h3>\n
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Symposium: Spinoza and Science<\/h1>\n
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I. Science in the Century of Spinoza<\/h3>\n
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I. Spinoza, Philosopher of Natural Science and the Social Sciences<\/h3>\n
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I. Spinoza’s Physics<\/h3>\n
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II. From Here to eternity<\/h3>\n
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II. spinoza’s version of the eternity of the mind<\/h3>\n
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III. Self-knowledge as self-preservation?<\/h3>\n
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III. spinoza and the science of politics: machiavelli, hobbes, spinoza<\/h3>\n
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\nThe Metaphysics of L\u00e9vi-Strauss’s Structuralism: Two Views<\/h3>\n
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Symposium: Goethe and the Sciences<\/h1>\n
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I. Goethe and Helmholtz: science and sensation<\/h3>\n
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I. Are Goethe’s Color theory and Morphology Prototype Alternative Sciences?<\/h3>\n
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II. Goethe and Psychoanalysis<\/h3>\n
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II. Getting Goethe’s Gotter: Farbenlehre From a Modern View<\/h3>\n
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\nThe Riddle of the Nebulae<\/h3>\n
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