{"id":4350,"date":"2022-11-11T15:06:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T20:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/?page_id=4350"},"modified":"2022-11-18T15:39:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T20:39:47","slug":"archives-1977-1978","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/colloquium\/archives-1977-1978\/","title":{"rendered":"Archives 1977-1978"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"past-year\">Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science<br \/>\n18th Annual Program<\/h2>\n<p><!--Download the 44th Annual Program--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>September 27, 1977 | <a href=\"#anchor1\">The Nature of Life: Beyond Mechanism and Vitalism<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 4, 1977 | <a href=\"#anchor2\">Talking with Extraterrestrials: Nominalism, Conceptualism, and Realism as Degrees in Radical Translation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 11, 1977 | <a href=\"#anchor3\">How to Overcome Marx: A Proposal of a Marxist<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 18, 1977 | <a href=\"#anchor4\">Mechanism and Structure: The Ambivalent War of Paradigms<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 25, 1977 | <a href=\"#anchor5\">Notes on a New Problem of Vision<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 8, 1977 | <a href=\"#anchor6\">&#8220;And&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 15, 1977 | <a href=\"#anchor7\">Atomic Physics: A Test for Theory Reconstruction<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 22, 1977 | <a href=\"#anchor8\">The Concept of Social Reproduction<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 29, 1977 | <a href=\"#anchor9\">The Locus of Power in Science<\/a><\/li>\n<li>December 6, 1977 | <a href=\"#anchor10\">Biology of Cognition: Life as a Cognitive Process<\/a><\/li>\n<li>December 13, 1977 | <a href=\"#anchor11\">Intelligence, Intelligence Tests, and the Distribution of Knowledge<\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 17, 1978 | <a href=\"#anchor12\">The Poverty of Empiricism, or, Philosophy Vindicated<\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 24, 1978 | <a href=\"#anchor13\">On Attributing Causes to Complex Individuals<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 14, 1978 | <a href=\"#anchor14\">Dynamic and Linguistic Modes of Perception: A Cognitive Basis for Complementarity<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 28, 1978 | <a href=\"#anchor15\">Evidence, Inference and the Law\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 4, 1978 | <a href=\"#anchor16\">The Question of Relativism in the Social Sciences<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 11, 1978 | <a href=\"#anchor17\">The Marxist Concept of Religion: A Scientific and Philosophical Study<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 25, 1978 | <a href=\"#anchor18\">The Worlds of Arthur Stanley Eddington: Science and its Audience<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"anchor1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Nature of Life: Beyond Mechanism and Vitalism<\/h3>\n<p>September 27, 1977<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Mario Bunge,<\/strong> McGill University<\/p>\n<p>Commentators: <strong>Lynn Margulis<\/strong>, Boston University; <strong>Stephen J. Gould<\/strong>, Harvard University<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Talking with Extraterrestrials: Nominalism, Conceptualism, and Realism as Degrees in Radical Translation<\/h3>\n<p>October 4, 1977<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Justin Leibler<\/strong>, M. I. T.<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Michael Martin<\/strong>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">How to Overcome Marx: A Proposal of a Marxist<\/h3>\n<p>October 11, 1977<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Leszek Nowak<\/strong>, University of Poznan<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Thomas McCarthy<\/strong>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor4\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Notes on a New Problem of Vision<\/h3>\n<p>October 25, 1977<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Nelson Goodman<\/strong>, Harvard University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Marx W. Wartofsky<\/strong>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor5\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">&#8220;And&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>November 8, 1977<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Richard M. Martin<\/strong>, Northwestern University and Boston University Center for Philosophy and History of Science<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Judson Webb<\/strong>, Boston University<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor6\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Atomic Physics: A Test for Theory Reconstruction<\/h3>\n<p>November 15, 1977<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Edward MacKinnon<\/strong>, California State University at Hayward<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Leonard Nash<\/strong>, Harvard\u00a0University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor7\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Concept of Social Reproduction<\/h3>\n<p>November 22, 1977<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Edward Nell<\/strong>, New School for Social Research<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Eric Chester<\/strong>, University of Massachusetts, Boston<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor8\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Locus of Power in Science<\/h3>\n<p>November 29, 1977<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Camille Limoges<\/strong>, University of Montreal<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Lew Kowarski<\/strong>, CERN, Geneva, and Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor9\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Biology of Cognition: Life as a Cognitive Process<\/h3>\n<p>December 6, 1977<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Humberto Maturana<\/strong>, University of Santiago<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Jerome Lettvin<\/strong>, M. I. T.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor10\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Intelligence, Intelligence Tests, and the Distribution of Knowledge<\/h3>\n<p>December 13, 1977<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Walter Feinberg<\/strong>, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Ned Block<\/strong>, M. I. T.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor11\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Poverty of Empiricism, or, Philosophy Vindicated<\/h3>\n<p>January 17, 1978<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Laurens Lauden<\/strong>, University of Pittburgh<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Bruce Aune<\/strong>, University of Massachusetts; Amherst<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor12\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">On Attributing Causes to Complex Individuals<\/h3>\n<p>January 24, 1978<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Benjamin Robers<\/strong>, Wichita State University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Commentator: <b>Davis Israel<\/b>, University of Connecticut, Storrs<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor13\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Dynamic and Linguistic Modes of Perception: A Cognitive Basis for Complementarity<\/h3>\n<p>March 14, 1978<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Howard Pattee<\/strong>, SUNY at Binghamtom<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Paula Menyuk<\/strong>, Boston University<strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor14\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Evidence, Inference, and the Law<\/h3>\n<p>March 28, 1978<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Marsha Hanen<\/strong>, University of Calgary<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Commentator: <strong>Bernard Elevich<\/strong>, Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor15\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Question of Relativism in the Social Sciences<\/h3>\n<p>April 4, 1978<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Daniel Bell<\/strong>, Harvard University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <b>Alasdair MacIntyre<\/b>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor16\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Marxist Concept of Religion: A Scientific and Philosophical Study<\/h3>\n<p>April 11, 1978<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Lev Mitrokhin<\/strong>, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <b>Robert S. Cohe<\/b>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor17\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Worlds of Arthur Stanley Eddington: Science and Its Audience<\/h3>\n<p>April 25, 1978<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Loren Graham<\/strong>, Columbia University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <b>Robert S. 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