{"id":4374,"date":"2022-11-17T23:07:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T04:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/?page_id=4374"},"modified":"2022-11-17T23:08:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T04:08:55","slug":"archives-1980-1981","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/colloquium\/archives-1980-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"Archives: 1980-1981"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"past-year\">Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science<br \/>\n21st Annual Program<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>September 23, 1980 | <a href=\"#anchor1\">Syntax and Semantics in Probability\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>September 30, 1980 | <a href=\"#anchor2\">Structure and Reduction in Genetics and in Evolutionary and Developmental Biology<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 7, 1980 | <a href=\"#anchor3\">Randomness, Information and the Algorithmic Approach to the Foundations of Probability Theory<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 14, 1980 | <a href=\"#anchor4\">Choice, Chance, and Credence<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 21, 1980 | <a href=\"#anchor5\">Atomism Versus Structuralism in Behavioral Science<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 28, 1980 | <a href=\"#anchor6\">The Search for Cosmic Phenomena<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 4, 1980 | <a href=\"#anchor7\">Non-Euclidean Geometry and the Phenomenology of the Spirit<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 11, 1980 | <a href=\"#anchor8\">Transcending Limitations in the History of Science and Technology<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 18, 1980 | <a href=\"#anchor9\">Phrenology and Neurolinguistics: Reflections of the Aphasias and Cognitive Capacities<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 25, 1980 | <a href=\"#anchor10\">The Philosophical Interest of Alternative Logics<\/a><\/li>\n<li>December 2, 1980 | <a href=\"#anchor11\">The Use and Abuse of &#8220;Totalitarianism&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>December 9, 1980 | <a href=\"#anchor12\">Quantifiers, Terms, and Classes<\/a><\/li>\n<li>December 11, 1980 | <a href=\"#anchor13\">Empiricism and the Philosophy of Science; Or N Dogmas of Empiricism<\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 13, 1981 | <a href=\"#anchor14\">The Social Basis of Scientific Theory and Practice<\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 20, 1981 | <a href=\"#anchor15\">The Sign&#8211;Theory of Perception and Thought: From Chtysippus Through Helmholtz to Pierce and Dewey<\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 27 1981 | <a href=\"#anchor16\">Theoretical Problems of Cognitive Science: The Limiting Duality of Behaviorism and Mentalism<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 10, 1981 | <a href=\"#anchor17\">The Hierarchal Structure of Evolutionary Theory<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 17, 1981 | <a href=\"#anchor18\">Practical&#8211;Social Rationality in Marx: A Dialectical Critique<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 24, 1981| <a href=\"#anchor19\">Which Came First: The Universe or the Laws of Physics?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 17, 1981 | <a href=\"#anchor20\">Human Languages Are Not Codes<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 24, 1981 | <a href=\"#anchor21\">Logics of Action<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 31, 1981 | <a href=\"#anchor22\">The Electromagnetic Asymmetries and the Origins of the Special Theory of Relativity<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 14, 1981 | <a href=\"#anchor23\">Not a Logic of Discovery But a Rationale of Theory Construction: The Case of the Theory of the Gene<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 21, 1981 | <a href=\"#anchor24\">Can Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory Be Cogently Tested on the Couch?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 28, 1981 | <a href=\"#anchor25\">Rules, Examples, and Constructions: Kant&#8217;s Philosophy of Mathematics 200 Years Later<\/a><\/li>\n<li>May 5, 1981 | <a href=\"#anchor26\">Fundamental Principles for a Theory of Consciousness<\/a><\/li>\n<li>May 12, 1981 | <a href=\"#anchor27\">Meaning and the Empirical Sciences<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"anchor1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Syntax and Semantics in Probability<\/h3>\n<p>September 23, 1980<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Gian-Carlo<\/strong>, M. I. T<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Abner Shimony<\/strong>, Boston University<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Structure and Reduction in Genetics and in Evolutionary and Developmental Biology<\/h3>\n<p>September 30, 1980<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Aristid Lindenmayer<\/strong>, University of Utrecht, Holland<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <b>John Beatty,<\/b> Harvard University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Randomness, Information and the Algorithmic Approach to the Foundations of Probability Theory<\/h3>\n<p>October 7, 1980<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Leonid Levin<\/strong>, Boston University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Rohit Parikh<\/strong><b>, <\/b>Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor4\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Choice, Chance, and Credence<\/h3>\n<p>October 14, 1980<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Richard Jeffrey<\/strong>, Princeton University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Paul Horwich<\/strong><b>, <\/b>M.I.T.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor5\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Atomism Versus Structuralism in Behavioral Science<\/h3>\n<p>October 21, 1980<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Alex Kozulin<\/strong>, Boston University Center for the Philosophy and History of Science<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>E. Martin Schotz<\/strong>, M.D.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor6\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Search for Cosmic Phenomena<\/h3>\n<p>October 28, 1980<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Martin Harwit<\/strong>, Cornell University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>George Field<\/strong>, Harvard University<strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor7\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Non-Euclidean Geometry and the Phenomenology of the Spirit<\/h3>\n<p>November 4, 1980<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Imre Toth<\/strong>, University of Regensburg and Princeton University<\/p>\n<p>Commentators: <strong>John J. Stachel<\/strong>, Boston University and Princeton University; <strong>Joseph Agassi<\/strong>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor8\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Transcending Limitations in the History of Science and Technology<\/h3>\n<p>November 11, 1980<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Hermann Ley<\/strong>, Humboldt University, Berlin, GDR<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Marx W. Wartofsky<\/strong>, Boston University <strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor9\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Phrenology and Neurolinguistics: Reflections of the Aphasias and Cognitive Capacities<\/h3>\n<p>November 18, 1980<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Mary-Louise Kean<\/strong>, University of California, Irvine<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Norman Geschwind<\/strong>, Harvard Medical School<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor10\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Philosophical Interest of Alternative Logics<\/h3>\n<p>November 25, 1980<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><b>Hilary Putnam,<\/b> Harvard University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Rohit Parikh<\/strong>, Boston\u00a0University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor11\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Use and Abuse of &#8220;Totalitarianism&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>December 2, 1980<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Elizabeth Young Bruehl<\/strong>, Wesleyan University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Alasdair MacIntyre<\/strong>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor12\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Quantifiers, Terms, and Classes<\/h3>\n<p>December 9, 1980<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Willard van Orman Quine<\/strong>, Harvard University<\/p>\n<p>Commentators <strong>Richard Martin<\/strong>, Northwestern University and Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor13\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Empiricism and the Philosophy of Science; Or N Dogmas of Empiricism<\/h3>\n<p>December 11, 1980<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Marjorie Grene<\/strong>, Yale University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor14\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Social Basis of Scientific Theory and Practice<\/h3>\n<p>January 13, 1981<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Marcello Cini<\/strong>, University of Rome<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Everett Mendelsohn<\/strong>, Harvard University<strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor15\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Sign&#8211;Theory of Perception and Thought: From Chtysippus Through Helmholtz to Pierce and Dewey<\/h3>\n<p>January 20, 1981<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Jeffrey Barnouw<\/strong>, Boston University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Richard Martin<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor16\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Theoretical Problems of Cognitive Science: The Limiting Duality of Behaviorism and Mentalism<\/h3>\n<p>January 27, 1981<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Jeffrey Coulter<\/strong>, Boston University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <b>Daniel Dennett<\/b>, Tufts University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor17\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Hierarchal Structure of Evolutionary Theory<\/h3>\n<p>February 10, 1981<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Stephen Gould<\/strong>, Harvard University<\/p>\n<p>Commentators: <b>R.V. Dusek<\/b>, University of New Hampshire; <strong>Diana Long Hall<\/strong>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor18\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Practical&#8211;Social Rationality in Marx: A Dialectical Critique<\/h3>\n<p>February 17, 1981<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Gyorgy Markus<\/strong>, University of Sydney and Boston University Center for the Philosophy and History of Science<\/p>\n<p>Commentators: <b>Marx W. Wartofsky<\/b>, Boston University; <strong>Seyla Benhabib<\/strong>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor19\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Which Came First: The Universe or the Laws of Physics?<\/h3>\n<p>February 24, 1981<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Kenneth Brecher<\/strong>, Boston University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Philip Morrison<\/strong>, M.I.T.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor20\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Human Languages Are Not Codes<\/h3>\n<p>March 17, 1981<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Rita Nolan<\/strong>, SUNY at Stony Brook<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Anthony Leeds<\/strong>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor21\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Logics of Action<\/h3>\n<p>March 24, 1981<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Rohit Parikh<\/strong>, Boston University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Judson Webb<\/strong>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor22\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Electromagnetic Asymmetries and the Origins of the Special Theory of Relativity<\/h3>\n<p>March 31, 1981<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Clark Glymour<\/strong>, University of Pittsburgh<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Arthur I. Miller, University of Lowell and Harvard\u00a0University<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor23\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Not a Logic of Discovery But a Rationale of Theory Construction: The Case of the Theory of the Gene<\/h3>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<p>April 14, 1981<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Lindley Darden<\/strong>, University of Maryland<\/p>\n<p>Commentators: <b>John Beatty<\/b>, Harvard University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor24\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Can Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory Be Cogently Tested on the Couch?<\/h3>\n<p>April 21, 1981<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Adolf Grunbaum<\/strong>, University of Pittsburg<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Richard Sens<\/strong>, Boston Psychanalytic Institute and Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor25\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Rules, Examples, and Constructions: Kant&#8217;s Philosophy of Mathematics 200 Years Later<\/h3>\n<p>April 28, 1981<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Robert Butts<\/strong>, University of Western Ontario<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Judson Webb<\/strong>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor26\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Fundamental Principles for a Theory of Consciousness<\/h3>\n<p>May 5, 1981<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Nini Praetorius<\/strong>, University of Copenhagen, Denmark<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Sigmund Koch<\/strong>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor27\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Meaning and the Empirical Sciences<\/h3>\n<p>May 12, 1981<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Dudley Shapere<\/strong>, University of Maryland and Princeton University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Spyros Sakellariadis<\/strong>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science 21st Annual Program September 23, 1980 | Syntax and Semantics in Probability\u00a0 September 30, 1980 | Structure and Reduction in Genetics and in Evolutionary and Developmental Biology October 7, 1980 | Randomness, Information and the Algorithmic Approach to the Foundations of Probability Theory October 14, 1980 | Choice, Chance, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6868,"featured_media":0,"parent":101,"menu_order":40,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6868"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4374"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4392,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4374\/revisions\/4392"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}