{"id":4395,"date":"2022-11-18T15:35:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T20:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/?page_id=4395"},"modified":"2022-12-08T16:59:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T21:59:10","slug":"archives-1976-1977","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/colloquium\/archives-1976-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"Archives 1976-1977"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"past-year\">Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science<br \/>\n17th Annual Program<\/h2>\n<p><!--Download the 44th Annual Program--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>October 12, 1976 | <a href=\"#anchor1\">Bachelard and Marx: Marxism and Epistemology<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 19, 1976 | <a href=\"#anchor2\">The Structure of Probabilistic Reasoning in Legal Proof\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 21, 25, 26, 1976 | <a href=\"#anchor3\">Science as a Cultural System: Three Lectures<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 4, 1976 | <a href=\"#anchor4\">Propensity Automata&#8211;A New Foundation of Logic<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 9, 1976 | <a href=\"#anchor5\">Dialogue: How Do We Know What Other People Mean?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 16, 1976 | <a href=\"#anchor6\">The Choices of Humans and Machines and Their Predictability<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 30, 1976 | <a href=\"#anchor7\">Alienation From Work: A Conceptual Analysis<\/a><\/li>\n<li>December 7, 1976 | <a href=\"#anchor8\">The Structure of Problems<\/a><\/li>\n<li>December 14, 1976 | <a href=\"#anchor9\">Communicative Action<\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 18, 1977 | <a href=\"#anchor10\">Galileo and the Phenomena: On Making the Evidence Visible<\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 25, 1977 | <a href=\"#anchor11\">The Systems of Hindu Thought as Epistemic Disciplines<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 1, 1977 | <a href=\"#anchor12\">Protophysics of Time and the Principle of Relativity<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 8, 1977 | <a href=\"#anchor13\">A New View of Scientific Theories\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 22, 1977 | <a href=\"#anchor14\">Evolutionary Epistemology<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 1, 1977 | <a href=\"#anchor15\">Scientific Realism as an Ontology\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 15, 1977 | <a href=\"#anchor16\">Beyond Causality in the Social Science: Reciprocity as a Model of Non-Exploitative Social Relations<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 22, 1977 | <a href=\"#anchor17\">Towards a Reconstruction of the Principles of Mathematical Physics<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 29, 1977 | <a href=\"#anchor18\">The Scientific Revolution of the Renaissance in Light of Piaget&#8217;s Theory of Cognitive Development<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 5, 1977 | <a href=\"#anchor19\">Does the Causal Structure of Space-Time Determine Its Geometry<\/a><\/li>\n<li>May 3, 1977 | <a href=\"#anchor20\">The Triune Brain and &#8220;Epistemics&#8221;\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"anchor1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Bachelard and Marx: Marxism and Epistemology<\/h3>\n<p>October 12, 1976<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Dominique Lecourt,<\/strong> University of Picardie<\/p>\n<p>Commentators: <strong>A.J. Kfoury<\/strong>, M.I.T.;<strong> John Stachel<\/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\">The Structure of Probabilistic Reasoning in Legal Proof<\/h3>\n<p>October 19, 1976<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>L. Jonathan Cohen<\/strong>, The Queen&#8217;s College, Oxford<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Laurence H. Tribe<\/strong>, Harvard Law School<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Science as a Cultural System: Three Lectures<\/h3>\n<p>October 21, 1976, October 25, 1976, October 26, 1976<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Yehuda Elkana<\/strong>, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Clifford Geertz<\/strong>, The Institute for Advanced Study<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor4\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Propensity Automata&#8211;A New Foundation of Logic<\/h3>\n<p>November 4, 1976<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Satosi Watanabe<\/strong>, University of Hawaii<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Seymour Papert<\/strong>, M.I.T.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor5\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Dialogue: How Do We Know What Other People Mean?<\/h3>\n<p>November 9, 1976<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Francesca Rivetti Barbo<\/strong>, University of Calabria<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Richard Burian<\/strong>, Harvard University<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor6\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Choices of Humans and Machines and Their Predictability<\/h3>\n<p>November 16, 1976<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>George Schlesinger<\/strong>, University of North Carolina<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Judson Webb<\/strong>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor7\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Alienation From Work: A Conceptual Analysis<\/h3>\n<p>November 30, 1976<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Judith Buber Agassi<\/strong>, The Hebrew University, Rehovot<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Elizabeth Rapaport<\/strong>, Boston University; <strong>Michael Useem<\/strong>, Boston University<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor8\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Structure of Problems<\/h3>\n<p>December 7, 1976<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Jagdish Hattiangadi<\/strong>, York University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Sylvain Bromberger<\/strong>, M. I. T.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor9\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Communicative Action<\/h3>\n<p>December 14, 1976<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Jurgen Habermas<\/strong>, Max-Planck-Institute, Stranberg<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Marx W. Wartofsky<\/strong>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor10\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Gelileo and the Phenomena: On Making the Evidence Visible<\/h3>\n<p>January 18, 1977<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>David Hemmendinger<\/strong>, Ohio State University<\/p>\n<p>Commentators: <strong>William Shea<\/strong>, McGill University; <strong>John V. Strong<\/strong>, Boston College<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor11\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Systems of Hindu Thought as Epistemic Disciplines<\/h3>\n<p>January 25, 1977<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>David Zilberman<\/strong>, Brandeis University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Robert McDermott<\/strong>, Bernard Baruch College, CUNY<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor12\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Protophysics of Time and the Principle of Relativity<\/h3>\n<p>February 1, 1977<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Joachim Pfarr<\/strong>, University of Cologne<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Commentator: <b>John Stachel<\/b>, Boston University and Princeton University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor13\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">A New View of Scientific Theories<\/h3>\n<p>February 8, 1977<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>John H. Harris<\/strong>, University of Otago<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Srdjan Lelas<\/strong>, University of Zagreb<strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor14\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Evolutionary Epistemology<\/h3>\n<p>February 22, 1977<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Donald T. Campbell<\/strong>, Northwestern University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Commentator: <strong>Abner Shimony<\/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\">Scientific Realism as an Ontology<\/h3>\n<p>March 1, 1977<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Anthony M. Quinton<\/strong>, University of Oxford<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <b>Marx W. Wartofsky<\/b>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor16\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Beyond Causality in the Social Sciences: Reciprocity as a Model of Non-Exploitative Social Relations<\/h3>\n<p>March 15, 1977<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Carol Gould<\/strong>, Swarthmore College<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <b>Thomas McCarthy<\/b>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor17\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Towards a Reconstruction of the Principles of Mathematical Physics<\/h3>\n<p>March 22, 1977<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Laszlo Tisza<\/strong>, M.I.T.<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <b>Eugene P. Gross<\/b>, Brandeis University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor18\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Scientific Revolution of the Renaissance in Light of Piaget&#8217;s Theory of Cognitive Development<\/h3>\n<p>March 29, 1977<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Wolfgang Krohn<\/strong>, Max-Planck-Institute, Starnberg<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Robert S. Cohen<\/strong>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor19\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Does the Causal Structure of Space-Time Determine Its Geometry?<\/h3>\n<p>April 5, 1977<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>David Malament<\/strong>, University of Chicago<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <b>John A. Winnie<\/b>, Indiana University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor20\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Truiine Brain and &#8220;Epistemics&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>May 3, 1977<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Paul D. MacLean<\/strong>, National Institute of Mental Health<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <b>Barbara V. E. 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