{"id":4406,"date":"2022-11-20T19:39:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T00:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/?page_id=4406"},"modified":"2022-11-20T19:51:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T00:51:53","slug":"archives-1979-1980","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/colloquium\/archives-1979-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Archives: 1979-1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"past-year\">Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science<br \/>\n20th Annual Program<\/h2>\n<p><!--Download the 44th Annual Program--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>September 25, 1979 | <a href=\"#anchor1\">Phenomenology and Marxism: Critical Remarks on the Methodology of the Social Sciences<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 2, 1979 | <a href=\"#anchor2\">What King of Science? Aristotelian Foundations of Marxist Theory<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 16, 1979 | <a href=\"#anchor3\">The Method of Idealization and Factualization in Science<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 23, 1979 | <a href=\"#anchor4\">Ideological and Technical Functions of the Metasciences: Capitalism and the Philosophy of Science<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 30, 1979 | <a href=\"#anchor5\">Dialectics of Language and Unified Science<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 6, 1979 | <a href=\"#anchor6\">A Skeptical History of Micro-Economic Theory<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 27, 1979 | <a href=\"#anchor7\">Concepts and Categories in Psychology and Philosophy<\/a><\/li>\n<li>December 4, 1979 | <a href=\"#anchor8\">The Influence of Renaissance Art on the Scientific Revolution: The Birth of the Modern Scientific Illustration<\/a><\/li>\n<li>December 11, 1979 | <a href=\"#anchor9\">Causality and Law: Philosophical Problems of Modeling<\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 15, 1980 | <a href=\"#anchor10\">Genetic Epistemology and the Psychology of Physical Explanation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 22, 1980 | <a href=\"#anchor11\">Ethnomethodological Studies of Naturally Occurring Human Interaction<\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 29, 1980 | <a href=\"#anchor12\">A Critique of the Maximum Entropy Principle<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 5, 1980 | <a href=\"#anchor13\">Relativistic Thermodynamics, Planck Versus OTT: A Cautionary Tale<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 19, 1980 | <a href=\"#anchor14\">The Place of Fact in a World of Value<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 26, 1980 | <a href=\"#anchor15\">Untitled\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 11, 1980 | <a href=\"#anchor16\">The Scientist as Author: The Conserving Function of Literature<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 25, 1980| <a href=\"#anchor17\">Scientific Rationality and Rational Reconstruction<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 8, 1980 | <a href=\"#anchor18\">Visual Resource Management: Remarks on Nature as a Commodity<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 15, 1980 | <a href=\"#anchor19\">Philosophical Significance of Piaget&#8217;s Researches on the Genesis of the Concept of Time<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 22, 1980 | <a href=\"#anchor20\">Scientific Disorders of the Second Kind<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 29, 1980| <a href=\"#anchor21\">Can One Assess the &#8220;Quality&#8221; of Science? <\/a><\/li>\n<li>May 1, 1980 | <a href=\"#anchor22\">Irreversibility as a Limit of Classical Physics<\/a><\/li>\n<li>May 6, 1980 | <a href=\"#anchor23\">Stegmuller&#8217;s Dynamics of Science: A Critical Appraisal<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"anchor1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Phenomenology and Marxism: Critical Remarks on the Methodology of the Social Sciences<\/h3>\n<p>September 25, 1979<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Mihaly Vajda,<\/strong> University of Bremen<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Erazim Kohak<\/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\">What King of Science? Aristotelian Foundations of Marxian Theory<\/h3>\n<p>October 2, 1979<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Heinz Lubasz<\/strong>, University of Essex<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <b>Boston University<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Method of Idealization and Factualization in Science<\/h3>\n<p>October 16, 1979<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Wladyslaw Krajewski<\/strong>, University of Warsaw<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Philip Morrison<\/strong>, M.I.T.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor4\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Ideological and Technical Functions of the Metasciences: Capitalism and the Philosophy of Science<\/h3>\n<p>October 23, 1979<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Jost Halfmann<\/strong>, University of Osnabr\u00fcck<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Allan Janik<\/strong>, Wellesley College<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor5\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Dialectics of Language and Unified Science<\/h3>\n<p>October 30, 1979<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Joachim Israel<\/strong>, Lund Unversity<\/p>\n<p>Commentators: <strong>Frederick M. Gordon<\/strong>, Boston University; <strong>Joseph Agassi<\/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\">A Skeptical History of Micro-Economic Theory<\/h3>\n<p>November 6, 1979<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Alexander Rosenberg<\/strong>, Syracuse University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>David Ellerman<\/strong>, University of Massachusetts, Boston<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor7\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Concepts and Categories in Psychology and Philosophy<\/h3>\n<p>November 27, 1979<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Stephen Toulmin<\/strong>, Dartmouth College and University of Chicago<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <b>Thomas Bever<\/b>, Columbia\u00a0University<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor8\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Influence of Renaissance Art on the Scientific Revolution: The Birth of the Modern Scientific Illustration<\/h3>\n<p>December 4, 1979<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Samuel E. Edgerton<\/strong>, Boston University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>I. B. Cohen<\/strong>, Harvard University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor9\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Causality and Law: Philosophical Problems of Modeling<\/h3>\n<p>December 11, 1979<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Herbert H\u00f6rz<\/strong>, Academy of Science, Berlin-GDR<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>I. Scheffler<\/strong>, Harvard University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor10\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Genetic Epistemology and the Psychology of Physical Explanation<\/h3>\n<p>January 15, 1980<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Barbel Inhelder<\/strong>, University of Geneva<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Marx W. Wartofsky<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor11\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Ethnomethodological\u00a0 Studies of Naturally Occurring Human Interaction<\/h3>\n<p>January 22, 1980<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>George Psathas<\/strong>, Boston University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Davis Rasmussen<\/strong>, Boston College<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor12\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">A Critique of the Maximum Entropy Principle<\/h3>\n<p>January 29, 1980<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Abner Shimony<\/strong>, Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Commentator: <b>Ralph Bajerlein<\/b>, Wesleyan University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor13\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Relativistic Thermodynamics, Planck Versus OTT: A Cautionary Tale<\/h3>\n<p>February 5, 1980<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Ronald Newburgh<\/strong>, Rome Air Development Center<\/p>\n<p>Commentators: <strong>Charles R. Willis<\/strong>, Boston University; <strong>Peter L. Kellerman<\/strong>, Boston University<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor14\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Place of Fact in a World of Value<\/h3>\n<p>February 19, 1980<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Alasdair MacIntyre<\/strong>, Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Commentator: <strong>Roger Gottlieb<\/strong>, Tufts University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor15\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Untitled<\/h3>\n<p>February 26, 1980<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Steven Weinberg<\/strong>, Tufts University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor16\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Scientist as Author: The Conserving Function of Literature<\/h3>\n<p>March 11, 1980<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Wolf Lepenies<\/strong>, Free University of Berlin and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <b>Marx W. Wartofsky<\/b>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor17\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Scientific Rationality and Rational Reconstruction<\/h3>\n<p>March 25, 1980<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>C. G. Hempel<\/strong>, University of Pittsburgh<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <b>Nelson Goodman<\/b>, Harvard University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor18\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Visual Resource Management: Remarks on Nature as a Commodity<\/h3>\n<p>April 8, 1980<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>William Leiss<\/strong>, York University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Langdon Winner<\/strong>, M.I.T.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor19\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Philosophical Significance of Piaget&#8217;s Researches on the Genesis of the Concept of Time<\/h3>\n<p>April 15, 1980<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Milic Capek<\/strong>, Boston University, Emeritus<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <b>Bernard Kaplan<\/b>, Clark University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor20\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Scientific Disorders of the Second Kind<\/h3>\n<p>April 22, 1980<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Sheldon Krimsky<\/strong>, Tufts University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <b>Paul Durbin<\/b>, University of Delaware<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor21\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Can One Assess the &#8220;Quality&#8221; of Science?<\/h3>\n<p>April 29, 1980<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Gerald Holton<\/strong>, Harvard University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Dorothy Nelkin<\/strong>, Cornell University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor22\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Irreversibility as a Limit of Classical Physics<\/h3>\n<p>May 1, 1980<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>I. 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