{"id":4431,"date":"2022-12-08T15:32:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T20:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/?page_id=4431"},"modified":"2022-12-08T15:32:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T20:32:46","slug":"archives-1975-1976","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/colloquium\/archives-1975-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"Archives 1975-1976"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"past-year\">Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science<br \/>\n16th Annual Program<\/h2>\n<p><!--Download the 44th Annual Program--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>September 9, 1975 | <a href=\"#anchor1\">Is There a Logic of Empirical Sciences?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>September 23, 1975 | <a href=\"#anchor2\">The Misuse of Models in Physics<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 14, 1975 | <a href=\"#anchor3\">Marxian Paradigms Versus Microeconomic Structures<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 4, 1975 | <a href=\"#anchor4\">Competence Versus Performance in the Growth of Scientific<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 18, 1975 | <a href=\"#anchor5\">Effectiveness &#8211; Does the Orthodox Church View Need Re-Examination?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>December 2, 1975 | <a href=\"#anchor6\">Natural Selection and Human Behavior<\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 27, 1976 | <a href=\"#anchor7\">On the Relevance of Biology to Understanding Human Social Behavior<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 10, 1976 | <a href=\"#anchor8\">Social Science Methodology as the Ideology of Authority in Organization. The Moral Universe of the Corporate Executive<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 24, 1976 | <a href=\"#anchor9\">The Status of the Rationality Principle in the Social Sciences<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 16, 1976| <a href=\"#anchor10\">The Apparition of Clonal Man<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 23, 1976 | <a href=\"#anchor11\">Formal Languages and Natural Languages: A Tenable Dualism<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 6, 1976 | <a href=\"#anchor12\">Tracking Down the Misplaced Concretion in the Neurosciences<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 13, 1976 | <a href=\"#anchor13\">Knowledge and Verification in the Tractatus<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 27, 1976 | <a href=\"#anchor14\">Causation in Medicine: The Disease Model<\/a><\/li>\n<li>May 4, 1976 | <a href=\"#anchor15\">Theories of Plausibility<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"anchor1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Is There a Logic of Empirical Sciences?<\/h3>\n<p>September 9, 1975<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara,<\/strong> University of Florence<\/p>\n<p>Commentators: <strong>Joseph Agassi<\/strong>, Boston University;<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 Misuse of Models in Physics<\/h3>\n<p>September 23, 1975<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Heinz R. Post<\/strong>, Chelsea College<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Earle L. Lomon<\/strong>, M.I.T.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Marxian Paradigms Versus Microeconomic Structures<\/h3>\n<p>October 14, 1975<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Werner Leinfellner<\/strong>, University of Nebraska<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Herbert Gintis<\/strong>, University of Massachusetts, Amherst<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor4\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Competence Versus Performance in the Growth of Scientific<\/h3>\n<p>November 4, 1975<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Sandra G. Harding<\/strong>, SUNY, Albany<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Ned Block<\/strong>, M.I.T.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor5\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Effectiveness &#8211; Does the Orthodox Church View Need Re-Examination?<\/h3>\n<p>November 18, 1975<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Rohit Parikh<\/strong>, Boston University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>George S. Boolos<\/strong>, M.I.T.<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor6\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Natural Selection and Human Behavior<\/h3>\n<p>December 2, 1975<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><b>Richard C. Lewontin,<\/b> Harvard University; <strong>Robert Trivers<\/strong>, Harvard University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <b>Norman Daniels,<\/b> Tufts University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor7\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">On the Relevance of Biology to Understanding Human Social Behavior<\/h3>\n<p>January 27, 1976<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Michael A. Simon<\/strong>, University of Connecticut<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>E. O. Wilson<\/strong>, Harvard University<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor8\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Social Science Methodology as the Ideology of Authority in Organization. The Moral Universe of the Corporate Executive<\/h3>\n<p>February 10, 1976<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Alasdair MacIntyre<\/strong>, Boston University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Hugo Bedau<\/strong>, Tufts University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor9\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Status of the Rationality Principle in the Social Sciences<\/h3>\n<p>February 24, 1976<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Spiro J. Latsis<\/strong>, Boston University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Noretta Koertge<\/strong>, Indiana University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor10\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Apparition of Clonal Man<\/h3>\n<p>March 16, 1976<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Leon Eisenberg<\/strong>, Harvard Medical School<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>David Solomon<\/strong>, University of Notre Dame and Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor11\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Formal Languages and Natural Languages: A Tenable Dualism<\/h3>\n<p>March 23, 1976<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>J. M. Moravcsik<\/strong>, Stanford University<\/p>\n<p>Commentators: <strong>Jerry Fodor<\/strong>, M.I.T.; <strong>Gilbert Harman<\/strong>, Princeton University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor12\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Tracking Down the Misplaced Concreton in the Neurosciences<\/h3>\n<p>April 6, 1976<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Armand Siegel<\/strong>, Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Commentator: <b>Jeffrey Rosen<\/b>, Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor13\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Knowledge and Verification in the Tractatus<\/h3>\n<p>April 13, 1976<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Brian F. McGuinness<\/strong>, The Queen&#8217;s College, Oxford<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>John N. Findley<\/strong>, Boston University\u00a0<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor14\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Causation in Medicine: The Disease Model<\/h3>\n<p>April 27, 1976<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Caroline Whitbeck<\/strong>, SUNY, Albany<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Commentator: <strong>Barbara Rosenkrantz<\/strong>, Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor15\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Theories of Plausibility<\/h3>\n<p>May 4, 1976<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Rista Hilpinen<\/strong>, University of Turku (Finland)<\/p>\n<p>Commentators: <b>Isaac Levi<\/b>, Columbia University; <strong>Sylvain Bromberger<\/strong>, M.I.T.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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 16th Annual Program September 9, 1975 | Is There a Logic of Empirical Sciences? 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