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<\/a><\/p>\n September 20, 2004 Moderator: Adam Seligman<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Introduction: The Moral Calculus of Trustworthiness<\/p>\n Alfred I. Tauber<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Trust, Law, and Medicine<\/p>\n Mark Hall<\/strong> Wake Forest University<\/p>\n Trust in Organized Medicine<\/p>\n Russell Hardin<\/strong> New York University<\/p>\n Trust in the Managed Care Medical Setting<\/p>\n Wendy Mariner<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n September 27, 2004 Moderator: Aaron Garrett<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Enthusiasm and Resistance: Philosophers\u2019 Reactions to Early Microscopical Discoveries<\/p>\n Catherine Wilson<\/strong> University of British Columbia<\/p>\n Scholastic Responses to Galileo’s Telescopic Observations<\/p>\n Roger Ariew<\/strong> Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University<\/p>\n Microscopical Eyes and the Metaphysical Imagination: Locke and Leibniz on the Sub-Visible<\/p>\n Daniel Garber<\/strong> Princeton University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n October 5, 2004 Moderator: Alfred Tauber<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Thomas S\u00f6derqvist<\/strong> University of Copenhagen\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n October 14, 2004 Moderator: Nir Eisikovits<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Gideon Freudenthal<\/strong> Tel Aviv University\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n October 22, 2004 Moderator: Judson Webb<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n A Clockwork Universe<\/p>\n Mark Wilson<\/strong> University of Pittsburgh<\/p>\n Descartes\u2019 Early Mathematics and Reading the Regulae<\/p>\n Ken Manders<\/strong> University of Pittsburgh<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n November 8, 2004 Commemorating the 800th anniversary of the death of Moshe ben Maimon, more commonly known as Maimonides, this colloquium is jointly sponsored with Boston University\u2019s Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n Moderator: Steven Katz<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Morning Session, 9 a.m. – Noon<\/strong><\/p>\n Maimonides\u2019 Doubts about Astronomy<\/p>\n Kenneth Seeskin<\/strong> Northwestern University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n In the Inner Chamber of the Ruler\u2019s Palace: Maimonides\u2019 Physics<\/p>\n Josef Stern<\/strong> University of Chicago<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Maimonides and the Sufi Strand in Jewish Thought<\/p>\n Diana Lobel<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Maimonides and Maimonideanism in Southern France: On the Growth and Development of a Philosophical Tradition <\/p>\n Fred Rosner<\/strong> Mount Sinai School of Medicine<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Afternoon Session, 2 p.m. – 6 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Medical Legacy of Maimonides<\/p>\n James Robinson<\/strong> University of Chicago<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Philosophy and Revelation in Alfarabi and Maimonides<\/p>\n Carlos Fraenkel<\/strong> McGill University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Arousing Suspicion Against a Prejudice: Leo Strauss and the Study of Maimonides\u2019 Guide for the Perplexed<\/p>\n Michael Zank<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n November 22, 2004 Moderator: Robert Briscoe<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Wittgenstein, Cavell, Travis, and the Conditions of \u2018Saying That\u2019<\/p>\n Avner Baz<\/strong> Tufts University<\/p>\n Wittgenstein, G\u00f6del, and Showing vs. Saying<\/p>\n Juliet Floyd<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Showing<\/p>\n Warren Goldfarb<\/strong> Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n December 6, 2004 Moderator: Debra Daugherty<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Einstein\u2019s Miraculous Year<\/p>\n John Stachel<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Creative Moment: Making Special Relativity<\/p>\n Alberto Mart\u00ednez<\/strong> California Institute of Technology<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n January 31, 2005 Moderator: Peter Bokulich<\/strong> Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology<\/p>\nTrust in the Medical Setting: The Challenge of Corporate Interests<\/h3>\n
\n1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
\n775 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\nThe Impact of Microscopy and Telescopy on 17th-century Philosophy<\/h3>\n
\n2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
\n775 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\nThe Seven Virtues of Biographies<\/h3>\n
\n4 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
\n775 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\nThe Overdue Intellectual Rehabilitation of Boris Hessen: Marxist Historiography of Science<\/h3>\n
\n4 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
\n775 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\nSeventeenth-Century Mathematics and Its Philosophical Context<\/h3>\n
\n4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
\n775 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\nMaimonides: Philosopher and Scientist<\/h3>\n
\n9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
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Wittgenstein and the Inexpressible<\/h3>\n
\n2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
\n775 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\nThe Einstein Centenary<\/h3>\n
\n7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
\n775 Commonwealth Avenue
\n(Second of the Einstein Centennial Series)<\/p>\nWhat is the Real Logic of Quantum Theory?<\/h3>\n
\n4 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
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