{"id":4440,"date":"2022-12-16T10:52:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T15:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/?page_id=4440"},"modified":"2022-12-19T18:35:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T23:35:43","slug":"archives-1973-1974","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/colloquium\/archives-1973-1974\/","title":{"rendered":"Archives 1973-1974"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"past-year\">Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science<br \/>\n14th Annual Program<\/h2>\n<p><!--Download the 44th Annual Program--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>September 27-October 2, 1973 | <a href=\"#anchor1\">Conference: Colloquium on Science, Philosophy and Theology in the Middle Ages<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 16, 1973 | <a href=\"#anchor2\">Particles or Events<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 23, 1973 | <a href=\"#anchor3\">Reformation and Counter-Reformation: Paradigms, Research Programs and Revolutions in Science<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 30, 1973 | <a href=\"#anchor4\">On the Use of Projective Geometry in Physics\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 6, 1973 | <a href=\"#anchor5\">Cosmology and Verifiability<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 13, 1973 | <a href=\"#anchor6\">Measurement in Psychophysics<\/a><\/li>\n<li>December 11, 1973 | <a href=\"#anchor7\">Einstein and Poincare Revisited<\/a><\/li>\n<li>December 14, 1973 | <a href=\"#anchor8\">A General Theory of Physical Theories<\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 19, 1974 | <a href=\"#anchor9\">Irreversibility of Large Quantal Systems<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 5, 1974 | <a href=\"#anchor10\">Sex and the Good Endocrinologist<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 12, 1974 | <a href=\"#anchor11\">Nature on Trial: What To Do When a Rooster Lays an Egg; Or Social Origins of Experimental Science<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 19, 1974 | <a href=\"#anchor12\">Tiem Symmetry and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 26, 1974 | <a href=\"#anchor13\">Alhazen&#8217;s Mind and Brunelleschi&#8217;s Eye; The Birth of Linear Perspective in the Early Reaissance<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 12, 1974 | <a href=\"#anchor14\">On the Main Problem in the Foundations of Mathematics<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 19, 1974 | <a href=\"#anchor15\">The Structures of Theories and the Dynamics of Theories<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 21, 1974 | <a href=\"#anchor16\">James Geddes Lecture: Walther Von Der Vogelweide: Lied Von Der Taumliebe (74, 20) UND Quasar 3 C 273<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 23, 1974 | <a href=\"#anchor17\">The Mathematical Roots of Philosophical Reason in Early Greek Thought<\/a><\/li>\n<li>May 28-30, 1974 | <a href=\"#anchor18\">Conference: Absolute and Relational Theories of Space and Space-Time<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"anchor1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Conference: Colloquium on Science, Philosophy and Theology in the Middle Ages<\/h3>\n<p>September 27-October 2, 1973<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">(Sponsored jointly with the Department of the History of Science, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Committee on Medieval Studies of Harvard University)<\/p>\n<p>Chair: <strong>John E. Murdoch<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Particles or Events<\/h3>\n<p>October 16, 1973<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Milic Capek<\/strong>, Boston University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Patrick Heelan<\/strong>, SUNY, Stony Brook<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Reformation and Counter-Reformation: Paradigms, Research Programs and Revolutions in Science<\/h3>\n<p>October 23, 1976<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Stefan Amsterdamski<\/strong>, Warsaw University and Yale University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Joseph Agassi<\/strong>, Boston University and Tel Aviv University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor4\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">On the Use of Projective Geometry in Physics<\/h3>\n<p>(Sponsored with the Boston University Department of Physics)<\/p>\n<p>October 30, 1973<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><b>P. A. M. Dirac<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Roger Penrose<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor5\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Cosmology and Verifiability<\/h3>\n<p>November 6, 1973<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>George F. R. Ellis<\/strong>, Cambridge University and Boston University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Hilary Putnam<\/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\">Measurement in Psychophysics<\/h3>\n<p>November 13, 1973<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>C. Wade Savage<\/strong>, University of Minnesota<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Davis Cross<\/strong>, SUNY, Stony Brook<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor7\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Einstein and Poincare Revisited<\/h3>\n<p>December 11, 1973<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Arthur Miller<\/strong>, Lowell Technological Institute<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>John Stachel<\/strong>, Boston University; <strong>Sheldon Krimsky<\/strong>, University of South Florida<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor8\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">A General Theory of Physical Theories<\/h3>\n<p>(Sponsored with the Boston University Department of Physics)<br \/>\nDecember 14, 1973<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>G. Toraldo di Francia<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor9\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Irreversibility of Large Quantal Systems<\/h3>\n<p>(Sponsored with the Boston University Department of Physics)<br \/>\nJanuary 19, 1974<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Leon Rosenfeld<\/strong>, Nordita<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor10\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Sex and the Good Endocrinologist<\/h3>\n<p>February 5, 1974<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Diana Long Hall<\/strong>, Boston University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Roy O. Greep<\/strong>, Harvard Medical School<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor11\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Nature on Trial: What To Do When a Rooster Lays an Egg; or Social Origins of Experimental Science<\/h3>\n<p>February 12, 1974<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Victor Walter<\/strong>, Boston University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Nathan Sivin<\/strong>, M.I.T.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor12\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Tiem Symmetry and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics<\/h3>\n<p>February 19, 1974<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Olivier Costa de Beauregard<\/strong>, Institut Henri Poincar\u00e9<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor13\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Alhazen&#8217;s Mind and Brunelleschi&#8217;s Eye; The Birth of Linear Perspective in the Early Renaissance<\/h3>\n<p>February 26, 1974<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Samuel Y. Edgerton<\/strong>, Boston University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>A. I. Sabra<\/strong>, Harvard University<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor14\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">On the Main Problem in the Foundations of Mathematics<\/h3>\n<p>March 12, 1974<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Alexander I. Yessenin-Volpin<\/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\">The Structures of Theories and the dynamics of theories<\/h3>\n<p>March 19, 1974<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Wolfgang Stegm\u00fcller<\/strong>, University of Munich<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <b>Gerald Massey<\/b>, University of Pittsburgh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor16\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">James Geddes Lecture: Walther Von Der Vogelweide: Lied Von Der Traumliebe (74, 20) Und Quasar 3 C 273. Einige Gedanden Uber den hermeneutischen zirkel<\/h3>\n<p>(Sponsored jointly with the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literature)<br \/>\nMarch 21, 1974<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Wolfgang Stegm\u00fcller<\/strong>, University of Munich<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor17\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Mathematical Roots of Philosophical Reason in Early Greek Thought<\/h3>\n<p>April 23, 1974<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Arpad Szabo<\/strong>, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, and Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Commentator: <strong>John Findlay<\/strong>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor18\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Conference: Absolute and Relational Theories of Space and Space-Time<\/h3>\n<p>(Sponsored by the Institute of Relativity Studies)<\/p>\n<p>May 28-30, 1974<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Chair: <strong>John Stachel<\/strong>, Boston University<b><\/b><\/p>\n<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science 14th Annual Program September 27-October 2, 1973 | Conference: Colloquium on Science, Philosophy and Theology in the Middle Ages October 16, 1973 | Particles or Events October 23, 1973 | Reformation and Counter-Reformation: Paradigms, Research Programs and Revolutions in Science October 30, 1973 | On the Use of Projective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6868,"featured_media":0,"parent":101,"menu_order":47,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4440"}],"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=4440"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4505,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4440\/revisions\/4505"}],"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=4440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}