{"id":4451,"date":"2022-12-16T15:45:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T20:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/?page_id=4451"},"modified":"2022-12-16T15:45:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T20:45:35","slug":"archives-1972-1973","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/colloquium\/archives-1972-1973\/","title":{"rendered":"Archives 1972-1973"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"past-year\">Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science<br \/>\n13th Annual Program<\/h2>\n<p><!--Download the 44th Annual Program--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>October 10, 1972 | <a href=\"#anchor1\">Confirmation and Relevance<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 17, 1972 | <a href=\"#anchor2\">Toward a Rational Philosophical Anthropology<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 24, 1972 | <a href=\"#anchor3\">Teleological and Teleonimic, a New Analysis<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 14, 1972 | <a href=\"#anchor4\">Metaphysics vs. Experiment: the Dynamics of Theory Selection<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 21, 1972 | <a href=\"#anchor5\">Domestic Causes and Purposes of Wars: A Methodological Inquiry<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 28, 1972 | <a href=\"#anchor6\">The Cartesian Circle: Descartes&#8217; Defense of Reason as a Valid Response to 17th Century Skepticism<\/a><\/li>\n<li>December 12, 1972 | <a href=\"#anchor7\">A New Look at Phenomenology and the &#8216;Idea&#8217; of Physics<\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 16, 1973 | <a href=\"#anchor8\">Round Table: Quantum Mechanics and Common Sense<\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 23, 1973 | <a href=\"#anchor9\">Explanation and Evolution<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 6, 1973 | <a href=\"#anchor10\">On the Relationship Between Quantum Mechanics and Mathematics<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 13, 1973 | <a href=\"#anchor11\">Round Table: Science and Philosophical Materialism in the Soviet Union<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 27, 1973 | <a href=\"#anchor12\">Fresnel Drag and the Principle of Relativity<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 13, 1973 | <a href=\"#anchor13\">Round Table: Research Strategies vs. the Relativity of Science<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 20, 1973 | <a href=\"#anchor14\">Against Method<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 22 &#8211; April 26, 1973 | <a href=\"#anchor14\">Scientific Rationality and the Growth of Knowledge<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 18, 1973 | <a href=\"#anchor15\">Historical Narrative: The Rhetorical Structure of Hegel&#8217;s Logic<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 27, 1973 | <a href=\"#anchor16\">Quantum Theory of Measurement<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 3, 1973 | <a href=\"#anchor17\">Round Table: The Works of God&#8217;s Hand; the Books of His Revelations, and the Machinery of Nature: 11th-17th Centuries<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 10, 1973 | <a href=\"#anchor18\">Newton&#8217;s Relational Theory of Space and Time<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 17, 1973 | <a href=\"#anchor19\">On Systematic Realism, With a Particular Application to Non-Conventionalism in Physics\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>May 1, 1973 | <a href=\"#anchor20\">Space-Time Indeterminacies and Space-Time Structure<\/a><\/li>\n<li>May 8, 1973 | <a href=\"#anchor21\">Reproduction, Translation and Social Science<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"anchor1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Confirmation and Relevance<\/h3>\n<p>October 10, 1972<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Wesley Salmon,<\/strong> Indiana University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>James Thomson<\/strong>, M.I.T.<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Toward a Rational Philosophical Anthropology<\/h3>\n<p>October 17, 1972<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Joseph Agassi<\/strong>, Boston University and Tel Aviv University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Teleological and Teleonimic, a New Analysis<\/h3>\n<p>October 24, 1972<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Ernst Mayr<\/strong>, Harvard University<\/p>\n<p>Commentators: <strong>Ronald Munson<\/strong>, University of Missouri at St. Louis; <strong>Hilde Hein<\/strong>, College of the Holy Cross (Worcester)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor4\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Metaphysics vs. Experiment: the Dynamics of theory selection<\/h3>\n<p>November 14, 1972<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Stanley Goldberg<\/strong>, Hampshire College<\/p>\n<p>Commentators: <strong>Milic Capek<\/strong>, Boston University; <strong>Miller Brown<\/strong>, Trinity College (Hartford)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor5\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Domestic Causes and Purposes of Wars: A Methodological Inquiry<\/h3>\n<p>November 21, 1972<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Arno J. Meyer<\/strong>, Princeton University<\/p>\n<p>Commentators: <strong>Joseph Boskin<\/strong>, Boston University; <strong>Louis O. Mink<\/strong>, Wesleyan University<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor6\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Cartesian Circle: Descartes&#8217; Defense of Reason as a Valid Response to 17th Century Skepticism<\/h3>\n<p>November 28, 1972<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Edmond Curley<\/strong>, Australian National University and John Hopkins University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Harry G. Frankfurt<\/strong>, The Rockefeller University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor7\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">A New Look at Phenomenology and the &#8216;Idea&#8217; of Physics<\/h3>\n<p>December 12, 1972<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Francis J. Zucker<\/strong>, Max-Planck-Institut (starnburg)<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Patrick Heelan<\/strong>, SUNY, Stony Brook<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor8\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Round Table: Quantum Mechanics and Common Sense<\/h3>\n<p>January 16, 1972<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Michael R. Gardner<\/strong>, Mount Holyoke College<\/p>\n<p>Commentators: <strong>Armand Seigel<\/strong>, Boston University; <strong>Michael Horne<\/strong>, Stonehill College; <strong>E.P. Gross<\/strong>, Brandeis University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor9\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Explanation and Evolution<\/h3>\n<p>January 23, 1973<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Marjorie Grene<\/strong>, University of California, Davis and Boston University<\/p>\n<p>Commentators: <strong>Kenneth Schaffner<\/strong>, University of Pittsburgh; <strong>Lynn S. Margulis<\/strong>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor10\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">On the Relationship Between Quantum Mechanics and Mathematics<\/h3>\n<p>February 6, 1973<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Paul Benioff<\/strong>, Argonne National Laboratory<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Hilary Putnam<\/strong>, Harvard University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor11\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Round Table: Science and Philosophical Materialism in the Soviet Union<\/h3>\n<p>February 13, 1973<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Loren Graham<\/strong>, Columbia University<\/p>\n<p>Commentators: <strong>Thomas Blakeley<\/strong>, Boston College; <strong>Dirk Struik<\/strong>, M.I.T. <strong>Marx Wartofsky<\/strong>, Boston University; <strong>Robert S. Cohen<\/strong>, Boston University; <strong>William McBride<\/strong>, Yale University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor12\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Fresnel Drag and the Principle of Relativity<\/h3>\n<p>February 27, 1973<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Ronald Newburgh<\/strong>, Microwave Physics Laboratory, AFCRL-Bedford<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Commentators: <b>Huseyin Yilmaz<\/b>, Perception Technology Cooporation; <strong>Arthur I. Miller<\/strong>, Harvard University and Lowell Technological Institute<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor13\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Round Table: Research Strategies vs. the Relativity of Science<\/h3>\n<p>March 13, 1973<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Noretta Koertge<\/strong>, Indiana University<\/p>\n<p>Commentators: <strong>Marx Wartofsky<\/strong>, Boston University; <strong>Philip Quinn<\/strong>, Brown University; <strong>Sheldon Krimsky<\/strong>, University of South Florida<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor14\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Against Method<\/h3>\n<p>March 20, 1973<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Paul Feyerbend<\/strong>, University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Commentator: <strong>Imre Lakatos<\/strong>, London School of Economics and 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 Rationality and the Growth of Knowledge: 5 Lectures<\/h3>\n<p>March 22, 29, 1973; April 5, 12, 26, 1973<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Imre Lakatos<\/strong>, London School of Economics<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor16\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Quantum Theory of Measurement<\/h3>\n<p>March 27, 1973<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Gen-Ichiro Nagasaka<\/strong>, Nanzan University (Nagoya) and Boston University<\/p>\n<p>Commentators: <b>John Stachel<\/b>, Boston University; <b>Paul Roman<\/b>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor17\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Round Table: The Works of God&#8217;s Hand; the Books of His Revelations, and the Machinery of Nature: 11th-17th Centuries<\/h3>\n<p>April 3, 1973<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Benjamin Nelson<\/strong>, New School of Social Research<\/p>\n<p>Commentators: <strong>John Murdoch<\/strong>, Harvard University; <strong>Ann Brinkley<\/strong>, Boston University;<strong> A. I. Sabra<\/strong>, Harvard University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor18\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Newton&#8217;s Relational Theory of Space and Time<\/h3>\n<p>April 10, 1973<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Arnold Koslow<\/strong>, CUNY, Brooklyn College<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Howard Stein<\/strong>, Case Western Reserve University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor19\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">On Systematic Realism, With a Particular Application to Non-Conventionalism in Physics<\/h3>\n<p>April 17, 1973<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Clifford Hooker<\/strong>, University of Western Ontario<\/p>\n<p>Commentators: <strong>Laszlo Tisza<\/strong>, M.I.T.; <strong>Robert S. Cohen<\/strong>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor20\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Space-Time Indeterminacies and Space-Time Structure<\/h3>\n<p>May 1, 1973<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Clark Glymour<\/strong>, Princeton University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <b>John Graves<\/b>, M.I.T.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor21\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Reproduction, Translation and Social Science<\/h3>\n<p>May 8, 1973<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Richard Rudner<\/strong>,\u00a0 Washington University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <b>Thomas McCarthy,<\/b> Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"anchor22\"><\/a><\/p>\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 13th Annual Program October 10, 1972 | Confirmation and Relevance October 17, 1972 | Toward a Rational Philosophical Anthropology October 24, 1972 | Teleological and Teleonimic, a New Analysis November 14, 1972 | Metaphysics vs. Experiment: the Dynamics of Theory Selection November 21, 1972 | Domestic Causes and Purposes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6868,"featured_media":0,"parent":101,"menu_order":48,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4451"}],"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=4451"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4465,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4451\/revisions\/4465"}],"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=4451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}