{"id":4672,"date":"2023-06-06T14:39:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T18:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/?page_id=4672"},"modified":"2023-06-06T14:49:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T18:49:08","slug":"1965-1966","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/colloquium\/1965-1966\/","title":{"rendered":"1965-1966"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"past-year\">Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science<br \/>\n6th Annual Program<\/h2>\n<p><!--Download the 44th Annual Program--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>October 11, 1965 | <a href=\"#anchor1\">Science in Flux: Footnotes to Popper<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 1, 1965 | <a href=\"#anchor2\">Theory in History<\/a><\/li>\n<li>November 29, 1965 | <a href=\"#anchor3\">Relativity and Causality<\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 10, 1966 | <a href=\"#anchor4\">Matter, Space and Logic<\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 17, 1966 | <a href=\"#anchor5\">On the Methods of Refutation in Metaphysics<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 14, 1966 | <a href=\"#anchor6\">Conceptual Revolutions inScience<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 28, 1966 | <a href=\"#anchor7\">Somatocentricism<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 21-22, 1966 | <a href=\"#anchor8\">Problems of Empiricism\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 4, 1966 | <a href=\"#anchor9\">Unity, Beauty, and Economy in Physics<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 18, 1966 | <a href=\"#anchor10\">Akrasia and the Practical Syllogism<\/a><\/li>\n<li>May 2, 1966 | <a href=\"#anchor11\">The Philosophy of Praxis<\/a><\/li>\n<li>May 9, 1966 | <a href=\"#anchor12\">From Frege to Godel<\/a><\/li>\n<li>May 23, 1966 | <a href=\"#anchor13\">Perception and the Mind-Body Problem<\/a><\/li>\n<li>June 6, 1966 | <a href=\"#anchor14\">The Role of Models in Theoretical Physics<\/a><\/li>\n<li>June 13, 1966 | <a href=\"#anchor15\">On Teleological Statements in Biology<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Science in Flux: Footnotes to Popper<\/h3>\n<p>October 11, 1965<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Joseph Agassi<\/strong>, Boston University<\/p>\n<p>Commentator: <strong>Judith Jarvis 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\">Theory in History<\/h3>\n<p>November 1, 1965<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Leon Goldstein<\/strong>, Harpur College, SUNY<\/p>\n<p>Commentators: <strong>Samuel Beer<\/strong>, Harvard University; <strong>John Lavely<\/strong>, Boston University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Relativity and Causality<\/h3>\n<p>November 29, 1965<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Peter Havas<\/strong>, Temple University<\/p>\n<p>Commentators: <strong>John Stachel, <\/strong>Boston University; <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\">Matter, Space and Logic<\/h3>\n<p>January 10, 1966<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>David Finkelstein<\/strong>, Yeshiva University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Commentators: <strong>Laszlo Tisza<\/strong>, M.I.T.; <strong>Hilary Putnam<\/strong>, Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor5\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">On the Methods of Refutation in Metaphysics<\/h3>\n<p>January 17, 1966<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>J.O. Wisdom<\/strong>, University of London and University of Southern California<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor6\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Conceptual Revolutions in Science<\/h3>\n<p>February 14, 1966<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><b>Stephen Toulmin<\/b>, Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Commentator: <strong>Louis O. Mink<\/strong>, Wesleyan University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor7\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Somatocentricism<\/h3>\n<p>February 28, 1966<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Asher Moore<\/strong>, University of New Hampshire<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Commentator:<strong> Michael Martin<\/strong>, Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor8\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Problems of Empiricism:<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">I. Epistemology<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">II. Aesthetics<\/h3>\n<p>March 21-22, 1966<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Paul K. Feyerabend<\/strong>, University of California at Berkeley<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Commentators: <strong>Norman Rudich<\/strong>, Wesleyan University; <strong>Marx W. Wartofsky<\/strong>, Boston University; <strong>Peter Achinstein<\/strong>, M.I.T. and John Hopkins University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor9\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Unity, Beauty, and Economy in Physics<\/h3>\n<p>April 4, 1966<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Eugene Guth<\/strong>, Oak Ridge National Laboratory<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Commentator: <strong>Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka<\/strong>, Radcliffe College<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor10\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Akrasia and the Practical Syllogism<\/h3>\n<p>April 18, 1966<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Gerasimos Santas<\/strong>, Brandeis University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Commentators: <strong>Henry L. Ruf<\/strong>, Boston University; <strong>John Rawls<\/strong>, Harvard University\n<ul><\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"anchor11\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Philosophy of Praxis<\/h3>\n<p>May 2, 1966<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\"><strong>Gajo Petrovic<\/strong>, University of Zagreb<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"speaker-location\">Commentators: <strong>Eva Berczeller<\/strong>, Boston University; <strong>Dirk J. 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