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<\/a><\/p>\n October 4, 2000 Moderator: David Berndt<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Protecting the Rights and Welfare of Research Subjects: Lessons from Twenty-five Years of Federal Regulations on Informed Consent and Peer Review<\/p>\n George Annas<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Protecting Human Subjects in the Shadow of the Holocaust: From Nuremberg through Tuskegee to the Human Genome Project<\/p>\n Michael Grodin<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Avoiding Misrepresentations and Material Omissions: A Legal Perspective on Protection of Human Subjects<\/p>\n Susan Frey<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Subjects Who Are Incapable of Giving Consent: The Legal and Ethical Issues<\/p>\n Leonard Glantz<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Roundtable<\/p>\n Referee: Peter Doeringer<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Monday and Tuesday, October 16-17, 2000 Constructivism and The Courts<\/p>\n Monday, October 16, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n Law\u2019s Knowledge: Science and Evidence in American Litigation<\/p>\n Sheila Jasanoff<\/strong> Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Litigation Science: How Much Science? How Much Advocacy?<\/p>\n Joseph Cecil<\/strong> Federal Judicial Center<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Is the Legal \u2018Cause-in-fact\u2019 in Fact a Cause?<\/p>\n David Ozonoff<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Falsifiability Revisited: The Daubert Case and Beyond<\/p>\n Tuesday, October 17, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Scientific Issues that Prompted the Daubert Lawsuit<\/p>\n Kenneth Rothman<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The Place for Reasoned Speculation in Generating Scientific and Medical Innovation<\/p>\n David Horrobin<\/strong> Medical Hypotheses<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Popper, Daubert, and Kuhn<\/p>\n Mark Notturno<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n October 23, 2000 The Nature of Scientific Belief: Anthropological Perspectives<\/p>\n Byron Good<\/strong> Harvard Medical School<\/p>\n All Science Is Social Science: Belief Structures and Background Assumptions<\/p>\n Paul Root-Wolpe<\/strong> University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n Science as Cognitive Process<\/p>\n Robert Rubenstein<\/strong> Syracuse University<\/p>\n Escaping the \u2018Skeptical Bog\u2019 with Liberty Intact: Knowledge as One Kind of Belief, and Science as One Kind of Rationality<\/p>\n David Hufford<\/strong> Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Co-sponsored with the Philosophy Department of Harvard University and The Blossom Fund History of Logic History of Logic<\/p>\n Thursday, 9 a.m. – Noon<\/strong><\/p>\n Moderator: Stanley Rosen<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Introduction: Warren Goldfarb<\/strong> Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Skolem Redux<\/p>\n William Hart<\/strong> University of Illinois, Chicago<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The Empty Set, the Singleton, and the Ordered Pair<\/p>\n Aki Kanamori<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Realism and the Debate on Impredicativity, 1917\u201344<\/p>\n Charles Parsons<\/strong> Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Wittgenstein I<\/p>\n Thursday, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n Moderator: Dennis Berkey<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Das \u00dcberwinden: Anti-Metaphysical Readings of the Tractatus<\/p>\n Warren Goldfarb<\/strong> Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Wittgenstein<\/p>\n Hilary Putnam<\/strong> Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Silence, Voices, Noises<\/p>\n Stanley Cavell<\/strong> Harvard University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Wittgenstein II<\/p>\n Friday, 9 a.m. – Noon<\/strong><\/p>\n Moderator: Anat Biletzki<\/strong> Tel Aviv University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Reading Wittgenstein\u2019s On Certainty<\/p>\n Edward Minar<\/strong> University of Arkansas<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Wittgenstein After Wittgenstein<\/p>\n Andrew Lugg<\/strong> University of Ottawa<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Wittgenstein\u2019s Epistemology<\/p>\n Jaakko Hintikka<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Carnap and Quine<\/p>\n Friday, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n Moderator: Charles Griswold<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Reflections<\/p>\n Peter Hylton<\/strong> University of Illinois, Chicago<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Nonsense<\/p>\n Thomas Ricketts<\/strong> University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The Legacy of Ernst Mach: Pragmatism and Logical Empiricism<\/p>\n Michael Friedman<\/strong> University of Indiana<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n November 2, 2000 Moderator: David Roochnick<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n John Cleary<\/strong> Boston College<\/p>\n Commentator: Judson Webb<\/strong> Boston University\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n \n November 13, 2000 Session I, 10 a.m. – Noon<\/strong><\/p>\n Introduction: Dennis Berkey<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Moderator: Robert S. Cohen<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n March 1928: On the Philosophical Relation Between Brouwer and Wittgenstein<\/p>\n Mathieu Marion<\/strong> University of Ottawa<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Hintikkian Intuition<\/p>\n Judson Webb<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n Session II, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n Moderator: Charles Griswold<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Hintikka on Epistemic Logic and Epistemology<\/p>\n Risto Hilpinen<\/strong> University of Miami<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Hintikka on Kant and Frege on the Verb \u2018to Be\u2019<\/p>\n Juliet Floyd<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Last Words<\/p>\n Hans Sluga<\/strong> University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Co-sponsored by the Dibner Fund, through the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology Moderator: Alfred I. Tauber<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Controlled Clinical Trials: Past, Present, and Future<\/p>\n Louis Lasagna<\/strong> Tufts University<\/p>\n Gold Standard vs. Golden Calf: The Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial in Historical and Scientific Perspective<\/p>\n Ted Kaptchuck<\/strong> Harvard Medical School<\/p>\n Finding a Home for the Randomized Trial in Global Medicine<\/p>\n Wayne Jonas<\/strong> Uniform Services University of the Health Sciences<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n January 25, 2001 Commentator: Robert S. Cohen<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n John Stachel<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Co-sponsored by the Dibner Fund, through the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology Moderator: Alfred I. Tauber<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n \u2018The Cry of Nature\u2019: The Changing Meaning of Animal Rights in the Eighteenth Century<\/p>\n Aaron Garrett<\/strong> Boston University<\/p>\n Animals and Public Anatomy in the Early Eighteenth Century<\/p>\nProtecting Human Research Subjects: The Challenge of Informed Consent and Risk Management<\/h3>\n
\n1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
\nConference Auditorium, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
\n775 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\nThe Robert S. Cohen Forum: Contemporary Issues in Science Studies<\/h6>\n
Constructivism and The Courts<\/h3>\n
\n2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
\n775 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\n\n
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Beliefs of Science: An Anthropological Perspective<\/h3>\n
\n1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
\n775 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\nThe Analytic Tradition: A Tribute to Burton Dreben<\/h3>\n
\nOctober 26\u201327, 2000
\n9 a.m. – 5 p.m. each day
\nAlumni Lounge, 7th Floor
\nOffice of Development and Alumni Relations
\nBoston University
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Aristotle\u2019s Criticism of Plato\u2019s Theory of Number<\/h3>\n
\n4 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
\n775 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\nPerspectives On The Philosophy of Jaakko Hintikka<\/h3>\n
\n10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
\n775 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\n\n
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Randomized Clinical Trials: Historical Origins and Future Perspectives<\/h3>\n
\nNovember 15, 2000
\n2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
\n775 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\nThe Things Between Relations<\/h3>\n
\n4 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
\n775 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\nAnimal Rights in The Eighteenth Century<\/h3>\n
\nFebruary 2, 2001
\n2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
\nTerrace Lounge, George Sherman Union (GSU)
\nBoston University
\n775 Commonwealth Avenue<\/p>\n