1966-1967

Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
7th Annual Program

October 10, 1966 | Newton’s Use of Hypotheses: Conflicting Interpretations of Philosophers and Historians of Science
October 25, 1966 | The Quantum State Vector and Physical Reality
November 15, 1966 | Schemapiric Aspects of Measurement: Symposium
November 28, 1966 | Knowledge, Rationality and Language
December 13, 1966 | Symmetry in Physics: Symposium
January 9, 1967 | Mach Today: Symposium
February 7, 1967 | Twenty-Seven Uses of Science in Ethics
February 27, 1967 | Casual Connection
March 20, 1967 | On Empiricism in Mathematical Philosophy
April 11, 1967 | Conceptual Questions in Contemporary Psychology
April 24, 1967 | Quantum Theory of Measurement
May 1, 1967 | Of Four Futile Attempts to Prove that the Problem of Induction is No Problem
May 16, 1967 | Theoretical Values and Measured Values

Newton’s Use of Hypotheses: Conflicting Interpretations of Philosophers and Historians of Science

October 10, 1966

Bernard Cohen, Harvard University

Commentator: Norwood Russell Hanson, Yale University

The Quantum State Vector and Physical Reality

October 25, 1966

Peter Bergmann, Syracuse University

Commentator: Hugh Pendleton, Brandeis University

Schemapiric Aspects of Measurement: Symposium

November 15, 1966

S. S. Stevens, Harvard University

Commentator: Bernard Gunstra, University of Pennsylvania

Knowledge, Rationality and Language

November 28, 1966

Henryk Skolimowski, University of Southern California
Commentators: Stephen Toulmin, Brandeis University; Robert Beck, Clark University

Symmetry in Physics: Symposium

December 13, 1966

Paul Roman, Boston University

Victor Weisskoff, M.I.T.

Mach Today: Symposium

January 9, 1967

Milic Capek, Boston University
Robert S. Cohen, Boston University

Twenty-Seven Uses of Science in Ethics

February 7, 1967

Abraham Edel, City College of New York
Commentators: Sydney Cavell, Harvard University; John Ladd, Brown University

Casual Connection

February 27, 1967

William Ruddick, M.I.T.
Commentator: Melvin Schuster, Boston University

On Empiricism in Mathematical Philosophy

March 20, 1967

Imre Lakatos, London School of Economics
Commentator: John van Heijenhoort, Brandeis University

Conceptual Questions in Contemporary Psychology

April 11, 1967

Jerry Fodor, M.I.T.
Commentator: Sylvain Bromberger, M.I.T.

Quantum Theory of Measurement

April 24, 1967

Henry Margneau, Yale University
Commentator: Abner Shimony, M.I.T.

Of Four Futile Attempts to Prove that the Problem of Induction is No Problem

May 1, 1967

Herman Tennessen, University of Alberta
Commentator: Marx W. Wartofsky, Boston University

Theoretical Values and Measured Values

May 16, 1967

Joseph Epstein, Amherst College

Commentator: John Stachel, Boston University