Archives 1971-1972

Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
12th Annual Program

The Imaginary Part of the Real World

October 5, 1971

  • Robert Penrose, Birkbeck College

    Commentator: Felix Pirani, Kings College and Boston University

Empiricism at Bay?

October 19, 1971

  • Herbert Feigl, University of Minnesota

    Commentator: Ernan McMullin, University of Notre Dame

Scientists as Magicians – Since 1945

October 26, 1971

  • L. Kowarski, CERN, Geneva

    Commentator: Emmanuel Mesthene, Harvard University

Why Settle For Anything Less Than Good Old-Fashioned Aristotelian Essentialism?

November 2, 1971

  • Baruch Brody, M.I.T.

    Commentator: Joseph Agassi, Boston University

Reduction in Genetics – Doing the Impossible

November 16, 1971

  • David L. Hull, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

    Commentator: Everett Mendelsohn, Harvard University

Probability and Quantum Mechanics

November 23, 1971

  • Arthur Fine, Cornell University

    Commentator: Abner Shimony, Boston University

Possible Worlds: Foundations of Mathematics in Experience

November 30, 1971

  • Stephen Korner, University of Bristol and Yale University

    Commentator: Judson Webb, Boston University

The Explanation of Distinctively Human Dispositions: Biology and Culture

December 14, 1971

  • Alasdair MacIntyre, Brandeis University and Boston University

    Commentator: John Findlay, Yale University and Boston University

Constructive Logic and the Philosophy of Science: A Series of 5 Lectures

January 17, 24, 31; February 14, 1972

  • Paul Lorenzen, University of Erlangen and Boston University

Poincaré on Hypotheses, Electrodynamics, and Relativity

January 18, 1972

  • Howard Stein, Case Western Reserve University

    Commentator: Roger E. Stuewer, Boston University

Disposition and Fields

February 1, 1972

  • J. E. McGuire, University of Pittsburgh and University of Leeds

    Commentator: Robert S. Cohen, Boston University

Materialism, Properties, and Predicates

February 15, 1972

  • D.M. Armstrong, University of Sidney

    Commentator: Richard M. Rorty, Princeton University

The Logical and the Extra-Logical: Which Words are Logical Words?

February 29, 1972

  • Fred Sommers, Brandeis University

    Commentator: Ernest Sosa, Brown University and University of Michigan

General Relativity: Some Puzzling Questions

March 14, 1972

  • Achilles Papapetrou, Institut Henri Poincaré and Boston University

  • Commentator: John Stachel, Boston University

Problems in the Methodology of Research Programs: A Series of 5 Lectures

March 20, 27; April 3, 10, 24, 1972

  • Imre Lakatos, London School of Economics and Boston University

Is the Transition From an Old Theory to a New One of a Sudden and Unexpected Character?

March 21, 1972

  • Stanisa Novakovic, University of Belgrade

  • Commentator: William Berkskon, Boston University

Existential Hypotheses in Science

March 28, 1972

  • Helena Eilstein, University of Pittsburgh and London School of Economics

  • Commentator: Marx Wartofsky, Boston University

Nineteenth-Century Explanations of the Nature of Chemical Reactivity

April 4, 1972

  • Erwin N. Hiebert, Harvard University

    Commentator: Leonard K. Nash, Harvard University

Scientific Realism and Incommensurability: Some Criticisms of Kuhn and Feyerabend

April 18, 1972

  • Richard Burian, Brandeis University

    Commentator: Michael Martin, Boston University