Archives 1971-1972
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
12th Annual Program
- October 5, 1971 | The Imaginary Part of the Real World
- October 19, 1971 | Empiricism at Bay?
- October 26, 1971 | Scientists as Magicians – Science 1945
- November 2, 1971 | Why Settle For Anything Less Than Good Old-Fashioned Aristotelian Essentialism?
- November 16, 1971 | Reduction in Genetics – Doing the Impossible
- November 23, 1971 | Probability and Quantum Mechanics
- November 30, 1971 | Possible Worlds: Foundations of Mathematics in Experience
- December 14, 1971 | The Explanation of Distinctively Human Dispositions: Biology and Culture
- January 17 – February 15, 1972 | Constructive Logic and the Philosophy of Science: A Series of 5 Lectures
- January 18, 1972 | Poincaré on Hypotheses, Electrodynamics, and Relativity
- February 1, 1972 | Disposition and Fields
- February 15, 1972 | Materialism, Properties, and Predicates
- February 29, 1972 | The Logical and the Extra-Logical: Which Words are Logical Words?
- March 14, 1972 | General Relativity: Some Puzzling Questions
- March 20 – April 24, 1972 | Problems in the Methodology of Research Programs: A Series of 5 Lectures
- March 21, 1972 | Is the Transition From an Old theory to a New One of a Sudden and Unexpected Character?
- March 28, 1972 | Existential Hypotheses in Science
- April 4, 1972 | Nineteenth-Century Explanations of the Nature of Chemical Reactivity
- April 18, 1972 | Scientific Realism and Incommensurability: Some Criticisms of Kuhn and Feyerabend
The Imaginary Part of the Real World
October 5, 1971
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Robert Penrose, Birkbeck College
Commentator: Felix Pirani, Kings College and Boston University
Empiricism at Bay?
October 19, 1971
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Herbert Feigl, University of Minnesota
Commentator: Ernan McMullin, University of Notre Dame
Scientists as Magicians – Since 1945
October 26, 1971
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L. Kowarski, CERN, Geneva
Commentator: Emmanuel Mesthene, Harvard University
Why Settle For Anything Less Than Good Old-Fashioned Aristotelian Essentialism?
November 2, 1971
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Baruch Brody, M.I.T.
Commentator: Joseph Agassi, Boston University
Reduction in Genetics – Doing the Impossible
November 16, 1971
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David L. Hull, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Commentator: Everett Mendelsohn, Harvard University
Probability and Quantum Mechanics
November 23, 1971
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Arthur Fine, Cornell University
Commentator: Abner Shimony, Boston University
Possible Worlds: Foundations of Mathematics in Experience
November 30, 1971
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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
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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
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Paul Lorenzen, University of Erlangen and Boston University
Poincaré on Hypotheses, Electrodynamics, and Relativity
January 18, 1972
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Howard Stein, Case Western Reserve University
Commentator: Roger E. Stuewer, Boston University
Disposition and Fields
February 1, 1972
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J. E. McGuire, University of Pittsburgh and University of Leeds
Commentator: Robert S. Cohen, Boston University
Materialism, Properties, and Predicates
February 15, 1972
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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
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Fred Sommers, Brandeis University
Commentator: Ernest Sosa, Brown University and University of Michigan
General Relativity: Some Puzzling Questions
March 14, 1972
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Achilles Papapetrou, Institut Henri Poincaré and Boston University
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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
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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
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Stanisa Novakovic, University of Belgrade
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Commentator: William Berkskon, Boston University
Existential Hypotheses in Science
March 28, 1972
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Helena Eilstein, University of Pittsburgh and London School of Economics
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Commentator: Marx Wartofsky, Boston University
Nineteenth-Century Explanations of the Nature of Chemical Reactivity
April 4, 1972
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Erwin N. Hiebert, Harvard University
Commentator: Leonard K. Nash, Harvard University
Scientific Realism and Incommensurability: Some Criticisms of Kuhn and Feyerabend
April 18, 1972
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Richard Burian, Brandeis University
Commentator: Michael Martin, Boston University