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Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science NONPROFIT Center for Philosophy and History of Science U.S BOSTON COLLOQUIUM 46th FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE ANNUAL PROGRAM Center for Philosophy and History of Science 2005/2006 MEDICINE’S STORY: LIMITS OF THE MEDICAL RECORD Monday, September 12, 2005 THE LEGACY OF J. J. GIBSON Monday, January 30, 2006 2–5 p.m. 2–5 p.m. Moderator: DANIEL DUGAN, Emanuel Medical Center Moderator: LUCIANA GARBAYO, Boston University Boston University Boston University ALFRED I. TAUBER, Boston University The Castle ROBERT BRISCOE, Loyola University The Castle Taking Medical Ethics Seriously 225 Bay State Road Vehicles of Perception 225 Bay State Road WILLIAM DONNELLY, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine ALVA NOË, University of California Berkeley Developing a Patient-Centered Medical Record Perception Without Representation LAWRENCE WEED, Problem-Knowledge Coupler Corporation RUTH MILLIKAN, University of Connecticut Pathways To and From the Medical Record Postulating Perceptual Representations in a Way That Actually Supports Gibson’s Central Insights ON THE NATURE OF SCIENCE Monday, September 19, 2005 4 p.m. LEVINAS AND MEDICAL ETHICS Monday, February 13, 2006 Moderator: WILLIAM DEVLIN, Boston University Boston University Boston University PAUL HOYNINGEN-HUENE, University of Hannover The Castle Moderator: SIMON KELLER, Boston University The Castle 225 Bay State Road Morning Session, 10 a.m.–noon 225 Bay State Road LAZARE BENAROYO, University of Lausanne Vulnerability, Hospitality, and Trust: ‡THE ROBERT S. COHEN FORUM: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN SCIENCE STUDIES The Significance of Levinas for an Ethics of Care The Forum, an annual lecture series, explores selected controversies in philosophy, history, and PETER KEMP, The Danish University of Education sociology of science that provide wide resonances in other academic disciplines. In an intellectual Levinas in Bioethics context accessible to the nonspecialist, a single theme is discussed with the aim of establishing the Afternoon Session, 2–5 p.m. foundations, conceptual boundaries, and interdisciplinary implications of the given topic. This series is named in honor of Professor Robert S. Cohen, who co-founded with Professor Marx Wartofsky the ROGER BURGGRAEVE, Catholic University Leuven Boston Colloquium and served as its director for more than thirty years. “Not to Let the Other Alone:” Levinas on the Responsibility of the Medical Profession for the Suffering and the Dying VALUES, ETHICS, AND MEDICAL SCIENCE: Thursday and Friday, LAURIE ZOLOTH, Northwestern University The Self Turned Inside Out: From Autonomy to Hospitality in Bioethics THE NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL CURRICULUM September 22–23, 2005 ROBERT GIBBS, University of Toronto Thursday Morning Session, 9 a.m.–noon Boston University Suffering, Responsibility, and Bioethics Terrace Lounge Moderator: MARJORIE CLAY, University of Massachusetts George Sherman Union INTRODUCTION: ALFRED I. TAUBER, Boston University 775 Commonwealth Avenue GÖDEL’S PHILOSOPHY Monday, February 27, 2006 VINEET ARORA, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine 2–5 p.m. Discontinuity of Patient Care: Implications for Medical Training Moderator: JULIET FLOYD, Boston University Boston University RICHARD GUNDERMAN, Indiana University School of Medicine JULIETTE KENNEDY, University of Helsinki The Castle The Ecology of Biomedical Science and Ethics Two Observations in the Introduction to Gödel’s Thesis, 225 Bay State Road RANDOLPH SCHIFFER, Texas Tech University or Must Meaningful Questions Be Decided? Doctors’ Mistakes: The Matrixation of the Patient and PALLE YOURGRAU, Brandeis University Related Category Errors in Medical Education On Data of the Second Kind Thursday Afternoon Session, Part I, 1–2 p.m. MARK VAN ATTEN, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Moderator: RICHARD COOPER, University of Pennsylvania Sets and Monads: On Gödel and Leibniz DEBRA LITZELMAN, Indiana University School of Medicine The New Formal and Informal Curriculum at Indiana University: Overview and Five-Year Review *FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTUM INFORMATION Friday and Saturday, Afternoon Session, Part II, 2:30–6 p.m. AND ENTANGLEMENT March 24–25, 2006 Boston University Moderator: EUGENE CORBETT, University of Virginia Friday Morning Session, 9 a.m.–12:30 p.m. The Photonics Center THOMAS GLICK, Harvard Medical School Opening Remarks: ABNER SHIMONY, Boston University Colloquium Room, 9th Floor Improving Medical Education in the Early 21st Century Moderator: ALISA BOKULICH, Boston University 8 St. Mary’s Street LYNDA MEANS, Indiana University School of Medicine DON HOWARD, University of Notre Dame Using Unannounced Standardized Applicants to Change The Early History of Quantum Entanglement: 1905–1935 Admissions Officers’ Interviewing Skills LORENZA VIOLA, Dartmouth College DAVID COLE, Independent Scholar Entanglement as an Observer-Dependent Notion: Entanglement and Subsystems, Entanglement The “A” Plan: A Developmental Path to Medical Education Reform Beyond Subsystems, and All That STEVEN KANTER, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine SANDU POPESCU, University of Bristol, Royal Fort In-Depth Learning Experiences Enable Full Integration Nonlocality Beyond Quantum Mechanics of the Human Dimensions of Medicine Friday Afternoon Session, 2–5 p.m. Friday Morning Session, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. Moderator: GREGG JAEGER, Boston University Moderator: Michael Whitcomb, Association of American Medical Colleges LEAH HENDERSON, Massachusetts Institute of Technology SHARON DOBIE, University of Washington Quantum Information and Entropy Are We Willing to Look Inside? CHRIS TIMPSON, University of Leeds MARGARET GAFFNEY, Indiana University School of Medicine Information, Immaterialism, Instrumentalism: Old and New in Quantum Information A Conscience-Sensitive Approach to Ethics and Teaching Caring Attitudes WOJCIECH ZUREK, Los Alamos National Laboratory LINDA WELSH, University of Pennsylvania Probabilities from Entanglement: Born’s Rule from Invariance Enter the Doctor: Sociodrama in Medical Education Saturday Morning Session, 9 a.m.–noon ARLENE BREWSTER, Northeast Ohio University College of Medicine The Overlooked Curriculum: The Emotional Component in Ethical Conduct Moderator: ALISA BOKULICH, Boston University WAYNE MYRVOLD, University of Western Ontario ROBERT RUSSELL, Medical College of Wisconsin Learning the Practice of Ethics: Institutionalization of Lived Ethics in Medical Education There and Back Again: From Physics to Information Theory and Back HANS HALVORSON, Princeton University Otherworldly Information Theory †‡C. H. WADDINGTON: A CENTENARY CELEBRATION Friday, October 7, 2005 LUCIEN HARDY, The Perimeter Institute Beyond Quantum Theory: Information and Entanglement in General Probabilistic Frameworks Morning Session, 10 a.m.–noon Boston University Terrace Lounge Saturday Afternoon Session, 2–5 p.m. Moderator: CONSTANTINOS MEKIOS, Boston University George Sherman Union Moderator: GREGG JAEGER, Boston University ROBERT ROOT-BERNSTEIN, Michigan State University 775 Commonwealth Avenue Behind Appearance: Waddington on the Relationship ADRIAN KENT, The Perimeter Institute of the Arts to the Sciences Relations Between Cryptographic and Physical Principles JEFFREY BUB, University of Maryland BRIAN HALL, Dalhousie University Waddington, Man and Metaphor: The Epigenetic Landscape Quantum Computation: Where Does the Speed-up Come From? Afternoon Session, 2–5 p.m. ANTON ZEILINGER, Universität Wien Experimental Quantum Communication and Quantum Computation with Entangled Photons Moderator: GAL KOBER, Boston University DENIS WALSH, University of Toronto The Strategy of the Organism †DARWIN: CLASS, RACE, AND GENDER EQUALITY Monday, April 3, 2006 RICHARD LEWONTIN, Harvard University 2–5 p.m. Moderator: ANDREW BERRY, Harvard University Did Waddington Really Understand Canalization? Boston University JOY HARVEY, Independent Scholar SCOTT GILBERT, Swarthmore College, and KATHERINE MCCAIN, Drexel University The Castle Brains, Blood, and Beauty: Darwin’s Correspondents on C. H. Waddington and the Transfer of Information: Flows and Networks in Embryos and in Research 225 Bay State Road Race, Gender, and Class DIANE PAUL, University of Massachusetts MAKING MOLECULES MATTER: Thursday, October 20, 2005 Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill, and the Origins of the Modern Nature-Nurture Debate TOPICS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF CHEMISTRY 2–5 p.m. JANET BROWNE, University College London Boston University The Natural Economy of Households: Charles Darwin’s Account Books Moderator: LEE MCINTYRE, Boston University The Castle NALINI BHUSHAN, Smith College 225 Bay State Road What Is a Chemical Property? PHENOMENOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Monday, April 10, 2006 JEFF RAMSEY, Smith College 2–6 p.m. Moderator: MIRJA HARTIMO, Tufts University Calibrating and Constructing Models of Protein Folding Boston University ROALD HOFFMAN, Cornell University JUDSON WEBB, Boston University The Castle Geometry and the Crisis of European Sciences What Might Philosophy of Science Look Like If Chemists Built It? 225 Bay State Road JOHN STACHEL, Boston University Hermann Weyl’s Changing Concept of Mathematics † UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY RELATIONS: Thursday, November 3, 2005 WALTER HOPP, Boston University GETTING PERSPECTIVE 4 p.m. Foundationalism, Phenomenology, and the Sciences Boston University RICHARD COBB-STEVENS, Boston College Moderator: ALISA BOKULICH, Boston University The Castle Husserl’s Incomplete Philosophy of Science STEVEN SHAPIN, Harvard University 225 Bay State Road Commentator: SHELDON KRIMSKY, Tufts University †RUSSIAN AND CHINESE FATHERS OF THE H-BOMB Monday, April 24, 2006 4–6 p.m. † Moderator: PRISCILLA
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