Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science 2011-2012 www.bu.edu/cphs

The Alfred I. Tauber Forum* Are Men and Women Like Human Evolution: Culture, ­Different Species? ­Cognition, and Human Nature Critical ­Perspectives on Friday, December 2, 2011 Sex-Difference Research Barristers Hall, Law School, Friday, April 27, 2012 765 Commonwealth Ave. Barristers Hall, Law School, 765 Commonwealth Ave. 1–5 pm What Is Cultural Fitness? 10 am–Noon The Boston University Grant Ramsey Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame The Politics of Sex-Based Biology: ­ Center for Philosophy Categories, Standards, and the Logics of & was Darwinism and Cultural Change Inclusion and ­Difference Peter Godfrey-Smith Department of Philosophy, City University­ founded in 1960 as an Steven Epstein Department of Sociology, of New York Secrecy and Transparency Northwestern University interdepartmental, inter- in Science Biological Evolution in a Technological Species How Social Meanings Drive Scientific university forum on the Russell Powell Department of Philosophy, Boston University Investigation (and Vice Versa) Friday, September 23, 2011 nature of science. For over Cultural and Morphological Change in Human Prehistory­ Helen Longino Department of Philosophy, 50 years the Colloquium Barristers Hall, Law School, Stanford ­University 765 Commonwealth Ave. Matt Cartmill Department of Anthropology, Boston University has fostered the center’s 2–5 pm goal of building interdisci- 2–5 pm Conceptualizing Sex Differences in the plinary bridges between Human Genome Secrets and Lies: Science Versus Market as ­Arbiter the humanities and sciences of Truth in Early Recombinant DNA Research Can the History and ­Philosophy Sarah Richardson Department of the History of Science by bringing together the Elizabeth Popp Berman Department of Sociology, State of Science Contribute to and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, University of New York at Albany Harvard ­University world’s leading scholars ­Contemporary U.S. Science in the philosophy, history, Transparency Revisited: The Climatic Research Trading Essence for Potential: Feminist Moves Unit Emails, Democratic Accountability & Teaching? Against the Homunculus in the Hormones and social studies of science Scientific Progress Rebecca Jordan-Young Department of Women’s, in an annual lecture series. Friday, February 10, 2012 – Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College Wendy Parker Department of Philosophy, Ohio University Saturday, February 11, 2012 Gender Identity in Children: Formulating a The Ontology of Secrets: What Counts as ­Dynamic, Developmental Model Forbidden Knowledge? This colloquium, co-hosted by the School of Education, will bring together Anne Fausto-Sterling Department of Molecular and Peter Galison Department of the History of Science and historians, scientists, philosophers, and science educators to explore Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Brown University Department of Physics, different ways to integrate HPS content into the science classroom curricu- lum. It will be followed on Saturday by an interdisciplinary workshop All lectures are free and for invited participants actively working in this area. open to the public. Selected proceedings of the colloquia For updates and further details as they become available, please see The Karbank Symposium in Environmental Philosophy*** Present at the Creation: our website: www.bu.edu/cphs are published by Springer in The Promise and Peril of the Scientific Assessments and the series Boston Studies in 52nd Annual Program 52nd Annual Large Hadron Collider ­Environmental Policy the Philosophy of Science. Friday, October 14, 2011 The Robert S. Cohen Forum** Thursday, May 3, 2012 Law School, Room 1420, 14th Floor 50 Years Since Kuhn’s Photonics Center, Colloquium Room (906) 765 Commonwealth Ave. 8 Saint Mary’s Street, 9th floor Structure of Scientific † 4–5:30 pm Revolutions 2–6 pm Amir Aczel Visiting Researcher, Center for Philosophy Friday, March 23, 2012 Title TBA Alisa Bokulich Director Center for Philosophy & ­History of Science, Boston University Michael Oppenheimer Woodrow Wilson School and Photonics Center, Colloquium Room (Room 906) & History of Science Department of Geosciences, Princeton University 8 St. Mary’s Street, 9th floor Boston University The Role of Value Judgments in Policy-Relevant 745 Commonwealth Ave. 10 am–1 pm Environmental Science Boston, MA 02215 Telephone: 617-353-2604 Kevin Elliott Department of Philosophy, University of Representation in Science Footnotes to Structure Fax: 617-353-6805 South Carolina † Email: [email protected] and Art John Heilbron Department of History, University of , Berkeley Science and Environmental Policy: How Do Friday, November 4, 2011 Scientists­ Assess Scientific Knowledge for Action? Navigating among the Two Kuhns The Castle, 225 Bay State Road Naomi Oreskes Department of History, University of David Kaiser Program in Science, Technology, and Society, California, San Diego 2–5 pm Institute of Technology Scientific Representation: Visual Representation, On Kuhn’s Development Before and After Structure Models, and the Relevance of Depiction Paul Hoyningen-Huene Institute of Philosophy, † Co-sponsored by the Humanities Foundation, Boston University Leibniz ­Universität Hannover Laura Perini Department of Philosophy, Pomona University * The annual Alfred I. Tauber Forum, named in honor of the second direc- tor of the Center for Philosophy & History of Science, who served from The Scientific Image: Discovery and Dissemination 2:30–5:30 pm 1993 to 2010, is devoted to the topic of integrating scientific knowledge Eric J. Heller Department of Physics and Department of Kuhn’s Social Epistemology and the with human needs. For further details, see www.bu.edu/cphs/directors. Chemistry, Harvard University Sociology of Science ** The annual Robert S. Cohen Forum in Science Studies is named in Representation as Inference in Art and Science K. Brad Wray Department of Philosophy, honor of the co-founder and first director of the center, who served State University of New York, Oswego from 1960 to 1992. For further details, see www.bu.edu/cphs/directors. Mauricio Suárez Department of Logic and Philosophy of ­Science, Complutense University of Madrid “Living in a New World”: Kuhn, Constructivism, and *** The Karbank Symposium is named in honor of Steven Karbank, Mind-Dependence a generous benefactor of the Philosophy Department at Boston ­University and sponsor of this annual symposium. Michela Massimi Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College

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