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Boston Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science presents:
THOMAS KUHN BEYOND HIS DOMAIN:
INFLUENCES IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Thursday 20 Nov 97, 9:00-5:00
Conference Auditorium, George Sherman Union, Boston University
The program of five lectures follows below. Recall (posted here, 30 Oct
97) that the 2-1/2 day "Legacy of Thomas Kuhn" at the Dibner Institute,
MIT, a long walk from BU, opens Thursday evening 5:00 with a lecture by
Kenneth Wilson, Ohio State U, concerning TSK and the Social Sciences.
For more information on the Boston Colloquium for Phil of Sci, see
http://software2.bu.edu/PHILO/events/BCPS.html
and http://physics.bu.edu/Events/BCPS.html (1996-97 schedule)
----Paul Wendt, Asst.Editor, HES
(quoted program for
THOMAS KUHN BEYOND HIS DOMAIN:
INFLUENCES IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES)
Moderator: ALFRED TAUBER, Boston University
Morning Session, 9 am-noon
MEERA NANDA, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Incommensurable Cultures and Their "Ethnosciences"
JEFFREY MEHLMAN, Boston University
A French Resistance?
CAROLINE JONES, Boston University
Paradigms Lost: The Artworld and Kuhn
Afternoon Session, 2-5 pm
GLENN LOURY, Boston College
Progress and Its Discontents: Conformity and Change in
Economic Science
STEPHEN JAY GOULD, Harvard University
Kuhn's Impact on the Practice of Science
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