Conference: Logical Empiricism in North America

Rejected message: sent to koglist(a)cogpsyphy.hu by GARYH(a)VT.EDU follows. Reason for rejection: sender not subscribed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With apologies for cross-posting... Logical Empiricism in North America (LENA) 7-9 May, 1998 Science Center 226 Harvard University WWW Page: http://www.phil.vt.edu/lena (here you will find more information about LENA, including directions and the opportunity to register on-line) Description: American intellectuals with the dominant philosophical framework within which to understand science. Yet Logical Empiricisms hegemony was not inevitable. It was a result of historical, sociological, intellectual, and political factors that Logical Empiricism came to influence North American thinking about science so deeply. Logical Empiricism in North America (LENA) aims to promote historical, philosophical, and sociological understanding of the transmission of the people and ideas associated with Logical Empiricism to North America in the 1930s and 1940s. LENA extends recent efforts to understand Logical Empiricism and related intellectual movements in their historical and intellectual contexts. Participants in LENA include: Program: All sessions are in the Cohen Seminar Room, Science Center 226, Harvard University Thursday May 7, 1998 2-2:10 Preliminary Remarks I 2:10-5:30 PM Chair: Susan Lanzoni (Harvard University) Friedrich Stadler (Institute Vienna Circle) Transfer and Transformation of Logical Empiricism: Quantitative and Qualitative Aspects Robert S. Cohen (Boston University) Encounters With LENA: On Blumberg, Carnap, Feigl, Frank, Hanson, Kaufman, Margeneau, Nagel, Neurath, and Reichenbach Alan Richardson (University of British Columbia) Linguistic and Pragmatic Aspects of Unified Science: Carnap, Morris, and the Rapprochement between Logical Empiricism and American Pragmatism II 7-9:00 PM Chair: TBA Peter Galison (Harvard University) Relativity: Time and Again Friday May 8, 1998 III 9-11:20 AM Chair: Jimena Canales (Harvard University) Gerald Holton (Harvard University) The Americanized Vienna Circle and B.F. Skinner Mitchell Ash (University of Vienna) Psychology, Migration, Unity, Change: Gustav Bergmann, Egon Brunswik and Other Imigris Between Logical Empiricism and Neo-Behaviorism 11:20-1:00 Lunch IV 1-3:15 PM Chair: Michael Gordin (Harvard University) Gary Hardcastle (Virginia Tech) C.I. Lewis and Logical Positivism Richard Creath (Arizona State University) Carnap, Quine, and Logical Truth 3:15-3:30 PM Break V 3:30-6:30 PM Chair: Christian Fleck (Universitdt Graz) Ronald Giere (University of Minnesota) "The Minnesota Center and the Institutionalization of Logical Empiricism in North America: A View From the Archives" Rudolf Haller "On Herbert Feigl" Alfred Schramm A New Home for Logical Empiricism: Feigl and the MCPS Eckehart Koehler Normative Psychology, Pure Pragmatics and Intuition: The Black Hole of Logical Empiricism 6:30-9:00 PM Dinner 9:00-11:30 PM Reception, Inn at Harvard Saturday May 9, 1998 VI 9-11:20 AM Chair: Bob Brain (Harvard University) Thomas Ricketts (University of Pennsylvania) "Languages and Calculi" Hans-Joachim Dahms (Universitdt Gvttingen) How to Become An Endangered Species: Pragmatists and Pragmatism in Neuraths International Encyclopedia of Unified Science 11:20-1:00 Lunch VII 1-3:15 PM Chair: Sherri Roush (Harvard University) George Reisch (Illinois Institute of Technology) Disunity in the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science Thomas Uebel (London School of Economics) Frank's History of the Vienna Circle: A Programmatic Retrospective 3:15-3:30 PM Break VIII 3:30-6:30 PM Chair: Matt Price (Harvard University) Diederick Raven Zilsel In America: A Case Study Don Howard (University of Notre Dame) The End of the Science and Values Debate in 1950s Philosophy of Science Michael Friedman (Indiana University) Hempel and the Vienna Circle Registration: There is no registration fee for LENA, but registration is required for all attendees. Registrants will receive a nametag, program, and LENA materials and are invited to LENA sessions and reception at the Inn at Harvard, 9-11:30 PM, Friday, May 8th. You may register for LENA via the WWW at http://www.phil.vt.edu/lena or by emailing or faxing your name, address, affiliation (as you wish it to appear on your name tag) and any special instructions to Gary Hardcastle Department of Philosophy, 0126 Virginia Tech email: garyh(a)vt.edu Fax: (540) 231-6367 Sponsors: LENA is made possible by The National Science Foundation, the Institut Wiener Kreis, and the Zentrum f|r Internationale und Interdisziplindre Studien at the Universitdt Wien, and by the Department of History of Science at Harvard University, the Austrian Cultural Institute New York, and Virginia Tech.