ANNOUNCEMENTS

THE ISRAEL COLLOQUIUM FOR THE HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE

1984

The Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine, The Hebrew University

The Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation

The Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel-Aviv University

Thursday, 1 March Jerusalem

Tuesday, 13 March Tel-Aviv

Thursday, 5 April Jerusalem

Tuesday, 24 April Tel-Aviv

Thursday, 3 May Jerusalem

Tuesday, 22 May Tel-Aviv

Thursday, 31 May Jerusalem

Limits of a Deductive Construal of the Function of Scientific Theories

1. Philosophy and Medicine in Sixteenth Century Italy 2. Medicine and Magic in Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries North Africa

Realism Versus Anti-Realism: What is the Issue?

The Hermeneutical Status of the History of Science: The Views of Helene Metzger

Mathematics and Logic in Late Medieval Science

On Cause, Principle and Unity

Relativism

C. G. Hempel, University of Pittsburgh. Commentator: Yemima Ben-Menahem, The Hebrew University

Charles Schmitt, The Warburg Institute, University of London. Ron Barkai, Tel-Aviv University

L. Jonathan Cohen, Queen’s College, Oxford. Commentator: Eddy Zemach, The Hebrew University

Gad Freudenthal, CNRS, Paris. Commentator: Pierre Kerszberg, Tel-Aviv University

John Murdoch, Harvard University. Commentator: Sabetai Unguru, Tel-Aviv University

David Finkelstein, Georgia Institute of Technology. Commentator: Yakir Aharoniv, Tel-Aviv University

Richard Rorty, University of Virginia. Commentator: Menachem Brinker, The Hebrew University.

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Thursday, 7 June Jerusalem

Patent Statistics as Indicators of Innovative Activity

Zvi Grilliches, Harvard University Commentator: Yoram Weiss, Tel-Aviv University

In collaboration with Robert S. Cohen and Marx Wartofsky of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science

Selected papers will be published by Humanities Press

Lectures begin at 6.30 p.m. (Gathering for coffee and light refreshment at 6.00 p.m.) Most lectures are in English In Tel-Aviv: Gilman Building, Hall 449, Tel-Aviv University In Jerusalem: The Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation, Einstein Square Forfurther information contact Edna Margalit, Colloquium Coordinator, P.O.B. 4070, Jerusalem, Israel