THE BAR-HILLEL COLLOQUIUM

FOR THE HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIOLOGY

OF SCIENCE

23^rd ANNUAL SERIES 2003-2004

1. Wednesday, November 19, 2003

Yemima Ben-Menahem, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Conventionalism: A Story of a Failure

Jerusalem

2. Monday, December 15, 2003

Yakov M. Rabkin, University of Montreal

Hydroponic Science: Cognitive Peculiarities of Russian Science

Commentator: Igal Halfin, Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv

3. Wednesday, January 7, 2004

Noga Arikha, Bard College, New York

Passions, Reason and Justification in the Early Enlightenment

Commentator: Otniel Dror, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Jerusalem

4. Monday, March 1, 2004

Claude Rosental, SHADYC (CNRS/EHESS)

Logic as a Field for Sociological Investigation:

Starting with the Sociology of a Theorem

Commentator: Anat Biletzki, Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv

5. *Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Session in memory of the late Professor Salvatore Camporeale

Opening Remarks: Rivka Feldhay, Tel Aviv University and The VLJI

Thomas B. Settle, The Institute and Museum of the History of Science, Florence

The Transition to Modern Science: “in quo contra Aristotelem ...” (Galileo)

or “De t’ings dat yo’ li’ble, To read in de Bible, It ain’t necessarily so.” (Gershwin)

Steven L. Goldman, University of Lehigh, Pensylvannia

From Love to Gravity: The Evolution of Modern Science

Jerusalem

6. Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Wolfgang Reinhard, Freiburg University

The Construction of Confession and the Belief in Modernity

Commentator: Gabriel Motzkin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Jerusalem

7. Monday, May 17, 2004

Daniel Burston, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh

Family, Pathology & Schizophrenia in R.D. Laing

Commentator: Raanan Kulka, Israel Psychoanalytic Society and Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv

8. Mon.-Thurs., May 31-June 3, 2004

Text and Picture

Annual International Workshop

Details will be announced separately.

Tel Aviv and Jerusalem

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The opening lecture (in Hebrew) takes place at:

The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 43 Jabotinsky Street, Jerusalem, 8.00pm.

The other lectures take place at:

Tel Aviv University: Gilman Building, Hall 496, 6.00pm.

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Givat Ram Campus, Levy Building, Hall 324, 8.00pm.

* The lecture takes place at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 8.00pm.

Academic Director: Rivka Feldhay

Administrative Director: Shulamit Laron

For further information: The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 43, Jabotinsky Street

P.O.Box 4070, Jerusalem 91040, Tel. 02-5605222, Fax: 02-5619293, www.vanleer.org.il

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Founded in collaboration with Robert S. Cohen of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science.

The Colloquium acknowledges the support of The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas (Tel Aviv University), The Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and The Yehoshua Bar-Hillel Fund.

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