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ANNOUNCEMENTS

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

1985

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

The Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation The Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel-Aviv

University

Thursday, 28 March Jerusalem

SYMPOSIUM TO MARK THE

1Or~ ANNIVERSARY OF THE

DEATH OF PROFESSOR

YEHOSHUA BAR-HILLEL

1. Politeness and

Rationality

2. How to Think About

Theories

3. How Philosophy and

Science Came to Differ

Thursday, 18 April

Jerusalem

Tuesday, 30 April

Tel-Aviv

Thursday, 16 May SYMPOSIUM: ‘THE OTHER

Jerusalem NEWTON - THE

Is Mathematics Necessary

for Physics?

Mathematics and

Philosophy in Greek

Antiquity: Zeno’s

Paradoxes Reinterpreted

THEOLOGICAL AND

ALCHEMICAL WRITINGS’

ASA KASHER, Tel-Aviv

University.

WOLFGANG STEGM~LLER,

University of Munich.

LORENZ KRUEGER, Free

University of Berlin.

J. M. LEW-LEBLOND,

University of Nice.

Commentator: Itamar

Pitowsky, The Hebrew

University of Jerusalem.

IMRE TOTH, Regensburg

University. Commentator:

Sabetai Unguru, Tel-Aviv

University.

BETIY Jo DOBBS,

Northwestern University.

RICHARD S. WESTFALL,

University of Wisconsin.

RICHARD POPKIN,

Washington University and

Tel-Aviv University.

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Tuesday, 21 May

Tel-Aviv

Thursday, 6 June

Jerusalem

Nature and Science in the

Renaissance

PHILOSOPHY NOW:

1. Analysis and its

Paradoxes

2. Rationality and

Relativism

3. Explanation and

Practical Reason

Announcements

J~~RGEN MITTELSTRASS,

Konstanz University.

Commentator: Max

Jammer, Bar-Ban

University.

DIANA ACKERMAN, Brown

University and the Hebrew

University of Jerusalem.

STEVEN LUKES, Balliol

College, Oxford and the

Hebrew University of

Jerusalem.

CHARLES TAYLOR, McGill

University and the Hebrew

University of Jerusalem

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

for the Philosophy of Science.

The Colloquium acknowledges the support of the Benno and Alice Gitter Foundation

(Tel-Aviv University) and of Dr. Sidney Edelstein (The Hebrew University of

Jerusalem).

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, Albert Einstein Square.

Forfurther information: Edna Margalit, the Colloquium Coordinator, P.O.B. 4070,

Jerusalem, Israel.

At the APA, Eastern Division, in December 1983, the International Hobbes

Association was formed. The International Board of the IHA is composed of Howard

Warrender, D. D. Raphael and Quentin Skinner of England; Bernard Willms and

Klaus-M Kodelle of Germany; Francois Tricaud of France; Karl Schulmann of

Holland; and Gershom Weiler of Israel; it is Chaired by Martin A. Bertman of the

U.S.A. The goal of IHA is to encourage research in Thomas Hobbes in a variety of

disciplines, through conferences and, eventually, a journal. At present the Hobbes

Newsletter, edited by Tim Fuller and Martin Bertman, will be a clearing-house for

Hobbesiana. Membership to IHA, which includes the Newsletter, is $6 a year. This

and items of interest for Newsletter inclusion should be sent to Tim Fuller, Department

of Political Science, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO 80903, U.S.A. Quesies

about organising conferences, grants and other matters relating to IHA should be sent

to Martin A. Bertman, Department of Philosophy, SUNY, Potsdam, NY 13676,

U.S.A.

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FORTHCOMING MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES OF GENERAL INTEREST

Symposium on European Socialism, Vanderbilt University, 21-23 March 1985. Sponsored by the University’s Center for European Studies and Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies. Twelve participants will present papers to be later published in a volume entitled International Socialism: Responses to Domestic and International Crises. Address: M. Donald Hancock, Director, Center for European Studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, U.S.A. Renaissance Society of America with the Renaissance Conference of Southern California, Huntington Library and Occidental College, 22-23 March 1985. Address: Maryanne Horowitz, History Department, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041, U.S.A. ECPR Joint Sessions, The Autonomous University of Barcelona, 25-30 March 1985. The academic program for 1985 will be published in the June issue of the News Circular. Address: ECPR, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, U.K. Southeastern American Studies Association, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 28-30 March 1985. Address: Townsend Ludington, Department of English 066A, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27514, U.S.A. Germania: Comparative Studies in the Old Germanic Languages and Literature, University of California, Los Angeles, 29-30 March 1985. Address: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, 405 Hilgard Avenue, LA 90024, U.S.A. International Symposium with and about Martin Walser, West Virginia University, 11-13 April 1985. Address: Jiirgen E. Schlunk, Department of Foreign Languages, West Virginia University, Morgantown 26506, U.S.A. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Toronto, 18-21 April 1985. Address: Richard Peterson, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN55057, U.S.A. The American Society of International Law, 79th Annual Meeting, The Roosevelt Hotel, New York City, New York, 24-27 April 1985. The meeting will raise such questions as: acid rain, terrorism, star wars, toxic substances, the United Nations, U.S. foreign policy, Israeli settlements and others in more than 20 panel discussions. Address: ASIL, 2223 Massachusetts Ave., Washington, D.C. 20008, U.S.A. International Association for Philosophy and Literature: City and Thought - Politics and Text, City University of New York, l-4 May 1985. Address: Mary Ann Caws, Department of French, CUNY Graduate School, 33 W. 42nd St., New York, NY 10036, U.S.A. Conferences on Society in Change: Maritime Commerce and Naval Policies Between the French Revolution and the Balkan Wars, Thessaloniki, Greece, 6-8 June 1985. Post World-War I Revolutions and Counterrevolutions, Veszprem, Hungary, 11-13 June 1985. East Central European Offtcers Education and Training and their Impact on Politics, Vienna, 15-17 June 1985. East Central European War Leaders, Civilian and Military, Paris, February 1986. Address inquiries to: Jonathan A. Chanis, Assistant Director, Program on Society in Change, Room 2227, Boyland Hall, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY 11210, U.S.A. International Political Science Association World Congress. The thirteenth meeting of the IPSA will take place in Paris in July 1985. The main theme will be ‘The Changing State and Its Interaction with National and International Society’. The subthemes include: ‘State and Government in Recent Political Theory’; ‘The Changing Structure of the Governmental Apparatus’; ‘Comparative Public Policy and Governmental

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Actions’; ‘Global Problems: Challenges to the State’. Address: Francesco Kjellberg, Program Chair, IPSA, Institute of Political Science, University of Oslo, Box 1907, Blindern, Oslo, Norway. Ninth International Seminar on Marginal Regions: New Approaches to the Develop- ment of Marginal Regions, University College, Galway, 7-13 July 1985. Topics include: ‘Cultural and Linguistic Minorities’ and ‘Demographic Change in Marginal Regions’. Address: D. 0. Cearbhaill, Dean, Faculty of Commerce, University College, Galway, Ireland. Association of the Amici Thomae Mori: Thomas More and John Fisher Congress, London 14-21 July 1985. Address: Rosemary Rendel, 24 Lennox Gardens, London, SWlX ODQ, U.K. International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, Wolfenbiittel, F.R.G., 12-16 August 1985. Address: Walther Ludwig, Institut fur Griechische und Lateinische Philologie, Universitat Hamburg, Von-Mell-Park 6, D-200 Hamburg, F.R.G. Eighteenth-Century Women and the Arts, Hofstra University, lC-12 October 1985. Address: Frederick M. Keener and Susan E. Lorsch, Department of English, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11550, U.S.A. Conference on the German Democratic Republic, Second Conference of the GDR Studies Association of the United States, in 1985. Address: Michael Sodaro, Institute of Sino-Soviet Studies, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20052, U.S.A. Fifth Conference of Europeanists 1985: Changing Consciousness, Values, and Culture in Advanced Industrial Societies, Georgetown Hotel, Washington, D.C., 18-20 October 1985. Proposed panel topics are: ‘The Roots of Economic Uncertainty and its Effects on Consciousness, Values, Culture and the Economy’; ‘Changing Conscious- ness, Values, Culture and Civil Society’; ‘Changing Consciousness, Values, Culture, the Polity and the State’; ‘Changing Consciousness, Values, Culture and the International Community’. Address: Conference ‘85, Council for European Studies, 1509 International Affairs Building, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, U.S.A. World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Washington, D.C., 4 November 1985. Address: Donald W. Treadgold, School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, U.S.A. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Williamsburg, 27-30 March 1986. Address: Richard Peterson, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN 55057, U.S.A.