"Thomas Reid and the Sciences"

A one-day conference sponsored by
the Boston University Center for Philosophy and History of Science
and the Reid Society

Boston University
Friday-Saturday 10-11 October 2003|

Friday:
Venue: “The Castle”, 225 Bay State Road, Boston
Time: 9 am – 12.30pm; 2pm-5.30pm
Moderator: Knud Haakonssen, Boston University
Speakers:
John P. Wright, Central Michigan University: “Causality, Common Sense, and Science in Reid and His Successors”
Lorne Falkenstein, University of Western Ontario: “Reid and Smith on Visual Localization”
Aaron Garrett, Boston University: “Priestley on Reid, or How Not to Be a Unitarian of the Mind"
James Harris, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford: “Reid on the character of a science of the mind”
Benjamin Redekop, Kettering University: “The Rise of Modern Science and the Problem of Common Sense Experience”
Paul B. Wood, University of Victoria: “Thomas Reid and the Tree of the Sciences”

Saturday
Venue: 745 Commonwealth Avenue: Seminar room 525
Time: 10.30
Follow-up Seminar
Participants include M.A. Stewart (University of Aberdeen) and Rebecca Copenhaver (Lewis and Clark College).NOTE:

The Reid Society will hold its business meeting immediately following the Friday seminar, at 5.30pm.

Further information:
Professor Knud Haakonssen
Department of Philosophy
Boston University
745 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
e-mail: haakon@bu.edu