Boston University Center for Philosophy and History of Science

Boston University Center for Philosophy and History of Science is an interdepartmental, interuniversity forum on the nature of science, and each year organizes the Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science.

Boston University's Center for Philosophy and History of Science was founded in 1960 as an interdepartmental, interuniversity forum on the nature of science. As the only such center in the Northeast, its mission is to bring together local and international scholars in the humanities and sciences to engage in research and education on the philosophical, historical, and social dimensions of science.

The Center is best known for its sponsorship of the Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science, which began as an informal interuniversity collaboration of scholars in philosophy, the various sciences, medicine, religious studies, and the arts.

Alisa Bokulich, who is a Professor of philosophy at Boston University, was named director of the Center in 2010, succeeding Alfred I. Tauber.

The Center for Philosophy and History of Science was founded in 1960 as an interdisciplinary, interuniversity collaboration, based at Boston University, with a small seed grant from the National Science Foundation. The Center was an offshoot of the Institute for the Unity of Science, which was itself the American transplant of the Vienna Circle. The Institute's central figure, Philipp Frank, had been one of the Vienna Circle's member and founder, and took part in the development of the Center's Colloquium series. The Center was founded by Robert S. Cohen, who was a professor of philosophy and physics at BU, and Marx W. Wartofsky, a professor of philosophy at BU. In 1993, Alfred I. Tauber, the Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine and Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, was appointed Director, succeeding Professor Cohen. In 2010, Alisa Bokulich was appointed Director.

There is only one older such center in North America, and that is the University of Minnesota’s Center for Philosophy of Science, which was founded in 1953 around Herbert Feigl. Both Herbert Feigl and Philipp Frank fled Europe for the U.S. when the Nazi’s came to power.

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