The Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science began 2S years
ago as an interdisciplinary, interuniversity collaboration of
friends and colleagues in philosophy, logic, the natural sciences
and the social sciences, psychology, religious studies, arts and
literature, and often the celebrated man-in-the street. Boston
University came to be the home base. Within a few years, pro
ceedings were seen to be candidates for publication, first
suggested by Gerald Holton for the journal Synthese within the
Synthese Library, both from the D. Reidel Publishing Company of
Dordrecht, then and now in Boston and Lancaster too. Our colloquium
was inheritor of the Institute for the Unity of Science, itself the
American transplant of the Vienna Circle, and we were repeatedly
honored by encouragement and participation of the Institute's
central figure, Philipp Frank. The proceedings were selected,
edited, revised in the light of the discussions at our colloquia,
and then other volumes were added which were derived from other
symposia, in Boston or elsewhere. A friendly autonomy, in dependent
of the Synthese Library proper, existed for more than a decade and
then the Boston Studies became fully separate. We were grateful to
Jaakko Hintikka for his continued encouragement within that
Library. The series Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science was
conceived in the broadest framework of interdisciplinary and
international concerns. Natural scientists, mathematicians, social
scientists and philosophers have contributed to the series, as have
historians and sociologists of science, linguists, psychologists,
physicians, and literary critics."
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