<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <P class="MsoNormal" style=""><ST1:CITY w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: ArialMT;">Readings</SPAN></ST1:PLACE></ST1:CITY><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: ArialMT;"> from and discussions of Martin Eger's <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style=""><B style=""><I style=""><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial-BoldItalicMT;"><BIG><BIG><BIG>Science, Understanding, and Justice</BIG></BIG></BIG><O:P></O:P></SPAN></I></B></P><P class="MsoNormal" style=""><SMALL><SMALL><SMALL><SMALL><SMALL><B><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: ArialMT;"><SPAN style=""> </SPAN>(<ST1:STREET w:st="on"><ST1:ADDRESS w:st="on">Open Court</ST1:ADDRESS></ST1:STREET>, 2006, edited by Abner Shimony, who is the reader)</SPAN></B></SMALL></SMALL></SMALL></SMALL></SMALL><B style=""><I style=""><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial-BoldItalicMT;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></I></B></P><P class="MsoNormal" style=""><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: ArialMT;">will be given at:<O:P></O:P><BR> </SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style=""><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: ArialMT;">*The Harvard Book Store, <ST1:ADDRESS w:st="on"><ST1:STREET w:st="on">1256 Massachusetts Ave.</ST1:STREET>, <ST1:CITY w:st="on">Cambridge</ST1:CITY> <ST1:STATE w:st="on">MA</ST1:STATE></ST1:ADDRESS>, <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style=""><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: ArialMT;">3 PM, Friday March 16, 2007<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style=""><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: ArialMT;">and at<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style=""><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: ArialMT;">*Barnes and Noble at <ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:PLACENAME w:st="on">Boston</ST1:PLACENAME> <ST1:PLACETYPE w:st="on">University</ST1:PLACETYPE></ST1:PLACE>, <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style=""><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: ArialMT;">5th floor Reading Room, <ST1:ADDRESS w:st="on"><ST1:STREET w:st="on">660 Beacon St.</ST1:STREET>, <ST1:CITY w:st="on">Boston</ST1:CITY> <ST1:STATE w:st="on">MA</ST1:STATE></ST1:ADDRESS>, <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style=""><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: ArialMT;">7 PM, Wednesday April 18, 2007.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style=""><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: ArialMT;">Both readings are open to the public.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style=""><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: ArialMT;"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style=""><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: ArialMT;">Martin Eger's work is the most insightful exploration of the social context of the natural sciences since C.P. Snow's </SPAN><B style=""><I style=""><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial-BoldItalicMT;">The Two Cultures, </SPAN></I></B><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: ArialMT;">and a vital contribution to contemporary debates over scientific literacy. This collection of essays deals with controversial and topical issues in philosophy of science, education, and morality. Also included are exchanges between Eger and leading philosophers, including a dialogue with Abner Shimony, who edits this volume and contributes an account of Eger's life, work, and importance. A professional physicist, Eger found that hermeneutic philosophy, associated with Heidegger, Gadamer, and Habermas, had developed techniques for unpacking meanings and for analyzing human claims to knowledge that strikingly parallel the theses of post-empiricist philosophers of physics such as Thomas Kuhn. <ST1:CITY w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">Eger</ST1:PLACE></ST1:CITY>'s application of hermeneutic methods enabled hermeneutics to be extended from social investigations to investigations of nature, and defended the ideal of objective truth against attacks by post-empiricist philosophers.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style=""><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: ArialMT;"><O:P> </O:P>"I can't think of a better introduction to current controversies in philosophy of science and morality. <ST1:CITY w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">Eger</ST1:PLACE></ST1:CITY>'s writing is wonderfully clear. One senses a person who is both erudite and decent. He successfully uses the methods of hermeneutics to illuminate science education and the impact on the public of popular books on cosmology and evolutionary biology."—<ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:CITY w:st="on">Noretta Koertge</ST1:CITY>, <ST1:STATE w:st="on">Indiana</ST1:STATE></ST1:PLACE> University.<O:P></O:P> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style=""><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: ArialMT;"><O:P> </O:P>Martin Eger (1936-2002) received his bachelor's degree from MIT and his doctorate from <ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:PLACENAME w:st="on">Brandeis</ST1:PLACENAME> <ST1:PLACETYPE w:st="on">University</ST1:PLACETYPE></ST1:PLACE>, both in physics. He was Professor of Physics at City University of New York, <ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:PLACETYPE w:st="on">College</ST1:PLACETYPE> of <ST1:PLACENAME w:st="on">Staten Island</ST1:PLACENAME></ST1:PLACE>, which he joined on its founding in 1967. He remained there, with a few short breaks, throughout his professional career, teaching not only physics but also its philosophical implications.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style=""><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: ArialMT;"><O:P> </O:P>Abner Shimony is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Physics at <ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:PLACENAME w:st="on">Boston</ST1:PLACENAME> <ST1:PLACETYPE w:st="on">University</ST1:PLACETYPE></ST1:PLACE>. He has contributed to the foundations of quantum mechanics and to scientific methodology. His writings include </SPAN><B style=""><I style=""><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial-BoldItalicMT;">Search for a Naturalistic World View</SPAN></I></B><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: ArialMT;"> and the popular scientific novel for children, </SPAN><B style=""><I style=""><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial-BoldItalicMT;">Tibaldo and the Hole in the Calendar</SPAN></I></B><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: ArialMT;">.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style=""><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: ArialMT;"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style=""><SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: ArialMT;"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BODY></HTML>