A Conference jointly sponsored with the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. Organized by Lois Oppenheim and Akeel Bilgrami, along with Center Co-Directors Francis Levy and Edward Nersessian.

Ever since Max Weber lamented the rationalization of the world, the intellectualization that social and personal disenchantment rendered characteristic of modernity, the meaning of value has been thrown into question. How are we to understand the place of value in a world of nature when that world is viewed as containing nothing that is not countenanced by natural science? Can we account for the nature of value--and its implications for normative thinking and behavior--in terms that are exhausted by the methods and concepts of the sciences? If so, how might we elaborate those methods and those concepts? If not, what are the alternative forms of accounting for value? These and related questions will be raised and discussed by some of the most distinguished philosophers, scientists, and historians of science in the world.

John Forrester is Professor of History and Philosophy of the Sciences at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Language and the Origins of Psychoanalysis, The Seductions of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan, and Derrida, Dispatches from the Freud Wards: Psychoanalysis and its Passions, and Truth Games: Lies, Money, and Psychoanalysis. He is completing two books, Freud in Cambridge (with Laura Cameron) and The Freudian Century.

Anne Harrington is Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, where she specializes in the history of psychiatry, neuroscience, and the other mind sciences. She is currently Co-Director of the Harvard University Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative, and is a consultant for the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mind-Body Interactions. She is the author of Medicine, Mind and the Double Brain and Reenchanted Science: Holism and German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler.