Abstract

The Conference on “Hegel and the Sciences” sponsored by the Hegel Society and the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science was an admirable attempt to deal with an important and neglected topic. Discussion included contemporary dialectics of nature, careful expositions of Hegel's writings on science, and attempts to apply Hegel's dialectic to modern science. There was also unbounded speculation and superficiality which seemed calculated to confirm positivist prejudices against Hegel's philosophy of nature.

The conference opened with Kenley Dove's masterful examination of the relations between the Logic and the Phenomenology and Robert Cohen's discussion of “Hegel and Scientific Consciousness.”