2000 HSS/PSA Program 1 - History of Science Society

Thursday, 2 November
PSA 2000 Program
PSA 2000 PROGRAM
Thursday, 2 November
4:00 p.m.—6:30 p.m.
Scientific Modeling (Symposium)
(Cypress)
Paul Humphreys, University of Virginia, Theories, Experiments, and
Computational Models
Andrea␣ I. Woody, University of Washington, Representation and Reasoning:
Making Sense of Modeling in Science
William␣ C. Wimsatt, University of Chicago, The Use of False Models to
Elaborate Constraints on Processes: the Case of Blending Inheritance
Robert Batterman, Ohio State University, Asymptotics and the Role of
Minimal Models
CHAIR: Margaret Morrison, University of Toronto
Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Science (Symposium)
(Grouse)
Elisabeth␣ A. Lloyd, Indiana University, C. S. Peirce on Scientific Method
Peter Godfrey-Smith, Stanford University, John Dewey’s Philosophy of
Science
Gary Hardcastle, University of Wisconsin, C. I. Lewis’ A Priori
Alan␣ W. Richardson, University of British Columbia, Philosophy of Science
as Social Philosophy: American Pragmatism in the 1930s
CHAIR: P.␣ Kyle Stanford, University of California, Irvine
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Experimentation in Neuroscience (Symposium)
(Stanley)
William Bechtel, Washington University, St. Louis, Establishing Consilience
Between Multiple Experimental Models
Jim Bogen, University of Pittsburgh, Some Epistemic Virtues of Functional
Images of the Working Brain
Valerie␣ Gray Hardcastle, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
What Do the Data Really Show? Connecting Data with Hypotheses
Carl␣ F. Craver, Florida International University, Interlevel Experiments,
Multilevel Mechanisms, and Robustness
CHAIR: Richard␣ M. Burian, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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