2000 HSS/PSA Program 1 - History of Science Society

Thursday, 2 November
PSA 2000 Program
Error Statistics and Beyond (Symposium)
(Seymour)
Kent␣ W. Staley, Arkansas State University, What Experiment Did We Just
Do?: Counterfactual Error Statistics and Uncertainties about the Reference
Class
Peter␣ J. Lewis, University of Miami, In Which Error Statistics Rescues Realism
from the Pessismistic Induction
Cassandra␣ L. Pinnick, Western Kentucky University, Error and
Underdetermination: The Status of Metamethodology
Douglas Allchin, University of Minnesota, The Epistemology of Error
COMMENTARY: Deborah Mayo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University, Towards an Error Statistical Philosophy of Science
CHAIR: Henry␣ E. Kyburg Jr., University of Rochester
Simplicity, Model Selection, and the Akaike Information Criterion
(Symposium)
(Lord Byron)
Elliott Sober, University of Wisconsin, What Does the Akaike Framework
Tell us about Empiricism and Scientific Realism?
Malcolm␣ R. Forster, University of Wisconsin, The Akaike Information
Criterion Compared to Other Methods of Inference
William Harper, University of Western Ontario and Wayne␣ C. Myrvold,
University of Western Ontario, Simplicity and Scientific Inference
CHAIR: I.␣ A. Kieseppa, University of Helsinki
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Quantum Computation and Information (Symposium)
(Plaza Centre)
Rob Clifton, University of Pittsburgh, Nonlocality and Entanglement in
Quantum Information Theory
David MacCallum, Carleton College, Quantum Entanglement and Classical
Computation
Itamar Pitowsky, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Quantum Speed-up of
Computations
Jeffrey Bub, University of Maryland, College Park, Quantum Cryptography
CHAIRS: Jeffrey Bub, University of Maryland, College Park and David
MacCallum, Carleton College
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