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&HPS1
Conference in Integrated History and Philosophy of Science

Speakers: Name, Affiliation, Talk Title
 

Open Sessions  

 

Hanne Andersen

Univ. of Aarhus

History and Philosophy of Modern Epidemiology

 

Anouk Barberousse

Paris I

A Case of Irrationality?

 

Delphine Bellis

Paris IV-Sorbonne

Cartesian Corpuscular Models and Their Potential Impact on Microscopy

 

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent

Paris X

Chemistry: An Ontology-Free Science?

 

Mary Domski

Univ. of New Mexico

The God of Geometry, The God of Matter: The Connection Between Descarte's Math and Metaphysics

 

Heather Douglas

Univ. of Tennessee

Roles for Values in Science: The History of DES

 

Amit Hagar

Univ. of Indiana

Length Matters: The Einstein-Swann Correspondence and the Constructive Approach to Special Relativity

 

Giora Hon and Bernard R. Goldstein

Univ. of Haifa and Univ. of Pittsburgh

The Law of the Lever According to Mach: Historically and Critically Presented

 

Alan Love

Univ. of Minnesota

Consequences of an intelligent discussion about design with Darwin: Asa Gray's evolving perspective on teleology and natural theology

 

Jutta Schickore

Univ. of Indiana

Genres of Justification

 

William R. Shea

Univ. of Padua

Galileo Now and Then

 

Aris Spanos

Virginia Tech

The Discovery of Argon: A Case for Error-Statistical Reasoning

 

Thematic Sessions

   Experimentation
   Moderators: Bill Newman and Jutta Schickore

 

Nico Bertoloni Meli

Univ. of Indiana

A Lofty Mountain, Putrefying Flesh, Styptic Water, and Germinating Seeds: Methodological Reflections on Experimental Procedures from Pascal and Perier to Redi and Beyond

 

Koray Karaca

Univ. of Indiana

A Case Study in the Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation: Electron-Proton Inelastic Scattering Program in High Energy Particle Physics

 

James Marcum

Baylor Univ.

Newton 's Experimentum Crucis vs. Goethe's Series of Experiments: Implications for the Underdetermination Thesis

 

Paolo Palmieri

Univ. of Pittsburgh

Experimental History of Science: Galileo's Experiments with Pendulums

 

   Evidence in Theory and Practice
   Moderator: Michela Massimi

 

Peter Achinstein

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Atom's Empirical Eve: Methodological Disputes and How to Evaluate Them

 

Michela Massimi

Univ. College, London

From Duhem to van Fraassen: The Empiricist Tradition of 'Saving the Phenomena' against Galileo's Mathematization of Nature

 

John Norton

Univ. of Pittsburgh

Einstein's Miraculous Argument

 

   Beyond Case-Studies
   Moderator: Hasok Chang

 

Theodore Arabatzis

Univ. of Athens

Hidden Entities and Experimental Practice: Towards a Two-way Traffic Between History and Philosophy of Science

 

Hasok Chang

Univ. College, London

Beyond Case Studies: History as Philosophy

 

Melinda Fagan

Univ. of Indiana

Integrative Pragmatism and Scientific Inquiry

 

   Historical and Philosophical Considerations of Newton’s Mechanics
   Moderator: Alan Shapiro

 

Andrew Janiak

Duke Univ.

Integrating History and Philosophy of Science: The Case of Isaac Newton

 

Chris Smeenk and George Smith

UCLA and Tufts

Measurement and Limits in the Principia, Section X

 

 
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