Center for Philosophy of Science ::: other conferences, experimentation

11-12 April 2014
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA

Registration is appreciated, but not required. To register, email yoi5@pitt.edu.

Friday

9:00	Continental breakfast
9:30	Keynote speaker: Paula Grabowski (Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh) Perspectives on RNA and the Evolution of Biological Catalysis and Proteomic Diversity
10:30	Nina Atanasova (Philosophy, University of Cincinnati) Validating Animal Models
11:15	Coffee Break
11:30	Carl Craver (Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis) Thinking about Interventions: Optogenetics, Experiments, and Maker’s Knowledge
12:15	Irina Meketa (Philosophy, Boston University) How Parsimony Biases Experimental Design In Comparative Cognition
1:00-2:30	Lunch on your own
2:30	Keynote speaker: Andrea Loettgers (Philosophy, University of Geneva) Modeling/Experimenting? The Synthetic Strategy in the Circadian Clock Research
3:30	Melinda Fagan (Philosophy, Rice University) Crucial Stem Cell Experiments? An Objection to the Uncertainty Principle for Stem Cells
4:15	Coffee Break
4:30	Sandra Mitchell (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh) On Relations Between Experimental and Representational Models
5:15	Spencer Hey (Biomedical Ethics, McGill University) Uncertainty, Underdetermination, and the Units of Clinical Translation

Saturday

9:00	Continental Breakfast
9:30	Keynote speaker: Paolo Palmieri (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh) What Makes a Good Experimentalist? Among Other Things, Good Senses…
10:30	Peter Distelzweig (Philosophy, Western Michigan University) William Harvey’s Really Good (Aristotelian, Socratic, Whewellian) Experiments
11:15	Coffee Break
11:30	John Norton (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh) Is the Replicability of Experiment a Principle of Inductive Logic?
12:15	Nora Boyd (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh) Equivalence Principle Tests
1:00-2:30	Lunch on your own
2:30	Keynote speaker: Margaret Morrison (Philosophy, University of Toronto) Bridging the Great Divide: Simulation, Experiments, and Validation Experiments
3:30	Emily Parke (Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania) Experiments, Simulations, and Surprises
4:15	Coffee Break
4:30	Kathleen Creel (Philosophy, Simon Fraser University) Machine Learning as Experiment
5:15	Sherri Roush (Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley) The Epistemic Superiority of Experiment to Simulation

Organizing Committee

Allan Franklin, Chair (University of Colorado Boulder; allan.franklin@colorado.edu)
Deborah Mayo (Virginia Tech; dmayo@vt.edu)
John Norton (University of Pittsburgh; jdnorton@pitt.edu)
Wendy Parker (Ohio University; Durham University; parkerw@ohio.edu)
Slobodan Perovic (University of Belgrade; perovic@pitt.edu)
Samuel Schindler (Aarhus University; samuel.schindler@ivs.au.dk)
Marcel Weber (University of Geneva; Marcel.Weber@unige.ch)

For any questions concerning the conference, please contact Slobodan Perovic or any of the members of the Organizing Committee.

Sponsor

Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh