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Diagrams as Vehicles of Scientific Reasoning
10-12 April 2015
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

Advance registration is appreciated, but not required.
To register, email Joe McCaffrey (jbm48@pitt.edu)

 

     Friday 

1:00

Keynote Address by Andrea Woody (University of Washington, Philosophy). The Mediating Role of Diagrammatic Representation in Chemical Reasoning

2:00

Justin Humphreys (New School for Social Research, Philosophy). Abstraction and Diagrammatic Reasoning in Aristotle’s Philosophy of Geometry

2:50

Amir Teicher (Weizmann Institute of Science, Molecular Cell Biology). Broken Lines: Visualizing Human Differences in Twentieth-Century Anthropology and Psychology

3:40

Coffee Break

4:00

Henk W. de Regt (VU University, Amsterdam, Philosophy). Feynman Diagrams as Tools for Scientific Understanding

4:50

Ben Sheredos (University of California, San Diego, Philosophy). “Six Pictures in Supplemental are Worth More than 1000 Words in Main Text” - Analysis of Circadian Biologists' Publication Practices

 

     Saturday     

8:30

Continental Breakfast

9:00

Greg Priest (Stanford University, History). Charles Darwin's "Tree of Life" Diagram as a Model of Evolutionary Processes

9:50

Miles Macleod (presenting) (University of Helsinki, Centre for Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences) and Nancy Nersessian (Harvard University, Psychology). The Cognitive Role of Diagrams in Interdisciplinary Model-building: The Case of Molecular Pathway Diagrams

10:40

Coffee Break

11:00

Thomas Shipley (presenting)(Temple University, Psychology) and Kristin Gagnier, Kinnari Atit, Carol Ormand. Sketching to Support Students in Developing Rich 3D Representations from STEM Diagrams

11:50

Keynote Address by Christian Schunn (University of Pittsburgh, Psychology & Learning and Research Development Center). When (and Why) Do Mathematical Representations Help Students Think Scientifically?

12:50

Lunch on your own

2:10

Keynote Address by Mary Hegarty (University of California Santa Barbara, Psychology).The Power of Diagrams in Science and the Challenges of Diagrams in Science Education

3:10

Ryan Tweney (Bowling Green State University, Psychology). Maxwell's Use of Diagrams: The Interplay of Mathematics and Visualization

4:00

Coffee Break

4:20

John Huss (University of Akron, Philosophy). Diagrammatic Reasoning in Paleontology

5:10

Yin Chung Au (University College London, Department of Science and Technology Studies). Synthesising Heterogeneity: a Quantitative Study of Diagrams in Apoptosis Research, 1980-2005

     

     Sunday     

8:30

Continental Breakfast

9:00

Laura Perini (Pomona College, Philosophy). Evidential Reasoning at the Limits of Depiction

9:50

Yoichi Ishida (Ohio University, Philosophy). Visual Thinking in Genetics: A Case of Genetic Maps in Seymour Benzer's Research on Genetic Fine Structure

10:40

Coffee Break

11:00

Allen Janis (University of Pittsburgh, Physics & Astronomy). Diagrams in Physics

11:50

Iulia Mihai (Ghent University, Sarton Centre for History of Science). Diagrams and Problem Solving: Taylor and Euler on the Vibrating String

12:40

Adjourn

 

Organizing Committee
William Bechtel (Chair, University of California, San Diego)
Sara Green (University of Pittsburgh)
Nicholaos Jones (University of Alabama, Huntsville)
James Lennox (University of Pittsburgh)
Nancy Nersessian (Harvard University)
Sarah Roe (Southern Connecticut State University)

Sponsor:
Center for Philosophy of Science

 

 


 
 
 
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