Learning From Empirical Approaches to HPS
April 6 - 7, 2018
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA
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PROGRAM
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Friday, April 6
8:30 |
Breakfast |
9:00 |
Welcome by Colin Allen |
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Session 1 |
9:10 |
Vitaly Pronskikh (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
“How Proto-megascience Evolved at NAL: An Empirical Study” |
9:55 |
Miles MacLeod (University of Twente)
“Meeting in the Middle: Adapting Qualitative Methods to Philosophical Questions” |
10:40 |
Chad Gonnerman (University of Southern Indiana) [w/Itai Bavli (University of British Columbia), Aaron McCright (Michigan State University), and Daniel Steel (University of British Columbia)]
“Gender and Scientists’ Views about the Value-Free Ideal” |
11:25 |
Coffee Break |
11:50 |
Keynote: Nancy Nersessian (Harvard University, Georgia Institute of Technology)
"Modeling Dynamics: Cognitive ethnography of pioneering research labs" |
1:05 |
Lunch on your own |
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Session 2 |
2:15 |
Hakob Barseghyan (University of Toronto) [w/Gregory Rupik (Free University of Berlin)]
"Empirical HPS: Scientonomy as a Missing Link” |
3:00 |
Evelyn Brister (Rochester Institute of Technology) and Phillip Honenberger (University of Pittsburgh)
“Text Analysis of Contributor Sections and the Collaborative Dynamics of Research Teams” |
3:45 |
Catherine Herfeld (University of Zurich) [w/Malte Doehne (University of Zurich)]
“What Empirical Network Analysis Could Offer to Research in Integrated HPS” |
4:30 |
Coffee Break |
4:50 |
Keynote 2: Paul Thagard (University of Waterloo)
"Medical Inference: Using Computer Modeling to Explain Mental Health Assessment and Epidemiological Reasoning" |
6:05 |
Adjourn |
Saturday, April 7
8:30 |
Breakfast |
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Session 3 |
9:00 |
Jessey Wright (Stanford University)
“Towards a Participatory Approach to Philosophy of Science” |
9:45 |
Caleb Hazelwood (Georgia State University)
“Navigating a Plurality of Ontological Thresholds in Practice-based Theories of Natural Kinds” |
10:30 |
Rebecca Hardesty (University of California, San Diego)
“Getting Serious About Model Description: Grounding Analytical Categories in Material Practice” |
11:15 |
Coffee Break & Poster Session |
1:00 |
Lunch on your own |
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Session 4 |
2:15 |
Michael O'Rourke (Michigan State University)[w/ Stephen Crowley (Boise State University), Chad Gonnerman (University of Southern Indiana), Michael O'Rourke (Michigan State University), and Brian Robinson (Texas A&M University)]
“Micro-integration and Interdisciplinary Negotiation: Lessons from The Toolbox Dialogue Initiative” |
3:00 |
Nora Hangel (Indiana University, Bloomington)
“Analyzing Epistemic and Methodological Dimensions in Interviews with Scientists Talking about Challenges in their Day-to-day Research Practice” |
3:45 |
Stefan Linquist (University of Guelph)
“Testing Rival Models of Cultural Evolution with large Sets of Ethnographic Data” |
4:30 |
Coffee Break |
4:50 |
Keynote 3: John Bickle (Mississippi State University, University of Mississippi Medical Center) "Philosophers in Wet Labs, Doing Metascience" |
6:05 |
Adjourn |
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