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::: center home >> events >> conferences >> 2017-18 >>LEAHPS

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

(Schedule subject to change. Please check back for updates.)

Friday, April 6

8:30

Breakfast

9:00

Welcome by Colin Allen

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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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