Call for abstracts
We invite authors to submit abstracts (300-500 words) prepared for blind review for the upcoming 4th annual workshop Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe). Please, provide also information about your affiliation and contact details in a separate file. Submit your abstract via EasyChair.
Submission deadline: December 15, abstracts due
Workshop dates: April 21-23, 2022
Location:
This will be a hybrid conference, partly online and partly in person.
The in-person portion will take place at Fordham University's campus in Manhattan.
Keynote speaker:
Michael Strevens (NYU)
Special panels:
(i) Author-meets-critics session featuring Michela Massimi's new book Perspectival Realism
Commentators: Catherine Elgin (Harvard) and Mauricio Suarez (Madrid)
(ii) Panel on transdisciplinary modeling organized by Peter Tan (Fordham)
Workshop description
Representations play a central role in scientists’ understanding of the world. From mathematical models to diagrams, different representations in highly varied contexts yield diverse insights across the physical, biological, and social sciences. Despite the fact that how a phenomenon is represented has far-reaching ramifications for how it is understood, the literatures on scientific understanding and scientific representation are largely independent of each other. The time is ripe to foster greater synergy between these two areas in the philosophy of science, as they face complementary problems—and hold the promise of complementary solutions.
Co-chairs of the program committee
Stephen R. Grimm (Fordham)
Peter Tan (Fordham)
SURe Steering Committee
Sorin Bangu (University of Bergen, Norway)
Cedric Brun ( University of Bordeaux Montaigne, France)
Otavio Bueno (University of Miami, USA)
Henk de Regt (Radboud University, Netherlands)
Finnur Dellsen (University of Iceland, Iceland)
Catherine Elgin (Harvard University, USA)
Roman Frigg (London School of Economics, UK)
Stephen Grimm (Fordham University, USA)
Till Grüne-Yanoff (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Kareem Khalifa (Middlebury College, USA)
Tarja Knuuttila (University of Vienna, Austria)
Daniel Kostic (Radboud University, Netherlands)
Insa Lawler (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA)
Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Mazviita Chirimuuta (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Angela Potochnik (University of Cincinnati, USA)
Collin Rice (Bryn Mawr College, USA)
Mark Risjord (Emory University, USA)
Juha Saatsi (Leeds University, UK)
Samuel Schindler (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Elay Shech (Auburn University, USA)
Mauricio Suárez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Peter Tan (Fordham University, USA)
We invite authors to submit abstracts (300-500 words) prepared for blind review for the upcoming 4th annual workshop Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe). Please, provide also information about your affiliation and contact details in a separate file. Submit your abstract via EasyChair.
Submission deadline: December 15, abstracts due
Workshop dates: April 21-23, 2022
Location:
This will be a hybrid conference, partly online and partly in person.
The in-person portion will take place at Fordham University's campus in Manhattan.
Keynote speaker:
Michael Strevens (NYU)
Special panels:
(i) Author-meets-critics session featuring Michela Massimi's new book Perspectival Realism
Commentators: Catherine Elgin (Harvard) and Mauricio Suarez (Madrid)
(ii) Panel on transdisciplinary modeling organized by Peter Tan (Fordham)
Workshop description
Representations play a central role in scientists’ understanding of the world. From mathematical models to diagrams, different representations in highly varied contexts yield diverse insights across the physical, biological, and social sciences. Despite the fact that how a phenomenon is represented has far-reaching ramifications for how it is understood, the literatures on scientific understanding and scientific representation are largely independent of each other. The time is ripe to foster greater synergy between these two areas in the philosophy of science, as they face complementary problems—and hold the promise of complementary solutions.
Co-chairs of the program committee
Stephen R. Grimm (Fordham)
Peter Tan (Fordham)
SURe Steering Committee
Sorin Bangu (University of Bergen, Norway)
Cedric Brun ( University of Bordeaux Montaigne, France)
Otavio Bueno (University of Miami, USA)
Henk de Regt (Radboud University, Netherlands)
Finnur Dellsen (University of Iceland, Iceland)
Catherine Elgin (Harvard University, USA)
Roman Frigg (London School of Economics, UK)
Stephen Grimm (Fordham University, USA)
Till Grüne-Yanoff (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Kareem Khalifa (Middlebury College, USA)
Tarja Knuuttila (University of Vienna, Austria)
Daniel Kostic (Radboud University, Netherlands)
Insa Lawler (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA)
Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Mazviita Chirimuuta (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Angela Potochnik (University of Cincinnati, USA)
Collin Rice (Bryn Mawr College, USA)
Mark Risjord (Emory University, USA)
Juha Saatsi (Leeds University, UK)
Samuel Schindler (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Elay Shech (Auburn University, USA)
Mauricio Suárez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Peter Tan (Fordham University, USA)