Conference: The Making of Measurement, Cambridge, 23-24 July 2015
Registration is now open for The Making of Measurement,
an international conference to be held at the University of Cambridge on 23-24
July 2015.
The Making of Measurement is an interdisciplinary
conference that seeks to consolidate an emerging international community of
scholars interested in the history and/or philosophy of measurement. This new
wave of scholarship is still in an embryonic stage and no general conceptual
frameworks or schools of thought have yet emerged.
Inevitably, tensions exist between
methodologically-diverse approaches across the fields of philosophy, history,
and sociology of science, particularly with respect to whether measurement
outcomes reflect facts about nature, or about human tools and concepts. Hence
the goal of this conference to bring together scholars to review recent
advances and to identify key issues for further development. This decade is
also seeing dramatic changes in the metric system because four scientific units
are being redefined in terms of fundamental constants; the contemporary
relevance of a systematic approach in the humanities to the study of
measurement is therefore particularly strong.
Keynote speakers are:
Nancy Cartwright, Durham University
Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds
Terry Quinn, International Bureau of Weights and Measures
For more information and to register please visit the
conference
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With best wishes,
Daniel Mitchell
Eran Tal
Hasok Chang