CfA: 3rd Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) annual workshop

We invite authors to submit abstracts (300-500 words) prepared for blind review for the upcoming 3^rd annual workshop Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe). Please, provide also information about your affiliation and contact details in the submission form. Submit your abstract via EasyChair.

 

Submission deadline: 15 February, 2021

Notification of acceptance: 01 March, 2021.

Conference dates: April 15-17, 2021

 

Keynote speakers

-       Mary Morgan (London School of Economics)

-       Soazig Le Bihan  (University of Montana)

-       Klaas Landsman (Radboud University)

 

Special Panel: Idealizations, Understanding and the Success of Science​

-       Collin Rice (Bryn Mawr College) 

-       Emily Sullivan (Eindhoven University of Technology) 

-       Christopher Pincock (Ohio State University) 

-       Kareem Khalifa (Middlebury College) 

-       Henk de Regt (Radboud University)

Conference Venue will be hybrid. In person portion will take place at:

Institute for Science in Society (ISiS), Radboud University, Huygens Building, Heyendaalseweg 135 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

The online portion will take place via some of the common platforms and all the in-person talks will be streamed online. 

We will provide links in due course.

 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.

For more information about the workshop series, go here.

Important deadlines:

February 15, 2021 – Deadline for submissions.

March 01, 2021 – Notification of acceptance.

April 15-17, 2021 – Workshop.

Local Organizing Committee

Daniel Kostic (Co-Chair), Henk de Regt (Co-Chair), Luca Consoli, Vera Jansen and Magda Speijers.