11-12 Apr 2014
Pittsburgh PA, U.S.A.
Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation 4 (PSX4) 11-12 April 2014 Center for Philosophy of Science 817 Cathedral of Learning University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA USA For more, visit: www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr Submissions on any aspect of experiment and simulation are welcome. Deadline: January 15, 2014 Notification By: February 15, 2014 Submission Requirement: 1000-word abstract Submit through EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psx4 Accommodations: Rooms for scholars whose contributed papers are accepted will be provided for three nights. This is the fourth conference which explores the roles of experiment in science and the reasons why one experiment legitimately plays such roles. In this conference we wish to emphasize answers to the question, "What Makes a Good Experiment?" One can distinguish between conceptually important experiments, those classified by their relation to theory; testing theory, calling for a new theory etc. and technically good experiments, those that measure a quantity of scientific interest with greater accuracy and precision than had been done previously. Both types of experiment must be methodologically good, experiments that give reasoned and valid arguments for the credibility of their results. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Paula Grabowski (University of Pittsburgh) Andrea Loettgers (University of Geneva) Margaret Morrison (University of Toronto) Paolo Palmieri (University of Pittsburgh) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Allan Franklin, Chair (University of Colorado Boulder; Allan.Franklin@colorado.edu) Deborah Mayo (Virginia Tech; dmayo@vt.edu) John Norton (University of Pittsburgh; jdnorton@pitt.edu) Wendy Parker (Ohio University; Durham University; parkerw@ohio.edu) Slobodan Perovic (University of Belgrade; Perovic.Slobodan@gmail.com) Samuel Schindler (Aarhus University; samuel.schindler@ivs.au.dk) Marcel Weber (University of Geneva; Marcel.Weber@unige.ch) For any questions concerning the conference please contact Allan Franklin or any of the members of the Organizing Committee.