Multi-Scale Modeling in Nanoscience

Julia Bursten, Philosophy, University of Kentucky

Heuristics for Multi-Scale Modeling in Complex Systems

William Wimsatt, Philosophy, University of Minnesota

The William Morris Davis Lecture:
Scales and Subjectivity in Earth Science Modeling

A. Brad Murray, Nicholas School of the Environment; Center on Complex and Nonlinear Systems, Duke University

• Staged Reading of Émilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight by Lauren Gunderson*

  Directed by Judy Braha, College of Fine Arts, Boston University

• Panel Discussion and Talk Back

• The Evolution of Émilie Du Châtelet’s Ways of Thinking: From the Métaphysique d’Amour to a Métaphysique du Tout

  Judith Zinsser, History, Miami University, Ohio

• How Much Did She See? Du Châtelet’s Commentary on Newton’s Principia

  George Smith, Philosophy, Tufts University

• Du Châtelet and the Fight Over Metaphysics

  Ruth Hagengruber, Philosophy, Paderborn University, Germany

• Substance and Body in Du Châtelet’s Institutions de Physique

  Marius Stan, Philosophy, Boston College

• Émilie Du Châtelet & the Scope of Physics in the Early Eighteenth Century

  Andrew Janiak, Philosophy, Duke University

• Beyond the Newtonians: Du Châtelet’s Quest in her Institutions de Physique

  Katherine Brading, History & Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame

Émilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

Repetition, Variation, & Control: Historical Perspectives

Jutta Schickore, History & Philosophy of Science & Medicine, Indiana U., Bloomington

Crisis in Science: Time for Reform?

Arturo Casadevall, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Johns Hopkins

Severe Testing: The Key to Error Correction

Deborah Mayo, Philosophy, Virginia Tech

Replicate That… Maintaining a Healthy Failure Rate in Science

Stuart Firestein, Biological Sciences, Columbia

Testosterone, Gender/Sex, & Sexuality: Empirical Findings from Social Neuroendocrinology

Sari Van Anders, Psychology and Women’s Studies, U. Michigan, Ann Arbor

Racing with Steroids: How Research on Testosterone Makes Race ‘Biological’

Rebbecca Jordan-Young, Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Barnard College

Bringing Down the T-Rex: Sex, Gender & Testosterone

Cordelia Fine, Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, Australia

‘Passion-at-a-Distance’: A Defence and Celebration

Wayne Myrvold, Philosophy, Western University, Canada

Significant-Loophole-Free Test of Local Realism with Entangled Photons

Marissa Giustina, Quantum Optics, University of Vienna, Austria

Separability, Locality, & Higher Dimensions in Quantum Mechanics

Alyssa Ney, Philosophy, UC Davis

Experimental Metaphysics Beyond Bell’s Theorem

Eric Cavalcanti, Physics, Griffith University, Australia