[PhilPhys] CFP: Epistemology of Modeling & Simulation

[Center for Philosophy of Science]

Epistemology of Modeling & Simulation: Building Research Bridges between the
Philosophical and Modeling Communities

University of Pittsburgh
1-3 April 2011

Hosted by the Center for Philosophy of Science and the University of
Pittsburgh MIDAS National Center for Excellence in the Graduate School for
Public Health

The conference will focus on philosophical issues that arise within the
practice and application of contemporary research using modeling and
simulation.  The goal is to bring together sophisticated work in philosophy
of science and on-going efforts in modeling in order to build more effective
collaboration between philosophers of science and those who build and employ
models in a range of disciplines and applications.

Topics will include:
        The scientific status of computational techniques
        Does simulation require a new epistemology?
        The role of theory, experiment, model and simulation
        Varieties and purposes of scientific simulation
        Analytic modeling versus computer simulation
        Problems in juggling multiple and competing models
        How do models fail?
        Validation and verification of models and simulations
        Promises and pitfalls of large, detailed, and realistic models
        Modeling, science, and policy

::: Call for Presentations:  www.modelingepistemology.pitt.edu/

Co-Directors:  Patrick Grim and Nicholas Rescher

Program Committee:  Mark Bedau, Joshua Epstein, John Grefenstete, Ross
Hammond, Paul Humphreys, James G. Lennox, Marc Lipsitch, Sandra Mitchell,
Ryan Muldoon, John D. Norton, Scott Page, Susan Sterrett, Bas van Fraassen,
Michael Weisberg, and Kevin Zollman

For additional information on MIDAS, go to: www.midas.pitt.edu .

Contacts:
Patrick Grim, Philosophy, Stony Brook. Email: pgrim at notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Dr. Phillip Palmer, MIDAS Education & Outreach Coordinator, Email:
php9 at pitt.edu, Phone: (412) 624-6957



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