[PhilPhys] CFP: Diagrams as Vehicles of Scientific Reasoning

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CFP:  Diagrams as Vehicles of Scientific Reasoning
 
This interdisciplinary workshop seeks to expand our understanding of the ways in which diagrams contribute to scientific reasoning through analysis of diagrams used in actual scientific research and theoretical accounts and experimental investigations of the ways scientists construct or reason with diagrams.  Keynote speakers will be Nancy Nersessian, Mary Hegarty, Christian Schunn, and Andrea Woody.

 The workshop will be held April 10-12, 2015 at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh.

 Call for papers can be found on the Center for Philosophy of Science Website:    www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr

 Organizing Committee:  William Bechtel (Chair), Sara Green, Nicholaos Jones, James Lennox, Nancy Nersessian, and Sarah Roe.

 Questions can be directed to William Bechtel (bechtel at ucsd.edu).