Conference announcement:
CRITICAL
INTERPRETATION IN SCIENCE
SUNY-Stony Brook, June
8-10 2000
The Science Studies
Forum and the
International Society
for Hermeneutics and Science
will host a conference
on
"Critical Interpretation
in Science"
at SUNY-Stony Brook
June 8-10 2000.
This international conference
will bring together principals from multiple disciplines - philosophy,
the social sciences, and the sciences - who have worked with hermeneutic
theories in relation to the sciences.
Topics will include:
a.) the role of critical
interpretation in science practice, such as imaging processes;
b.) the role of critical
interpretation comparing both scientific and humanistic practices; and
c.) the role of critical
interpretation between perspectives brought to bear on major social and
political problems involving a scientific dimension.
Participants
include Peter Gallison (History of Science, Harvard), Graeme
Gooday (History and
Philosophy of Science, Leeds, UK), Stig Anders Pedersen
(History and Philosophy
of Science, Roskilde, DK), Hans Radder (Philosophy
of Science, Amsterdam,
NL), Gunther Stent (university of California,
Berkeley).
Stony Brook's Science
Studies Forum is an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the social
sciences and the humanities with research interests in the sciences.
The International
Society for Hermeneutics and Science is a group of scholars seeking
to explore the role of hermeneutics in the sciences. Hermeneurics involves
the study of how knowledge evolves from, while simultaneously transforming,
historically-inherited assumptions, as well as with the distinctive modes
of argument, contestation, and interpretations found in various disciplines
and communities.
Travel And Accommodation:
Both campus residence halls
and hotel accommodations are available.
Stony Brook can be reached
from New York City via the Long Island Railroad, or by plane
from Islip airport.
Further information on travel
and accommodations will be
sent at a later date.
The Organizing Committee
is:
Bob Crease (Stony Brook),
Don Ihde (StonyBrook),
Bart Gremmen (Wageningen,
NL), and
Laszlo Ropolyi (Budapest,
HU).
Paper submissions
should be sent to:
Bob Crease or Don Ihde at
the
Department of Philosophy,
213 Harriman Hall,
SUNY, Stony Brook
NY 11794.
General inquiries and
requests to be put on the mailing list should be directed to
Bob Crease (rcrease@notes.cc.sunysb.edu)
or
Don Ihde (dihde@notes.cc.sunysb.edu)
Questions about housing,
directions to campus, etc., should be directed to
Arlene Skala at the Office
of Conferences and Special Events at
askala@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
or at 516 632 6320.