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Extended deadline for submission OF CONTRIBUTED PAPERS*: February 1\, 2013

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*Accommodation costs will be covered for accepted papers. \;

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o How do scientists&rsquo\; initial conjectures about the entities and processes under their scrutiny influence the choice of variables\, the structure of mature scientific theories\, and methods of interpretation of those theories?

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o How do methods of data generation\, statistical modeling\, and analysis influence the construction and appraisal of theories at multiple levels?

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o How does historical analysis of the development of scientific theories illuminate the interplay between scientific methodology\, theory building\, and the interpretation of scientific theories?

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This conference brings together prominent philosophers of science\, biology\, cognitive science\, causation\, economics\, and physics with philosophically minded scientists engaged in research into these interconnected methodological and ontological questions.

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We invite contributed papers that illuminate these issues as they arise in general philosophy of science\, in causal explanation and modeling\, in the philosophy of experiment and statistics\, and in the history and philosophy of science.

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For further information on submitting a \;paper \;or \;extended abstract\, please visit the conference website: \;http://www.ratiocination.org/OM2013/.

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Organizers: Benjamin Jantzen\, Deborah Mayo\, Lydia Patton

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