Measurement Across the Sciences

Keynote speakers:
Denny Borsboom, Psychology Department, University of Amsterdam
Judah Levine, National Institute of Standards (Time and Frequency Division) & Department of Physics, University of Colorado
Paul Teller, Philosophy Department, UC Davis

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1

3:30pm Keynote, VAC Auditorium

• Paul Teller (Philosophy, UC Davis) "Traditional measurement accuracy realism"

5:00pm Keynote, VAC Auditorium

• Judah Levine (Physics, CU Boulder & NIST) "The definition of a time scale and the measurement of time: Is frequency or time the more fundamental parameter?"

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2

9:00am Plenary, HUMN 250

• Roger Bilham (Geology, CU Boulder) "The Princess and the Pea: why earthquake prediction may for ever elude us." (coffee afterwards)

10:30am Physical Science Session, HUMN 250

• (10:30) Alan Lester (Geology, CU Boulder) "Measuring the age of the Earth: the rise of quantification, mechanical philosophy, and the discovery of deep time"
• (11:10) Katherine Dunlop (Philosophy, Texas) "Presuppositions of measurement and the metaphysics of space and time in Newton'sPrincipia"
• (11:50) Raja Panjwani (Philosophy, Oxford) "What quantum measurement problem?"

12:30pm Lunch

2:00pm Issues in Measurement, HUMN 250

• (2:00) Rob Knight (Chem/Biochem., CU Boulder) "Measuring the kinds of microbes, and the microbial communities they form"
• (2:40) Eran Tal (Philosophy, Bielefeld) "Measurement uncertainty and modeling uncertainty: towards a unified account"
• (3:20) Kent Johnson (Philosophy, UC Irvine) "Underdetermination as measurement uniqueness: an example with the factor analysis model"

4:00pm Coffee Break, HUMN 150

4:20pm Keynote, HUMN 250

• Denny Borsboom (Psychology, Amsterdam) "A science in search of its subject: How psychometric theories of measurement have shaped, strengthened, and shortchanged psychology"

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 3

9:00am Plenary, HUMN 250

• Andrew Maul (Education, CU Boulder) "Defining 'measurement'" (coffee afterwards)

10:30am Social Science Session I, HUMN 250

• (10:30) Mark Wilson (Education, UC Berkeley) "Relating psychometric approaches to measurement with the concepts of measurement system, standard reference set, and pre-measurement"
• (11:10) Joshua McGrane (Edu., W. Australia) "The evolution of the concept of scientific measurement"
• (11:50) Sergio Gallegos (Phil., MSU Denver) "Measurement as location in logical space: a defense of Van Fraassen"

12:30pm Lunch

2:00pm Social Science Session II, HUMN 250

• (2:00) Johanna Wolff (Philosophy, Hong Kong) "Is there anything operationalism got right?"
• (2:40) Luciana Garbayo (Philosophy, El Paso) "Descriptive and normative dimensions of population health metrics: a philosophical reappraisal of the global burden of disease."
• (3:20) Alistair Isaac (Philosophy, Pennsylvania) "The determination and significance of dimensionality in psychophysical measurement"

To register or ask questions, please contact [email protected].