CFP: Dimensions of Measurement

Submission deadline: October 30, 2012

Conference date(s):
March 14, 2013 - March 16, 2013

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Conference Venue:

Universität Bielefeld
Bielefeld, Germany

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A philosophical and historical conference on "Dimensions of Measurement" will take place March 14 to 16, 2013, in Bielefeld, Germany.

Plenary speakers are Marcel Boumans, Hasok Chang, Nadine de Courtenay, Laura Dassow Walls, Michael Heidelberger, Martin Kusch, Luca Mari, Joel Michell, Mary Morgan, Simon Schaffer, and Eran Tal.

The conference will explore aspects of measurement in the natural, engineering, social, and human sciences and from a variety of philosophical perspectives with Weberian, Foucauldian, logical empiricist, phenomenological, social constructivist and other traditions converging on questions of method, of standardization, of world-making in measurement.

Submissions for individual contributions or symposia (three or four papers) are invited - see www.bicoda.info for a more detailed call for papers. Submit abstracts for individual contributions (400-500 words) or symposia (1000-1200 words) at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dom2013  

Deadline: October 30, 2012 (notifications will be sent December 1).

For further information and suggestions, contact the conference organizers Alfred Nordmann ([email protected]) and Oliver Schlaudt ([email protected]).

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