MERCREDI 27 JUIN 2018
8:15 – 8:45 Café d'accueil et inscription
8:45 – 9:00 Introduction
Nadine de Courtenay, Fabien Grégis, Christine Proust & le comité d'organisation
9:00 – 10:30 Conférence plénière 1
- Eran Tal (McGill University): Measurement, Prediction and Coherence
Présidence de séance : Fabien Grégis (Tel Aviv University)
Salle: Amphithéâtre 310 (École nationale supérieure d'architecture Paris-Val de Seine)
10:30 – 11:00 Pause café
11:00 – 13:00 Sessions parallèles (A)
Session 1 (symposium): Computation and measurement at the Large Hadron Collider: managing complexity in high energy physics experiments
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- Sophie Ritson (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt): Measurement and machine learning at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC): the Higgs self-coupling as a case study
- Florian Boge (Bergische Universität Wuppertal): How to infer from simulated measurements?
- Paul Grünke (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie): The epistemic status of experimental measurements involving computer simulations
Présidence de séance: Thomas Coudreau (University Paris Diderot)
Salle: Luc Valentin 454A
Session 2: Historical foundations of the philosophy of measurement
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- Michael Heidelberger (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen): Ernst Mach's theory of measurement
- Francesca Biagioli (University of Vienna): Hermann von Helmholtz and the quantification problem of psychophysics
- Pablo Acuña (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso): Measuring the epistemology of geometry
Présidence de séance: Nadine de Courtenay (University Paris Diderot)
Room: Malevitch 483A
Session 3: Standardization at issue
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- Aashish Velkar (University of Manchester):The Cultural and economic consequences of global metrological standardisation
- Rebecca Jackson (Indiana University): “The Uncertain method of drops”: How a non-uniform fluid unit survived the century of standardization
- Edward Gillin (University of Cambridge): Mathematicians, musicians, and the measurement of musical pitch in mid-Victorian Britain
Présidence de séance: Youna Tonnerre (Université de Rennes 1 & Université Paris Diderot)
Room: Mondrian 646A
13:00 – 14:30 Pause déjeuner – Restaurant
14:30 – 16:30 Sessions parallèles (B)
Session 4: Measurement, intersubjectivity and trust
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- Andrew Maul (University of California, Santa Barbara), Luca Mari (Università Cattaneo), Mark Wilson (University of California, Berkeley): Intersubjectivity of measurement across the sciences: Unit definition and dissemination
- Rafael Lattanzi Vaz (National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology, Brazil): Metrological traceability and the bridge between reliability and trust
- Florence Hsia (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Measuring a Chinese eclipse
Présidence de séance: Fabien Grégis (Tel Aviv University)
Room: Luc Valentin 454A
Session 5: Revisiting the coordination problem
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- Rick Shang (Washington University in St Louis): Does the Coordination Problem Exist: Measurement in neuroimaging
- Tzur Karelitz (National Institute for Testing and Evaluation), Charles Secolsky (Rockland Community College), Thomas Judd (United States Military Academy): The Evolution of face validity from inception to reinstatement
- William P. Fisher, Jr. (University of California, Berkeley): Blending objectivity and subjectivity in measurement: Benjamin Wright's personal approach to learning
Présidence de séance: Francesca Biagioli (University of Vienna)
Room: Malevitch 483A
Session 6: Measurement, social norms, and public health policies
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- Moran Levy, Gil Eyal (Columbia University): Politicizing imprecision
- Marion Boulicault (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Gender and the measurement of fertility: a case study in critical metrology
- Nicolas Rasmussen (University of New South Wales, Sydney): Measuring fatness and its hazards: Precision adipometry versus a 1950s public health campaign against obesity
Présidence de séance: Claude-Olivier Doron (University Paris Diderot)
Room: Mondrian 646A
16:30 – 17:00 Pause café
17:00 – 18:30 Table ronde : Towards a New International System of Units
- Christian Bordé (Académie des sciences, CNRS)
- Richard Davis (Bureau International des Poids et Mesures)
- Marc Himbert (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers)
- Estefania de Mirandés (Bureau International des Poids et Mesures)
- François Piquemal (Laboratoire National de métrologie et d'Essais)
- Eran Tal (Université McGill)
Présidence de séance : Thomas Coudreau (Université Paris Diderot)
Amphithéâtre 310 (ENSA Paris-Val de Seine)
18:30 Cocktail
Amphithéâtre 310 (ENSA Paris-Val de Seine)
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9:00 – 10:30 Conférence plénière 2
- Wendy Parker (Durham University): Measuring via computer simulation?
Présidence de séance: Nadine de Courtenay (Université Paris Diderot)
Amphithéâtre 310 (ENSA Paris-Val de Seine)
10:30 – 11:00 Pause café
11:00 – 13:00 Sessions parallèles (C)
Session 7: Investigating models of social measurement
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- Leslie Pendrill (Research institutes of Sweden), Stefan Cano (Modus Outcomes), Theresa Köbe (Charité - University Medicine Berlin), Jeanette Melin (Research institutes of Sweden), Ariane Fillmer (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt): Restitution of ability and difficulty from decision-making: the metrology of human-based perceptions
- David Andrich (The University of Western Australia): The Gaussian distribution as a culmination of the Rasch measurement theory of invariance
- A. Jan Kutylowski (University of Oslo): Measurement and modelling of categorical variables in the socio-sciences: a comparison of traditional and modern approaches, with prospects for the future
Présidence de séance: Alain Leplège (University Paris Diderot)
Salle: Amphithéâtre 310 (ENSA Paris-Val de Seine)
Session 8: The Making of instruments and standards of measurement
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- Liqun Zhou (Beijing Foreign Studies University & Needham Research Institute, Cambridge): A DIY water clock (Clepsydra) from a Chinese text of Yuan dynasty
- Dieter Hoffmann (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte): Wilhelm Kösters (1876–1950) and the development of a new standard of length based on the wavelength of light
- Eckhard Wallis (Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu - Paris Rive Gauche): Making clocks – Research at the Laboratoire de l'Horloge Atomique during the 1960s
Présidence de séance: Jan Lacki (Université de Genève)
Salle: Luc Valentin 454A
Session 9: Managing data: Three studies
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- Chris Partridge, Sergio De Cesare, David Leal, Mesbah Khan, Hayden Atkinson (University of Westminster), Andrew Mitchell: Explaining measurements to machines
- Jean-Baptiste Grodwohl (University of Cambridge): Measuring natural selection in population genetics
- Jean-Pierre Llored (Université Paris Diderot): Investigating measurement: The Case of chemical metrology
Présidence de séance: Sarah Hijmans (University Paris Diderot)
Salle: Malevitch 483A
Session 10: Measurement practices: from state regulation to mathematical guidance
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- Carlos Gonçalves (University of São Paulo): Measurement in an ancient Mesopotamian oan archive
- Guy Sechrist (University of Cambridge): “False measures”: Seventeenth-century English gauging instruments and legitimizing English excise
- Jennifer Egloff (Zayed University): Artisans' resistance to geometrical measurement techniques in the Early Modern English Atlantic: Challenging the persistent notion of linear change in mathematics
Présidence de séance: Christine Proust (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Salle: Mondrian 646A
13:00 – 14:30 Pause déjeuner – buffet
Amphithéatre 310 (ENSA Paris-Val de Seine)
14:30 – 16:30 Parallel sessions (D)
Session 11: Theory dependence, models and idealization in measurement
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- Kent Staley (Saint Louis University): An Epistemological function for systematic uncertainty in measurements in high energy physics
- Alessandro Giordani (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano), Luca Mari (Università Cattaneo): On theory dependence of truth in measurement
- Qiu Lin (Duke University): Idealization and Measurement: A Comparative case study
- Roman Zdzislaw Morawski (Warsaw University of Technology): Measurement as abduction
Présidence de séance: Theodore Porter (University of California, Los Angeles)
Salle: Amphithéâtre 310 (ENSA Paris-Val de Seine)
Panel 12: Errors of measurement in historical perspective
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- Robert Middeke-Conlin (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science): The limits of measured value in Ancient Mesopotamia
- George Borg (University of Pittsburgh): Accentuating the Positive: Observation and measurement in Kepler’s optics
- Maarten Bullynck (Université Paris VIII & SPHERE laboratory): The fine distinctions of error. Getting knowledgeable about errors at the crossroads of theory, instrument and observation
Chair: Giora Hon (University of Haifa)
Room: Luc Valentin 454A
Session 13: Measurement issues in the life sciences
- Maria Estela Jardim, Nádia Jardim (University of Lisbon): Measuring body functions at the turn of the 19th Century through serial photography and cinema.
- Caterina Schuerch (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): Quantification – the key to understanding physiological processes
- Daniel Ott (University of Cambridge): Can pain be measured? Emerging technologies, epistemological uncertainty, and pragmatic realism
Présidence de séance: Céline Lefève (University Paris Diderot)
Salle: Mondrian 646A
16:30 – 17:00 Pause café
17:00 – 18:30 Conférence plénière 3
- Karine Chemla (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique): Quantities, standards, measurement and computation. Views from mathematical sources from the ancient world
Présidence de séance: Christine Proust (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Amphithéâtre 310 (ENSA Paris-Val de Seine)
21:00 Dîner
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9:00 – 11:00 Sessions parallèles (E)
Session 14 (symposium): The measurement of non-quantitative properties in the human sciences
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- Joshua McGrane (University of Oxford): An inclusive conception of measurement for the human sciences minus the philosophical baggage
- Trisha Nowland (Macquarie University):Rough Set Theory for psychometric research: A modest proposal
- Alex Scharaschkin (University of Oxford): Measurement without quantification? The case of educational assessment
Présidence de séance: Mark Wilson (University of California, Berkeley)
Salle: Luc Valentin 454A
Session 15: Reconsidering the Representational theory of measurement
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- Matthias Neuber (University of Tübingen): Helmholtz, Kaila, and the Representational theory of measurement
- Jean Baccelli (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy): Beyond the metrological viewpoint
- Pierre Uzan (SPHERE laboratory): From measurement-representation to measurement as a semantic act
Présidence de séance: Michael Heidelberger (University of Tübingen)
Room: Malevitch 483A
Panel 16: Constructing measurement: quantifications, institutions, and numerical notations
- Daniel Jon Mitchell (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen): The Second quantification of physics
- Frans Van Lunteren (Vrije Universiteit): The International Bureau of Weights and Measures and the politics of science
- Qiu Gaoxing (China Jiliang University): Imperial notation and Bodhisattva notation - Illustrated by the example of Avatamsaka Sutra
Chair: Nadine de Courtenay (University Paris Diderot)
Room: Mondrian 483A
11:00 – 11:30 Pause café
11:30 – 13:00 Conférence plénière 4
- Oliver Schlaudt (University of Heidelberg): “Who is there that doesn't calculate?” The homo economicus as a measuring instrument
Présidence de séance: Emmanuel Didier (ENS & CNRS & EHESS)
Amphithéâtre 310 (ENSA Paris-Val de Seine)
