PapersHere is a selection of my papers, by topic: -- Dimensions & Metrology, -- Models & Similar Systems; -- Philosophy of Natural & Artificial Intelligence; -- HIstory of Science; and -- Science & Technology in Milieu of Early Wittgenstein. A more comprehensive, chronologically ordered list of publications may be found on my cv. There is a "Download CV' button. on the 'HOME' page. DIMENSIONS & METROLOGY "Theory of Dimensions" in Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Physics, edited by Alastair Wilson and Eleanor Knox, 2021. Preprint: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/14093/ "Relations Between Units and Relations Between Quantities" accepted to special issue of JGPS (Journal for the General Philosophy of Science) but editors of special issue instead published the accepted papers in this anthology https://www.routledge.com/The-Reform-of-the-International-System-of-Units-SI-Philosophical-Historical/De-Courtenay-Darrigol-Schlaudt/p/book/9781138483859. Preprint available here: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/157867902.pdf Poster associated with paper: sterrettroleofbasicunitsposterfrompptemplate.pptx MODELS & SIMILAR SYSTEMS Sanchez-Dorado, Julia and Susan G Sterrett, "The meandering epistemic status of river models in American hydraulics (1922-1949)". forthcoming; Submitted to ISIS; accepted subject to revisions. "How Mathematics Figures Differently in Exact Solutions, Simulations, and Physical Models" in Working Towards Solutions in Fluid Dynamics and Astrophysics: What the Equations Don't Say. Springer Briefs in History of Science and Technology. April 2023 "Scale Modeling" (Chapter 32 of Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Engineering, (forthcoming), edited by Diane Michelfelder and Neelke Dorn. ) "The morals of model-making", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Part A, Volume 46, June 2014, Pages 31-45. (Special issue: Values and Norms in Modeling the Progress of Science) Published open access in SHPS. "Experimentation on Analogue Models." Contribution to Springer anthology Model-Based Science (Invited by area editor for Physics). Preprint available at the Philosophy of Science archive: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/11492/ As published: Experimentation on Analogue Models Anthology on Springer website: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319305257 "Physically Similar Systems: a history of the concept." Contribution to Springer anthology Model-Based Science (Invited by area editor for Model-based reasoning in science and history of science ). Preprint: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/11352/ As published: Physically Similar Systems - Anthology on Springer website: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319305257 "Similarity and Dimensional Analysis" Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Volume 9: Philosophy of Technology and the Engineering Sciences, ed. by Anthonie Meijers (Series editors: Dov Gabbay, Paul Thagard, and John Woods). pp. 799 – 824. preprint: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/4474/ "Physical Models and Fundamental Laws: Using One Piece of the World to Tell About Another" Mind and Society 5, 2002, Vol. 3, pp. 51-66. preprint: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/720/ "Models of Machines and Models of Phenomena." International Studies in the Philosophy of Science Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 69-80. preprint: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/2245/ "Kinds of Models" (Based on a contribution to a panel discussion: STS Interdisciplinary Roundtable: “The Multiple Meanings of Models” March 20, 2003, John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, Durham NC) preprint: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/2363/1/SterrettKindsOfModelsArchive.pdf philsci-archive.pitt.edu/2363/1/SterrettKindsOfModelsArchive.pdf PHILOSOPHY OF NATURAL & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Sterrett, S. G. (2020) “The Genius of the 'Original Imitation Game' Test” Minds & Machines, 30, 469-486 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-020-09543-6 link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11023-020-09543-6 "Turing on the integration of human and machine intelligence." Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science series, ed. by Juliet Floyd and Alisa Bokulich, to commemorate 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth.) Preprint: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/10316/. - Anthology on Springer website: www.springer.com/us/book/9783319532783#otherversion=9783319532806 "Bringing Up Turing's Child-Machine" in How the World Computes, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2012, Volume 7318/2012, 703 - 713. preprint: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/9085/ "Too Many Instincts: Contrasting Philosophical Views on Intelligence in Humans and Non-Humans", JETAI (Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence), Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 39 - 60. pdf "Nested Algorithms and ‘The Original Imitation Game Test’: A Reply to James Moor" Minds and Machines, Vol. 12, pp. 131-136 "Turing’s Two Tests for Intelligence" Minds and Machines, Vol. 10, pp. 541-559. pdf HISTORY OF SCIENCE "Mach on Analogy in Science" in Interpreting Mach: Critical Essays, edited by John Preston. Cambridge University Press. (2021) www.cambridge.org/core/books/interpreting-mach/mach-on-analogy-in-science/0B863CB41A4BE4BA86CF50020250F599 "Darwin’s analogy between artificial and natural selection: how does it go?" Studies in History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Vol. 33, pp. 151-168. 2002 Darwinpdf "Sounds Like Light: Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity and Mach’s Work on Acoustics and Aerodynamics." Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Vol. 29, pp. 1 - 35. 1998 SLLpdf SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY IN MILIEU OF THE EARLY WITTGENSTEIN Sterrett, S. G. " 'Found Objects' in Wittgenstein" 100 Years of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus — 70 Years after Wittgenstein’s Death. A Critical Assessment. Proceedings of the 44th International Wittgenstein Society, edited by Esther Heinrich-Ramharter, Alois Pichler, and Friedrich Stadler * Sterrett, S. G. (2023) "Pictures, Models & Measures" in Schweitzer, Radmila (Ed.) Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Odyssey: the Great War and the writing of the Tractatus LogicoPhilosophicus. Los Angeles, CA: DoppelHouse Press. Co-published with The Wittgenstein Initiative. "The Physics of Miniature Worlds" sterrett2020chapterphysicsofminiatureworlds.pdf chapter from book Wittgenstein Flies A Kite: A Story of Models of Wings and Models of the World. "Pictures, Models, and Measures" in Belgrade Philosophical Annual, Volume 30 2017. p 99 - 137. (OPEN ACCESS) http://www.f.bg.ac.rs/bpa/read-online.html Also featured at the Exhibition DIE TRACTATUS ODYSEE Ausstellung in Vienna 16 October 2018 - 30 November 2018. in an abridged version, which is published in the exhibition catalogue. http://wittgenstein-initiative.com/news/ "Pictures of Sound: Wittgenstein on Gramophone Records and the Logic of Depiction." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 36, pp. 351-362. preprint: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/2019/ "Physical Pictures: Engineering Models circa 1914 and in Wittgenstein's Tractatus" Presented July 2000 Vienna, Austria. Published in History and Philosophy of Science: New Trends and Perspectives, ed. by Michael Heidelberger and Friedrich Stadler (Vienna Institute Yearbook 2001/9), Kluwer Academic, 2002. (preprint of longer lecture based on paper, includes timeline: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/661/ ) |
Books
Here I list three book-length works, each of which is a separate endeavor: a book I authored, a textbook I co-authored, and my dissertation.
Wittgenstein Flies A Kite: A Story of Models of Wings and Models of the World. Pi Press (Imprint of Penguin), 2006 _Flyer About Book Interview about book (on website) :(Interview - pdf) Three Views of Logic: Mathematics, Philosophy, and Computer Science. Princeton University Press, 2014. Review in MAA Reviews Review in CHOICE How Beliefs Make a Difference. UMI Dissertations, 1999. http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/9372/ Book Reviews WAGONER, BRADY. The Constructive Mind: Bartlett’s Psychology in Reproduction. [REVIEW]S. G. Sterrett - 2021 - Memory Studies 14 (1):112-115. Readers who’ve wished to know more about the genesis of Remembering: a study in experimental and social psychology (Bartlett, 1932), will find in Brady Wagoner’s The Constructive Mind a treasure trove. Remembering was originally published in 1932, and is probably Frederic Bartlett’s most well known work today. Wagoner does not focus on Bartlett’s contributions to memory studies, though, but on the promise that Bartlett’s work holds for the field of psychology today, especially the study of thinking. Daniela Bailer-Jones. Scientific Models in Philosophy of Science. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. Pp. 248. $45.95. [REVIEW]S. G. Sterrett - 2013 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 3 (2):334-337. POTTER, M.-Reason's Nearest Kin. [REVIEW]S. G. Sterrett - 2003 - Philosophical Books 44 (3):294-296. |
Slides, Talks & Miscellany
SOME PAST TALKS
"Wittgenstein and Metrology", invited contribution to session entitled "Science in the Early Wittgenstein" sponsored by SSHAP (Society for the Study of the History of Analytic Philosophy) at the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, to be held in San Francisco, CA from April 16-19, 2025. (Invited) "The role of the fabulous in history of science", &HPS10 Conference to be held at Caltech, Pasadena, California, March 27-29th, 2025. (Highly refereed) "Mach on Analogy Between Systems of Concepts", New Directions in Analogical Reasoning Workshop, a virtual workshop organized by Department of Philosophy, University of Irvine, Irvine, CA. November 5th, 2024 "AI : Misconceptions, Limitations, Concerns", Talk to Wichita Humanist Society. First Unitarian Universalist Church, Wichita, Kansas. Presented in-Person. November 19th, 2023. " 'Found Objects' in Wittgenstein" International Wittgenstein Symposium Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria "100 Years of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus — 70 Years after Wittgenstein’s Death. A Critical Assessment." August 10, 2023 "How Mathematics Figures Differently in Exact Solutions, Simulations, and Physical Models" Midwest Philosophy of Mathematics Workshop, Notre Dame University, October 2022 "Science & Bias" (for general audience, part of Wichita State's Perspectives series). May 5, 2021. https://youtu.be/tiGR3utW4ek youtu.be/tiGR3utW4ek Commentary on "What Caused the Bhopal Disaster?" The Philosophical Importance of Pragmatic Details" by Brian Hanley, in Symposium Session on Environmental Disaster and Pragmatic Details, 2019 Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Denver, Colorado, February 20 - 23, 2019. "The Constructal Law in Historical Perspective" at Constructal Law and Second Law Conference, at University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil., March 11 - 13, 2019. (cancelled due to personal reasons) "Models and Similarity: A Matter of Psychology or a Matter of Physics?" Dept of Philosophy, University of Alabama, Birmingham, January 10, 2019 "Analogy in Science" Jemison Visiting Professorship Lecture at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. January 11, 2019. "The Genius of the 'Original Imitation Game' Test." (Invited Keynote) at "Rethinking, Reworking, and Revolutionising the Turing Test: Interdisciplinary Conference 2018", University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. November 15th & 16th, 2018. https://turingtest2018.wordpress.com/ "The Role of Basic Units in a System of Units" (Poster) at PSA2018 (Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting) November 2, 2018 sterrettroleofbasicunitsposterfrompptemplate.pptx "Analogous Principles: The Use of Analogy in the Work of Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, and Alan Turing" (invited) at UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico. September 11, 2018 "Scale Models, Invariants, and Similarity" 8th Models and Simulation Conference (MS8), March 15th-17th, 2018 "Does it take a Village to Train a Computer?" (invited) 'Ethics, Computing, and Artificial Intelligence" conference at Dartmouth College, November 14-15th, 2017. https://philosophy.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=48611#.W022yOlnlUQ "The Future of the Constructal Theory in Historical Perspective: Intimations of the 'Unity of Truth'" Franklin Institute Awards Symposium, The Inn at Villanova University, April 18th, 2018 (Invited) https://constructal.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/villanova-symposium.pdf "Schema, Perception and Memory in Social Interaction" [2017 Version] Department of Philosophy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. September 29, 2017. "Experimentation on Analogue Models" SPSP (Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice) 2016. June 17th - 19th, 2016 Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ http://www.philosophy-science-practice.org/en/events/sixth-spsp-glassboro-nj-2016/ SPSP 2016 "Disciplining Little Models" HOPOS (History of Philosophy of Science) 2016. June 23rd - 25th, 2016. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. http://hopos2016.umn.edu/welcome "The Use of Analogy in the Works of Darwin, Einstein, and Turing" 8th Quadrennial International Fellows Conference, July 11th - 13th, Lund, Sweden. This paper is constantly being revised and expanded; a later version was presented at the College of Charleston, Charleston, SC. in March 2018, and an updated version will be presented in Mexico City in September 2018. TALKS - selected online resources "Experimentation on Analogues", PSX3 (Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation III), Department of Physics, University of Boulder Campus, Boulder, Colorado. October 5 - 6, 2012. Slides available: SlidesBoulderTalk "Frege and Hilbert on the Foundations of Geometry (1994 Talk)." Talk presented at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate Student Colloquium. available on Philosophy of Science Archive at http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/723/ "The Use of Analogy in the Works of Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, and Alan Turing" Slides and draft text of Inaugural Lecture for Curtis D. Gridley Distinguished Professorship in History & Philosophy of Science. https://www.academia.edu/10675823/ |