%% Books
@book{fds14297,
Author = {Susan G. Sterrett},
Title = {Wittgenstein Flies A Kite: A Story of Models of Wings and
Models of the World},
Publisher = {Pi Press (Penguin Group imprint)},
Year = {2005},
Month = {Fall},
url = {http://www.pipress.net},
Abstract = {Wittgenstein told friends on many occasions that he came to
see how things in the world can be represented in language
by thinking about scale models, and that it occurred while
he was a soldier, in the autumn of 1914. This book is the
result of asking: what if he meant, experimental engineering
scale models? It is well known that Wittgenstein had been an
aeronautical engineer before going to Cambridge to study
philosophy with Bertrand Russell in 1911. Why only in 1914,
then, did this insight occur? It so happens 1914 was the
year that the basis of the method was formulated, by a
philosophically-minded physicist, as a matter of a purely
logical principle about any symbolic system that is used to
represent physical relationships. In fact, a whole array of
discussions about similarity arose in 1913-1914, in physics,
biology, and chemistry. This book lays out this previously
untold story in the history of ideas, presents a new reading
of Wittgenstein's philosophical work (Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicus) and explains how many heretofore
puzzling claims in it click into a coherent account on this
new reading.},
Key = {fds14297}
}
%% Papers Published
@article{fds17716,
Author = {S.G. Sterrett},
Title = {"Turing's Two Tests for Intelligence"},
Journal = {Mind and Machines},
Volume = {10},
Series = {Studies in Cognitive Systems 30, Kluwer Academic},
Pages = {541-549},
Booktitle = {The Turing Test: The Elusive Standard of Artificial
Intelligence},
Publisher = {Taylor and Francis},
Editor = {James H. Moor},
Year = {2001},
Month = {Winter},
Key = {fds17716}
}
@article{fds17730,
Author = {S.G. Sterrett},
Title = {"Darwin's Analogy Between Artificial and Natural Selection:
How Does It Go?"},
Journal = {Studies in History and Philosophy of the Biological and
Biomedical Sciences},
Volume = {33},
Pages = {151-168},
Publisher = {Elsevier},
Year = {2002},
Month = {March},
Key = {fds17730}
}
@article{fds17726,
Author = {S.G. Sterrett},
Title = {"Nested Algorithms and 'The Original Imitation Test': A
Reply to James Moor"},
Journal = {Mind and Machines},
Volume = {12},
Pages = {131-136},
Year = {2002},
Month = {June},
Key = {fds17726}
}
@article{fds17697,
Author = {S.G. Sterrett},
Title = {Physical Models and Fundamental Laws: Using One Piece of the
World to Tell About Another},
Journal = {Mind and Society},
Volume = {5},
Number = {3},
Pages = {51-66},
Year = {2003},
url = {http//philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00000720},
Key = {fds17697}
}
@article{fds42921,
Author = {S.G. Sterrett},
Title = {Pictures of Sound: Wittgenstein on Gramophone Records and
the Logic of Depiction},
Journal = {Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Part
A},
Volume = {36},
Number = {2},
Pages = {351-362},
Year = {2005},
Month = {June},
url = {http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00002019/01/SterrettPicturesOfSoundsR1.pdf},
Abstract = {http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00002019/},
Key = {fds42921}
}
@article{fds52432,
Author = {S.G. Sterrett},
Title = {Models of Machines and Models of Phenomena},
Journal = {International Studies in Philosophy of Science},
Volume = {20},
Number = {1},
Pages = {69-80},
Publisher = {Taylor and Francis},
Year = {2006},
Month = {March},
url = {http://www.journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/(ensrh3455dv1bs55hy5upi55)/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,5,9;journal,3,20;linkingpublicationresults,1:104603,1},
Abstract = {Experimental engineering models have been used both to model
general phenomena, such as the onset of turbulence in fluid
flow, and to predict the performance of machines of
particular size and configuration in particular contexts.
Various sorts of knowledge are involved in the
method—logical consistency, general scientific principles,
laws of specific sciences, and experience. I critically
examine three different accounts of the foundations of the
method of experimental engineering models (scale models),
and examine how theory, practice, and experience are
involved in employing the method to obtain practical
results. Models of machines and mechanisms can be (and
generally are) involved in establishing criteria for similar
phenomena, which provide guidance in using events to model
other events. Conversely, models of phenomena such as events
that model other events can be (and generally are) involved
in experimentation on models of machines. I conclude that
often it is not more detailed models or the more precise
equations they engender that leads to better understanding,
but rather an insightful use of knowledge at hand to
determine which similarity principles are appropriate in
allowing us to infer what we do not know from what we are
able to observe.},
Key = {fds52432}
}
%% Papers Accepted
@article{fds17710,
Author = {S.G. Sterrett},
Title = {"The Proper Uses of Proportion: Understanding Galileo's
Advance Over the Pythagoreans"},
Journal = {12th UK Conference on Foundations of Physics},
Year = {2003},
Month = {September},
Key = {fds17710}
}
@article{fds155272,
Author = {S.G. Sterrett},
Title = {"Similarity and Dimensional Analysis" (to
appear)},
Volume = {9},
Booktitle = {Handbook of the Philosophy of Science},
Publisher = {Elsevier},
Editor = {Dov Gabbay and Paul Thagard and John Woods},
Year = {2009},
Key = {fds155272}
}
@article{fds155273,
Author = {S.G. Sterrett},
Title = {"Abstracting Matter"},
Year = {2009},
Key = {fds155273}
}
%% Papers Submitted
@article{fds14294,
Author = {S. G. Sterrett},
Title = {"How Many Thoughts Can Fit in the Form of a Proposition:
Revisiting Frege on Hilbert and Interpretations of
Geometrical Axioms"},
Year = {2003},
url = {http//philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001816},
Key = {fds14294}
}
%% Articles and Chapters
@article{fds38115,
Author = {S. G. Sterrett},
Title = {"Too Many Instincts: Contrasting Philosophical Views on
Intelligence in Humans and Non-Humans"},
Journal = {Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial
Intelligence},
Volume = {14},
Pages = {39-60},
Year = {2002},
Keywords = {Intelligence • Instinct • robot
architecture},
Key = {fds38115}
}
@article{fds38109,
Author = {S.G. Sterrett},
Title = {"Physical Pictures: Engineering Models circa 1914 and in
Wittgenstein's Tractatus"},
Series = {Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook},
Booktitle = {History of Philosophy of Science: New Trends and
Perspectives},
Publisher = {Kluwer Academic Publishers},
Editor = {Michael Heidelberger and Friedrich Stadler},
Year = {2002},
Month = {January},
Key = {fds38109}
}
%% Book Reviews
@article{fds14296,
Author = {Michael Potter},
Title = {Reason's Nearest Kin: Philosophies of Arithmetic from Kant
to Carnap},
Volume = {44},
Number = {3},
Pages = {294-296},
Booktitle = {Philosophical Books},
Year = {2003},
Month = {July},
Key = {fds14296}
}
