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Susan G. Sterrett, Philosophy

Susan G. Sterrett
Contact Info:
Office Location:  201 West Duke Building
Office Phone:  +1 919-660-3050
Email Address:   send me a message
Web Page:   http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/sterrett

Education:

Ph.D. PhilosophyUniversity of Pittsburgh
M. A. MathematicsUniversity of Pittsburgh
M. A. PhilosophyUniversity of Pittsburgh
B. S. EngineeringCornell University
Specialties:

Philosophy of Science
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Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. S.G. Sterrett. ""Similarity and Dimensional Analysis" (to appear)." Handbook of the Philosophy of Science 9 (Accepted, 2009).  [author's comments]
  2. S.G. Sterrett. ""Abstracting Matter"."   (Accepted, March 3 - 8th, 2009).  [author's comments]
  3. S.G. Sterrett. "Models of Machines and Models of Phenomena." International Studies in Philosophy of Science 20.1 (March, 2006): 69-80. [contribution.asp]  [abs] [author's comments]
  4. Susan G. Sterrett. Wittgenstein Flies A Kite: A Story of Models of Wings and Models of the World. Pi Press (Penguin Group imprint), Fall, 2005. (Appeared December 2005) [net]  [abs]
  5. S.G. Sterrett. "Pictures of Sound: Wittgenstein on Gramophone Records and the Logic of Depiction." Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Part A 36.2 (June, 2005): 351-362. [pdf]  [abs]
Selected Invited Lectures

  1. "Could There Be A General Theory of Similarity?", April, 2009, 36th Annual Philosophy of Science Conference, Inter-University Center, Dubrovnik, Croatia    
  2. "What Makes Good Models Good?", May 26-28, 2006, University of San Diego, San Diego, California [htm]    
  3. "Models of Machines and Models of Phenomena", November 18, 2004, Workshop on Applying Science at PSA 2004, Philosophy of Science Biennial Meeting, Austin, TX [00002088]    
Selected Talks

  1. Analogous Principles: Some Historical Case Studies, August 27, 2005, The Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands    
  2. The proper uses of proportion: understanding Galileo's advance over the Pythagoreans, September 2-5, 2003, 12th UK Conference on Foundations of Physics, University of Leeds, UK    
  3. The science of the similar: how to get things out of proportion, August 7-14, 2003, 12th Conference on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Oviedo, Spain    
  4. "Kinds of Models", March 20, 2003, John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University [available here]    
  5. Intelligent behavior, habitual response or programmed movement? Turing, James and Descartes on intelligence in animals and machines, April 24, 2002, NC State Philosophy Club, Raleigh, NC    
  6. "Too Many Instincts: Contrasting Philosophical Views on Intelligence in Humans and Non-Humans", February 9, 2002, North Carolina Philosophical Society/South Carolina Philsophy Society , College of Charleston, Charleston, SC    
  7. Physical models and fundamental laws: using one piece of the world to tell about another, 2001, MBR '01 (Conference on Model Based Reasoning 2001), Pavia, Italy [00000720]    
  8. Darwn's analogy between artificial and natural selection: how does it go?, March, 2001, Lunchtime Talk Series, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh    
  9. Physical pictures: engineering models circa 1914 and Wittgenstein's "Tractatus", 2000, HOPOS 2000 (History of Philosophy of Science), Vienna Austria [00000661]    
  10. Sounds like light: Einstein's special theory of relativity and Mach's work on acoustics and aerodynamics, 1997, Lunchtime Talk Series, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh [htm]