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| Publications of Susan G. Sterrett :chronological alphabetical by type listing:%% @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} } @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} } @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} } @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{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{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} } @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} } @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{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{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{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} } @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{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} } | |
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