[x-post HOPOS-L / PHILOS-L]

Call for Papers

Visualization in Scientific Practice

"Visualization in Scientific Practice" is a three-day conference that
will be held at the University of Toronto (Victoria College), April
27-29, 2007. This event will gather together an international group of
humanists, social scientists and cognitive scientists to synthesize
research investigating the varied meanings of representation in science
within a scholarly, cross-disciplinary setting. While many disciplines,
such as art history, cognitive neuro-psychology, semiotics, philosophy,
history and sociology of science have developed approaches that
challenge the common understanding of scientific representation as an
appendage to textual theories, we do not yet have a satisfactory theory
of representation that bridges these disciplinary silos. Current
research has unanimously answered the question ³Are Pictures Necessary
for Science?" in the affirmative, yet theories of how knowledge is coded
in representation, and how and why scientists pursue pictorial
knowledge, remain fragmented. This event is organized on the conviction
that an interdisciplinary approach to the issue of representation in
scientific practice can contribute greatly to the generation of a
unified understanding of representation.

Confirmed Speakers
Christy Anderson (Dept. of Art History, The University of Toronto)
Brian Baigrie (IHPST, The University of Toronto)
Jed Z. Buchwald (History, California Institute of Technology)
David Gooding (Dept. of Psychology, University of Bath)
Donald D. Hoffman (Dept. of Cognitive Sciences, University of California
at Irvine)
Patrick Maynard (Philosophy, University of Western Ontario)
Wolff-Michael Roth (Applied Cognitive Science, University of Victoria)
Alison Syme (Dept of Art History, The University of Toronto)
Janet Vertesi (Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University)

Submissions
A few spots have been reserved on the program for paper submissions.
Please email your submissions by March 16th to
baigriechass.utoronto.ca. Notifications will be made by March 23rd.
Travel assistance is available for conference participants.

Registration
Please register for the conference by sending an email to
muna.salloumutoronto.ca. No registration fee is required.