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URL:https://philosophy.colostate.edu/events/julia-bursten-thinking-small-s
 cientific-reasoning-at-the-nanoscale/
SUMMARY:Julia Bursten: “Thinking Small: Scientific Reasoning at the Nanos
 cale”
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on October 3 in Eddy 200 for a guest lecture by 
 philosopher Julia Bursten from the University of Kentucky.\n“Thinking Sm
 all: Scientific Reasoning at the Nanoscale”\nAbstract: A central aim of 
 philosophy of science is to characterize scientific reasoning\, particular
 ly how scientific reasoning leads to scientific knowledge. One method for 
 accomplishing this task is to investigate historical and contemporary scie
 ntific practices in order to develop case studies of scientific reasoning 
 "in action.” In recent years\, this has become one of the predominant ap
 proaches to philosophy of science\, often called “philosophy of science 
 in practice” or “philosophy of scientific practice” (PSP).\n PSP ha
 s shown that there is no universal scientific method and no single logical
  structure of scientific theories. Instead\, the selection of which scienc
 e(s) will provide the basis of one’s case studies significantly impacts 
 the resulting portrait of knowledge. For example\, early in the history of
  philosophy of science\, researchers’ attention to physics shaped a view
  of scientific knowledge centered on universal\, true laws of nature.\nMy 
 research is a PSP investigation of scientific reasoning that takes nanosci
 ence as the starting point. Nanoscience studies the behavior of materials 
 at the nanoscale\, a region on the borderland between molecules and materi
 als where matter is not well-described by either quantum mechanics or clas
 sical physics alone. Nanomaterials exhibit novel\, scale-dependent materia
 l behaviors\, and nanoscientists are constantly challenged to adapt concep
 ts\, models\, and theories from across wide swathes of physics and chemist
 ry to try to predict and explain these behaviors. Further\, because one of
  the central projects of nanoscience is the fabrication of new types of ma
 terials\, this tangle of physics and chemistry is used not only to predict
  and explain nanomaterials\, but also to synthesize new materials\, and ne
 w material kinds. By painting a portrait of scientific knowledge from the
  palette of nanoscience\, my research reveals new insights about scientifi
 c epistemology. I highlight three central results: (1) Scale plays an esse
 ntial role in constraining the development of scientific concepts\, classi
 fication schemes\, and modeling practices. (2) Rather than approaching que
 stions of inter-theory relations by asking which one is more fundamental\,
  philosophers should instead attend to how theories and models stitch toge
 ther. And (3) Synthesis is a central activity of nanoscience\, and carryin
 g out this activity generates distinct epistemic goals from explanation\, 
 prediction\, and description.\n
LOCATION:Eddy Hall Room 200\, 1231 Center Ave Mall\, Fort Collins\, CO\, Un
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