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Ceci n'est pas un écureuil
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Isabelle Peschard
{peschard at sfsu.edu}
Assistant professor at
the philosophy department of San Francisco State University.
I am generally interested in scientific practice, the construction and evaluation of models,
how and what we learn from experimentation; in perception; in how issues in philosophy of perception and philosophy of scientific practice relate to one another.
Recently, I have more specifically focused on the idea of reliability,
of experimental procedures and claims based of experimental results, and on the idea of phenomena-
what can we say about phenomena (besides saying that they can be anything: cause, effect, processes, things...)?
My favorite issue, however, is: relevance.
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Gare de Lyon, 2003
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Recent Activities
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- Target Systems, Phenomena and the Problem of Relevance"
[Forthcoming in The Modern Schoolman ]
- "Computer Simulation as Substitute for Experimentation?" [Under Review]
- "Making Sense of Modeling: Beyond Representation"
Forthcoming in European Journal for Philosophy of Science (2011).
- "Modeling and Experimenting"
[Forthcoming in Models, Simulations, and Representation, Routledge.]
- Review: E.Winsberg (2010) Science in the Age of Computer Simulation. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
- "Non-Passivity of Perception" , Contemporary Pragmatism 7 (2010): 149-164.
Presentations
- Do Phenomena Causally Explain Empirical Representations?"
AIPS Conference: Representation and Explanation in the Sciences (Conference Schedule), University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), 26-28 April 2011.
- "Data Model, Reliability and the Neglected Relevance of Relevance"
Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Conference, Montreal, 4-6 Nov. 2010.
- Relevance For What, Relevance For Whom: Numerical Simulation and Experimental Measurement Face-to-Face"
Models and Simulations 4 University of Toronto, 7-9 May 2010,
Colloquium : Simulations and Networks, Marseille, 4-5 June 2010.
- Target Systems, Phenomena and the Problem of Relevance"
Henle Conference: Experimental and Theoretical Knowledge, Saint Louis University, 26-27 March 2010
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