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Conference Presentations:

  • (2013) "Feasible Epistemology: Contributions of Applied Mathematics to Scientific Inference. PGSA Colloquium Series, Department of Philosophy, The University of Western Ontario, 16 October.
  • (2013) “Rational Discovery of the Natural World: An Algebro-Geometric Response to Steiner” MathFest 2013/Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics (MathFest 2013/CSHPM) Conference, Hartford CT, 1-3 August.
  • (2011) with Corless, RM. “Computation for Confirmation.” Conference on The Plurality of Numerical Methods and their Philosophical Analysis. Université Paris—Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, 3-4 November.
  • (2010) with Fillion, N. “Computation in Scientific Explanation,” in the course Contemporary Philosophy of Science, Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph, 17 November.
  • (2010) with Fillion, N. “Explanation and Abstraction: The Case of Backward Error Analysis” Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, 4-6 November.
  • (2010) with Fillion, N. “Modeling and Explanation: Lessons from Modern Error Theory.” Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS) Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, 28-30 May.
  • (2010) with Fillion, N. “A Step Forward with Backward Error,” PGSA Colloquium Series, Department of Philosophy, The University of Western Ontario, 12 March.
  • (2009) “The Conversion of Phenomena to Theory: Lessons on Applicability from the Development of Electromagnetism.” Canadian Mathematical Society/Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics (CMS/CSHPM) Conference, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, 6-8 June.
  • (2009) “From the World to Mathematics and Back Again: What We Can Understand About Applicability from the Development of Electromagnetism.” PGSA Collo- quium Series, Department of Philosophy, The University of Western Ontario, 25 March.
  • (2008) “Theories, Models and Representation: Lessons from Solid State Physics.” Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS) Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 3-5 June.
  • (2008) “Theories, Models and Representation: Lessons from Solid State Physics.” PGSA Colloquium Series, Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, 12 March.
  • (2005) “Interpretations of Probability in Quantum Mechanics.” PGSA Conference, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, June.

Posters

  • images/download.png(2008) "Theories, Models and Representation: Lessons from Solid State Physics.” Western Research Day, 28 March, and Arts and Humanities Research Day, 2 April.