Talks
2012
William Bechtel and Adele Abrahamsen. Diagramming phenomena for mechanistic explanation. Cognitive Science Society, Sapporo, Japan, August 4.
Benjamin Sheredos, Daniel Burnson, Adele Abrahamsen, and William Bechtel. Why to biologists use so many diagrams, Philosophy of Science Association, San Diego, November 16.
2013
William Bechtel. Reasoning with diagrams in chronobiology. Workshop on Extended Problem Solving, Center for Semiotics, Aarhus University, January 24.
Benjamin Sheredos. Graphical Practice: Scientists as Interpreters of Diagrams. Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice. Toronto, June.
Daniel C. Burnston. Homogeneity Constraints and Reasoning about Complex Mechanisms. Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice. Toronto, June.
William Bechtel. Reasoning with Mechanism Diagrams. Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice. Toronto, June.
William Bechtel. Recomposing biological mechanisms through diagrams and computational models. International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology. Montpellier, France, July.
Benjanmin Sheredos. Novice and Expert Understandings of Space in Scientific Diagrams. International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology. Montpellier, France, July.
Daniel C. Burnston. Between Phenomenon and Mechanism: Diagrams as Vehicles of Intermediate Explanatory Reasoning. International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology. Montpellier, France, July.
William Bechtel. Why Scientists Reason with Diagrams. Workshop on Diagrammatic Cognition: Discovery and Design. Cognitive Science Society. Berlin, July 31.
Benjamin Sheredos. Scientific Diagrams as Traces of Group-Dependent Cognition:
A Brief Cognitive-Historical Analysis. Cognitive Science Society. Berlin, August 2.
Daniel Burnston. Mechanistic diagrams as search organizers. Cognitive Science Society. Berlin, August 2.
William Bechtel and Adele Abrahamsen. Roles of diagrams in computational modeling of mechanisms.Cognitive Science Society. Berlin, August 2.