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X-N. Mini-Conference on Scientific Images
Saturday, March 25, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Topic: The Epistemology of Images

Chair: Miriam Solomon (Temple University)
Speakers: Jordi Cat (Indiana University–Bloomington)
“From Seeing-as to Seeing-in, from Aesthetics to Philosophy of Science”
John V. Kulvicki (Dartmouth College)
“Knowing with Images: Medium and Message”
Aaron Meskin (University of Leeds)
“Photography and the Study of Aesthetic Preference”
Catharine Abell (University of Manchester)
“Pictures as Epistemic Tools”

XI-M. Mini-Conference on Scientific Images
Saturday, March 25, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Topic: Case Studies

Chair: Alfred Nordmann (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
Speakers: Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia)
“Drawing in the Social Sciences: Lithic Illustration”
Ellen C. Landers (Independent Scholar)
“Imaging the Brain, Imagining the Brain”
Jonathan Kaplan (Oregon State University)
“The End of the Adaptive Landscape Metaphor”

XII-L. Mini-Conference on Scientific Images
Sunday, March 26, 9:00 a.m.-Noon
Topic: Images and Models

Chair: Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia)
Speakers: Laura Perini (Virginia Tech)
“Image Assessment: Truth, Accuracy, and Precision”
Anouk Barberousse (Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique)
“Images of Theoretical Models”
Steven Downes (University of Utah)
“Models, Pictures, and Unified Accounts of Representation”
Mauricio Suarez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
“Scientific Fictions as Heuristic Rules of Inference”

MII-A. Mini-Conference on Scientific Images
Sunday, March 26, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Topic: Roundtable Discussion

Chair: Laura Perini (Virginia Tech)
Commentators: Otávio Bueno (University of South Carolina)
Nicolas Bullot (University of British Columbia)
Patrick E. Forber (Stanford University)
David Landy (Indiana University–Bloomington)
Christoph Luethy (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
Patrick Rysiew (University of British Columbia)
Adina Roskies (Dartmouth College)
Eric Saidel (George Washington University)
Roger Stanev (University of British Columbia)
Paul Teller (University of California–Davis)
Adam Toon (University of Cambridge)
S. H. Vollmer (University of Alabama–Birmingham)
Jonathan M. Weinberg (Indiana University–Bloomington)