New paper (preprint)! .. in which we show how geophysicists solve problems of causal complexity: even if we know basic forces behind earth's dynamics (e.g. gravitation), specific dynamic phenomena are hard to predict because they depend on a myriad or co-occuring causes. (1)
Kate Lynch (Melbourne, Australia) talk "(Human) Genetic Causal Reasoning" (on Zoom), October 17th, 2024, 9am-10:30am (French time, UTC+2) Information: www.philinbiomed.org/event/kate-l...#HPBio#philsci 🧪🧬
Kate E. Lynch is a philosopher of science interested in causation, explanation, and causal reasoning in biology and medicine. Her work focusses on understanding the nature of causal relationships inve...
sorry, I was more thinking in Messick's (1975) "The Standard Problem: Meaning and Values in Measurement and Evaluation" in American Psychologist.
Does anyone know about an intellectual overview of Samuel Messick’s work on measurement/validity? #measurement#PsychSciSky#PhilSci#Psychology
... (The conduct of Inquiry) for making a number of points (including values in science) and he cites Churchman as well on the latter.
Hi, So, reading on psychological measurement, I realized that pragmatist philosopher of science A Kaplan influenced quite a bit a couple of important psychometricians. One is Samuel Messick. In his "Test Validity and the Ethics of Assessment" (1980 in AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST) he cites Kaplan ...
yes, the obituary tells the story. They actually tried that before at U Penn (failing)
Last one: What got me really curious is that Churchman's work on system thinking gets cited in a paper on psychological measurement as providing clues for how to work out implicit value-judgments made in science! we got the full circle there. Let me know if interested in these texts.
Have you read "Rational Action: The Sciences of Policy in Britain and America, 1940–1960" by William Thomas? It seems he tells a story that includes these two people.
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C(harles) West Churchman, the grand old man of the ‘systems approach’, has passed away. Born on 29 August 1913 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was 90 years of age. After a rich and significant life ...