Faculty

Research Interests

My area of specialization is philosophy of science. Much of my work concerns models and analogical reasoning in some way; one of my contributions has been to argue for the significance of the concept of physical similarity to philosophy of science. I often employ history of philosophy and history of science in my work.

Publications

"Similarity and Dimensional Analysis" (2009) in Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Volume 9: Philosophy of Technology and the Engineering Sciences, edited by Anthonie Meijers (Series editors: Dov Gabbay, Paul Thagard, and John Woods). pp. 799 – 824.

Sterrett, S. G. (2006) "Models of Machines and Models of Phenomena." International Studies in the Philosophy of Science Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 69-80.

Sterrett, Susan G. (2005) (Book) Wittgenstein Flies a Kite: A Story of Models of Wings and Models of the World Published November 2005, Pi Press (Penguin).

Sterrett, S. G. (2005) "Pictures of Sound: Wittgenstein on Gramophone Records and the Logic of Depiction." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 36, pp. 351-362.

Sterrett, S. G. (2002) "Darwin´s analogy between artificial and natural selection: how does it go?" Studies in History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Vol. 33,
pp. 151-168.

Sterrett, S. G. (2002) "Physical Models and Fundamental Laws: Using One Piece of the World to Tell About Another" Mind and Society 5, 2002, Vol. 3, pp. 51-66.

Sterrett, S. G. (2002) "Too Many Instincts: Contrasting Philosophical Views on Intelligence in Humans and Non-Humans", JETAI (Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence), Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 39 - 60. Reprinted in Thinking About Android Epistemology, Edited by Ken Ford, Clark Glymour and Patrick Hayes, MIT Press (March 2006).

Sterrett, S. G. (2002) "Nested Algorithms and ´The Original Imitation Game Test´: A Reply to James Moor" Minds and Machines, Vol. 12, pp. 131-136.

Sterrett, S. G. (2002) "Physical Pictures: Engineering Models circa 1914 and in Wittgenstein´s Tractatus." History and Philosophy of Science: New Trends and Perspectives, ed. by Michael Heidelberger and Friedrich Stadler (Vienna Institute Yearbook 2001/9), Kluwer Academic, 2002.

Sterrett, Susan G. (2000) "Turing´s Two Tests for Intelligence" Minds and Machines, Vol. 10,
pp. 541-559. Reprinted in The Turing Test: The Elusive Standard of Artificial Intelligence.
Edited by James H. Moor. Kluwer Academic, 2003.

Sterrett, S. G. (1998) "Sounds Like Light: Einstein´s Special Theory of Relativity and Mach´s Work on Acoustics and Aerodynamics." Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Vol. 29, pp. 1 - 35.

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