Appointments
- 2008- : Assistant Professor in Philosophy, at San Francisco State University
- 2006-8: Research Fellow at the Philosophy Department of the University of Twente, The Netherlands
- 2006-8: Instructor, for the Science and Technology Studies Master's Program,
University of Twente
- 1992-5 : Teaching Fellowship in Fluid Mechanics,
Université d'Aix-Marseille, (L'Ecole
Supérieure de Mécanique de Marseille, Technopole de Château Gombert,
Marseille).
Grants and Awards
- 2010-2012: NSF Scholar Award (SES-1026183) for the project "Making Sense of Modeling and
Experimenting: Beyond Representation".
- Spring 2010: SFSU Vice President's Assigned Time Award
- 1992-1995: Doctoral Science Fellowship
Other activities
- Local Co-organizer, Bay Area Philosophy of Science Group, 2008-
- Organizer, Workshop on the Experimental Side of Modeling, SFSU, March 2009, March 2010, September 2011.
- Senior Editor for Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Frontiers, 2008-
- Reviewing for: Erkenntnis, Synthese, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Metapsychology,
Spontaneous Generations, Philosophia Scientiae, MIT Press, National Science Foundation
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Philosophy
- ''Forging Model/World relations: Relevance and
Reliability'',
Philosophy of Science 79 (2012): 749-760.
- "Computer Simulation as Substitute for Experimentation?" ,
forthcoming in S. Vaienti (ed.) Simulation and Networks, Paris: Hermann.
- "Making Sense of Modeling: Beyond Representation",
European Journal for Philosophy of Science 1 (2011): 335-352.
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"Target Systems, Phenomena and the Problem of Relevance", The Modern Schoolman
87 (2010): 267-284.
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"Modeling and Experimenting", Pp.42-61 in P. Humphreys and C. Imbert
(eds.)
Models, Simulations, and Representation. Routledge, 2010.
- Review: E.Winsberg Science in the Age
of Computer Simulation. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2010.
- "Non-Passivity of Perception" , Contemporary Pragmatism 7 (2010): 149-164.
- Heat, temperature and mental concepts: A critique of a standard
reductionist confusion, (with M. Bitbol), pp. 155-174 in E. Wright (ed.) The
Case for Qualia, MIT Press, 2008.
- Review: T. Martin (Ed.)
Le Tout et Les Parties dans les Systemes Naturels (Review in English),
International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 22 (2008), 233-236.
- "Identity over time: objective, subjective",
(with B. van Fraassen), Philosophical Quarterly 58 (2008): 15-35.
- Review: E. Selinger and R. Crease (eds.), The Philosophy of Expertise,
Metapsychology 12 (2008), 3.
- "The Value(s) of a Story:
Theories, Models, and Cognitive Values" Principia 11 (2007): 151-169.
- Participation of the Public in Science: Towards a New Kind of Scientific Practice, Human Affairs
17 (2007):138-153.
- "Y-a-t-il un fondement neurophysiologique au realisme de la
representation ?", Cahiers de Philosophie du
Langage, n. 5, L'Harmattan, 2003.
- Contributions to Grand Dictionnaire de la
Philosophie, dir. Michel Blay, CNRS Editions-Larousse diff, 2003.
Science
[For Abstracts on these papers click here]
- "On the spatio-temporal structure of cylinder wakes", I. Peschard,
P. Le Gal and Y. Takeda, Experiments in Fluids, 26: 188-196,
(1999).
- "Coupled wakes of cylinders", I. Peschard and P. Le Gal, Phys.
Rev. Letters, 77: 3122-25, (1996).
- "Collective behavior of wakes downstream a row of cylinders", P. Le
Gal, I. Peschard, Y. Takeda and M.P. Chauve, Phys. Fluids, 8 (8),
2097, (1996).
- "The Ginzburg-Landau equation and the transition to turbulence in
open flows", P. Le Gal, M.P. Chauve, I. Peschard and S. Jarre,
Current Topics in the Physics of Fluids, Research Trends, edited
by S.G. Pandalai, India, (1995).
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Philosophy
2010-2012
- The Role of Norms and Values
in Experimental Modeling (with B. C. van Fraassen).
Conference on Values and Norms in Modeling
(VaNiM 2012), Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (The Netherlands) June 25-26, 2012.
- ''Writing the 'Book of Nature': Relevance Judgments and Epistemic Responsibility.''
(Invited)
Workshop From Fluid Mechanics To Philosophy Of Science, University of Bucharest, June 2012.
- "Computer simulation and the quest for novel epistemic novelty"
APA Eastern Division, Author Meets Critic, December 2011
- "Are Empirical Representations Causally Explained by Phenomena?"
International Conference: Representation and Explanation in the Sciences,
University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), 26-28 April 2011.
- "Experimental Reliability and Neglected Relevance of Relevance"
Philosophy of Science Association Biennal, Montreal, 4-6 Nov. 2010.
- "Relevance For What, Relevance For Whom: Numerical Simulation and Experimental Measurement Face-to-Face"
Models and Simulations 4 University of Toronto, 7-9 May 2010,
Colloquium : Simulations and Networks, Marseille, 4-5 June 2010.
- "Target Systems, Phenomena and the Problem of Relevance"
Henle Conference: Experimental and Theoretical Knowledge, Saint Louis University, 26-27 March 2010
2008-09
- "Measurement seen through the experimenters' eyes",
Summer Seminar, University of Colorado, Boulder, July 2009.
- ''On the Use and Assessment of Models: Forget about Representation''
Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice, University of Minnesota, June 2009
- ''Data-model or artifact?''
University of
California Berkeley HPLMS, April 2009
- ''Modeling and Experimenting''
Models and Simulation 3, University of Virginia Mar 2009
- ''The Temporal Dimension of Modeling''
University of California Davis and University of California Santa Cruz Oct. 2008
Before 2008
- "Enaction and Consistency:
Non_Representationalism in Cognitive Science and in Philosophy of Science"
Interdisciplinary Conference Cognition: Embodied, Embedded, Enactive, University of Central Florida, October 2007.
- "Ethical Values, Scientific Practice and Virtue Epistemology", First Biennial Conference of the SPSP
(Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice), University of Twente, NL, August 2007.
- "Non-Passivity of Perceptual Experience"
Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, Bristol UK, July 2007 and
at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte (Brazil), August 2007.
- "The Value(s) of a Story:
Theories, Models, and Cognitive Values" Fifth Principia International Symposium,
Florianopolis (Brazil), August 2007.
- ''Values in Science'', University of Colorado Summer Seminar, Boulder CO, July 2007.
- ''Values in Science: Responsibility and Significance'', University of California at Santa Cruz, Jan 2007;
San Francisco State University, March 2007.
- Response to T. Kuipers, ''Truth approximation by the instrumentalist method'', NFWT Workshop on Realism, Empiricism and Constructivism, Ravenstein November 2006.
- ''Non-Passivity of Perceptual Experience'', University of Twente, October 2006.
- ''Ethics or Epistemology?'', University of Twente, May 2006.
- ''Identity over time: objective, subjective'', (with B. van
Fraassen) Conference Identity: Ontological Perspectives, Free University of Amsterdam, May 2005.
- ''Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Science: on tacit but edifying connections''.
Seminaire Formes Symboliques, 07
June 2005, Organisé par J. Lassègue et Y.M.Vissetti. Ecole Normale
Supérieure, Paris.
- ''McDowell facing conflict in functions of experience : 'Second
Nature' and 'Faculty of Spontaneity' ''. Workshop : Experience and
Concepts (McDowell, Wittgenstein, Kant, Hume) Organised by Sandra
Laugier. University of Picardie, 27-28 June, 2005.
- ''About a would-be autonomy of science and location of knowledge :
Wittgensteinian arguments'', in Thematic Session: ''Thinking the links
between history and philosophy of science, after and with Thomas Kuhn'',
Symposium de la joint Commission de la division d'histoire des
sciences et de la division de logique, méthodologie et philosophie des
sciences, Union Internationale d'Histoire et de Philosophie des
Sciences, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, Oct. 2002.
Science
- Coupled oscillators in fluid mechanics: wakes behind rows of
cylinders, P. Le Gal, I. Peschard, J.F. Ravoux, 4th SIAM
conference on applications of dynamical systems, Snowbird, USA,
19-22 May 1997.
- Collective behavior of wakes shed by row of cylinders, J.F.
Ravoux, I.Peschard, P. Le Gal; Y. Takeda, First international
symposium on Ultrasonic Doppler Methods for fluid mechanics an fluid
engineering , Villengen, Switzerland, 9-11 Sept. 1996.
- On the structure of the cylinder wake, I. Peschard, P. Le
Gal, Y. Takeda, First international symposium on Ultrasonic Doppler
Methods for fluid mechanics an fluid engineering, Villengen,
Switzerland, 9-11 Sept. 1996.
- Coupled wakes, P. Le Gal, I. Peschard, American physical
society meeting, Irvine, 18-21 Nov. 1995
- Sillages couplés, I. Peschard, P. Le Gal, Congrès National
de la S. F. P., Marseille, 4-8 Sept. 1995.
- Coupled wakes, I. Peschard, P. Le Gal, Dynamics Days,
Lyon, Juillet 1995.
- Analyse par traitement d'images vidéo dans une chaîne
d'oscillateurs couplés, I. Peschard, P. Le Gal, M.P. Chauve, 1ier
Colloque international sur l'imagerie scientifique et le traitement
d'images, AAF, Cannes, 4-6 April 1995.
- Interaction of two bi-dimensionnal vortex sheddings, N.
Kabouya, I. Peschard, P. Fraunié, P. Le Gal, J. Dusek and A. Salem,
Proceedings of the 1er Congrès de Mécanique, Rabat, 13-16 April
1993.
- Spatio-temporal chaos in a chain of coupled wakes, P. Le Gal,
I. Peschard, International symposium on spatio temporal structure and
chaos, Athens, 18-22 Mai 1992.
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