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Sorry for cross-posting! **Final Call for Registration** "The History of Thermodynamics and Scientific Realism" Workshop This is a one-day workshop on the theme of the history of thermodynamics and scientific realism, to be held on Tuesday 12th May 2015, at Durham University, Durham, UK. It is part of the AHRC-funded, Durham-IUPUI project ‘Contemporary Scientific Realism and the Challenge from the History of Science<http://community.dur.ac.uk/evaluating.realism/index.html>’, running from August 2014 – January 2018. Workshop Website: http://community.dur.ac.uk/evaluating.realism/events.html Programme Time: May 12, 2015 Venue: The Collier Room, College of St Hild and St Bede, St Hild’s Lane, Durham, UK 9-10: Tim Lyons and Peter Vickers, 'Scientific Realism and the Challenge from Thermodynamics' 10-11.20: Keith Hutchison, 'No Miracle at all: The Thomson Brothers' Prediction that Pressure Depresses the Freezing Point of Water' 11.20-11.45: Refreshments 11.45-12.35: Barrie Tonkinson, 'Carnot, his Two Theorems, and a Phenemenological Context Relating Thermodynamics to Einstein' 12.35-1.35: Lunch 1.35-2.55: Ben Marsden, '"Gratuitous assumptions & interminable mathematics": W.J.M. Rankine and the working methods of (engineering) science' 2.55-3.45: Vasil Penchev: 'Reality in a Few Thermodynamic Reference Frames: Statistical Thermodynamics from Boltzmann via Gibbs to Einstein' 3.45-4.10: Refreshments 4.10-5.30: Owen Maroney, 'What is Temperature, Really?' 6.30: Drinks and dinner Registration The registration is open now. There is no charge for registration - refreshments and lunch are free for anyone who has registered to attend. In order to register please contact Yafeng Shan at [log in to unmask] Yafeng Shan Research Assistant Philosophy Department Durham University Contemporary Scientific Realism and the Challenge from the History of Science<http://community.dur.ac.uk/evaluating.realism/index.html>