This volume contains a selection of the symposium papers presented at the biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association held in Vancouver, Canada, November 2–4, 2000. The complete program for the PSA 2000 conference, abstracts, presented papers, and longer versions of some of the papers presented in this volume can be found at the official PSA web page.
Selecting symposium papers for publication was difficult because of the high quality of the symposium papers submitted. Much of the work involved in reviewing these papers was done by the members of the PSA 2000 program committee:
Stephen M. Downes, University of Utah
Alan Hajek, California Institute of Technology
Christopher Hitchcock, California Institute of Technology
Nancy J. Nercessian, Georgia Institute of Technology
John D. Norton, University of Pittsburgh
C. Kenneth Waters, University of Minnesota
Alison Wylie, Washington University–St. Louis
Each member of the program committee deserves the warmest thanks of the Association for their service.
George Gale, Lindley Darden, Don Howard, Richard Jeffrey, and John Earman provided invaluable advice to the program committee. Jay Malone provided both guidance and served as the link to the History of Science Society. Elam O'Renick assisted Jason Alexander in providing the technical support for the on-line papers and program for PSA 2000. And Noretta Koertge and her staff at Philosophy of Science provided the editorial guidance and copyediting for this volume. Thanks also to the UC Irvine Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science for funding much of the administrative support for PSA 2000.
