Symposium: The Scientific Nature of Geomorphology, to be held in September, 1996 in Champaign, IL

研讨会：地貌学的科学本质，将于 1996 年 9 月在伊利诺伊州尚佩恩举行

• 批准号: 9515319
• 负责人: Colin Thorn
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-04-15 至 1997-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9515319&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Symposium; Scientific; Nature; Geomorphology; held

SBR-9515319 Colin E. Thorn Bruce L. Rhoads U. Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) This award provides funds to support travel and accommodation expenses for invited participants in a symposium on "The Scientific Nature of Geomorphology," part of the Binghamton Symposium Series (no connection with the university or the city), to be held in September 1996 in Champaign, Illinois. The symposium will address the current absence of a strong, unifying, intellectual framework for the field of geomorphology. At stake are issues such as the field's origin and self-identification as an earth science, while ascendant methods are those of physics and chemistry; the division between "field" and "process" researchers; the general disdain for philosophy of science within the field; and the extent to which philosophies of science underlying ecological studies can also inform geomorphology. The symposium will gather people who have written and researched on these matters, and will result in a volume to be published by Wiley (production of the volume is not part of the budget request). The symposium and volume could be a landmark in the self-conceptualization of a central component of physical geography.

SBR-9515319 Colin E. Thorn Bruce L. Rhoads 伊利诺伊大学（厄巴纳-香槟） 该奖项为受邀参加“地貌学的科学本质”研讨会的受邀参加者提供资金，该研讨会是宾厄姆顿研讨会系列的一部分（与大学或城市无关），将于 1996 年 9 月在伊利诺伊州尚佩恩举行。 研讨会将解决目前地貌学领域缺乏强大、统一的知识框架的问题。 该领域的起源和作为地球科学的自我认同等问题至关重要，而占主导地位的方法是物理和化学的方法； “现场”和“过程”研究人员之间的划分；该领域内对科学哲学的普遍蔑视； 生态研究的科学哲学在多大程度上也可以为地貌学提供信息。 研讨会将聚集对这些问题进行写作和研究的人员，并将出版一本书，由 Wiley 出版（该书的制作不属于预算要求的一部分）。 这次研讨会和该卷可能成为自然地理学核心组成部分自我概念化的里程碑。