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

Sbr-9515319科林·E·索恩·布鲁斯·L·罗兹·伊利诺伊州(厄巴纳-香槟)该奖项为受邀参加“地貌学的科学性质”研讨会的受邀与会者提供旅费和住宿费，该研讨会是宾厄姆顿研讨会系列(与大学或城市无关)的一部分，将于1996年9月在伊利诺伊州香槟举行。专题讨论会将讨论地貌学领域目前缺乏一个强有力的、统一的知识框架的问题。这关系到一些问题，如该领域的起源和作为一门地球科学的自我认同，而方兴未艾的方法是物理和化学的方法；“领域”和“过程”研究人员之间的区别；该领域内对科学哲学的普遍蔑视；以及作为生态研究基础的科学哲学在多大程度上也能为地貌学提供信息。研讨会将聚集对这些问题进行写作和研究的人，并将导致Wiley出版一卷(该卷的制作不在预算申请的一部分)。专题讨论会和专题讨论会可能成为自然地理学核心组成部分自我概念化的一个里程碑。

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.