A philosophical and historical conference on "Dimensions of Measurement" will take place March 14 to 16, 2013, in Bielefeld, Germany. Plenary speakers are Marcel Boumans, Hasok Chang, Nadine de Courtenay, Laura Dassow Walls, Michael Heidelberger, Martin Kusch, Luca Mari, Joel Michell, Mary Morgan, Simon Schaffer, and Eran Tal. The conference will explore aspects of measurement in the natural, engineering, social, and human sciences and from a variety of philosophical perspectives with Weberian, Foucauldian, logical empiricist, phenomenological, social constructivist and other traditions converging on questions of method, of standardization, of world-making in measurement.
