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ContrIbutors Mieke Boon studied chemical engineering and philosophy. Since 2001, she has been associate professor in philosophy at Twente University of Technology . Her main research interest is philosophy of science for the engineering sciences, and includes three perspectives: philosophy of science, epistemology, and ethics. In 2005 she founded the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (http://www.philosophy-science-practice.org). Marcel Boumans is associate professor of history and methodology of economics at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests are in models , measurement, and mathematics. He is the author of How Economists Model the World into Numbers (2005), and the editor of Measurement in Economics: A Handbook (2007). His current project concerns measurement outside the laboratory. Hasok Chang is professor of philosophy of science at University College London. He is the author of Inventing Temperature (2004), and a cofounder of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP). His most central research activities are in the philosophical analysis of historical episodes in the physical sciences from the eighteenth century onward. He is also engaged in more abstract research in philosophy of science with a focus on realism, evidence , pluralism, and pragmatism. Henk W. de Regt is a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy of the VU University Amsterdam. He holds a master’s of science in foundations of physics (Utrecht University) and a doctorate in philosophy of science (VU University ). He has published on topics in the history and philosophy of science, in particular on scientific explanation and understanding. He is cofounder of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) and of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP). Dennis Dieks is professor of the philosophy and foundations of the natural sciences at Utrecht University and director of the Utrecht Institute for the History and Foundations of Science. He is also a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, editor of the journal Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, and associate editor of Foundations of Physics. He has published widely on subjects relating to space and time, the foundations and philosophy of quantum theory, and the philosophy of physics in general. contributors 335 de Regt Txt•.indd 335 9/8/09 11:27:25 AM 336 Kai Eigner studied physics and philosophy of science at Utrecht University , specializing in the history of the natural sciences and in the philosophy of the cognitive sciences. He is presently affiliated with the faculty of philosophy of the VU University Amsterdam, where he teaches philosophy of science and is finishing his doctoral dissertation on understanding in psychology. Stephen R. Grimm is an assistant professor of philosophy at Fordham University. He works primarily in epistemology and the philosophy of science, and his articles have appeared in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science , Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Studies, and the European Journal of Philosophy. Tarja Knuuttila is a research doctor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki. Her work focuses on modeling and scientific representation . Recently, she has been working on the theme of fiction in science, especially in the context of economics. Her areas of expertise include science studies and semiotics, both of which she has been teaching, in addition to philosophy, at the University of Helsinki. She has published in Philosophy of Science, Semiotica , Science Studies, and Forum: Qualitative Social Research. Presently, she is the editor-in-chief of Science Studies. Edwin Koster studied mathematics and philosophy of religion at the VU University Amsterdam, the Complutense University of Madrid, and Princeton Theological Seminary. He is assistant professor of philosophy at the VU University of Amsterdam. His research interests include philosophical questions regarding human evolution, anthropology, history, and religion. Johannes Lenhard studied philosophy and mathematics at the Universities of Heidelberg and Frankfurt. In 1998, he finished his dissertation in mathematics and has been affiliated with Bielefeld University since 1999. Currently , he is fellow and assistant of the research group Science in the Context of Application at the university’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF). A main focus of his research interest is on mathematical modeling, most recently on computer simulation. Sabina Leonelli is a research fellow of the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis) at the University of Exeter. She was trained in the philosophy , history, and social studies of science in London and Amsterdam. She investigates philosophical issues connected to the use of bioinformatics in biomedical research, particularly the epistemic role of data, model systems, and classifications across...