WENDY S. PARKER. Major Research Grants. Department of Philosophy Durham University 50 Old Elvet Durham DH1 3HN, UK

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1 WENDY S. PARKER Department of Philosophy Durham University 50 Old Elvet Durham DH1 3HN, UK Web: Employment Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Durham University, 2013-present Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Philosophy, Ohio University, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Ohio University, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Science Studies Program, University of California, San Diego, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University, AMS/UCAR Congressional Science Fellow, United States Senate, Areas of Specialization and Competence AOS: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Climate Science AOC: Ethics, Logic, Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Social Science, Epistemology Education University of Pittsburgh Ph.D. History and Philosophy of Science, 2003 M.A. Philosophy, 2002 University of Washington, Seattle Graduate Program, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, (on leave from Pittsburgh) Northern Illinois University B.A. Philosophy (with university honors), 1997 B.S. Meteorology (with university honors), 1997 Honors and Awards (partial list) Northern Illinois University Liberal Arts & Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award, 2011 University of Pittsburgh Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Northern Illinois University Lincoln Laureate Award (top graduating senior), 1997 Northern Illinois University Presidential Honors Science Scholarship, National Science Foundation National Science Scholar, Major Research Grants National Science Foundation Standard Grant SES : Data Assimilation, Reanalysis & the Construction of Weather and Climate, National Science Foundation Standard Grant SES : Ensemble Climate Prediction: Key Questions and Controversies,

2 Publications Books and Edited Volumes Parker, W.S. (in preparation) Understanding Climate Change. Under contract with Routledge Press. Parker, W.S. (Ed.) (in press) Proceedings of the 25 th Biennial Philosophy of Science Association Meeting, Volume 1. Supplemental Issue of Philosophy of Science. Katzav, J. and W.S. Parker (Eds.) Assessing Climate Models: Knowledge, Values and Policy. Special issue of European Journal for Philosophy of Science 5(2): de Regt, H.W. and W.S. Parker (Eds.) Simulation, Visualization and Scientific Understanding. Special issue of Perspectives on Science 22(3): Journal Articles Parker, W.S. and E. Winsberg (in press) Values and Evidence: How Models Make a Difference. European Journal for Philosophy of Science. Parker, W.S Computer simulation, measurement and data assimilation. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 68(1): Parker, W.S Reanalyses and Observations: What s the Difference? Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 97(9): , doi: /BAMS-D Parker, W.S. and J.S. Risbey False precision, surprise and improved uncertainty assessment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 373(2055): Katzav, J. and W.S. Parker The future of climate modeling. Climatic Change 132(4): Parker, W.S Getting (even more) serious about similarity. Biology & Philosophy 30(2): Parker, W.S Values and uncertainties in climate prediction, revisited. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 46: Parker, W.S Simulation and understanding in the study of weather and climate. Perspectives on Science 22(3): Parker, W.S Ensemble modeling, uncertainty and robust predictions. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 4(3): Parker, W.S When climate models agree: The significance of robust model predictions. Philosophy of Science 78(4): Parker, W.S Scientific models and adequacy-for-purpose. Modern Schoolman: A Quarterly Journal of Philosophy (Proceedings of the 2010 Henle Conference on Experimental & Theoretical Knowledge) 87(3-4), Parker, W.S Predicting weather and climate: Uncertainty, ensembles and probability. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 41: Parker, W.S Whose probabilities? Predicting climate change with ensembles of models. Philosophy of Science 77(5): Parker, W.S Comparative process tracing and climate change fingerprints. Philosophy of Science 77(5): Parker, W.S An instrument for what? Digital computers, simulation and scientific practice. Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science 4:

3 Parker, W.S Does matter really matter? Computer simulations, experiments, and materiality. Synthese 169(3): Parker, W.S II Confirmation and adequacy-for-purpose in climate modeling. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 83: Parker, W.S Franklin, Holmes and the epistemology of computer simulation. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 22(2): Parker, W.S Computer simulation through an error-statistical lens. Synthese 163(3): Parker, W.S Understanding pluralism in climate modeling. Foundations of Science 11(4): Yuter, S.E. and W.S. Parker Rain measurement on ship revisited. Journal of Applied Meteorology 40(6): Book Chapters Parker, W.S. (in press) The significance of robust climate predictions. For E. Lloyd and E. Winsberg (Eds.) Conceptual and Philosophical Issues in Climate Modeling. [Revised version of "When climate models agree".] Parker, W.S. (in press) Climate Modeling. For B. Hale and A. Light (Eds.) Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics. Parker, W.S Environmental Science: Empirical Claims in Environmental Ethics. In S. Gardiner and A. Thompson (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics. Parker, W.S Climate Change and Social Science. In N. Cartwright and E. Montuschi (Eds.) Philosophy of Social Science: A New Introduction. OUP. Parker, W.S Computer Simulation. In S. Psillos and M. Curd (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, 2 nd Edition. Parker, W.S Communicating Science: Moral Responsibility in Theory and Practice. In D. Scott and B. Francis (Eds.), Debating Science: Deliberation, Values and the Common Good. Parker, W.S Distinguishing Real Results from Instrumental Artifacts: The Case of the Missing Rain. In G. Hon, J. Schickore, and F. Steinle (Eds.), Going Amiss in Experimental Research (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 267). Other Parker, W.S. (in preparation) Climate Science. Invited article for Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Parker, W.S Letter to the editor. ( The Truth about Models ). American Scientist 102(4): 243. Parker, W.S Computer simulation and philosophy of science. Review of Winsberg, E. (2010) Science in the Age of Computer Simulation. Metascience 21(1): Parker, W.S Multi Model Ensembles, Metrics & Probabilities. In T. Stocker, Q. Dahe, G.K. Plattner, M. Tignor, P. Midgley (Eds.), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Expert Meeting on Assessing and Combining Multi Model Climate Projections. IPCC Working Group I Technical Support Unit, Bern, Switzerland:

4 Presentations Lectures 2017 Explaining the global warming hiatus : models, measurement and media Philosophy Department Seminar Series, University of Salzburg. Salzburg, Austria. May False Precision, Surprise and Improved Uncertainty Assessment Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling Liaison Committee (ADMLC) Seminar on Uncertainty. Didcot, UK. May What do we mean by fitness-for-purpose? How would we know? Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) workshop: Connecting Climate Model Evaluation to Fitness-for-Purpose. Hamburg, Germany. February The value of values in modeling Energy Ethics Workshop. Utrecht, Netherlands. February Explaining the global warming hiatus : models, measurements and media Egenis Seminar Series. University of Exeter. October Scientific Modeling and Limits to the Value-Free Ideal Leeds HPS Seminar Series, University of Leeds. October BSPS Annual Lecture Series, London, UK. October Informal Uncertainty Evaluation in IPCC Assessments Informal Aspects of Uncertainty Evaluation (workshop). Cambridge, UK. May Explaining the global warming hiatus : models, measurements and media 2016 Alumni Lecture, Dept. of History & Philosophy of Science, Univ. of Pittsburgh. March Simulating and measuring global climate change Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Debates (Seminar Series). Edinburgh, UK. October Two views of model evaluation 2015 Climate Modelling Summer School, Cambridge, UK. September Understanding in Climate Science: The Roles of Simple and Complex Models Assessing the Climate via Models Prediction, Understanding and Computer Simulation. Bielefeld, Germany. (delivered via Skype) June Let s not confirm our models Understanding Uncertainty in Environmental Modeling. London School of Economics. March Durham Energy Institute. Durham University. January Evaluating climate models with observational data from simulations Philosophy of Science Association 2014 Biennial Meeting. Chicago, USA. November The Future of Climate Modeling Knowledge and Models in Climate Science. London, CA. October False precision, surprises and the goal of accurate uncertainty reports (with James Risbey) Responding and adapting to climate change: Recognizing and managing uncertainty in the physical, social, and public spheres. Bristol, UK. September Ethics and Uncertainty (with Nancy Tuana) ASP Summer Colloquium. Uncertainty in Climate Change Research: An Integrated Approach. National Center for Atmospheric Research. Boulder, CO. July Values in Policy-Relevant Computational Modeling Values in Science and Science Policy. George Mason University. Fairfax, USA. May Getting Clear about Transparency in Science The 2014 Fay Horton Sawyier Philosophy Lecture in Science, Technology, and Society. Illinois Institute of Technology. Chicago, USA. April "Is that a real observation? Simulating and measuring global climate change" Department of Philosophy. Northern Illinois University. DeKalb, USA. April The future of climate modeling 3rd Annual Cultures of Energy Symposium. Rice University. Houston, USA. April

5 Simulation and Understanding 2nd Cognitive Astrophysics Workshop. Carnegie Observatories. Pasadena, USA. March What does model agreement really tell us? Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science. ETH. Zurich, Switzerland. December Measuring via computer simulation? Center for Science Studies. Aarhus University. November Rationales for probabilistic climate modeling Probabilistic Modeling in Science and Philosophy. Bern, Switzerland. October Invited summer school lectures. Vienna Summer University (VISU) Climate Studies. Vienna, Austria. July Simulation, Measurement & the Construction of Global Climate Datasets Bergen Philosophy of Science Workshop. Bergen, Norway. June Methodological Challenges in Climate Science Philosophy and Climate Science 3. Bristol, UK. June Beyond Prediction: The Computer as Inductive Device in the Study of Weather and Climate Rotman Speaker Series. University of Western Ontario. April Data Assimilation, Measurement and the Construction of Global Climate Datasets Dimensions of Measurement. Bielefeld, Germany. March Let s not confirm our models Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes. Boulder, CO. January Atmospheric models as observing instruments? American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting. December Values and Uncertainty in Climate Prediction, Revisited. Philosophy Department Colloquium. University of Cincinnati. December Let s not confirm our models Physics Department Colloquium. Ohio University. October Models, Measurement and the Construction of Global Climate Datasets 28 th Boulder Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science. September Values, Bias and the Estimation of Uncertainty in Climate Modelling (plenary) VaNiM 2012: Values and Norms in Modeling. Eindhoven, The Netherlands. June The Target of Testing: Models, Adequacy and the Aims of Science History & Philosophy of Science Colloquium Series. Stanford University. May Three misconceptions about climate change 3 rd Annual Spring Meteorology Symposium. Ohio University. April Beyond Error Bars: Climate Modeling, Uncertainty & Epistemic Responsibility Philosophy/History/Sociology of Science Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania. March The Target of Testing: Models, Adequacy and the Aims of Science Annual Lecture Series, Center for Philosophy of Science. University of Pittsburgh. March Author meets critic session. For E. Winsberg (2010) Science in the Age of Computer Simulation. American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting. December Experiment and Simulation: Roads Traveled and New Directions (keynote) Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation 2. Konstanz, Germany. October Climate modeling for decision support: Doing our best with uncertainty Geography Department Colloquium. Ohio University. October Geography Department Colloquium. Northern Illinois University. October Transparency revisited: The CRU s, democratic accountability & scientific progress Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science. Boston University. September The Target of Testing: Models, Adequacy & Scientific Knowledge 14 th Congress of Logic, Philosophy & Methodology of Science (LMPS). Nancy, France. July Conveying uncertainty: Ownership, justification & robustness 5

6 Climate science and climate change: Epistemological and methodological issues (Affiliated symposium to the 14 th Congress of LMPS). Nancy, France. July When climate models agree: The significance of robust model predictions (plenary) Annual Conference of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science. Sussex, UK. July Making sense of climate data Making Sense of Data: Who and How? Exeter, UK. June 2011 Simulation and understanding in the study of weather and climate Knowing and Understanding Through Computer Simulations. Paris, France. June Engaging climate science American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting. San Diego, CA. April Use of simulations and models for decision making: climate change (keynote) Epistemology of Modeling and Simulation. University of Pittsburgh. April Beyond Error Bars: Climate Modeling, Uncertainty & Epistemic Responsibility Philosophy Department Colloquium. Connecticut College. April Testing, Confirmation and Adequacy: What can climate models tell us? American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. San Francisco, California. December Thinking about Metrics: Adequacy, Performance & Quality American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. San Francisco, California. December The Context of Climate Science: Norms, Pressure and Progress Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting. Montreal, Canada. November The Target of Testing: Models, Adequacy & Scientific Knowledge History and Philosophy of Science Colloquium. Indiana University. October Geoengineering, Scientific Responsibility & Public Trust The Ethics of Geoengineering. Missoula, Montana. October Ensembles, Metrics & Probabilities 11 th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology. Edinburgh, Scotland. July Climate Change, Skepticism & Denialism Beyond Rationality II. Center for Intelligence & Security Studies. Oxford, Mississippi. July Confirmation and Testing of Scientific Models, Revisited (plenary) 28 th IUGG Conference on Mathematical Geophysics. Pisa, Italy. June Understanding Weather and Climate: The Roles of Simple and Complex Models Understanding and the Aims of Science. Leiden, The Netherlands. June Exploring the Methodological Map: Simulation, Experiment and Measurement [Panel member] Models and Simulation 4. University of Toronto, Canada. May 2010 Models, Adequacy & Scientific Knowledge Henle Conference on Experimental & Theoretical Knowledge. St.Louis, Missouri. March <2010 What does it mean when climate models agree? Examining the significance of robust predictions History and Philosophy of Science Colloquium, University of Toronto. November Philosophy Department Colloquium, University of Waterloo. November 2009 Simulation, Measurement & Reanalysis Datasets European Philosophy of Science Association Meeting. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. October Confirmation and Adequacy-for-Purpose in Climate Modeling (plenary) Joint Sessions of the Aristotelian Society & Mind Association. Norwich, UK. July Models, Metrics and the Prediction of Climate Change Models & Simulation 3. Charlottesville, VA. March Comparative Process Tracing and Climate Change Fingerprints Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) Biennial Meeting. Pittsburgh, PA. November Ethics & Policy-Relevant Science American Meteorological Society Summer Policy Colloquium. Washington, DC. June

7 Ensembles, Robustness and Adequacy Distinguished Speaker Series, The Committee on History and Philosophy of Science. University of Colorado, Boulder. January Hierarchies and Ensembles: Using Collections of Incompatible Models in Science Philosophy Department Colloquium. Purdue University, Indiana. November How to Think About Models and Their Evaluation Confirmation, Induction and Science. London School of Economics. London, UK. March Do Climate Experts Have Special Moral Responsibilities? Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics. Ohio University. March Pluralism in Climate Modeling: From Scientific Uncertainty to Science for Policy Philosophy Department Colloquium. University of California, Santa Cruz. January Scientific Expertise in the Public Policy Process Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science. Boston University. May A Philosophical Look at Computer Simulation Modeling Climate Seminar Series. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. March What s So Troubling about Computer Experiments? Philosophy Department Colloquium, University of Minnesota. February Why Computer Simulation Experiments are Not So Different from Material Experiments MEPHISTOS Graduate Student Conference. Madison, Wisconsin. March Posters Scientific Modeling and Limits to the Value-Free Ideal (with Eric Winsberg) 25 th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. Atlanta, Georgia. November Models, Measurement and Reanalyses in Atmospheric Science American Geophysical Union 2013 Fall Meeting. San Francisco, California. December Multi-model ensembles, metrics and probabilities Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Expert Meeting on Assessing and Combining Multi-model Climate Projections. Boulder, Colorado. January Courses Taught Philosophical Issues in Contemporary Science (seminar) Science, Values & Policy (seminar) Climate Change: Science, Ethics, Policy (seminar) Models and Simulation (seminar) Philosophy of Social Science (seminar) Introduction to Philosophy of Science Environmental Ethics Introduction to Ethics Introduction to Symbolic Logic Principles of Reasoning Problem Solving: How Science Works Professional Service Editorships Co-Editor-in-Chief, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Editorial Boards Philosophy of Science (Associate Editor) The Reasoner 7

8 Leadership in Professional Associations Governing Board, Philosophy of Science Association (PSA), BSPS Committee, the British Society for the Philosophy of Science (BSPS), Conference Organizing Program Chair, 25 th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA), Atlanta, Georgia, Program Committee, Knowledge and Models in Climate Science. University of Western Ontario, Canada, 2014 Program Committee, 4th European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) Meeting. Helsinki, Finland, 2013 Co-organizer, (with Joel Katzav), The Roles of Climate Models. Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2013 Program Committee, Models & Decisions. Munich, Germany, 2013 Program Committee, Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting. San Diego, USA, 2012 Program Committee, Models & Simulation 4 & 5. Montreal, Canada, 2010; Helsinki, Finland, 2012 Program Committee, Philosophy of Experiment (PSX) 1,2,3,4,5. Pittsburgh, USA, 2010; Konstanz, Germany, 2011; Boulder, USA, 2012; Pittsburgh, USA, 2014; Belgrade, Serbia, 2016 Local Organizing Committee, 6 th Fellows Quadrennial Conference (Fellows of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA). Athens, USA, 2008 Local Organizing Committee, Models and Prediction. Univ. of California - San Diego, USA, 2006 University Service AHRC Liaison Group, Durham University, Associate Director, Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society (CHESS), Durham University, Director, Graduate Diploma Programme in Philosophy, Durham University, Graduate Chair, Department of Philosophy, Ohio University, President s Advisory Council on Sustainability Planning, Ohio University, Environmental Studies Advisory Board, Ohio University, Grant Review U.K. Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Member of Peer Review College, U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Panels (multi-year service term) Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Reviewer Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Reviewer Swiss National Science Foundation, Reviewer U.K. Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Reviewer U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Review Panel Refereeing Analysis; Biology & Philosophy; BioScience; British Journal for the Philosophy of Science; Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society; Climatic Change; Earth Interactions; Environmental Science and Policy; Episteme; Ergo; Erkenntnis; Ethics, Place & Environment; European Journal for Philosophy of Science; Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences; Hypatia; International Studies in the Philosophy of Science; Journal of Climate; Mind; Minds and Machines; The Monist; Oxford University Press; Philosophy & Technology; Philosophy Compass; Philosophy of Science; Pickering and Chatto Publishers; Reviews of Geophysics; Science Studies; Science, Technology and Human Values; Social Problems; Social Studies of Science; Studies in History and Philosophy of Science; Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences; Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics; Studies in History and Philosophy of Science; Synthese; Topics in Contemporary Philosophy; Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs) Climate Change. 8