Introduction: Measurement at the Crossroads

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Perspectives on Science 2021, vol. 29, no. 6 © 2021 by The Massachusetts Institute of Technology https://doi.org/10.1162/posc_e_00390 The guest editors would like to thank the University of Paris and the ENSA Paris-Val de Seine for having provided premises to successfully host the 2018 “Measurement at the Crossroads” conference in Paris. Our thanks extend to our funding sources: the conference was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Institut Humanités, Sciences et Sociétés (IHSS), the SPHERE laboratory and the Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques (MPQ) of the University of Paris, the department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Paris, the Laboratoire National de métrologie et d’Essais (LNE), and the University of Geneva. We would like to thank the many people who contributed to the organization of the conference: the organizing committee (with a special thought for Christine Mousset), the program committee, our administrative team (in particular, Laurent Lemoine, Virginie Maouchi and Patricia Philippe), the master students who worked at the reception, and the graphics team. Finally, our thanks go to the colleagues who have helped us put together the publication of this special issue: Karine Chemla, the peer-review committee, our language editor Richard Kennedy, and Perspectives on Science’s editor-in-chief Alexander Levine for hosting and encouraging our publication project. Fabien Grégis was supported by the Cohn Institute at the University of Tel Aviv, Israel at the time of the organization of the conference; and by the LIUC-Università Cattaneo, Castellanza, Italy, during the preparation of the special issue.