The Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
The Society for the Metaphysics of Science is hosting its annual conference 10–12 August 2023 at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The submission deadline has been extended to 10 March 2023.
Please see our conference page for submission instructions and further information: https://socmetsci.org/2023
Hope to see you all this summer here in Halifax!
The Philosophy of Science Association is delighted to launch a new initiative called PSA Around the World. The aim of the initiative is to reach out to the global community of philosophers of science and spotlight the rich diversity of practices and traditions in the field of philosophy of science via fully online conferences with a dedicated regional focus, running in the years when the Biennial Meeting of the PSA does not take place.
Our inaugural PSA 2023 Around the World has a focus on East Asia including South East Asia.
The conference will run fully online on ZOOM for three days and in different time slots to accommodate a global audience on various time zones: Sunday 5th November 2023; Saturday 11th November 2023; Friday 17th November 2023 (precise timing for each day TBA).
Contributed papers may be on any topic in philosophy of science and the conference is open to all PSA members worldwide. Given the time zones constraints, and with an eye to increasing diversity of topics, we regret that there is no call for symposia for this conference.
The PSA 2023 Around the World Committee is committed to assembling a program with high-quality papers on a variety of topics and diverse presenters that reflect the full range of current work in the philosophy of science. Scholars working in East Asia are particularly encouraged to submit papers, and papers exploring the philosophy of science in East Asian contexts are most welcome.
Submissions should consist of a 1000 word abstract and should be prepared for anonymous review with no information identifying the author in the body of the abstract. For co-authored papers, the presenting author should upload the abstract. Abstracts should be submitted using the conference EasyChair link: https://easychair.org/cfp/PSA_2023_Around_the_World
The deadline for submissions is 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time on 31 March 2023.
The Program Committee expects to announce its decision on papers accepted for presentation by the end of June 2023. Authors of accepted abstracts are encouraged to post full-length papers as PSA 2023 Around the World Conference Papers at philsci-archive.pitt.edu (a publicly accessible digital archive) prior to the meeting if they wish to do so. Paper presentation at the conference should take no more than 15 minutes to allow 15 min for questions (30 min time slot per paper).
In accordance with current PSA policy, no one is permitted to present more than once at each PSA meeting. A scholar may appear as co-author on more than one paper but may present only once at PSA 2023 Around the World.
General questions about contributed papers should be directed to the Chair of the PSA 2023 Around the World Program Committee, Michela Massimi, at michela.massimi@ed.ac.uk. To maintain anonymity in the review process, questions about specific submissions should be sent to office@philsci.org, as this address will be monitored by someone not involved in the review process.
Dear Members of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science,
In addition to its stand-alone annual conference, the Society for the Metaphysics of Science has often hosted group sessions at the American Philosophical Association divisional meetings. While those sessions have primarily been at the Central and Pacific meetings in the past, this year we are adding a session at the Eastern division meeting (Montreal, 4–7 January 2023) with an open call for papers.
Anonymized abstracts of 400-700 words should be submitted through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smsapae23 ) by Friday, 10 June. Final presentations will be roughly 30 minutes.
Abstracts are welcome in:
Presenters must be members of the APA at the time of the conference and registered for the 2023 Eastern Division meeting.
For any questions please contact the Society for the Metaphysics of Science's APA Eastern division representative, Ryan Miller (Ryan.Miller@unige.ch).
For more information on the Society for the Metaphysics of Science, please see our website: https://socmetsci.org .
Kerry McKenzie’s book Fundamentality and Grounding is open access until 23 February 2022.. The CFP for our 2022 Conference, to be held 7–9 September 2022 at the University of Bristol, is now available.
socmetsci.org
Sincerely,
Tyler Hildebrand, Secretary of the SMS
The ISHPSSB Off-Year Workshop Committee has been hard at work, and we are pleased to announce two more workshops have been approved. This brings the total number of 2022 ISHPSSB Off-Year Workshops to five! You can view all of them on the ISHPSSB webpage here:
https://ishpssb.org/meetings#off-year-workshops
Please note the new website for the “Echoes of Scientific Thought in Society” workshop, and the upcoming Apr. 30 CFP for “Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences XI.”
Our two new workshops:
University of Minnesota, June 10, 2022 (virtual)
Institute for Philosophy in Biology & Medicine, ImmunoConcEpT lab, and University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, Sept. 5-9, 2022 (in-person)
Website https://www.philinbiomed.org/event/easpls-bordeaux-2022/
This adds to the previously approved workshops:
University of São Paulo, Brazil, Sep. 19-23, 2022. (virtual)
Website: https://19racialtheoriesla.wixsite.com/racialtheories (NEW WEBSITE!)
UNAM, Mexico, Oct. 3-7, 2022. (hybrid)
Contact information: David Suárez Pascal (david.suarez@ciencias.unam.mx)
University of Salamanca, Spain, Nov. 3-4, 2022 (in-person)
Contact information: PBCSXI@usal.es.
Website: https://pbcsxiworkshop.wordpress.com/
Call for Participation (deadline April 30): https://pbcsxiworkshop.wordpress.com/cfp/
Thanks to all the organizers of these workshops for their hard work. Please share with your interested colleagues and students.
Best,
Your ISHPSSB Off-Year Workshop Committee,
The Call for Applications for the 2022 AusSTS workshop is now open: https://aussts.wordpress.com/aussts2022/
It will be a multi-sited event, with in-person nodes in Melbourne, Sydney, Darwin and Wellington NZ.
The workshop will take place on the 28th and 29th of July 2022.
Plenary: Anne Pollock (King’s College London)
Intergenerational Plenary: Hana Burgess (UoA), Mythily Meher (UoA), Billy van Uitregt (VUW)
Please do spread the word to HDR candidates and ECRs that you think may be interested in applying. Applications close 30 May.
Thank you all
Very Best,
Roberta
Roberta Pala, coordinator for AusSTS
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Submission opens on January 5, 2022 for proposals for symposia to be presented at the PSA2022 meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on November 10–13, 2022. The deadline for submitting symposium proposals is 11:59 pm Pacific Standard Time on January 26, 2022. Please note the compressed timeframe between the opening of the submission portal and the deadline. Submission is through the PSA2022 website, https://psa2022.dryfta.com/.
A call for contributed papers and a call for posters for the poster forum will be issued separately. Decisions will be returned on symposia submissions prior to the deadline for contributed papers. The call for session chairs will be sent out in late summer 2022. The conference will begin at 8:30 am on November 10 and last through 3:00 pm on November 13.
A symposium should involve several presenters, typically 4–5, organized around a topic of interest in the philosophy of science (broadly construed). The PSA2022 program committee is committed to assembling a program with high-quality symposia on a variety of topics and diverse presenters that reflect the full range of current work in the philosophy of science. Symposia that make connections with current science, such as by including working scientists, or that make other connections outside philosophy, such as with history, sociology, or public policy, are warmly invited. We will not be considering “Author Meets Critics” sessions, but topical sessions that build upon recently published books are welcome.
At the time of submission, proposers may choose to have their proposals considered for the Women’s Caucus Prize Symposium; for more information please see the Women’s Caucus website.
Members of the PSA2022 Program Committee
Proposals must include sufficient supporting material to enable the program committee to evaluate the quality and interest of the symposium. Proposals for symposia should include:
See the meeting website for more information and to submit a symposium proposal after submissions open on January 5, 2022. Please note the compressed submission window - there are slightly fewer weeks between submissions opening and deadline for symposia proposals than usual, to accommodate the compressed timeline between PSA 2021 and PSA 2022.
The site also has a discussion page, which can be used to help organize and find participants for symposium proposals. To post on the discussion page or submit a proposal, you will need to first create an account, even if you’ve created an account in the past. (Click on “Create Account” on the top menu.) Each author of a symposium paper (whether a presenting author or not) and each symposium commentator will also need to create an account.
The deadline for submitting symposium proposals is 11:59 pm Pacific Standard Time on January 26, 2022. Symposium organizers will be informed of the program committee’s decision prior to the deadline for submitting contributed papers (April 6, 2022). Please see important information below on the PSA policy regarding multiple submissions.
After the conference, symposium presenters may submit their papers for review for publication in a supplementary issue of Philosophy of Science. The submission deadline for symposium papers will be announced at a later date. Papers will be evaluated for publication individually. Authors are welcome to post their symposium papers as PSA2022 Conference Papers at philsci-archive.pitt.edu (a publicly accessible digital archive) prior to the meeting (note that submission to the archive does not count as prior publication for papers submitted to the supplementary issue).
Please note that in accordance with current PSA policy:
All questions about submissions should be directed to the Chair of the PSA2022 Program Committee, Holly Andersen, at psa2022@philsci.org.
The next AAHPSSS conference will be held 24 – 26 November, 2021. The conference was to be based at the University of Wollongong, but COVID travel restrictions have necessitated moving it completely on-line. Conference registration rates have therefore been substantially reduced. Registration is now open and includes concessional rates for students and the unwaged, and options for single-day registration.
AAHPSSS is committed to interchange between scholars from a wide range of disciplines, with a focus on supporting postgraduate students, early career academics, and those in insecure employment. Please do consider how you might contribute to this conference, and how we all might support emerging scholars in the field.