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GWP.2025

Fifth International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science

Call for Papers – Call for Symposia

ZIWIS, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

Erlangen, Germany

March 24-26, 2025

Submission Deadline: September 1, 2024

Acceptance Notification: November 2024

Keynote lectures will be given by:

Kevin Elliott (Michigan State)

Roman Frigg (London)

Andreas Hüttemann (Köln)

Lina Jansson (Nottingham)

Sabina Leonelli (München)

Naomi Oreskes (Harvard)

The German Society for Philosophy of Science (Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsphilosophie – GWP) was founded in September 2011 with the aim to better integrate the community of philosophers of science and academics interested in philosophy of science in Germany and thereby to promote the field at a local and international level. The GWP organizes an international conference every three years. Our fifth conference will be hosted by the FAU Kompetenzzentrum für interdisziplinäre Wissenschaftsreflexion (ZIWIS) at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and co-hosted by its Institut für Philosophie from 24th until 26th of March 2025. The ZIWIS (www.ziwis.fau.de) pursues the goal of understanding philosophy of science in an application-oriented way and linking it with other areas of science studies, which is characterized by the concept of “Wissenschaftsreflexion” (“reflection on science”).

Contributed papers are invited from all fields of philosophy of science as well as from the history of science, science & technology studies (STS), and other related disciplines. Contributed papers will be clustered into parallel sessions focusing on particular topics or special sciences.

We welcome proposals for individual papers (30 min plus 10 min discussion) or symposia (3 speakers in a 2-hour session). Graduate students are especially encouraged to submit proposals for either individual papers or symposia. All proposals will be submitted electronically via the conference website at https://www.wissphil.de/gwp2025/ where you will also find all detailed information on the submission process (including formatting guidelines of proposals) and, closer to the time, on how to register for the conference.

Please note that each person can only present one paper at the GWP.2025 (whether individual or as part of a symposium; co-authorship of papers presented by others is possible). The recommended conference language is English, but contributions in German will also be considered.

The deadline for all submissions is: September 1, 2024

Expected notification of acceptance by the beginning of November 2024. 

Local Organizing Committee (LOC): Michael Jungert (chair), Sabine Dika, Gerhard Ernst, Katrin Götz-Votteler, Simone Hespers, Jon Leefmann, Erasmus Mayr, Josephine Musil-Gutsch, Vanina Rodriguez-Bauer, Anna Schneider, Sebastian Schuol

Program Committee: Axel Gelfert (GWP President), Gerhard Ernst, Vera Hoffmann-Kolss, Michael Jungert, Jon Leefmann, Erasmus Mayr, Josephine Musil-Gutsch, Sebastian Schuol

Dear all,

We are happy to announce our workshop “Methodological Transformations in Fundamental Physics” (September 16-18 2024, Wuppertal, Germany). A call for abstracts is open until June 1st.

(For more information, please visit the https://grk2696.de/?page_id=873)

Abstract
The success of science is often attributed to “the” scientific method, yet the definition and nature of this method remains a subject of philosophical debate. While traditional philosophy sought to establish a normative, static and universal account of the scientific method, more practice-oriented philosophers have stressed the dynamic nature of scientific method(s) since the post-positivist turn in philosophy of science. Recent developments in fundamental physics (String Theory, the Standard Model of particle physics and its extensions, early universe cosmology, etc.) offer promising case studies for investigating (the) scientific “method(s)” and its alleged dynamic and plastic nature. This workshop therefore proposes to review recent developments in fundamental physics (since the second half of the 20th century), in order to evaluate whether these developments entail significant methodological breaks with respect to the past. “Methods” is to be understood in a broad sense, which includes criteria of epistemic appraisal (acceptance) and heuristic appraisal (pursuit), but also more globally the computational, observational, experimental, and statistical means through which evidence is produced and assessed. The workshop welcomes perspectives from philosophers of science and philosophers of physics, historians, physicists, social epistemologists, and sociologists of science.

The discussion will be organized into three broad themes: “theory assessment in fundamental physics”; “epistemic implications of recent methodological approaches and new methodological challenges”; and “social and other dimensions of scientific methodology”. 

Confirmed speakers
Elena Castellani (University of Florence)

Richard Dawid (University of Stockholm)

Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech)

Mike D. Schneider (University of Missouri)

Chris Smeenk (Western University)

Submission guidelines
We welcome contributions from physicists, philosophers of science and philosophers of physics, historians, social epistemologists, and sociologists of science. Those interested in participating should submit a title and an abstract of 500 words to grk2696@uni-wuppertal.de and plan for a 30 minute talk.

Deadline for submissions: June 1st

Decision notification: June 15th

Please contact grk2696@uni-wuppertal.de if you have any questions regarding the workshop.

Date & Location
The workshop will start on Monday, September 16th (in the morning) and end on Wednesday, September 18th. It will take place on the campus of the University of Wuppertal.

Organization
Sarwar Ahmed

Lucas Gautheron

Anastasiia Lazutkina

Radin Dardashti

In connection with the centenary of the Vienna Circle and the upcoming 75th anniversary of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, we are organizing a conference titled Philosophy of Science: Past, Present and Future. This conference will take place on October 17-19, 2024, and will be held at the University of Minnesota. 

The conference will consist of three sessions. First, a group of HOPOS scholars will reflect on the institutional history of philosophy of science, exploring how journals, research centers, societies, departments, and funding agencies have shaped the discipline as we know it today. Next, a group of contemporary philosophers of science (prominent researchers, journal editors, society presidents, and research center directors) will reflect on the current status of the profession through a series of papers and round table conversations. Finally, a group of promising junior scholars will offer their vision of what philosophy of science could or should look like in the decades to come.

Confirmed Speakers 

Anna Alexandrova (University of Cambridge), Holly Andersen (Simon Fraser University), Liam Kofi Bright (London School of Economics), Carl Craver (Washington University-St. Louis), Kathleen Creel (Northeastern University), Fons Dewulf (TiLPS, Tilburg University), Heather Douglas (Michigan State University), Stephan Hartmann (MCMP, LMU Munich), Joel Isaac (University of Chicago), Carole Lee (University of Washington), Hannes Leitgeb (MCMP, LMU Munich), Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter), Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh), Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh), Bennett McNulty (University of Minnesota), Wendy Parker (Virgina Tech), Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech), Angela Potochnik (University of Cincinatti), George Reisch (Independent scholar), Alan Richardson (University of British Columbia), Stéphanie Ruphy (ENS-University of Paris), Bryan Roberts (London School of Economics), Janet Stemwedel (San José State University), Thomas Uebel (University of Manchester), James Weatherall (UC Irvine) 

Scientific Committee 

Bas van Fraassen (Princeton University), Paul Hoyningen-Huene (Leibniz University Hannover), Philip Kitcher (Columbia University), Helen Longino (Stanford University), Deborah Mayo (Virginia Tech), Sandra Mitchell (University of Pittsburgh), Friedrich Stadler (University of Vienna), Alison Wylie (University of British Columbia) 

Organizers 

Alan Love (MCPS, University of Minnesota), Sander Verhaegh (TiLPS, Tilburg University) 

Submission guidelines 

We invite philosophers of science and HOPOS scholars to submit proposals for poster presentations in conjunction with the conference theme. Submissions on all topics related to the past, present, or future of philosophy of science broadly construed are welcome. Please submit abstracts of 500 words (maximum) suitable for blind review to mcps@umn.edu and indicate whether you would like to present your poster in the ‘Past’, the ‘Present’, or the ‘Future’ section. 

In every section of the conference with invited speakers, a few paper slots will be reserved for contributed abstracts. Please indicate whether you would like your poster proposal to be considered for such a slot. Oral presentations in the ‘Future’ section will be exclusively reserved for junior scholars (graduate students or scholars who obtained their PhD within the last six years). 

A curated subset of the proceedings will be published in the Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science series with contributors revising manuscripts in light of conference feedback and peer review comments. 

Dates and Deadlines 

April 30: Submission deadline 

May 31: Notifications 

October 17-19: Conference 

More information 

This conference is hosted by the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science in the College of 

Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities). Questions about the conference can be 

directed to Alan Love (aclove[at]umn.edu) and Sander Verhaegh (a.a.verhaegh[at]tilburguniversity.edu). 

Website: https://cla.umn.edu/mcps/research-programs/conferences-and-workshops. 

Aims:
The international workshop on “Trivalent Suspension, Uncertainty and 
Reasoning with Conditionals” (TSUC) aims to bring together renowned 
researchers from philosophy, logic, formal epistemology, and mathematics 
to discuss the major issues, contemporary methodologies that have arisen 
in the study of suspension, uncertainty, and conditionals. We would like 
to investigate a specific perspective concerning trivalent logic, 
probability and conditionals. Specifically, this workshop intends to 
bring together researchers to introduce and discuss i) major TSUC 
research issues that have arisen in recent years, ii) innovative 
methodologies developed in response to such issues, iii) the connections 
between the three components of TSUC, and iv) major TSUC research 
challenges in its future development. Such research issues include the 
formal models of judgment suspension, indeterminism, uncertainty 
inference, many-valued connectives and consequences, subjective prob- 
ability, conditional probabilities, trivalent conditionals, branching 
time structure, and so forth. We will be able to understand the major 
issues, and research problems and gaps for the future development of TSUC.

Speakers:
Caitlin Canonica (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)
John Cantwell (KTH Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, Sweden)
Massimiliano Carrara (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy)
Mario Günther (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)
Sven Ove Hansson (KTH Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, Sweden)
Tim Kraft (University of Regensburg, Germany)
Ondrej Majer (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic)
Niki Pfeifer (University of Regensburg, Germany)
Hans Rott (University of Regensburg, Germany)
Giuseppe Sanfilippo (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy)
Daniela Schuster (Universität Konstanz, Germany)
Verena Wagner (Universität Konstanz, Germany)
Wei Zhu (University of Regensburg, Germany)

Organisers:
Hans Rott, Niki Pfeifer, Wei Zhu (Department of Philosophy, University 
of Regensburg)

For titles, abstracts, and updates to the program please check out our 
website at

https://go.uni-regensburg.de/tsuc

Dear colleagues and students,

please find here some information about the two-year Master program “History, Philosophy and Culture of Science” (HPS+) offered by the Philosophy Department in cooperation with other Departments at Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB): HPS+-info [1]

An important novelty is that from now on a specialization in logic (next to a focus on HPS) is also possible. (The title of the program will show this soon).

If you see opportunities to announce our Master program in your field and / or to draw the attention of suitable students to it, we would be very pleased!
There will be a hybrid info event on Wednesday, July 5, 11:00 AM (CET). Interested students can contact us via our homepage (https://www.hpsplus.org/contact) and will receive a Zoom-link in advance.

Many thanks in advance and kind regards,
The HPS+-Team

[1] Link to HPS+Info: https://www.hpsplus.org/_files/ugd/70ba36_996d5eec22e6406c9bb9726ea9645f1a.pdf

Ankündigung

Das Netzwerk „Argumentieren in der Schule“ richtet im Rahmen seines Arbeitstreffens einen öffentlichen Workshop mit dem Titel „Ziele und Grenzen des Argumentierens“ aus, der vom 18. bis 20. September 2023 in Düsseldorf stattfindet.

Welche Ziele können und sollen im Argumentieren verfolgt werden? Wo liegen die Grenzen des Argumentierens und wie lässt sich mit ihnen umgehen? Diese und weitere Fragen zu Status, Funktion und Kontexten des Argumentierens sowie ihre Konsequenzen für die Argumentationsdidaktik und die Unterrichtspraxis stehen im Zentrum des Workshops. Angenommen, das Formulieren, Analysieren und Bewerten von Argumenten steht als Kernkompetenz freier und kritischer Bürger*innen zurecht im Zentrum der Bildungsziele von Universitäten und Schulen. Denn schließlich haben diese Kompetenzen einen wesentlichen Anteil an dem im „Dresdener Konsens“ formulierten Ziel der Stärkung einer ganzheitlich verstandenen Urteilskraft. Dennoch, und um so mehr, gilt es zu fragen, wie genau sich das Argumentieren zum Urteilen verhält, welchen Zwecken es dient und wo seine Grenzen liegen.Plakat-u.-Flyer-Düsseldorf-1Herunterladen

Zeit und Ort

• Beginn: 18. September 2023, 15:00
• Ende: 20. September 2023, 13:00
• Raum: Vortragsraum in der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek (direkt im Foyer die Treppe hinauf)
• ÖPNV: nächstgelegene U-Bahn-Station „Uni Ost/Botanischer Garten„

Montag, 18. September 2023

• 15:00 Informelles Zusammenkommen
• 15.30 Begrüßung
• 15:45–17:00 David Lanius (Karlsruhe)
  Warum es unmöglich ist, gut zu argumentieren – und was das für Demokratiebildung und den öffentlichen Diskurs bedeutet
• 17:00 Pause
• 17:30–18:45 Kirsten Meyer (Berlin)
  Förderung argumentativer Kompetenzen und moralische Bildung

Dienstag, 19. September 2023

• 09:30–10:45 Peggy H. Breitenstein (Jena)
  „It is largely undisputed …”? Wie umgehen mit dem aktuellen Blasphemismus gegenüber argumentativen Diskursen?
• 10:45 Pause
• 11:15–12:30 Thomas Grundmann (Köln)
  Soziale Erkenntnis-Rollen und zulässige Argument-Typen
• 12:30 Mittagspause
• 14:00–15:15 Monika Platz (München)
  Zur (epistemisch) asymmetrischen Beziehung zwischen Lehrkraft und Schüler*in: Positive und negative Auswirkungen auf das Argumentieren in der Schule
• 15:15 Pause
• 15:45–17:00 Kinga Golus (Bielefeld)
  Philosophie inklusiv lehren – Können Menschen mit kognitiven Einschränkungen von argumentativen Kompetenzen profitieren?
• 17:00 Pause
• 17:30–18:45 Gregor Betz (Karlsruhe)
  Argumentlandkarten als Mittel der Urteilsbildung

Mittwoch, 20. September 2023

• 09:30–10:45 Philipp Richter (Bochum)
  „Mehr als nur Sätze…“. Zur Funktion von Sinnlichkeit und Bildern beim Argumentieren
• 10:45 Pause
• 11:15–12:30 Linda Merkel (Potsdam)
  Mit Geschichten argumentieren? – Narrative Texte und ihr Beitrag zur philosophischen Urteilsbildung

Registrierung und weitere Informationen

Alle Interessierten sind herzlich zur Teilnahme eingeladen und werden gebeten, sich bis zum 10. September per E-Mail an donata.romizi@univie.ac.at anzumelden.

Organisation und Dank

Der Workshop wird organisiert von Donata Romizi und David Löwenstein. Für die großzügige Finanzierung des Workshops im Rahmen des Netzwerks „Argumentieren in der Schule“ danken wir der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, für die Übernahme von Verpflegungskosten der Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie.

Logik
philosophisch – psychologisch – mathematisch – informatisch

Hintergrund:
In seiner Erkenntnislehre unterscheidet Stumpf zwischen universalen Axiomen oder logischen Grundsätzen einerseits und regionalen Axiomen oder phänomenologischen Grundsätzen andererseits. Das so bestimmte, phänomenologisch geprägte Logikkonzept soll im Mittelpunkt der Jahrestagung stehen und mit anderen, auch aktuellen Logikkonzepten verglichen werden.

Call for papers

Die Carl Stumpf Gesellschaft lädt dazu ein, die Bedeutung der verschiedenen Logikkonzepte für den Erkenntnisprozess im allgemeinen und für die verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen im besonderen aufzuzeigen. Es wird begrüßt, wenn die Beiträge einen Bezug zur Erkenntnislehre von Carl Stumpf aufweisen.

Im Rahmen der Tagung wird Studenten in einer eigenen Sektion die Gelegenheit gebeten, über ihre aktuellen Abschlussarbeiten (Thema beliebig) aus dem Bereich der Systematischen Musikwissenschaften zu berichten.

Die Vorträge können in Deutsch oder Englisch gehalten werden. In begründeten Ausnahmefällen ist auch ein Online-Vortrag möglich.

Interessenten werden gebeten, kurze Abstracts für Vorträge und Präsentationen bis zum 01. Juli 2023 per E-Mail beim Vorstand der CSG einzureichen: martin.ebeling@tu-dortmund.de

Guest editors: Tobias Henschen (Cologne), Andreas Hüttemann (Cologne)

Topical Collection Description: The metaphysics of science debate is often characterized as dividing philosophers who endorse positions of “maximal” metaphysics and “maximal” anti-metaphysics: philosophers who believe and philosophers who refuse to believe that the content or practice of science is to be explained in terms of unobservable entities, that these entities exist independently of the content and practice of science, that explanations in terms of these entities are (approximately) true, and that we can come to know that these explanations are true, and the negation of this position. What often remains unnoticed is that the metaphysics of science debate has shifted: that the leading participants in the debate have moved toward more moderate positions – positions that can be referred to as positions of “minimal” metaphysics and “minimal” anti-metaphysics. Like maximal metaphysicians, minimal metaphysicians believe that the content or practice of science is to be explained in terms of unobservable entities (for instance, structure), and that these entities exist independently of the content and practice of science. But unlike maximal metaphysicians, minimal metaphysicians emphasize the fallibility of their positions and restrict their ontological commitments to some minimal set of entities. Like maximal anti-metaphysicians, minimal anti-metaphysicians believe that the content or practice of science is not to be explained in terms of unobservable entities that exist independently of the content or practice of science. But unlike maximal anti-metaphysicians, minimal anti-metaphysicians believe that the content or practice of science is to be explained in terms of phenomenal entities, or that scientific realism about observable entities needs to be extended to “unobservable” entities that (like subatomic particles) can be “observed” by our aided senses. The planned collection is supposed to describe the shift in the metaphysics of science debate by providing a forum for the various positions of minimal (anti-) metaphysics that have been defended more recently, for clarifications or elaborations of these positions, and for the arguments and methods that have been or can be employed in support or against these positions.

Appropriate topics for submission include

• presentations, clarifications, or elaborations of and
• arguments for or against

positions of (anti-) metaphysics that qualify as “minimal” in the sense described above, or in a similar sense. These positions include (but are not limited to) variants of

• ontic structural realism,
• pragmatism,
• conventionalism,
• neo-Kantianism,
• Super Humeanism

For further information, please contact Tobias Henschen (lead guest editor): tobias.henschen@uni-koeln.de

The deadline for submissions is 31 December 2023.

Submissions via: https://www.editorialmanager.com/synt/default.aspx

Tobias Henschen (tobias.henschen@uni-koeln.de), Andreas Hüttemann (ahuettem@uni-koeln.de)