International Symposium on the Philosophy of Chemistry Leuven 2012
Dear colleagues
The International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry
(ISPC) --- Summer Symposium 2012 will be held from *Tuesday August 7*
till*Friday August 10, 2012* in Leuven, Belgium, in the Universiteitshal
(Lakenhalle) of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU
Leuven). An optional excursion will be organized on Saturday August 11, 2012.
This event is the continuation of the International
Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry (see http://ispc.sas.upenn.edu/) --- Summer
Symposium 2011https://sites.google.com/site/intsocphilchem2011/ , organized in
Bogota, Colombia at the Universidad de los Andes during August 9 -- 11, 2011.
Previous conferences have been organized in Oxford (United Kingdom),
Philadelphia (United States), and Coburg (Germany).
The *full programme* of the ISPC Summer Symposium 2012 is
now online, please refer to https://sites.google.com/site/ispc2012/programme.
Sessions will deal with the following topics (a detailed
description of the topics can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/ispc2012/themes)
:
1. Atoms in Molecules (R. Bader's approach) 2. Reflections
on Symmetry in Chemistry 3. The Nature of the Chemical Bond 4. Ontologies for
Chemistry 5. Philosophizing Chemists 6. Doing Philosophy of Sustainable
Chemistry 7. The Social Perception and Understanding of Chemistry
Three key-notes will be introducing several of these
selected topics :
Prof. *Paul Popelier* (Manchester Interdisciplinary
Biocenter) :
/*Quantum Chemical Topology*/
Prof. *James Ladyman* (University of Bristol):
*/Challenges for Structural Realism about Chemistry/* Prof.*Hasok Chang*
(Cambridge University) : */Pluralism and Realism in 19th-Century
Electrochemistry/*
Online *registration* is now possible via https://sites.google.com/site/ispc2012/registration.
The registration fee amounts to 60 EUR (including lunches, coffee and
conference documents), with an additional fee of 55 EUR for the conference
dinner.
Information about the venue or accommodation in Leuven can
also be found on the ISPC conference website https://sites.google.com/site/ispc2012/.
For all further queries, please do not hesitate to send
us an email at ISPCSS2012@gmail.com
<mailto:ISPCSS2012@gmail.com>.
We are looking forward to welcoming you all in the
historic town of Leuven !
Very kind regards,
The Local Organizing Committee
Pieter Thyssen, Brigitte Van Tiggelen, Arnout Ceulemans