CFA: Graduate Workshop "Approaches Within Philosophy of Science" - London, September 2-3, 2014
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FIRST LONDON PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
GRADUATE WORKSHOP -- APPROACHES WITHIN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
UCL
2-3 September 2014
Organisers: Toby Friend and Phyllis
Illari
There has been an increase in the
number of researchers working in philosophy of science in London, and this
workshop aims to bring this community together with those further afield.
Philosophy of science can involve many disparate methodologies and aims at
achieving a variety of goals. As part of an ongoing project to bring together
and boost our burgeoning and diverse community, this first workshop will centre
on discussion of philosophical approaches within the field. Although we welcome
all abstracts which touch on this theme, we are particularly keen for there to
be a good discussion on the role and adequacy of methodological pluralism, the
adequacy of dispositionalist treatments of scientific phenomena, representation
and pragmatism. We encourage participants from the UK and abroad.
**Confirmed
Speakers/Presentations**
Chiara
Ambrosio (University College London) -- "Pierce and The Harvard
Archives"
Hasok
Chang (Cambridge University) -- "What does pluralism tell us about how to
do philosophy of science?"
Stephen
Mumford (Nottingham University) -- "The Irreducibility of
Dispositionality"
Mauricio
Suárez (Institute of Philosophy, London University) -- to be announced
**Submission**
Send
your 500 words max. abstract by 14 July 2014 in doc, docx,
txt, rft or pdf format, suitable for anonymous review to toby.friend.13@ucl.ac.uk.
Abstracts
will be refereed by the UCL Organising Committee:
Toby
Friend, Phyllis Illari and Chiara Ambrosio.
14
July 2014: Deadline
for submission
1
August 2014: Notification
of acceptance
**Further
information**
We
are very grateful to the British Society for the Philosophy of Science for
providing financial support.