Segunda llamada a la participación: VIII Congreso de la SLMFCE
The Spanish Society of Logic,
Methodology and Philosophy of Science (SLMFCE) and the Facultat de
Filosofia of the Universitat de Barcelona organize the VIII Congress of
the society to be held in Barcelona from 7th to 10th July
2015. The congress will host the second edition of the Lullius Lectures,
which will be in charge of Prof. Hartry Field (New York U.). The steering
committee of the society will organize a symposium on H. Field’s work.
General information:
Date: 7-10 July 2015
Venue: Facultat de Filosofia
(Universitat de Barcelona), 4th floor
C.
/ Montalegre 6
08001
Barcelona
Organizing
Committee:
Concepción
Martínez Vidal (President SLMFCE, USC), Antonio Blanco (U. Complutense), María
Caamano (U. de Valladolid), Maria Cerezo (U. de Murcia), Valeriano Iranzo (U.
València), Inmaculada Perdomo (U.Laguna), Francisco Salguero (U. Sevilla).
Local Organizing Committee (UB):
José Martínez, Manuel
García-Carpintero, José Díez and Sergi Oms.
Contributed papers and symposia:
We invite submissions for both
contributed papers and proposals for symposia (in English, Spanish or Catalan)
to the following sections:
A Logic, History and Philosophy of
Logic
B Philosophy of Language
C Philosophy of Mind and
Epistemology
D Philosophy and Methodology of
Science
E History of Science
F Science, Technology and Society
Deadline for the submission of
abstracts for contributed papers and symposia: February 28th,
2015.
Submissions of contributed papers should have no more than 1500 words and should be
prepared for blind refereeing. Submissions for symposia should include a brief abstract
for each participant’s talk (without author names, max. 1000 words) and
justification of its interest (max. 500 words).
If the submission is intended to be
for the symposium on Hartry Filed, this should be indicated at the moment of
submitting the paper.
The allocated time for delivering
contributed papers at the conference will be 30 minutes, discussion included.
The allocated time for symposia at the conference will be 2 hours with at most
5 participants.
Abstracts for contributed papers and
symposia are to be submitted electronically at
Authors will be informed about the
acceptance of submissions before the end of April 2015.
Deadline for the submission of the
final version of accepted abstracts (in order to be published in the electronic
proceedings): 31 May 2015. The final version should be sent in Word or LaTeX
format, along with a PDF file.
In order to promote the work of
young researchers, the SLFMCE will provide financial support for the three best
contributions submitted by young researchers. Candidates must fulfill the
conditions listed below:
(a) to be a master student or a PhD
student, or to have (doctoral dissertation read after the February 28th,
2011).
(b) to be a member of the SLMFCE
when the contribution is submitted.
(c) to get the highest rank for the
submitted contribution at the blind process of refereeing.
Funds are intended to cover the registration fee, travel and accommodation expenses (maximum 500€ for each winner of the prize). The SLMFCE will provide a certificate to the winners of the grant.
The young researchers who want to
apply to the grant must send an e-mail, once the submission has been uploaded,
to 8slmfce@gmail.com with
their personal data and the necessary documents certifying that they fulfill
the conditions above.
Information regarding registration,
program, etc. will be regularly updated on the website of the conference:
For more information: 8slmfce@gmail.com