The BSPS Annual Conference: CfP deadline approaches
BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
2–3 July 2015, University of Manchester
Please note that the deadline for receipt of abstracts is Saturday, 7 March. Submission instructions are reproduced below, together with updated accessibility information.
Plenary Speakers:
Katherine Brading (Notre Dame)
Émilie du Châtelet and the foundations of physical science
Havi Carel (Bristol)
Illness, pathology and disease: a phenomenological analysis
Kim Sterelny (ANU)
Cumulative Cultural Evolution and The Origins of Language
Mauricio Suárez (Madrid)
Propensities and Statistical Modeling
Local organiser: Michael Rush
Call for Papers
Submissions are invited from anyone with a scholarly interest in the philosophy of science. Graduate students are particularly encouraged. (Graduate bursaries will be available.) Papers may be on any topic within the philosophy of science and should be suitable for presentation in 20 minutes, which will allow 10 minutes discussion. Abstracts should be received no later than Saturday 7th March 2014. Abstracts will be blind refereed, and successful contributors notified by early April. We do not anticipate being able to share referees' comments.
Submission Instructions
To submit your abstract, go to:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bsps2015
Log in (create an account if you do not already have one)
Select ‘New Submission’ and enter the requested information, including the title of your paper.
Enter your abstract (in plain text, of no more than 1000 words) into the Abstract box.
Please prepare your abstract for blind refereeing.
Please select the topic (or topics) that best describe the area of your submission.
Finally, select ‘Submit’.
For more information please email: <bsps2015@easychair.org>.
PLEASE NOTE: attendance at the conference is restricted to members of the BSPS. You may join the Society online here.
Accessibility Information
We are signed up to the BPA/SWIP Good Practice Scheme. The conference will take place in the Barnes Wallis Building and Manchester Meeting Place. These buildings are next door to each other and there is internal lift access between them as well as external access to each. Accommodation is in Weston Hall, which is about 200m away. Click the links to get full accessibility information about each building from DisabledGo. A loop system is available in the plenary lecture theatre, and a portable loop system is available for use in the parallel session rooms. Please email helen.beebee@manchester.ac.uk if you are not sure whether your specific requirements are covered by the above information.
A limited number of nursery places will also be available. Further details will be announced when registration opens.
About The Society
The purpose of the Society is to study the logic, the methods, and the philosophy of science, as well as those of the various special sciences, including the social sciences. The Society holds an annual conference with invited speakers and contributed papers, as well as ordinary meetings running throughout the year at which invited speakers present a paper. The Society makes small grants to support conferences relevant to research and education in its areas of study, awards an annual doctoral studentship for doctoral work in philosophy of science in a UK university and The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is published on our behalf by Oxford University Press. Visit www.thebsps.org for more information.
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
2–3 July 2015, University of Manchester
Please note that the deadline for receipt of abstracts is Saturday, 7 March. Submission instructions are reproduced below, together with updated accessibility information.
Plenary Speakers:
Katherine Brading (Notre Dame)
Émilie du Châtelet and the foundations of physical science
Havi Carel (Bristol)
Illness, pathology and disease: a phenomenological analysis
Kim Sterelny (ANU)
Cumulative Cultural Evolution and The Origins of Language
Mauricio Suárez (Madrid)
Propensities and Statistical Modeling
Local organiser: Michael Rush
Call for Papers
Submissions are invited from anyone with a scholarly interest in the philosophy of science. Graduate students are particularly encouraged. (Graduate bursaries will be available.) Papers may be on any topic within the philosophy of science and should be suitable for presentation in 20 minutes, which will allow 10 minutes discussion. Abstracts should be received no later than Saturday 7th March 2014. Abstracts will be blind refereed, and successful contributors notified by early April. We do not anticipate being able to share referees' comments.
Submission Instructions
To submit your abstract, go to:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bsps2015
Log in (create an account if you do not already have one)
Select ‘New Submission’ and enter the requested information, including the title of your paper.
Enter your abstract (in plain text, of no more than 1000 words) into the Abstract box.
Please prepare your abstract for blind refereeing.
Please select the topic (or topics) that best describe the area of your submission.
Finally, select ‘Submit’.
For more information please email: <bsps2015@easychair.org>.
PLEASE NOTE: attendance at the conference is restricted to members of the BSPS. You may join the Society online here.
Accessibility Information
We are signed up to the BPA/SWIP Good Practice Scheme. The conference will take place in the Barnes Wallis Building and Manchester Meeting Place. These buildings are next door to each other and there is internal lift access between them as well as external access to each. Accommodation is in Weston Hall, which is about 200m away. Click the links to get full accessibility information about each building from DisabledGo. A loop system is available in the plenary lecture theatre, and a portable loop system is available for use in the parallel session rooms. Please email helen.beebee@manchester.ac.uk if you are not sure whether your specific requirements are covered by the above information.
A limited number of nursery places will also be available. Further details will be announced when registration opens.
About The Society
The purpose of the Society is to study the logic, the methods, and the philosophy of science, as well as those of the various special sciences, including the social sciences. The Society holds an annual conference with invited speakers and contributed papers, as well as ordinary meetings running throughout the year at which invited speakers present a paper. The Society makes small grants to support conferences relevant to research and education in its areas of study, awards an annual doctoral studentship for doctoral work in philosophy of science in a UK university and The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is published on our behalf by Oxford University Press. Visit www.thebsps.org for more information.