First Circular: International Workshop and Conference in Philosophy of Science/Social Sciences

First Circular

International Workshop and Conference in Philosophy of Science/Social
Sciences

December 14 to December 21, 2015

Centre for Science, Technology and Society, Tata Institute of Social
Sciences, Mumbai, India

The workshop and the conference are inter-disciplinary and
multi-disciplinary.

Topics for the Workshop (December 14 - 18, 2015): Current Debates in
Philosophy of Science: Realism, Biology and Social Sciences

Resource Persons: Prof. Richard Boyd (Cornell), Prof. Sahotra Sarkar (UT,
Austin), Prof. Harold Kincaid (University of Cape Town), and Dr. Federica
Russo (University of Amsterdam)

Conference Theme (December 19-21, 2015): From Philosophy of Physical and
Natural Sciences to the Philosophy of Social Sciences: Methodological
Debates on Realism, Causation, Evidence, Probability and Explanation

Invited Speakers: Prof. Richard Boyd (Cornell), Prof. Sahotra Sarkar (UT,
Austin), Prof. Harold Kincaid (University of Cape Town), Prof. Anjan
Chakravartty (Notre Dame), Prof. Amita Chatterjee (Ex-Jadavpur University),
Prof Dhruv Raina (Jawaharlal Nehru University) and Dr. Federica Russo
(University of Amsterdam)

For more details about participation in the workshop and for submitting
contributions to the conference please visit us at:

https://psgi2015.wordpress.com/

You can also see our workshop posted on phil events at:

http://philevents.org/event/show/17804

And the conference and call for papers are posted on phil events at:

http://philevents.org/event/show/17776

and

http://philevents.org/event/show/17777

 Thanks from the organizing committee

T. Jayaraman­– Co-chair (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India)

Bijoy Mukherjee – Co-chair (Visva-Bharati, Shantiniketan, India)