CFP: Nordic Network for Philosophy of Science: Fourth Annual Meeting University of Tartu April 21-23, 2016, Pärnu, Estonia
The Department of Philosophy at the
University of Tartu is proud to host the 4th meeting of Nordic Network for
Philosophy of Science. We welcome papers on all areas of philosophy of science,
including:
·
General philosophy of science (methodological, epistemological and
metaphysical issues in sciences)
·
Philosophy of special disciplines and metaphilosophy (philosophy of the
natural sciences, life sciences, formal sciences, cognitive and behavioural
sciences, humanities and the social sciences, technology and the applied
sciences etc.)
·
Logic and formal approaches to philosophy of science
·
Ethical, socio-political, historical and cultural issues in science.
All the selected papers will have a
commentator, format 20+5+15 minutes (talk, comment, discussion). Participants
will have the possibility to participate in a follow-up event on April 24 –
excursion to Estonian primeval nature. Previous meeting of the NNPS were held
in Uppsala (2013), Lund (2014) and Helsinki (2015).
Keynote speakers:
Hanne Andersen (University of
Copenhagen, Denmark)
John Dupré (University of Exeter, UK)
Mikael M. Karlsson (University of
Iceland)
Programme committee:
Lise Marie Andersen (Aarhus
University)
Rani Lill Anjum (Norwegian University
of Life Sciences)
Daniel Cohnitz (University of Tartu)
Finnur Dellsén (University of
Iceland)
Søren Harnow Klausen (University of
Southern Denmark)
Lars-Göran
Johansson (Uppsala University)
Ólafur Páll
Jónsson (University of Iceland)
Carlo Martini (TINT, University of Helsinki)
Peeter Müürsepp (Tallinn University
of Technology)
Michiru Nagatsu (TINT, University of Helsinki)
Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen (University of
Helsinki, Tallinn University of Technology)
Petri Ylikoski (University of
Helsinki, Linköping University)
Frank Zenker (Lund University)
Important dates:
January 25, 2016: Deadline for abstract submission – extended!
March 1, 2016: Accepted papers will be notified
March 28, 2016: Deadline for full paper submission
April 21-23, 2016: Dates of the NNPS 2016 meeting
Abstract submission:
Please
prepare abstracts of maximally 750 words for anonymous review. Submissions must
be sent through EasyCair:
Organizers: Endla Lõhkivi, Ave Mets,
Edit Talpsepp (University of Tartu)
Local organizing committee: Kristin
Kokkov, Triin Paaver, Mats Volberg
Further information and queries: nnps2016@ut.ee