CfP: Fifth meeting of the Nordic Network for Philosophy of Science, Copenhagen April 2017
Fifth Annual Meeting of the Nordic Network for Philosophy of Science
Copenhagen, April 20-21, 2017, https://nnpscience.
The Nordic Network for Philosophy of Science (NNPS)
invites proposals for contributed talks and posters for its fifth annual
meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, April 20-21, 2017,
co-arranged by the Section for History and Philosophy of Science at the
Department of Science Education, Copenhagen University and members of
the Department of Philosophy and LUCID, Lund University. Previous
meetings were held in Uppsala (2013), Lund (2014),
Helsinki (2015), and Tartu (2016).
NNPS2017 keynote lectures are given by:
· Johanna
Seibt (Aarhus)
· Roger
Strand (Bergen)
· NN
(to be confirmed)
We welcome contributed papers and posters from all areas of philosophy of science, including, but not limited to:
- General philosophy of science: methodological, epistemological and metaphysical issues in sciences
- Philosophy of special disciplines and meta-philosophy: 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
- Issue-centred research: Ethical, socio-political, historical and cultural issues in science
Contributions from scholars affiliated with
institutions in the Nordic, Baltic, and Northern European regions are
particularly welcome, as are contributions from junior researchers.
Participants should arrange their own travel and
accommodation (suggestions will be available on the NNPS website).
Pending budgetary approval, there may be limited funds to
subsidize travel cost for
scholars from Eastern Europe, as well as for PhD students and post-docs
(i.e., those within seven years of their dissertation date at the time
of the NNPS meeting).
Participants should also pay for their own meals.
Pending budgetary approval, coffee and lunch during the meeting will be
provided.
Format
Presentations last 20 minutes, followed by a 5
minutes peer-commentary (arranged by the organizers), and 15 minutes
discussion. Presenters must send their (draft-)paper to their
commentator no later than 2 weeks prior to the conference.
Presenters must bid to deliver a peer-commentary based on all abstracts
accepted for NNPS 2017. Only in exceptional cases may a presenter
decline to prepare and deliver a peer-commentary, in which case an
alternative will be sought (e.g., a dedicated commentator
or someone willing to deliver two commentaries).
Posters are on display throughout the meeting as well
as during a dedicated poster session, where authors should briefly
introduce their poster. Posters are to be brought to the meeting.
Review process and criteria
A program committee will be set up headed by Henrik
Kragh Sørensen (Copenhagen) and Henrik Thorén (Lund) and including
recognized scholars in the field.
For each abstract, three reviewers are asked to
evaluate submissions on the following criteria, and their individual
scores are aggregated.
· Within
scope of conference (sine qua non condition)
· Quality,
originality, and relevance of topic, including relation to existing research (50%)
· Clarity
of main thesis and style of writing (50%)
Important dates
· January
15, 2017: Deadline for abstract submission
· February
15, 2017: Notification of acceptance for papers and posters
· March
1, 2017: start bidding for peer-commentary
· March
15, 2017: all commentators assigned
· March
20: preliminary program
· April
1, 2017: Registration deadline
· April
6, 2017: Deadline for sending manuscript to commentator
· April
19: registration, 4pm to 6pm, with an informal reception
· April
20-21, 2017: NNPS 2017 meeting, 9.00am to 6.30pm (both days)
· April
20: conference dinner, 8pm
Submission procedure
Abstracts for contributed papers and posters of no more than 800 words (excluding references) must be prepared
for blind review and be submitted through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/
On the EasyChair site, please provide names and
affiliations of all authors, and co-authors, identify the presenting
author(s), indicate whether you submit an abstract for a paper or a
poster, and whether you wish to be considered
for a poster-slot (should the program be filled), and vice versa.
An author may be listed as co-author on multiple submissions but she or he can give at most one presentation.
Venue
The meeting takes place at the H. C. Ørsted Institute, Universitetsparken 5, 2100 København Ø.https://goo.gl/maps/
The registration and pre-conference wine reception
takes place at the Department of Science Education, Øster Voldgade 3,
København K. https://goo.gl/maps/
Questions and social interaction
The Local Organizing Committee (LOC) consists of
Henrik Kragh Sørensen and Mariana Vitti Rodrigues (Copenhagen) and
Henrik Thorén and Frank Zenker (Lund).
All inquiries can be emailed to nnps2017@ind.ku.dk.
To support the networking nature of the meeting, a Facebook page has been set up to which all participants are invited: https://www.facebook.