CfP: The International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry Annual Conference 2018
The International
Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry (ISPC) is devoted to the
international exchange of ideas concerning the philosophical foundations
of the
chemical sciences and related areas. This exchange fosters discourse
between chemists, biochemists, philosophers, historians, sociologists
and educators.
Philosophy of
chemistry concerns both internal questions arising from the methods,
concepts, and ontology unique to chemistry and chemical research, as
well as traditional
questions in the philosophy of science, addressed from a chemical
perspective. See:
The 2018 conference will be open to the full range of topics and views within the overall subject.
For information about previous contributions, please see the volumes of
Foundations of Chemistry which include papers from previous conferences. See:
http://www.springer.com/
There will also be
the special topic of the concept of chemical “element”. Discussion of
this topic potentially brings in a number of issues in the philosophy of
chemistry,
as well as examples from the full range of the history of chemistry,
including the ideas on this topic, for example, of Aristotle, some
alchemists, chemists in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries,
Lavoisier, Mendeleev, IUPAC and Paneth.
The conference
will offer the opportunity for contributors to the forthcoming edited
book of studies on this topic to present preliminary versions of their
papers,
if they wish to do so, and/or to become acquainted with the material
included in the papers by other contributors, as well as the opportunity
for other participants to become acquainted in detail with this very
interesting topic.
The conference is
organised by Dr Geoffrey Blumenthal, University of Bristol, and will be
co-hosted by Vanessa Seifert, University of Bristol.
The scientific committee for determining the programme of the conference includes the following:
Marina Banchetti-Robino, Florida Atlantic University, USA.
José Antonio Chamizo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico.
Michele Friend, Georgetown University, USA.
Elena Ghibaudi, University of Torino, Italy.
Clevis Headley, Florida Atlantic University, USA.
Robin Hendry, University of Durham, UK.
Jean-Pierre Llored, Linacre College, Oxford and Laboratoire Sphère, Université Paris 7.
Olimpia Lombardi, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Guillermo Restrepo, Universidad de Pamplona, Colombia.
Klaus Ruthenberg, Hochschule Coburg, Germany.
Eric Scerri, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
Tami Spector, University of San Francisco, USA.
All proposals for papers should include a title and an abstract of up to 500 words. Please submit your abstracts to
gb0859@bristol.ac.uk;
the deadline is 10 January 2018. Receipt of abstracts will be
acknowledged. Acceptance will be automatic for abstracts which have
already been accepted for the volume on the concept of “element”. In
other cases, the Committee’s decisions will be notified in
mid March 2018.