CFCUL & CIUHCT Call for abstracts: Hi-Phi International Conference

Hi-Phi International Conference. History & Philosophy of Science, Lisbon, June 23-24, 2022

The Hi-Phi International Conference aims at fostering the debate between the History of Science and the Philosophy of Science communities by integrating not only independent studies of both disciplines, but also those that stand at the interface of History and Philosophy of Science.

The idea for this conference stems from the joint forces of the two research units – the Centre for Philosophy of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (CFCUL) and the Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT) – associated to the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (Ciências ULisboa). This conference will be held in Lisbon on June 23-24, 2022.

The goal of this meeting is to re-link different communities and facilitate the dialogue between senior and junior researchers, but also between historians and philosophers that often work apart. Therefore, the dialogue between History and Philosophy of Science will be promoted by gathering in the same session presentations focused on the same topic, but from the perspective of each of the disciplines, in order to establish scientific bridges and foster community building of historians and philosophers of science.

The conference committee warmly invites researchers working at the interface between history and philosophy of science or from one of the fields but aiming at establishing bridges with the other, to submit proposals for 20-minute talks.


Areas of research include, but are not limited to:

– History and Philosophy of Life Sciences
– History and Philosophy of Environment
– History and Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics
– History and Philosophy of Physics
– History and Philosophy of Technology
– Science and Art
– Science and Ethics.


Submissions should be sent to the following email address: HiPhiConference@fc.ul.pt


Submissions should include:

– Name, affiliation, e-mail address of the author(s)
– An abstract of 300 words
– Bibliographic references
– Scientific area of the paper
– Author(s)’s biographical note of 150 words.


Submission deadline: January 31, 2022


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Keynote Speakers (confirmed)

Fabrizio Baldassarri, Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia
Jutta Shikore, Indiana University
Stathis Psillos, University of Athens


Scientific Committee
Ana Duarte Rodrigues, Ciências ULisboa/CIUHCT
Ana Simões, Ciências ULisboa/CIUHCT
Bruno Jacinto, Ciências ULisboa,/CFCUL
Henrique Leitão, Ciências ULisboa/CIUHCT
João L. Cordovil, Ciências ULisboa/CFCUL
Lorenzo Baravalle, Ciências ULisboa/CFCUL
Maurizio Esposito, Ciências ULisboa/CIUHCT

Organizing Committee
Ana Duarte Rodrigues, Ciências ULisboa/CIUHCT
João L. Cordovil, Ciências ULisboa,/CFCUL
Henrique Leitão, Ciências ULisboa/CIUHCT
Pedro Freitas, Ciências ULisboa/CIUHCT