CfA Workshop: New Perspectives on Anomalies in the Sciences
Deadline for submissions: August 5, 2023.
Notification of acceptance: August 10, 2023.
Conference dates: October 5 and 6, 2023.
Location: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Sociais - IFCS/UFRJ
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, BRA.
Keynote speakers:Otavio Bueno (University of Miami), Décio Krause (UFRJ), Itala Loffredo D'Ottaviano (Unicamp).
The workshop welcomes formal and informal contributions on anomalies in scientific disciplines -- with a special focus on novel ways to characterize, reconstruct, and explain anomalies in different areas of scientific research. Topics include, but are not limited to the following:
- The ontological status of anomalies (the nature of anomalies in science, the limits of scientific research programs).
- The epistemological significance of anomalies (their relation with ignorance, knowledge, and scientific understanding).
- The role of logic(s) in handling anomalies in science (distinct inferential mechanisms that could underlie the phenomenon of handling anomalies in the sciences, formal reconstructions of historical anomalies).
- The social and cultural dimensions of anomalies (how scientific communities respond to new evidence, how scientific communities respond to anomalies)
- The methodological challenges of studying anomalies (the methodological challenges involved in identifying, studying, and interpreting anomalies in different scientific disciplines).
SUBMISSIONS:
Abstracts should be 200-500 words (+ references), prepared for blind review, and include an indication of what type of submission is intended (either oral presentation or poster).
Abstracts should be submitted via email to: anomalies2023@gmail.com
Deadline: August 5, 2023.