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PSA
Newsletter: Volume 9 : Number 4: December 2003
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Edited
for the Philosophy of Science Association by
Malcolm
Forster, http://philosophy.wisc.edu/forster
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IN THIS ISSUE:
1.
ANNOUNCEMENT from PSA President Elliott Sober.
2. Sixth Annual
http://artsci.wustl.edu/~awylie/RoundtableIndex.html
3. CALL
for papers: COMPUTING and PHILOSOPHY,
http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra2.html
4. REMINDER,
PSA 2004. CALL for Contributed Papers. Deadline:
http://www.temple.edu/psa2004
5. Call for ABSTRACTS: Southwest Colloquium in History and Philosophy of the
Life Sciences. Deadline:
6. Post-doctoral
Fellowship,
7.
CALL for papers: Model-Based Reasoning in
Science and
http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra1.html
8. First Announcement: A CONFERENCE to mark the 10th
anniversary of the death of
Karl Popper
(28.vii.1902-17.ix.1994).
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/staff/miller/phpar/
9. CALL
for papers: First Joint Conference of
the Society for Philosophy & Psychology and the
European Society for Philosophy &
Psychology. July
3 –
Please see http://www.ub.es/grc_logos/spp_espp_04
for information and submission
instructions. Submission deadline for papers, posters, and
symposia is
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DETAILS:
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1.
ANNOUNCEMENT from PSA President Elliott Sober:
The Executive Committee
of PSA voted to ask George Gale to stay on for a final term as Executive
Secretary. George generously accepted.
His last day in office will be
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2. Sixth
Annual
This is the sixth annual working conference on topics in philosophy of the
social sciences. It continues a tradition of meetings that bring together a
diverse group of philosophers and social scientists to discuss a wide range of
philosophical issues raised in and by social research. Keynote speakers this
year will be: David Copp, Department of Philosophy,
If you would like to be on an email distribution list for future mailings, send
a note to this effect to Jim Bohman (bohmanjf@slu.edu). And be sure to check the Roundtable website
for news and updates: http://artsci.wustl.edu/~awylie/RoundtableIndex.html
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3. CALL for papers: COMPUTING AND
PHILOSOPHY,
EXTENDED Deadline for
submission of 1,000 word ABSTRACT:
The conference will be held at
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4. PSA
2004. CALL for Contributed Papers,
Deadline: March 1, 2004.
Members of the
Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) are invited to submit papers to be
presented at the PSA 2004 meeting in
The deadline for paper
submissions is
The maximum manuscript
length is 5,000 words, including footnotes and references. If the text includes tables or figures, an
appropriate number of words should be subtracted from the limit. Submissions must include a 100-word abstract
and a word count. Format and citation
style should match those of the journal Philosophy of Science (see
http://www.indiana.edu/~philsci/submit.html#finalts for details). Submissions should be prepared for blind
review, with no identifying information in the body of the paper or
abstract. Your identifying information
can appear in the body of an e-mail (where the paper is an attachment file) or
will be requested online if you submit at the program website.
Authors of accepted
papers are expected to present abbreviated versions of their papers, with a
time limit of twenty minutes.
Submissions may be sent
EITHER by e-mail as an attachment in Word or PDF to psa2004@temple.edu OR
electronically at an interactive web site at http://www.temple.edu/psa2004
IMPORTANT: Any submission
accepted for publication in Philosophy of Science will have to be ultimately
submitted in a Word-compatible format.
We encourage you to submit in such a format initially, if at all
possible.
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5. Call for ABSTRACTS: Southwest Colloquium in
the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. Deadline:
Sponsored by the
This is the second year of the Southwest Colloquium in the History and
Philosophy of the Life Sciences, an annual event that includes a one day
Graduate Student Symposium and a one day Faculty/ Graduate Student Workshop
devoted to a specific topic that will be held on alternating years at Arizona
State University and the University of Texas, Austin.
The annual Graduate Student Symposium will take place on a Friday afternoon and
Saturday morning and will feature presentations by graduate students on any
topic in the history and philosophy of the life sciences, although preference
will be given to papers that are related to the topic of the Faculty/Graduate
Student Workshop. All submissions will be subject to peer review. There will be
a keynote address by an outstanding researcher Friday afternoon.
The Faculty/ Graduate Student Workshop will take place on Saturday afternoon
and evening and will focus on a different topic in the history and philosophy
of the life sciences each year. Workshop papers will be pre-circulated and each
will have one or more commentators. The topic for next year's meeting, to be
held at the
Deadline for submission of abstracts is
Limited Funds are available to support graduate student travel to attend the
meeting. For more information please contact Manfred Laubichler
(manfred.laubichler@asu.edu) or Sahotra Sarkar (sarkar@mail.utexas.edu).
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6. Post-doctoral fellowship,
Post-doctoral fellowship for Academic Year 2004-2005. The
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7. CALL
for papers: MODEL-BASED REASONING in Science and Engineering: Abduction, Visualization,
and Simulation,
Deadline for submission of
1,000-1,200 word ABSTRACT:
The conference will be held at
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8. First Announcement: A CONFERENCE to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of
Karl Popper (28.vii.1902-17.ix.1994).
PHILOSOPHY:
PROBLEMS, AIMS, RESPONSIBILITIES.
In recent years many philosophers of different
persuasions have done their best to belittle the importance of philosophical
problems, & even to deny their existence. Some have insisted on replacing
them with historical & other factual questions that can be settled only
empirically, while others have set out to unmask them as mere puzzles induced
by the misuse of language, or even as rhetorical extravagances. The critical
rationalism of Karl Popper has consistently dissented from all these
anti-philosophical views. From The Logic
of Scientific Discovery (1934) to All
Life Is Problem Solving (1994) critical rationalism has emphasized the
central place of problems, including philosophical problems, in the growth of
knowledge.
Seventy years ago Popper put forward a provocative & workable alternative
to the prevailing empiricist orthodoxy (positivism and inductivism) in the
theory of knowledge, and in the next two decades made radical advances in
social & political philosophy (especially in The Open Society & Its Enemies, 1945) and in a staggering
number of other fields. His books in English have remained continuously in
print since they were first published. Yet he
never saw his ideas flourish as they deserved to. Critical rationalism
must surely qualify as one of the greatest missed intellectual opportunities of
the second half of the 20th century.
Through a consideration of some of the problems to whose solution or
elucidation Popper contributed, especially the problem of induction and the
problem of maintaining a free society, this conference will illustrate the
value of philosophy as a discipline that is of abiding
relevance to all intellectual and human endeavours.
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The conference, to be held at the
E- mail: <d.w.miller@warwick.ac.uk>.
Website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/staff/miller/phpar
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PSA LINKS:
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PSA 2004 Biennial
Meeting: http://www.temple.edu/psa2004
PSA website: http://philosophy.wisc.edu/PSA/
Philosophy of Science journal: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/PHILSCI/home.html
PhilSci Archives:
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/
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ENDNOTES:
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