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[Alison Wylie]

Recent conference listings in Science & Technology Studies / History  
and Philosophy of Science / Science and Society
For  details on the following please see below.

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Boulder Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science, "Field  
Science"
October 22-24, 2010, University of Colorado at Boulder
Submission deadline: 1 September 2010

TRiP 2011 - Three Rivers Philosophy Conference, "Science, Knowledge,  
and Democracy”
3  April 2011, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Submission deadline: 1 November 2010

SPT: International Conference of the Society for Philosophy and  
Technology, "Technology & Security"
26-29 May 2011, University of North Texas, Denton
Submission deadline: 1 November 2010

SPSP: Society for Science in Practice
22-24 June 2011, Exeter UK
Submission deadline: 1 December 2010

Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable
18-20 March 2011, Paris
Submission deadline: 15 December 2010


Metaphyics and the Philosophy of Science
13-15 May 2011, University of Toronto
Submssion deadline: 10 January 2011


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6th Boulder Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science,  
"Field Science"
October 22-24, 2010
The University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado

This is an open call for papers; both faculty and graduate students  
are encouraged to submit.

Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2010.  http://www.ishpssb.org/ 
listserv/20100718-4.html

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“Science, Knowledge, and Democracy”
TRiP 2011 - Three Rivers Philosophy Conference University of South  
Carolina, Columbia, SC April 1st – April 3rd, 2011 www.cas.sc.edu/ 
phil/flyers/trip2011.pdf

Keynote Speakers:
Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan), Miranda Fricker  
(Birkbeck, University of London), Henry Richardson (Georgetown  
University), Miriam Solomon (Temple University)

The goal of this conference is to bring together scholars working in  
moral and political philosophy, social epistemology, philosophy of  
science, and related areas to reflect broadly on the relationships  
between science, knowledge, and democracy.  We aim to explore  
questions such as the following.  In what ways should we be seeking  
to foster democratic influences on science, and why?  Can we unpack  
the concept of objectivity (whether in the scientific or the political
domain) more fruitfully by shifting from an individual to a social  
level of analysis?  What is the nature of “lay expertise,” and what  
are its implications for pursuing public participation in scientific  
research and policy making? Do various forms of “epistemic injustice”  
detract from scientific knowledge or political decision making? What  
are the implications of political theory for thinking about how to  
democratize science and to integrate scientific knowledge into policy  
making?  Does governmental involvement in and funding of scientific  
research pose special challenges to traditional epistemic and moral  
justifications for democracy?

We invite abstracts of roughly 500 words for papers on these or  
related topics.  Please submit abstracts by November 1st, 2010 to  
TRiPconference at gmail.com.  Abstracts should be PDF or Word documents  
and prepared for blind review.  We aim to notify the authors of  
accepted papers by early December, 2010.

The Three Rivers Philosophy (TRiP) Conference takes its name from the  
University of South Carolina’s location in Columbia, the state  
capital, where the Saluda and Broad Rivers meet to form the Congaree  
River.  April is a beautiful time to be in South Carolina, so come  
and enjoy both our wonderful weather and what promises to be a very  
fruitful intellectual exchange.  If you have any questions about the  
conference, please contact one of the organizers: Kevin Elliott
(ke at sc.edu) or Justin Weinberg (jweinberg at sc.edu).

Conference Dates: April 1st – April 3rd, 2011. Abstract Submission  
Due Date: November 1st, 2010 to TRiPconference at gmail.com Notification  
of Acceptance: Early December, 2010. PDF of CFP Flyer: www.cas.sc.edu/ 
phil/flyers/trip2011.pdf

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Call for papers for the 17th International Conference of the Society  
for Philosophy and Technology (SPT):
"Technology and Security"
May 26-29, 2011
University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA.

SPT 2011 welcomes high quality papers and panel proposals in all  
areas of philosophy of technology, including biotechnology and  
technological impacts on the environment. They encourage submissions  
from an interdisciplinary spectrum, including but not limited to  
philosophers, engineers, natural scientists, historians, social  
scientists, and those involved in public or private policymaking.

Deadline for abstracts: November 1, 2010.  http://www.ishpssb.org/ 
listserv/20100718-2.html

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Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP)
Third Biennial Conference
22-24 June 2011
University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

For registration and further information on the conference, please  
visit our website at http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/egenis/events/ 
conferences/title,23552,en.html

For general information on SPSP, please see http://www.gw.utwente.nl/ 
spsp/

Deadline for submission: 1 December 2010
Email paper proposals by attachment (word document preferred) to  
info.spsp at gw.utwente.nl
Notification of acceptance: 1 February 2011

The Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) aims to  
create an interdisciplinary community of scholars who approach the  
philosophy of science with a focus on scientific practice and the  
practical uses of scientific knowledge. For further details on our  
objectives, see our mission statement on our website (URL above).

The SPSP biennial conferences provide a broad forum for scholars  
committed to making detailed and systematic studies of scientific  
practices — neither dismissing concerns about truth and rationality,  
nor ignoring contextual and pragmatic factors. The conferences aim at  
cutting through traditional disciplinary barriers and developing  
novel approaches. We welcome contributions from not only philosophers  
of science, but also philosophers working in epistemology and ethics,  
as well as the philosophy of engineering, medicine, agriculture, and  
other practical fields. Additionally, we welcome contributions from  
historians and sociologists of science, pure and applied scientists,  
and any others with an interest in philosophical questions regarding  
scientific practice.

In addition to keynote lectures by invited speakers, who will include  
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Université Paris-X Nanterre), Philip  
Kitcher (Columbia University), and Sandra Mitchell (University of  
Pittsburgh), the conference will feature parallel sessions with  
contributed papers. For the 2011 conference, we encourage submissions  
on any topic related to the organization’s objectives. For examples  
of previous topics, please consult our webpage for programs from our  
past two conferences.

We welcome both individual papers, and also strongly encourage  
proposals for whole, thematic sessions with coordinated papers,  
particularly those which include multiple disciplinary perspectives  
and/or input from scientific practitioners. You may wish to involve  
other members of SPSP (a listing is available on our website) or post  
a notice to the SPSP listserv describing your area of interest and  
seeking other possible participants for a session proposal.

Individual paper proposals: must include a title and an abstract of  
500 words, and full contact information for the speaker(s).

Session proposals: must include an overall title for the session, a  
title and 500-word abstract for each paper (or an equivalent amount  
of depth and detail, if the format of the proposed session is a less  
traditional one), and full contact information for each contributor.  
Session proposals should be submitted as a group by the organizer of  
the session.

Multiple submissions of any form by the same person will not be  
allowed. Please direct all queries to info.spsp at gw.utwente.nl

To receive updates about this conference, please become a member of  
the SPSP mailing list at
http://www.gw.utwente.nl/spsp/membership/Membership%20Mailinglist.doc/
and also check the SPSP website at
http://www.gw.utwente.nl/spsp/events/Third_Biennial_SPSP_Conference/


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CALL FOR PAPERS: THIRTEENTH ANNUAL PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE  
ROUNDTABLE
18-20 March 2011

Sponsored by:
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Abstracts on any topic in philosophy of the social sciences or in the  
philosophy of social phenomena are welcome. We especially welcome  
papers that tackle philosophical issues as they arise in, and are  
consequential for, practicing social scientists.  We will assemble a  
two-day program of papers to be presented in workshop format so that  
intensive discussion can be the focus of the meeting.  We choose  
papers with the aim of ensuring a broad mix of topics and of  
presenters from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, and we particularly  
welcome contributions from junior colleagues and colleagues new to  
the area.

Keynote Speakers:
Dan Sperber (Central European University, Budapest; Institut Nicod,  
Paris)
Paul Thagard (Department of Philosophy and Cognitive Science Program,  
University of Waterloo)

Send a one-page abstract to any member of the program committee by  
December 15, 2010:

Program Committee:
Local Host: Alban Bouvier: Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure
29, Rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France <bouvier.alban at wanadoo.fr>
James Bohman: Department of Philosophy, Saint Louis University
3800 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63156-0907 	<bohmanjf at slu.edu>
Mark Risjord: Department of Philosophy, Emory University
	Atlanta, GA 30322 	<mrisjor at emory.edu>
Paul Roth: Department of Philosophy, University of California - Santa  
Cruz
1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 	<paroth at ucsc.edu>
Stephen Turner: Department of Philosophy FAO 226, University of South  
Florida
	Tampa, FL 33620 	<turner at usf.edu>
Alison Wylie: Department of Philosophy, University of Washington
Box 353350, Seattle, WA 98195 	<aw26 at u.washington.edu>

For details, see the Roundtable website: http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/ 
Roundtable.html


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METAPHYSICS & THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE CONFERENCE

Presented by the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and
Technology, University of Toronto and the Fishbein Center for the  
History of
Science and Medicine, University of Chicago

13-15 May 2011, University of Toronto

The philosophy of science has an illustrious history of attraction and
antipathy towards metaphysics. The latter was famously exemplified in  
the
Logical Positivist contention that metaphysical questions are  
meaningless,
but in the wake of the demise of Positivism, metaphysics has found  
its way
back into the philosophy of science. Increasingly, questions about the
nature of natural laws, kinds, dispositions, and so on have taken a
metaphysical cast. The metaphysics of science commands significant  
attention
in contemporary philosophy.

While many philosophers embrace the increased contact between  
metaphysics
and the philosophy of science, others are wary. Should science (and its
philosophical study) lead us into doing metaphysics? If so, which
metaphysical issues are genuine and which are illusory, and how might we
tell? Such questions dovetail with similar soul-searching in metaphysics
proper (sometimes under the banner of "meta-metaphysics", sometimes  
simply
as methodology).

This conference will examine ground-level debates about metaphysics  
within
the philosophy of physics and the philosophy of biology, and broader
methodological questions about the role of metaphysics in the  
philosophy of
science. Participation is open and welcome from all parties to these
questions: from those who hold that metaphysics must have a place  
within the
philosophy of science, to those who hold it should not.

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Craig Callender (University of California, San Diego)
Anjan Chakravartty (University of Toronto)
Katherine Hawley (University of St. Andrews)
Jenann Ismael (University of Arizona)
James Ladyman (University of Bristol)
Kyle Stanford (University of California, Irvine)
Michael Strevens (New York University)
Robert Wilson (University of Alberta)
C. Kenneth Waters (University of Minnesota)

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Essays of 4,000-5,000 words (30 minutes allotted for presentations)
concerning any aspect of metaphysics and the natural or social  
sciences will
be accepted for review until January 10, 2011. Please include a short
abstract (200 words or so), a few keywords, prepare your essayfor blind
review (do not include your name or other identifying references in the
document), and submit it in PDF format here:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mpsc2011

Notification by early February 2011.

If you are planning to attend the conference and would like to identify
yourself as a potential chair, please email the conference address
<mpsc2011 at gmail.com>.

ORGANIZERS

Chris Haufe (University of Chicago)
Matthew H. Slater (Bucknell University)
Zanja Yudell (California State University, Chico)

Please direct general conference inquiries to mpsc2011 at gmail.com

Additional information concerning travel and accommodation will be  
posted to
the conference website:
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/mhs016/MPSC2011/index.html

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