News for January 2012

British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference

BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
ANNUAL CONFERENCE 5-6 JULY 2012, UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING

The conference programme will consist of both invited and contributed papers.

In addition to the Presidential Address by Prof. John Dupré, plenary talks will be given by Prof. Hasok Chang, Prof. Hannes Leitgeb and Prof. Daniel Little.

Call for Papers

Submissions for the contributed paper sessions are invited from graduate students as well as established researchers. Papers may be on any topic within the philosophy of science and should be suitable for presentation in 20 minutes, which will allow 10 minutes discussion. Abstracts in plain text of no more than 500 words should be received no later than Friday February 3rd 2012. See http://www.thebsps.org/society/bsps/events.html for details of how to submit abstracts to the online server. Abstracts will be refereed, and successful contributors notified during March or April.

For more information please contact the Honorary Secretary at christopher.timpson@bnc.ox.ac.uk

PLEASE NOTE: attendance at the conference is restricted to members of the BSPS only; please therefore join the Society http://www.thebsps.org/society/bsps/membership.html

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The purpose of the Society is to study the logic, the methods, and the philosophy of science, as well as those of the various special sciences, including the social sciences. The Society holds an annual conference with invited speakers and contributed papers, as well as ordinary meetings running throughout the year at which invited speakers present a paper. The Society makes small grants to support conferences relevant to research and education in its areas of study, awards an annual doctoral studentship for doctoral work in philosophy of science in a UK university and The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is published on our behalf by Oxford University Press. Visit http://www.thebsps.org for more information.

To help support the aims of the Society and to be eligible to attend the annual conference and to apply for conference grants, please join the Society http://www.thebsps.org/society/bsps/membership.html. On applying for membership, along with other benefits, one is eligible to subscribe to the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science at a significantly reduced rate more than paying for the subscription itself.

C.G. Timpson
Honorary Secretary

PSA2010 Symposium Papers Reminder

2010 PSA Symposium Participants are reminded symposium papers must be submitted by February 24, 2012, to be considered for publication in a supplementary volume of Philosophy of Science, due out in December 2012.

Please be reminded that Philosophy of Science will publish a collection of original papers derived from symposium sessions at PSA2010. Papers published elsewhere, or containing work published elsewhere, will not be accepted for publication. No papers from author meets critics sessions will be considered for publication (following a decision by the PSA Governing Board). If an author has a contributed paper from PSA2010 accepted to be published in the contributed papers volume of Philosophy of Science for PSA2010, she or he may not submit a paper to the symposium volume. Individual papers from symposium sessions may be submitted. If, for example, one participant presented work that has subsequently been published but others presented original work that has not yet been published, the latter may submit their papers to Philosophy of Science.

All submissions must go through Editorial Manager at Philosophy of Science: http://www.editorialmanager.com/phos/. Make sure that you select the 2010 PSA Symposium Papers option from the pull down menu at Philosophy of Science on Editorial Manager. The system is also set up to accept proposals for 2012 Symposia, do not submit your papers there. All submissions will be refereed. Make reasonable efforts to blind your papers but the editor and referees understand that this work has already been presented, in most cases with the same title, so complete blinding is not always practicable.

There is a hard upper word limit of 5000 words, including notes and references, on all published papers. University of Chicago Press allocates a certain number of pages to supplementary volumes and editors have to strictly enforce word limits.

I hope that I have given you sufficient information to work with. If you have questions about the process, please contact me via email: s.downes@utah.edu.

I look forward to your submissions.

Yours,
Steve Downes