The Society for the Metaphysics of Science

CFP: Reality Making: Exploring Fundamentals in Metaphysics

2012-01-10T06:09:00.000-08:00

University of Nottingham, 8-10 July 2012***Conference description***The conference will focus on recent debates in metaphysics surrounding questions of grounding, fundamentality, essentialism and the monism vs pluralism debate. Confirmed invited speakers: Elizabeth Barnes (Leeds), Terry Horgan (Arizona), Laurie Paul (Chapel Hill), Sònia Roca Royes (Stirling) and Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers/ANU).

2012 Central APA Sessions: Kinds: Natural and Scientific

2011-12-02T09:40:00.000-08:00

Thursday, February 12, 2012 9:00 a.m.-Noon Topic: Kinds: Natural and Scientific Chair: Carl Gillett (Northern Illinois University) Speakers: Anjan Chakravarty (Northern Illinois University) “Perspectival Frameworks for Scientific Taxonomy” Matthew H. Slater (Bucknell University) “Is Our Epistemology Writing Checks That Our Metaphysics Can’t Cash?” Neil E. Williams (University at Buffalo (

CFA: Individuals Across Sciences (Paris, May 2012)

2011-10-22T07:10:00.000-07:00

Call for abstracts: “Individuals Across Sciences: A Revisionary Metaphysics?”Paris, Paris-Sorbonne University, May 18-19, 2012Organized by Alexandre Guay & Thomas Pradeu, with the support of Paris-Sorbonne University, the Institut d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques (IHPST) and the Institut universitaire de France (IUF)This conference will gather metaphysicians,

Metaphysics of Science at the Pacific APA

2011-04-19T05:25:00.001-07:00

Two sessions of the Society of the Metaphysics of Science will be meeting at the Pacific APA this week, on Thursday and Friday evenings. Links to some advance drafts and notes are provided.Thursday, 8:00-10:00 p.m.G5E Society for the Metaphysics of Science, Session 1Topic: Abstraction, Idealization, and Multiple RealizationChair: Tom Polger (University of Cincinnati)Speakers:Matthew Haug (

METAPHYSICS & THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE CONFERENCE

2011-01-06T09:10:00.000-08:00

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

Job at Cincinnati

2010-11-08T13:24:00.000-08:00

UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI, CINCINNATI, OH. Assistant Professor, tenure-track, to begin September 1, 2011, Ph.D. in hand by time of appointment. AOS: Philosophy of Mind/Philosophy of Science AOC: Open, but we have a preference for epistemology or logic. We seek a colleague prepared to develop an extensive and rich research program, including where appropriate, external research support, to excel

Metaphysics in the Philosophy of Science Conference

2010-08-16T05:31:00.000-07:00

May 13-15, 2011University of Toronto 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 The philosophy of science has an illustrious history of attraction and antipathy towards metaphysics. The latter was famously exemplified in the Logical

Putting Powers to Work: A Conference on Causal Powers in Metaphysics

2010-08-11T09:21:00.000-07:00

April 28-30, 2011 Saint Louis University Description This conference aims to build on the existing literature concerning what causal powers (or dispositions or capacities) are by asking what causal powers can do. Many contemporary metaphysicians think that accepting irreducible causal powers enables one to give accounts of, say, laws of nature, causation, and modality that are preferable to

Metaphysics of Science Conference, August 3-5, 2010, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea

2010-05-21T08:14:00.000-07:00

The Korean Society for Analytic Philosophy and Metaphysics Research Group at Kyung Hee University (Seoul, Korea) will jointly host an international conference on the metaphysics of science from Tuesday 3rd August to Thursday 5th August, 2010. The conference venue will be the Seoul campus of Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea. The conference aims to identify and explore fundamental metaphysical

2010-02-15T13:59:00.000-08:00

2010 Central Division APA Meeting GI-7. Society for the Metaphysics of ScienceThursday, February 18, 9:00 a.m.-Noon Topic: Degrees of Freedom and Inter-theoretic RelationsChair: Carl Gillett (Northern Illinois University) Speakers: Jessica Wilson (University of Toronto)“The Metaphysical Basis of Emergent Non-linear Phenomena” Jeffrey Yoshimi (University of California–Merced)“The Geometry of

2010 Pacific Division APA Meeting

2010-02-09T16:59:00.001-08:00

GVIII-G. Society for the Metaphysics of Science, Session 1Thursday, April 1, 6:00-9:00 p.m. Topic: Decomposing the Mind: From Functional Analysis to Mechanistic ExplanationChair: Cory Wright (California State University–Long Beach) Speakers: David M. Kaplan (Washington University in St. Louis)“Decomposition, Description, and Explanation in Visual Neuroscience” Gualtiero Piccinini (University of

Workshop on Reduction and Emergence: CfP

2009-05-20T22:26:00.001-07:00

Emergence and Reduction in the Sciences (Second Pittsburgh-Paris Workshop)Friday, December 11- Saturday, December 12, 2009 at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of PittsburghCenter for Philosophy of Science and Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh / Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris. The theme of the

Pacific APA 2009 Events

2009-04-03T11:26:00.001-07:00

This is a preliminary announcement of a conference on the Metaphysics of Science, which will be held at the University of Melbourne 3-5 July 2009. Purpose The purpose of the conference will be to promote discussion of current research in the metaphysics of science. The field of the metaphysics of science is one that barely existed a decade

New Central APA Sessions

2007-12-21T05:37:00.000-08:00

2008 Central Division APA MeetingThe next sessions for the Society at the Central APA are now available. They are:GI-5 Thursday, April 17, 9:00 AM-12:00 PMGroup Session: Society for the Metaphysics of ScienceTopic: Metaphysics, Science, and the Social WorldTitle: "The Folk Concept of Race"Speaker: Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh)Title: "Normalcy and Sociality"Speaker: Robert A.

2nd CFP: Reduction and the Special Sciences (Tilburg, NL, 10-12 April 2008)

2007-10-08T07:44:00.000-07:00

Sydney-Tilburg conference onREDUCTION AND THE SPECIAL SCIENCESCenter for Logic and Philosophy of ScienceTilburg University, The Netherlands10-12 April 2008http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/faculties/humanities/tilps/RSS2008/Submission deadline: 15 November 2007*********************************************************************KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: William Bechtel (UCSD), Craig Callender (UCSD),Paul

Because Conference

2007-09-24T06:25:00.000-07:00

CALL FOR PAPERSBECAUSEhttp://www.philosophie.ch/eidos/because.shtmlUniversity of Geneva, Switzerland15-17 February 2008Deadline December 1st, 2007Invited Speakers:Kit Fine (NYU)Carrie Jenkins (University of Nottingham)E. J. Lowe (Durham University)Gonzalo Rodríguez-Pereyra (University of Oxford)Zoltán Szabó (Yale University)Topic of the conference:The use of explanatory concepts, as expressed by