The
Society for the Metaphysics of Science will be holding its first annual
conference on September 17-18, 2015 at Rutgers University – Newark. As well as various presentations, the
conference will also feature the first organizational meeting of the Society
which will elect officers, begin to make various policies, plan future
conferences, etc. Both those interested in presenting papers and/or
participating in the Society are invited to the conference. (For more
information on the society, see the Society for the Metaphysics
of Science web page.)
At
the conference, presentations will be 40 minutes. Submissions should be on a topic in the
metaphysics of science broadly construed, of no more than 6,000 words and
should include an abstract of ~150 words and a word count. All papers must employ gender-neutral
language and be prepared for blind review.
Submissions
must be made using the Easychair online submission system at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sms2015. The submission deadline is March 1,
2015. Notifications of acceptance will
be delivered by May 15, 2015. The
conference will have a $50 registration fee.
(The fee will be waived for graduate students.)
Our
keynote speaker will be Barry Loewer, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and
all other sessions will comprise submitted papers.
Program
Committee:
Ken
Aizawa, Rutgers University, Newark, Chair
Carl
Gillett, Northern Illinois University
Alyssa
Ney, Rochester University
Thomas
Polger, University of Cincinnati
Jessica
Wilson, University of Toronto