October 2024

 

Table of Contents:

  1. PSA24 Registration
  2. PSA24 Hotel
  3. Deadlines 
  4. Childcare @ PSA24
  5. Interest Group Lunch Signup
  6. PSA & The Alliance for Affordable Energy
  7. PSA24 Sponsors
  8. PSA24 Exhibitors & Community Table
  9. PSA X PPES Collab
  10. Outreach and Engagement Committee Session
  11. Public Forum
  12. President's Plenary
 

PSA Registration - Prices Increase On Site

 

Registration for the PSA24 New Orleans meeting is open. Prices will increase once we are on-site in New Orleans. Please visit the event site for more details and to register for the meeting. If you have are presenting at the meeting and have already created a speaker profile, you will be able to register through that profile. As always, the most economical solution to saving on registration is to be a member of the PSA so please make sure your membership is current!

 

PSA24 Hotel Information and Room Share

 

Our hotel block at the Marriott has been sold out and we have been unsuccessful in extending the block any further. If you are looking for an easy way to book a local hotel, please use this resource, which will return search results based on the distance from the conference hotel. By using this link, I will be able to track the amount of "overflow" rooms we book and then I can approach future hotels with even more accurate numbers. 

In an effort to facilitate cost-sharing measures for graduates and early career scholars planning to attend, the PSA has set up a google spreadsheet for those looking to share their hotel costs with other conference attendees. Simply to go to the sheet and enter your information. Check back often and reach out to others as appropriate. 

If you have booked a room at the Marriott and cannot attend the conference, please DO NOT cancel your reservation. We are maintaining a waiting list and can transfer your reservation to another attendee while we refund your booking. Please contact director@philsci.org if you are unable to attend and you are interested in releasing your reservation at the Marriott. 

If you MUST stay at the conference hotel, please reach out to director@philsci.org and I can try to make arrangements, there are a couple of rooms that are being held for this sort of situation.

 

Finally, there are 2 spots in student rooms remaining. If you are a solo male or solo female traveler and looking for a shared room, reach out and we can connect you with the relevant folks looking to share their rooms.

 

Deadlines

 

November 1, 2024 will be the last day that modifications can be made to the print program. The content for the print program will be pulled directly from the online program. Please review the online program. If you cannot make changes to your profile/name/affiliation/etc,  please reach out to office@philsci.org.  These edits are for content only, there will be no further edits to time slots.

 

November 1, 2024 will also be the cutoff for printed named badges. If you are not registered for PSA24 by then, we will get to see the quality of your handwriting when you arrive in New Orleans.

November 11, 2024 will be the last day of updates to the online program. These edits are for content only, there will be no further edits to time slots.

 

Childcare @ PSA24

 

We are happy to announce that thanks to a generous donation from the Ann Johnson Institute for Science, Technology & Society, we are once again hiring Pittsburgh Event Childcare for the duration of the 2024 meeting. These fully licensed and insured childcare professionals will be converting our empty conference room into a day care center where you can safely leave your child(ren) while you attend events! You will be asked to fill out a short registration form when you drop off your child(ren) and you will be given a small pager so you can be reached in case of emergency.

It would be very helpful if you could add some basic information to this google sheet so that we can tell them how many kids (roughly) to expect each day. After speaking with the center director, they can take care of infants, but we will need an exact number so that they can adequately staff and furnish the space. Day care will be available from 8:30am – 6pm (Central) Thursday – Saturday, and 8:30am – 12p (Central) on Sunday.  

 

Interest Group Lunch Signup

 

Many thanks to those who reached out to host a lunch in New Orleans! You can find the list of lunch topics and the name of the host(s) below, please sign up if you are interested in attending. Due to space limitations, we will maintain a waiting list if demand outpaces capacity. All interest group lunches will be held on November 15, 2024 and locations are TBD, but all restaurants will be within a comfortable walking distance from the hotel. Click to signup.

We have added 2 new lunch opportunities!

PSA Postdoctoral Group - Hosted by Alan Love - NEW

 - an informal conversation with postdocs in New Orleans to help launch a working group that would ultimately establish a postdoctoral "group" within PSA by the 2026 meeting.

Political Philosophy of Science - Hosted by Andrew Schroeder - NEW

Open Access Publishing in Philosophy - Hosted by Sabina Leonelli, John Norton, and David Teira

Philosophy of Psychiatry - Hosted by Miriam Solomon

Philosophy of Medicine - Hosted by Alex Broadbent

 

Just a reminder that the PSA is not subsidizing these meals, we are just organizing them.

 

PSA & Alliance for Affordable Energy

 

The PSA is delighted to be partnering with the New Orleans-based Alliance for Affordable Energy for our 2024 conference.  Identified by the PSA Climate Taskforce together with the Local Organizing Committee as an effective grassroots climate justice organization, AAF’s actions have accelerated the development of renewable energy infrastructure in New Orleans and helped protect residents from some of the worst impacts of the local fossil fuel industries.

While we will not be attempting to ‘offset’ the carbon emissions from our New Orleans meeting, we will be gathering donations to the AAF through a dedicated PSA donation button as a means of giving back to the local community and supporting progressive climate work in the region.  Please therefore consider donating by selecting the appropriate "ticket" when you register for the conference.

You can read more about the Alliance for Affordable Energy’s recent successes and ongoing projects here: https://www.all4energy.org/clean-energy.html

 

PSA24 Sponsors

 

The PSA is pleased to announce the PSA24 sponsors for the upcoming biennial meeting in New Orleans:

 

Emerald Sponsors:

 

University of California Irvine, Logic & Philosophy of Science 

 

Platinum Sponsors:

 

Ann Johnson Institute
The National Science Foundation

 

Gold Sponsors:

 

Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Philosophy 

Arizona State University, Centre for Biology and Society,

Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science

 

Silver Sponsors:

 

The Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh

The Institute for Practical Ethics, University of California San Diego

Simon Fraser University, Department of Philosophy

The Center for Values in Medicine,  Science, and Technology, University of Texas at Dallas

 

Bronze Sponsors:


The Center for Public Engagement with Science, University of Cincinnati

 

Supporting Sponsors:

The Charles Phelps Taft Research Center
University of Cincinnati

Our sponsors help make the PSA biennial meeting possible. Thanks to them, not only are we able to have a high quality meeting but we are also able to keep conference registration more accessible for students. If you are interested in becoming a PSA24 sponsor, please reach out to director@philsci.org for a list of opportunities.

 

PSA Exhibitors and Community Table

 

Our PSA24 Exhibitors include:

University of Chicago Press

Princeton University Press
Philosophy Documentation Center

Springer

De Gruyter Brill

Cambridge University Press
University of Calgary Press

Oxford University Press

University of Pittsburgh Press

 

For this meeting, we will also have a "Community Table" for shameless self-promotion purposes. If you would like to bring materials related to your PhilSci-focused centers, activities, projects, and general goings-on, please drop them by the registration booth and we will get them displayed for you!

 

PSA X PPES Collab

 

The fine folks over at The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society are also holding their meeting in New Orleans, LA from Nov. 14 - 16, 2024! Their meeting is at The Westin New Orleans, approximately 5 minutes walk from the PSA hotel,  We have worked together to identify some sessions at each of our meetings that may be of interest to members of both societies.

PPES Sessions:

Methodologies of Reparative Science (Thurs 9 AM)

Modeling the Social Structure of Science (Thurs 10:45 AM)

Epistemic Duties, Experts, and Science-driven Policy (Thurs 2 PM)

Normative Perspectives on Formalization and  Idealization (Fri 9 AM)

Ethics of Randomized Policy Experiments (Sat 10:45 AM)

Health Inequality: Values and Measurement (Fri 3:45 PM)

The Politics and economics of Climate Change and ESG Investing (Thurs 9 AM)

Diversity and Social Change (Thurs 10:45 AM)

Rational Agency and AI Safety (Fri 9 AM)

Energy Transition Ethics (Fri 2 PM)

New Directions in AI Ethics and Policy (Sat 9 AM)

The Ethics of Pandemics (Sat 3:45 PM)

 

PPES has agreed to allow PSA members to attend any of these sessions. They do ask that you wear your PSA conference badge at all times while attending their conference and they would appreciate it if you would stop by their registration desk to say hello! We have provided an equal number of PSA sessions for PPES members to attend and hope this collaboration will spark interesting conversations.

 

Philosophy and Policy Panel Discussion

 

The PSA Outreach and Engagement Committee will be hosting a Philosophy and Policy panel discussion on November 14 from 10:15am - 11:45am. In this session, philosophers share their experiences with policy-making on data sovereignty, space exploration, research funding disclosure, invasive species management, and animal welfare. Please join us!

 

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