Table of Contents: - Annual Fund
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ACLS Grant
- PSA26 Updates
- Hempel Award Call
- PSA Office Hours
- 2026 PSA Elections
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A note from the APA
- PhilSci Archive - Top 5 Downloads
- Upcoming Events
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Thanks to everyone who has contributed to our Annual Fund this year!
As of December 31, we have raised more than $4,100, reaching 25% of our $15,000 stretch goal. This marks a generous increase over last year’s – and recent years’ – end-of-year support. But wait, there’s still time to make an impact! If the holidays sidetracked you and you haven’t yet made your gift yet, it’s not too late! Our Annual Fund campaign goes through the end of February. Every donation – at every level – supports the work of the PSA and demonstrates the commitment of our members. Your generosity helps us foster community, advance scholarship, and build resilience across the Philosophy of Science field.
Make your donation today and help us build a strong future together! Donate - Philosophy of Science Association. |
We are proud to announce that the American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS) has awarded the PSA a $10,000 grant to help support travel to PSA26. This is the second time we have been awarded these funds and they will play an important role for graduate student and early-career travel to PSA26. Stay tuned for more information regarding how these funds will be distributed. |
Submission portals for Contributed Papers and Posters remain open - paper deadline is March 15, 2026 and posters are due by June 1, 2026.
Hotel registration is open. The first 800 nights are offered at $215 per night, after those are booked, the price will increase to $235 per night. Additionally, there is now a sheet available on the hotel booking page to sign up for room sharing if you are interested. Just a reminder, if you are looking for a room to share or if you have a room to share, you will need to initiate contact with others on the sheet. There is now a heading in the PhilSci Archive where conference papers can be uploaded. The link will not appear in the "Conferences and Volumes" section until the first paper is uploaded.
We continue to update the event website weekly, please check back often if there is something you do not see, conference registration will open in May.
https://psa26.oa-event.com/ |
Nominations may now be made for the 2026 Hempel Award, a biennial award recognizing lifetime scholarly achievement in the philosophy of science. The Hempel Award is named in honor of Carl Gustav Hempel (1905-1997), one of the twentieth century’s leading philosophers of science and an active PSA member for over fifty years. The award will be presented prior to the PSA Presidential Address at PSA2026 in San Diego, California on November 21, 2026.
The Prize Committee for the Hempel Award consists of the current PSA Governing Board or its designated subcommittee. Nominations for the Hempel Award should include a full CV and between three and five detailed letters of support; the latter should address the nominee’s scholarly achievements, construed broadly to include not only the specific research of the nominee but also the nominee's larger impact on the scholarly community of philosophers of science (including training and mentorship, public outreach, professional work for the Philosophy of Science Association, and other community-building activities). Self-nominations will be accepted. Nominees and nominators should be members of the Philosophy of Science Association. Current Governing Board members may not participate in a nomination.
Nominations must be submitted electronically to office@philsci.org no later than April 31, 2024. Questions about the Hempel Award should be directed to Max Cormendy, PSA Executive Director, at director@philsci.org.
Members who wish to renominate a candidate from the previous round can send a note to Executive Director Max Cormendy at director@philsci.org. No additional materials will be required, but the nominator may add to the file should she or he so wish. |
The PSA Office Hour aims to facilitate interactions between our graduate student membership and prominent philosophers of science, and in a more controlled, accessible, and carbon-conscious setting than is provided by our biennial conference. In each Office Hour graduate students will be given the opportunity to connect via Zoom to professors working in related areas to troubleshoot problems occurring in their own research or get clearer on that of the professor.
We've just released the list of office hours for March, April, and May. You can find the list here, and you can sign up for office hours here. |
In accordance with the Philosophy of Science Association bylaws, the nomination period for the 2026 PSA election is now open. This year we will be electing the next PSA President, as well as two new PSA Governing Board members. The terms of those elected will begin on January 1, 2027.
A nomination can be made for either of these roles by any coalition of 15 full members of the society. Please email any nominations to director@philsci.org, including the names of the 15 members nominating the candidate. Please submit all nominations by February 28, 2026. |
From Andy Culison, Secretary-Treasurer of the APA - Eastern Division
Philosophy of Science at the APA 2027 Eastern Meeting -
We have six philosophers with backgrounds in philosophy of science on the program committee planning or the Boston 2027 meeting, so I expect there to be ample invited philosophy of science sessions. To that end, I hope PSA members will be interested in one or more of the following:
1. Submit a Colloquium/Symposium Paper for Review -
People can submit a traditional colloquium/symposium paper here by February 16 for consideration
2. Submit an Abstract for Papers in Progress -
We now have other great ways for philosophers to workshop their own research without needing a fully polished colloquium paper - Papers in Progress Workshops. People can submit an abstract for consideration here by May 1
4. Propose an Invited Session -
We are accepting proposals from philosophers who are not on the program committee for invited sessions. So if anyone wants to propose something in philosophy of science, we will consider it. People can submit proposals for invited sessions here. We will begin reviewing those in a couple of weeks.
5. Volunteer to Comment/Chair -
The form to volunteer to comment/chair is now open. We will start reaching out to potential commentators in early May. Here is the form to volunteer. |
PhilSci Archive - Top 5 Downloads |
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PhilSci-Archive is the official preprint repository for the PSA and the best place to host your philosophy of science preprints. It offers a free, stable, and openly accessible archive for scholarly articles and monographs. With PhilSci-Archive, researchers can search the open-access repository and get curated alerts about new work delivered to their inboxes. Many journals encourage authors to post preprints on archives like the PhilSci-Archive in order to increase readership, and historical data suggests that posting to the archive increases a published paper's citation rates (see https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/20778/). Visit philsci-archive.pitt.edu today to create a free account and post your preprints.
The most downloaded preprints for the last 6 months of articles deposited in the previous 2 years are:
Covoni, Niccolò and Rovelli, Carlo (2025) Tractatus Quanticum.
Leonelli, Sabina and Mussgnug, Alexander (2025) Convenience AI.
Haider, Sawsan (2024) The Impossibility of AI Containment: Logical, Mathematical, and Computational Limits to Control.
O'Brien, Mark William (2025) The Costs of Rejecting Quantum Immortality.
List, Christian (2025) Can AI systems have free will? |
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