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15 June 2021

PSA2021: Call for Posters II

A second round of submissions are now open for posters to be presented at the PSA2021, November 11-14, 2021, in Baltimore, MD. The deadline for consideration of poster abstracts is 11:59 pm EDT on July 10, 2021.

The poster committee expects to announce its decisions on abstract proposals by August 15, 2021.

General questions about poster abstracts should be directed to the chair of the PSA2020 Poster Committee, Cailin O’Connor, at posterforum2020@philsci.org. To maintain anonymity in the review process, questions about specific submissions should be sent to office@philsci.org, which will be monitored by someone not involved in the review process.

For the full call and submission information and links, see this google document.

Submit via the Meeting Website

PSA Outreach & Engagement Award

Call for Submissions

Deadline: Aug 31, 2021

We are pleased to invite submissions for the inaugural PSA Outreach and Engagement Award, which recognizes a scholar or team of scholars who have led outstanding efforts to engage the general public in philosophy of science topics. The scope of outreach and engagement that may be recognized by this award is wide, but its purpose is to highlight, promote, and elevate professional efforts to engage the general public about philosophy of science. See more details or submit.

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Climate Change Survey Results

During March 2021, the Philosophy of Science Association Climate Task Force (PSA CTF) issued a survey aimed at gathering information on members’ experiences of working in a more online environment as a result of the Coronavirus crisis and gauging attitudes towards continuing with some of these practices in the service of the climate crisis.

The key findings are now available on Daily Nous

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COVID-19 Teaching Resources

Navigating the world in the pandemic era has provided plenty of new challenges and educational opportunities. If you would like to learn more about philosophy and the coronavirus, we invite you to explore our new resource page: Teaching in the Time of COVID on the PSA website. If you would like to share an interesting source in the form of a syllabus, article, video, or podcast, for example, we invite you to submit it. The page will be updated weekly with new materials that are useful for professors teaching philosophy and COVID in the classroom or for whomever is trying to think philosophically about the pandemic.