This Webinar aims to contribute to a better understanding of clinical and theoretical psychiatry. Every two weeks, internationally renowned experts in the field will present their work to the audience, who will then be invited to take part in a discussion. more info...
Please join us at these three workshops to explore the concept of epistemic diversity.
The workshops will take place on these dates from 3:30 - ~5:00pm (central time):
(1) 02/12/2021, What is Epistemic Diversity? - Speakers: Prof. Justin Bruner (U of Arizona) and Prof. Daniel Steel (U of British Columbia)
(2) 03/10/2021, Strategizing and Collaborating as a Minority - Speaker: Prof. Hannah Rubin (U of Notre Dame)
(3) 04/16/2021, Mentoring Relationships - Speaker: Prof. Denise Loyd (U of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign)
The event will take place on Zoom. more info...
Data is everywhere: from COVID efficacy rates to election polling, from the justice system to the internet . Data can be a tool to improve our lives, but what about the downside to all of this use of data - not only through hacks and security breaches, but also when data is manipulated to advance certain political and social agendas? more info...
This is the last workshop out of a series of three. The program (with abstract) and the flyer are here: https://philevents.org/event/show/89318 (If you have registered before for a previous workshop, you do not need to register again.)
Please join us at this last workshop to explore the concept of epistemic diversity.
PhilStat Forum monthly online meeting (15:00-15:45 (London time) and 10:00-11:45 (New York City time). Daniele Fanelli: "How an Information Metric Could Bring Truce to the Statistics Wars." more info...
The goal of this third and final international conference of the ERC Consolidator Grant Project "Perspectival Realism" is to explore the metaphysical implications of perspectivism for contemporary philosophy of science. From scientific understanding to Kuhnian legacies, from semantic issues about natural kind terms to feminist, pluralist and pragmatist approaches to questions about reality, this final conference brings together a vast array of themes at the intersection of metaphysics of science and scientific practice.
Dear friends & colleagues,
It is our pleasure to announce the next meeting of the Société de philosophie des sciences (SPS : https://www.sps-philoscience.org/) that will take place on September 8 – 10 2021 at the University of Mons (Belgium).
The main theme of the 2021 congress will be: “Sciences and scientificity” more info...
The graduate students of the University of Notre Dame’s History and Philosophy of Science Ph.D. program, administered by the John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values, will convene a two-day interdisciplinary conference for the purposes of exploring the relationship between racial justice and science, broadly construed. Please visit our conference website for further information. more info...
Public engagement with science involves more than simply scientists explaining scientific facts to the public. Approaches to public engagement must address complex issues like trust in science, political polarization, and understanding science’s methods and social structure.
This interdisciplinary workshop brings together academics and practitioners to develop theoretical and practical resources for public outreach and engagement about science. The aims are to (1) develop connections between philosophy of science and other disciplines with expertise in public engagement and (2) identify and help develop distinctive roles for philosophers of science in the interdisciplinary project of engaging the public with science.
The Philosophy of Science Association and UPSS Initiative are pleased to invite submissions for the new PSA Prize in Philosophy of Science & Race. This prize is awarded biennially by the Philosophy of Science Association for the best book, article, or chapter that integrates philosophy of science with discussions of race, ethnicity, and/or racism. Eligible publications must be published within the five years prior to the prize year/PSA meeting year. Author of the winning submission receives a $500 cash prize made possible through generous donations to the UPSS initiative. This competition is limited to members of the Philosophy of Science Association.
This year’s conference will focus on metaphysical, epistemological, and conceptual aspects regarding the relationship between complexity and explanation in the sciences.
âDifference-making and mechanistic approaches have dominated recent philosophical discussion of causality. The aim of the conference is to explore and examine alternative approaches to causation. The approaches to be examined include but are not limited to causal pluralism, causal contextualism, causal primitivism, causal eliminativism, the projectivist approach, the dispositional approach, the epistemic approach, and the informational approach. more info...