Social Philosophy of Science. Russian Prospects

The Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia) will host International Conference «Social Philosophy of Science. Russian Prospects» in Honor of Prof. V. Stepin on 18-19 November 2014.

Papers are accepted on any topic in philosophy, sociology and history of science with a particular emphasis on the topics of the suggested sections.

The preliminary list of the planned contributed sections includes:

1.    Constructivism vs. Realism

2.    Relativizing Naturalism

3.    Social Ontology of Science

4.    STS: hard science, soft science

5.    Social Dimensions of Technology

6.    Reforming Science

Selected contributed papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

More information can be found at

http://eng.iph.ras.ru/page17188836.htm

Organizing Committee

I. Kasavin (Head), F. Blucher, S. Fuller, A. Antonovsky, P. Kuslij, O. Stoljarova, S. Pirozhkova, T. Sokolova (Secretary)

Program Committee

A. Guseinov (Head), E. Agazzi, V. Archinov, V. Lektorsky, E. Mamchur, N. Kasavina (Secretary)

Evaluation Committee

V. Stepin (Head), V. Bazhanov, J. Collier, R. Harre, N. Martishina, A. Nikiforov, A. Trufanova (Secretary)

Keynote speakers (Please note that this is a preliminary list, it includes only the speakers who confirmed their participation by May 27, we expect up to 11 invited speakers.)

Steve Fuller (Warwick, UK), Rom Harré (Georgetown University, USA), Edward Hackett (Arizona State University, USA), Nico Stehr (Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany),  Sergio Sismondo (Queen's University, Canada), Inanna Hamati-Ataya (Aberystwyth University, UK)