CFP: Workshop on Scientific Imperialism
Submission deadline: November 30, 2014
Conference date(s):
April 15, 2015 - April 17, 2015
Conference Venue:
Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Helsinki,
Finland
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CFP – Workshop on Scientific Imperialism
Helsinki, 15-17 April, 2015.
Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences [TINT]
http://www.helsinki.fi/tint
The recent research and emerging debate on “scientific imperialism” (see e.g. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 3/2013) are putting the topic on the agenda of philosophy of science. One goal is to understand interdisciplinary relations emerging from the incursion of one scientific discipline into one or more other disciplines, such as when the conventions and procedures of one discipline or field are imposed on other fields, or more weakly when a scientific discipline seeks to explain phenomena that are traditionally considered proper of another discipline’s domain. The possibility of distinguishing imperialistic from non-imperialistic interactions between disciplines and research fields is among the issues to be addressed.
The workshop brings together philosophers of science and science studies scholars interested in issues of scientific imperialism and wishing to contribute to its conceptual clarification, empirical identification and examination, as well as its normative assessment. We welcome abstracts for papers that deal with scientific imperialism in general as well as with actual cases of imperialism that involve particular disciplines (such as economics, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, anthropology, physics, and more). Papers will be selected so as to ensure the representation of different disciplinary traditions in the programme. An edited publication (special issue of a journal or a book) will be considered.
Keynote Speakers
Stephen Downes (University of Utah) “Is the Appeal to Evolution in Explanations of Human Behavior a Case of Scientific Imperialism?”
Steven Medema (University of Colorado, Denver) “Negotiating Economic Analysis of Law: Economists, Lawyers, and the Coase Theorem”
Instructions for submission
Deadline for submission: 1 December 2014.
Notification expected by the end of December 2014.
Please prepare a 500-600 word abstract for anonymous review.
Submissions must be sent by the deadline to [email protected]
We look forward to receiving your submissions!
Uskali Mäki, Manuela Fernández Pinto, Adrian Walsh