PSA Around the World 2025
With a focus on Eastern and Central Europe
Call for Abstracts
In 2023\, the Philosophy of Science Association launched a new initiative called PSA Around the World. The aim of the initiative is to reach out to the global community of philosophers of science and spotlight the rich diversity of practices and traditions in the field of philosophy of science via fully online conferences with a dedicated regional focus\, running in the years when the Biennial Meeting of the PSA does not take place.
The second PSA Around the World conference spotlights Eastern and Central Europe and is organized by the East European Network for Philosophy of Science (https://eenps.weebly.com/). The conference is open to all PSA members worldwide. Contributed papers may be on any topic in philosophy of science. Scholars working in Eastern and Central Europe are particularly encouraged to submit papers\, and papers exploring the philosophy of science in Eastern and Central European contexts are most welcome.
The PSA Around the World 2025 Committee is committed to assembling a program with high-quality papers on a variety of topics and diverse presenters that reflect the full range of current work in the philosophy of science. Given the time zones constraints\, and with an eye to increasing diversity of topics\, there is no call for symposia for this conference. The conference will run fully online for three days and different time slots to accommodate a global audience in various time zones: Thursday\, November 6\; Friday\, November 14\; Saturday\, November 22 (precise timing for each day TBA).
Submissions should consist of a 1000-word abstract and be prepared for anonymous review with no information identifying the author in the body of the abstract. For co- authored papers\, the presenting author should submit the abstract. \; Users will need to register for a SciencesConf account before submitting an abstract. The deadline for submissions is March 31\, 2025\, 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time. Presenters should be members of the Philosophy of Science Association\, but if this represents an unreasonable burden\, please reach out to \;director@philsci.org. The Program Committee expects to announce its decision on papers accepted for presentation by June 2025. Authors of accepted abstracts are encouraged to post full-length papers as PSA Around the World 2025 Conference Papers at philsci-archive.pitt.edu (a publicly accessible digital archive) prior to the meeting. Paper presentation at the conference should take no more than 15 minutes to allow 15 minutes for questions (in a 30-minute time slot per paper).
In accordance with the current PSA policy no one is permitted to present more than once at each PSA meeting. A scholar may appear as co-author on more than one paper but may present only once at PSA Around the World 2025. General questions about contributed papers should be directed to the Co-Chair of the PSA AtW 2025 Program Committee\, Tomá\;&scaron\; Marvan\, at marvan@flu.cas.cz. To maintain anonymity in the review process\, questions about specific submissions should be sent to office@philsci.org\, as this address will be monitored by someone not involved in the review process.
The Program Committee of PSA Around the World 2025:
Program Commitee Chairs
Tomá\;&scaron\; Marvan (Czech Academy of Sciences\; member of the PSA International
Relations Committee) and Magdalena Małecka (Aarhus University\; member of the
PSA Membership Committee)
Program Committee Members
Tetiana Bilous (Czech Academy of Sciences/Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
Tamas Demeter (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Lilia Gurova (New Bulgarian University)
Michal Hladky (University of Geneva)
Vasso Kindi (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Daniel Kostić (Leiden University)
Maria Kronfeldner (Central European University)
Vassilis Livanios (University of Cyprus)
Joanna Karolina Malinowska (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Ave Mets (University of Tartu\; member of the PSA International Relations
Committee)
Marcin Miłkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences\, Warsaw)
Maria Panagiotatou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Elena Popa (Jagellonian University)
Mikló\;s Ré\;dei (London School of Economics)
Borut Trpin (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Martin Zach (Czech Academy of Sciences)