SILFS 2014 – Triennial International Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Sciences

SILFS 2014 Triennial International Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Sciences

SILFS, the Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science (www.silfs.net) will hold on June 18-20, 2014 its Conference at the University of Rome “Roma TRE”.

In addition to several parallel session for contributed papers, there will be three invited speakers and two invited lectures by recent PhD students. The general assembly of the SILFS will also elect the new president and executive committee of the society.

Venue

University of Rome “‘Roma TRE”‘, Via Ostiense 234, 00144, Rome.

Invited speakers

John Norton (University of Pittsburgh)

Hannes Leitgeb (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Tarja Knuuttila (University of Helsinki)

Special session – lectures by the two winners of the SILFS prize for the best doctoral thesis 2011-2013:

Stefano Giaimo, awarded for his PhD Thesis ”The Pleiotropic Theory of Ageing”

Claudio Mazzola, awarded for his PhD Thesis ”Temporal Becoming and the Algebra of Time”

Submissions

We invite submissions in all areas of logic and philosophy of science, with special attention to inter-disciplinary approaches to logical and epistemological issues and topics in the foundations of special sciences (both natural, social and human).

Every contributed speaker will have 30 minutes, including discussion. The official language of the conference is English.

Potential contributors will have to submit a title and an abstract (max 6000 characters) prepared for blind refereeing. The abstract should be submitted electronically using the EasyChair submission page at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=silfs2014.

The deadline for submission is December 15, 2013.

Important dates

Deadline for submissions (via Easychair): December 15, 2013.

Notification of acceptance: March 2014.

Program and further information

The program of the SILFS 2014 Conference is available here: please note that before the Conference minor changes in the program can occur for logistic reasons: the updated version will be posted a few days before the start of the conference, as well as contained in the SILFS 2012 package for participants.

Please check this section of the page regularly for updates on the conference.

Registration

The registration will be done through the SILFS website. More information on registration fees, dates etc. will be posted here soon.

Travel and accomodation information

Please wait for updates.

Scientific Committee

Roberto Arpaia (University of Bergamo)

Giovanni Boniolo (University of Milan and IFOM) - Chair

Giovanna Corsi (University of Bologna) - Chair

Massimiliano Carrara (University of Padua)

Mauro Ceruti (University of Bergamo)

Mauro Dorato (University of Rome 3) - SILFS President

Vincenzo Fano (University of Urbino)

Laura Felline (Université Catholique de Louvain)

Roberto Giuntini (University of Cagliari)

Federico Laudisa (University of Milan-Bicocca)

Sabina Leonelli ( University of Exeter)

Massimo Marraffa (University of Rome 3)

Pierluigi Minari (University of Florence)

Matteo Morganti (University of Rome 3)

Francesco Paoli (University of Cagliari)

Federica Russo (University of Ferrara)

Organizing Committee

Massimiliano Carrara (University of Padua)

Angelo Cei (University of Rome 3)

Mauro Dorato (University of Rome 3)

Pierluigi Graziani (University of Urbino)

Matteo Morganti (University of Rome 3)

Emanuele Rossanese (University of Rome 3)