GWP.2025 - Fifth International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science

The German Society for Philosophy of Science (Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsphilosophie – GWP) was founded in September 2011 with the aim to better integrate the community of philosophers of science and academics interested in philosophy of science in Germany and thereby to promote the field at a local and international level. The GWP organizes an international conference every three years. Our fifth conference will be hosted by the FAU Kompetenzzentrum für interdisziplinäre Wissenschaftsreflexion (ZIWIS) at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and co-hosted by its Institut für Philosophie from 24th until 26th of March 2025. The ZIWIS (www.ziwis.fau.de) pursues the goal of understanding philosophy of science in an application-oriented way and linking it with other areas of science studies, which is characterized by the concept of “Wissenschaftsreflexion” (“reflection on science”).

Contributed papers are invited from all fields of philosophy of science as well as from the history of science, science & technology studies (STS), and other related disciplines. Contributed papers will be clustered into parallel sessions focusing on particular topics or special sciences.

We welcome proposals for individual papers (30 min plus 10 min discussion) or symposia (3 speakers in a 2-hour session). Graduate students are especially encouraged to submit proposals for either individual papers or symposia. All proposals will be submitted electronically via https://gwp2025.sciencesconf.org/.

Proposals for papers should be submitted in the form of an abstract no longer than 500 words (without title of the paper and author details). We assume that abstracts will be submitted without bibliography.

Symposium proposals should be submitted using the form below. The abstract for the symposium should be no longer than 500 words (excluding title and author details) and should describe the topic and aims of the symposium. Abstracts for presentations given at a symposium should also be no longer than 500 words (also excluding title and author details). The form can be uploaded as supplementary material in the second step of the submission process.

Please note that each person can only present one paper at the GWP.2025 (whether individual or as part of a symposium; co-authorship of papers presented by others is possible). The recommended conference language is English, but contributions in German will also be considered. Please use the template on the conference website for a symposium proposal.

The extended deadline for all submissions is: September 15, 2024

Expected notification of acceptance by the beginning of November 2024. 

Local Organizing Committee (LOC): Michael Jungert (chair), Sabine Dika, Gerhard Ernst, Katrin Götz-Votteler, Simone Hespers, Jon Leefmann, Erasmus Mayr, Josephine Musil-Gutsch, Vanina Rodriguez-Bauer, Anna Schneider, Sebastian Schuol

Program Committee: Axel Gelfert (GWP President), Gerhard Ernst, Vera Hoffmann-Kolss, Michael Jungert, Jon Leefmann, Erasmus Mayr, Josephine Musil-Gutsch, Sebastian Schuol

Please feel free to contact the organizers if you need any further information: [email protected].