NNPS 2016 - Nordic Network for Philosophy of Science Fourth Annual Meeting

April 21, 2016 - April 23, 2016
Department of Philosophy, University of Tartu

Pärnu
Estonia

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Speakers:

Hanne Andersen
University of Copenhagen
John Dupré
University of Exeter
Mikael M. Karlsson
University of Iceland

Organisers:

Endla Lõhkivi
University of Tartu
Ave Mets
University of Tartu
Edit Talpsepp
University of Tartu

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The Department of Philosophy at the University of Tartu is proud to host the 4th meeting of Nordic Network for Philosophy of Science. We welcome papers on all areas of philosophy of science, including:

·         General  philosophy of science (methodological, epistemological and metaphysical issues in sciences)

·         Philosophy of special disciplines and metaphilosophy (philosophy of the natural sciences, life sciences, formal sciences, cognitive and behavioural sciences, humanities and the social sciences, technology and the applied sciences etc.)

·         Logic and formal approaches to philosophy of science

·         Ethical, socio-political, historical and cultural issues in science.

All the selected papers will have a commentator, format 20+5+15 minutes (talk, comment, discussion). Participants will have the possibility to participate in a follow-up event on April 24 – excursion to Estonian primeval nature. Pärnu, where the conference will be held, was the location of the University of Tartu (back then called Academia Gustavo-Carolina) in 1699-1710. Previous meeting of the NNPS were held in Uppsala (2013), Lund (2014) and Helsinki (2015).

Programme committee:

Lise Marie Andersen (Aarhus University)

Rani Lill Anjum (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)

Daniel Cohnitz (University of Tartu)

Finnur Dellsén (University of Iceland)

Søren Harnow Klausen (University of Southern Denmark)

Lars-Göran Johansson (Uppsala University)

Ólafur Páll Jónsson (University of Iceland)

Carlo Martini (TINT, University of Helsinki)

Peeter Müürsepp (Tallinn University of Technology)

Michiru Nagatsu (TINT, University of Helsinki)

Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen (University of Helsinki, Tallinn University of Technology)

Petri Ylikoski (University of Helsinki, Linköping University)

Frank Zenker (Lund University)


Important dates:

January 25, 2016: Deadline for abstract submission - Extended!

March 1, 2016: Accepted papers will be notified

March 28, 2016: Deadline for full paper submission

April 21-23, 2016: Dates of the NNPS 2016 meeting


Abstract submission:

Please prepare abstracts of maximally 750 words for anonymous review. Submissions must be sent through EasyCair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nnps2016

Organizers: Endla Lõhkivi, Ave Mets, Edit Talpsepp (University of Tartu)

Local organizing committee: Kristin Kokkov, Triin Paaver, Mats Volberg

Further information and queries: [email protected]

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