CFP: Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism?

Submission deadline: December 20, 2016

Conference date(s):
August 5, 2017 - August 7, 2017

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Conference Venue:

Philosophy Department , Durham University
Durham, United Kingdom

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Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism?  

Dates: 5th-7th August 2017

Location: Durham University, UK

Keynote speakers:

·      Hasok Chang (Cambridge)

·      Michela Massimi (Edinburgh)        

·      Stathis Psillos (Athens)

·      John Worrall (LSE) 

This is a call for papers for a 3-day conference on the theme of contemporary selective scientific realism (sometimes called 'divide et impera' realism).   Conference Themes:  

  •      Assessing the validity of selective scientific realism by amassing a large amount of relevant evidence from the history of science
  •      Bringing that evidence to bear upon selective scientific realist positions 
  •      Evaluating philosophical and conceptual challenges to the selective realist position
  •      Discussing the future of scientific selective realism

Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be emailed to [email protected], by December 20th 2016 at the latest. Decisions will be made by January 31st 2017. A limited number of travel bursaries will be available for particularly strong applicants who can only partially fund their own travel. Further inquiries may be addressed to Yafeng Shan ([email protected]).   For more information on the conference, please visit the conference website.

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