CFP: The Social Organization of Scientific Inquiry

Submission deadline: January 7, 2013

Conference date(s):
April 20, 2013 - April 21, 2013

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Conference Venue:

Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, United States

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The operation and achievements of the present social organization of science are well-studied. Less attention has been given to alternative forms of organization and their consequences. This conference will examine past, present, and especially novel forms of social organization of science and their consequences, using methods from philosophy, history, psychology, economics, sociology, and science studies.

The conference will follow Philip Kitcher’s Salmon Lecture at the University of Pittsburgh (tentatively entitled “Collective Inquiry”) on 19 April. Additional invited talks will be given by David Guston (Co-Director, Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes / Arizona State University), Rainer Hegselmann (Universitat Bayreuth), Miriam Solomon (Temple University), Kyle Stanford (UC Irvine / Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh), Michael Strevens (New York University), Michael Weisberg (University of Pennsylvania), and Kevin Zollman (Carnegie Mellon University).

We invite submissions of extended abstracts (1000 words) of papers that are approximately 30-minute presentation time. Please include name, paper title, academic affiliation, and email address in the submission, and direct submissions to
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=sosi2013

The deadline for submissions is 7 January, 2013, and decisions will be announced by 1 February, 2013. Accommodations will be provided for authors of accepted submissions.

Questions can be directed to Kyle Stanford ([email protected]) or Eric Hatleback ([email protected]).

Organizing Committee

Kyle Stanford, Chair (UC Irvine, CPS Senior Visiting Fellow)
Kevin Zollman (Carnegie Mellon University)
Michael Weisberg (University of Pennsylvania)
John Norton (University of Pittsburgh)
Jim Woodward (University of Pittsburgh)

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