11 Dec
1998
11 Dec
'98
10:31 a.m.
* * * Call for Papers * * *
The Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic,
announces the 13th event in the series of annual International Symposia
LOGICA '99
to be held at Liblice Chateau (Central Bohemia), 22th - 25th June, 1999.
Since 1987 the LOGICA Symposia have become an interdisciplinary platform
for discussion on all aspects of logic among both internationally
renowned scholars and young researchers.
Contributions devoted to any of the wide range of logical problems are
welcome except those focused on specialised technical applications.
Particularly welcome are contributions that cover the issues interesting
both for 'philosophically' and for 'mathematically' oriented logicians.
Selected contributions to LOGICA are published by the Academy of
Sciences. Recent volumes include, among others, papers from Nuel Belnap,
Paul Benacerraf, Jan Berg, Andre Fuhrmann, Reinhardt Grossmann,
Jaakko Hintikka, David Lewis, Alex Orenstein, Barbara Partee,
Graham Priest, Veikko Rantala, Michael Resnik, Jay Rosenberg,
Mark Sainsbury, Gabriel Sandu, Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer, Goeran Sundholm,
Raymond Turner, Achille Varzi, and Jan Wolenski.
The official language of the symposium is English.
Among invited speakers are: Johan van Benthem (Amsterdam), Rohit Parikh
(New York), Stewart Shapiro (Columbus).
If you are interested in reading a paper at the symposium, please send
us a two-page abstract of the paper accompanied by a separate sheet with
your name, contact address, and affiliation to the address below by
February 28, 1999. E-mail submissions are possible in the format of a MIME
or UUencoded plain text, postscript, MS Word or WordPerfect file.
Notification of acceptance of the papers will be sent by March 31, 1999.
There is a registration fee for the symposium covering full board and
lodging at Liblice Chateau during the symposium, travel expenses from
Prague to Liblice and back, and a copy of the volume containing most of
the contributions to the symposium. The fee amounts to US$ 250 for
participants or US$ 200 for accompanying persons (volume not included).
Those who might have problems covering the expenses connected with
taking part in the symposium are invited to apply for a grant.
The organising committee will cover the registration fee for up to three
selected applicants. Those who wish to apply for the grant should explicitly
state this when submitting their abstract, which should be extended to five
pages.
For up-to-date information visit: www.flu.cas.cz/logica/l99cfpgraf.htm
Please direct all correspondence concerning the symposium to
logica(a)mbox.cesnet.cz
or to
Petr Kolar, Vladimir Svoboda
Institute of Philosophy, ASCR
Jilska 1
110 00 Praha 1
Czech Republic
fax: +4202/242-202-57
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ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
CONFERENCE:=20
INCOMMENSURABILITY (AND RELATED MATTERS)
Conference to be held at the University of Hanover (Germany)
13-16 June 1999
Conference language: English
Conference website: http://sun1.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/zeww/inc.conf.html
CALL FOR PAPERS
This is the second call for contributed papers for the conference
`Incommensurability (and related matters)' to be hosted by the Center for
Philosophy and Ethics of Science of the University of Hanover, 13-16 June,
1999. Papers may address various topics related to the issue of the
incommensurability of scientific theories. For a list of suggested topics,
please consult the conference webpage. To offer a paper, submit an
abstract of 2-4 pages in electronic form to Paul Hoyningen-Huene
(hoyningen(a)mbox.ww.uni-hannover.de), with a copy to Howard Sankey
(h.sankey(a)hps.unimelb.edu.au). Abstracts may also be submitted by fax
(+49-511-762-4799) or by conventional mail to: Prof. Paul Hoyningen-Huene,
Universit=E4t Hannover, ZE f=FCr Wissenschaftstheorie und=
Wissenschaftsethik,
Oeltzenstr. 9, D-30169 Hannover, Germany. The deadline for submission of
abstracts is February 28, 1999.
AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE=20
The thesis of the incommensurability of scientific theories is one of the
most controversial claims to emerge from the post-positivist historical
turn in the philosophy of science. Incommensurability and post-positivism
are currently the subject of renewed discussion in the wake of the recent
deaths of Paul Feyerabend and Thomas Kuhn. Further interest has been
stimulated by the development in Kuhn's later work of a sophisticated
taxonomic version of the incommensurability thesis. Additional sources of
interest include the recent application of cognitive models of conceptual
change to the issue of incommensurability, as well as continued efforts to
develop an account of the reference of theoretical terms. This conference
seeks to promote discussion of the current status of the incommensurability
thesis, by drawing together various strands of contemporary debate on the
topic, and facilitating interaction between alternative approaches to the
problem currently being pursued. Among the matters related to
incommensurability which it is hoped the conference will explore are such
issues as: realist vs. anti-realist perspectives on incommensurability,
meaning vs. reference variance, reference and theory comparison, reference
of theoretical terms, translation failure between theories, rational theory
choice, local incommensurability, taxonomic incommensurability,
meta-incommensurability, cognition and conceptual change, historical
studies of conceptual change. For full details of suggested topics as well
as a continuously updated bibliography of the subject area, please consult
the conference webpage.
INVITED SPEAKERS AND COMMENTATORS
In addition to the contributed papers currently being solicited, there will
be presentations by the following invited speakers: Peter Barker
(Oklahoma), Richard Boyd (Cornell), Harold Brown (Northern Illinois),
Martin Carrier (Bielefeld), Michael Devitt (Maryland), Gerald Doppelt (UC
San Diego), Hartry Field (NYU), Fred Kroon (Auckland), Nancy Nersessian
(Georgia Tech), Robert Nola (Auckland), Dudley Shapere (Wake Forest) and
Harvey Siegel (Miami). Titles of the invited papers may be found on the
conference webpage. Commentators on invited papers include Hanne Andersen
(Copenhagen), Andreas Bartels (Paderborn), Alex Burri (Bern), Brigitte
Falkenburg (Dortmund), Michel Ghins (Louvain-la-Neuve), Stephan Hartmann
(Konstanz), Michael Heidelberger (Berlin), Hugh Lacey (Swarthmore), Eric
Oberheim (Hanover), Hans Rott (Amsterdam), and Marcel Weber (Hanover).
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
The members of the conference organization committee are: Ronald Giere
(Minnesota), Paul Hoyningen-Huene (Chairperson, Hanover), Eric Oberheim
(Hanover), Howard Sankey (Melbourne/Pittsburgh/Hanover), Marcel Weber
(Hanover).
FURTHER INFORMATION
The conference is sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
and the Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science, University of Hanover.
The conference will be held in the Leibniz-Haus in the center of the old
part of Hanover. Accommodation will be in hotels close to the
Leibniz-Haus. Further information about the conference, including costs,
accommodation, local transport, registration, a statement of the aims of
the conference, titles of invited papers, suggested paper topics, and a
comprehensive bibliography on incommensurability, please visit the
conference webpage at the homepage of the Center for Philosophy and Ethics
of Science at the University of Hanover:
http://sun1.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/zeww/inc.conf.html
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INQUIRIES
Expressions of interest, questions and requests for further information may
be directed to either Paul Hoyningen-Huene
(hoyningen(a)mbox.ww.uni-hannover.de) or=20
Howard Sankey (h.sankey(a)hps.unimelb.edu.au).
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Howard Sankey
After 15 December, my address will be:
Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science
University of Hanover
Oeltzenstrasse 9
D - 30169 Hannover
Germany
E-mail: sankey(a)mbox.ww.uni-hannover.de
http://www.hps.unimelb.edu.au/staff/howard.htm