BSPS Annual Conference 2008

BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2008
UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
THURSDAY 10 - FRIDAY 11 JULY 2008

PLENARY SPEAKERS
Confirmation Theory and Statistical Inference - Branden Fitelson and Deborah Mayo
Social Epistemology and Science - Melinda Fagan and Miranda Fricker
Statistical Mechanics - Craig Callender and Joss Uffink

The programme will consist of both invited and contributed papers. Further details of the programme, including the invited papers and details of how to register are available at http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/bsps2008/.

Call for papers (now closed)

Submissions are invited from professional philosophers as well as graduate students. Papers may be on any topic within the philosophy of science and should be suitable for presentation in 20 minutes, which will allow 10 minutes discussion. Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be received at the address below no later than Friday February 8th 2008. Please send submissions by email (in the body of a message, or as attachments in plain text, rtf or Microsoft Word format). Abstracts will be refereed, and successful contributors notified during March or April. As in previous years, postgraduate students attending the conference will be entitled to subsidised accommodation, and if they present a paper, to help with their travel expenses within the UK.

BSPS 2008
Rachel Cooper
Department of Philosophy
Furness College
Lancaster University
Lancaster
LA1 4YG

email: R.V.Cooper@lancaster.ac.uk