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The Society organises a programme of monthly meetings, an annual summer conference, and provides financial support to an irregular programme of other conferences.

Details of the Society's policy on conference funding are available here.

Annual Conference 2010


UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN

THURSDAY 8TH - FRIDAY 9TH JULY 2010

The programme will consist of both invited and contributed papers, for which there is a call for papers. Further details of the programme, including the invited papers and details of how to register, will soon be available via the Society's events page, or from the local organiser.

CALL FOR PAPERS

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 5th 2010. 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.

BSPS 2010
Rachel Cooper
Department of Philosophy
Furness College
Lancaster University
Lancaster
LA1 4YG

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

PROGRAMME OF LONDON MEETINGS 2009-10


Unless otherwise indicated, meetings are held at 5.15pm in room T206, in the Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, Lakatos Building, Portugal Street, London WC2 and tea and biscuits are served at 5.00pm in Room T16.

  • 2 November Roman Frigg (LSE) - Determinism and Chance
  • 30 November Hannes Leitgeb (Bristol) - An Objective Justification of Bayesianism
  • 1 February Juha Saatsi (Leeds) - Scientific Realism and Partial Truth
  • 1 March Hasok Chang (UCL) - A Case for Scientific Pluralism
  • 7 June
    4.00pm Annual General Meeting
    From 4.30pm Tea and biscuits
    5.15pm: Rom Harré (Georgetown & LSE) Room tbc - Psychology as a Hybrid Science - from neuro-psychology to psycho-neurology

Past Lectures

Recordings of past lectures are available here to download as MP3 files.

Alice Drewery (Reading) - Ceteris paribus - from Mill to a modern muddle?
Lecture Discussion

Steven French (Leeds) - The Limits of Structuralism
Lecture Discussion

Michela Massimi (UCL) - From Galileo to Kant: a new conception of phenomena
Lecture

David Wallace (Oxford) - Many worlds? – the case for the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics
Lecture

John O'Neill (Manchester) - Science, pluralism and economics: the debate between Hayek and Neurath
Lecture

Matteo Mameli (King's College, London) - Innateness in the cognitive sciences: the clutter hypothesis and the cluster hypothesis
Lecture

Hilary Greaves (Oxford) - On the empirical significance of local symmetries
Lecture Slides

Jon Williamson (Kent)- Mechanistic theories of causality
Lecture

CONFERENCES SUPPORTED BY THE BSPS

Confirmation, Induction and Science, 8-10 March 2007, London School of Economics Foundations of Physics, 29-31 March 2007, University of Leeds Causation and the Law, 28 April 2007, University of Birmingham Kant and Philosophy of Science Today, 2-3 July 2007, University College London Progic 07, 5-7 Sept 2007, University of Kent Mind and Society conference to be held at the University of Manchester. Information in Physics and Biology, Leeds, 14th September 2007 Nature and its Classificiation, 12-14th October 2007 Powers, Causation and Laws, Durham, 17 Dec 2007 1st Cambridge Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics, 19-20 January 2008, University of Cambridge Science and Pseudo-science, Birmingham, 15th March 2008 Modelling Matter, Durham, March 2008 Explanation, reduction and models of psychopathology. 17 June 2008. Bristol University Styles and Ways of Knowing, UCL, 20th June 2008 Is science inconsistent? 21st June 2008. Leeds Philosophy of Probability. 27-28th June 2008. LSE Powers: Their Grounding and their Realization, 7th-9th July 2008 Computation and cognitive science, 7-8th July 2008, King's College Causality Study Fortnight, Kent, 8-19th Sept 2008 Unreasonable Effectiveness? Historical origins and philosophical problems for applied mathematics. 16-17 December 2008, All Souls College, Oxford The Present Situation in the Philosophy of Science, December 18-20 2008, University of Vienna Cambridge Graduate Conference for the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics, 17-18th January 2009 Explanation, Indispensability of Mathematics and Scientific Realism, 23 Jan 2009, Leeds Workshop on Models and Fiction, 11-12 March 2009, LSE Minds, Brains and Beyond: An International Conference in Memory of Susan Hurley, 19-21 March 2009, Bristol Two Streams in the Philosophy of Mathematics, 1-3 July 2009, University of Hertfordshire Mechanisms and Causality in the Sciences, Sept 2009, University of Kent Metaphysics of Science. Nottingham, 12-14 Sept 2009 Philosophy of Probability. LSE. June 2009 Philosophy of Natural Science from Newton to Kant. UCL. Spring 2010