BSPS Annual Conference 2025
University of Glasgow
15–17 July 2025
The conference will be an in-person event only
An active membership of the BSPS is required in order to participate in the conference
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Register to attend the BSPS Annual Conference here. Deadline for registration is 8th July 2025. (Early bird registration has now closed.)
An active BSPS membership is required to participate in the conference. If you are not already a member, you can join the BSPS here.
Registration fees:
Early bird student/unwaged rate: £110.00
Early bird standard rate: £160.00
Student/unwaged rate: £140.00
Regular rate: £190.00
Optional extras:
Conference dinner (16th July 2025): £27.00
Ceilidh (16th July 2025, after dinner): £10.00
Note: Registration fees include lunch (on 16th & 17th July) and refreshments during the conference. The drinks reception following the first plenary session is sponsored by University of Chicago Press.
A number of single occupancy, en-suite rooms in Glasgow’s Queen Margaret Residence are available, and can be booked at a rate of £43 per night. Rooms are configured within 5-bed apartments; if you would like to share an apartment with colleagues who are also attending, you can indicate this when you book. Make sure that you have a payment card to hand when you start your booking, as it is apparently not possible to pause a booking and return to it later.
To book one of these rooms, please enter the code BSPS25 on the booking page: https://book.accom.gla.ac.uk/KxBnBLive/Default.aspx.
For more information on the Queen Margaret Residence, see: https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/accommodation/visitorstouristsgroups/residences/queenmargaretresidences/.
The conference will be held in the James McCune Smith Learning Hub at the University of Glasgow.
In addition to selected individual talks and symposia, plenary talks will be give by Elselijn Kingma (KCL), Jonathan Birch (LSE), and Alyssa Ney (LMU Munich).
The conference will officially begin on Tuesday 15 July 2025 with a welcome and plenary talk from 3pm, followed by a drinks reception. However, there are several events occurring earlier in the day, which attendees may be interested in attending (and, therefore, should take into account when planning their travel to Glasgow):
- All students and ECRs are invited to attend the Graduate Student Workshop, at 10.30am–12.30pm on 15 July 2025 (further details TBA)
- All BSPS members are invited to attend the AGM, which will take place as a hybrid event, at 2pm on 15 July 2025
- All BSPS members are invited to attend a Q&A with the editors of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (details TBA)
The call for abstracts is now closed.
Questions about submissions should be directed in the first instance to the programme organizer, Ali Boyle (a.boyle2@lse.ac.uk).
No one will be permitted to present more than once at BSPS 2025. As such, you may not submit more than one symposium proposal or abstract on which you will be the presenting author. If a symposium proposal in which you are a presenting author is accepted, you may not submit a contributed paper for which you are the presenting author. Commentators that are part of symposia are considered to be presenting authors. A scholar may appear as co-author on more than one paper or symposium talk, but may present at BSPS 2025 only once.
Any individual can be part of only one symposium proposal in which they are a presenting author. Note that this policy excludes the practice of being a presenting author for more than one symposium proposal and subsequently choosing to present in only one symposium if multiple proposals are accepted.
If an accepted symposium subsequently loses participants, maintaining acceptance will become contingent upon the symposium organizer developing satisfactory alternatives to maintain the quality and coherence of the committee.
All questions about submissions should be directed in the first instance to the programme organizer, Ali Boyle (a.boyle2@lse.ac.uk).