ESF Research Conferences

ESF-LiU Conference

PHILOSOPHY FOR SCIENCE IN USE

Chaired by:

Carl Walter MatthiasKaiserE-Mail

The National Committee for Research Ethics in Science and Technology (NENT)Forskningsetiske KomiteerOsloNorway

CO-CHAIR:

NancyCartwrightE-Mail

London School of EconomicsCentre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social ScienceLondonUnited Kingdom

http://personal.lse.ac.uk/CARTWRIG/Default.htm

Dates

28 September - 2 October 2009

Location

The conference will be held at Scandic Linköping Väst, Sweden – 7km from Linköping airport and 4km from the train station. Most notably, the Swedish chain Scandic Hotel´s commitment to sustainability won the Green Meetings Award in 2008. It is located in Linköping which is the capital of Östergötland county, situated in the center of a vast open farmland. It is Sweden's fifth largest city with more than 136,000 inhabitants and has a long history as a city of learning.

Final Programme & List of Accepted Participants

This conference is to discuss how current philosophy of science can be brought more in line with the need to understand, analyze and contribute to scientific endeavours in its various practical and socially relevant uses. It follows a call from Philip Kitcher (in Science, Truth and Democracy, 2001) for aiming at a well-ordered science, i.e. a science that produces the right answers to the right questions in the right ways.  Implicit in this call is the insight that value judgements are intertwined with methodological issues. Nancy Cartwright (in Philosophy of Science, 2006 vol.72, #5) has followed up by making the claim that epistemological warrants (evidence) are in large parts also use- and context-specific, contrary to the prevailing tradition in philosophy of science. Hitherto the major philosophical attention has been directed towards justifications of theoretical claims to establish stable unambiguous results, while the justificationary demands on contextual and specialized uses of theoretical insights has been largely neglected. However, it is also in regard to these uses of sciences that value dilemmas affect the practice of science in a very direct way, and where science needs to reflect on its social and ethical justification. The conference will ask for contributions that explore in greater detail philosophical aspects of science and evidence in practical use, and in particular contributions that can provide frameworks of analyses that move philosophy of science closer to policy issues of managing scientific knowledge. In general, the task of the conference is to discuss a re-orientation of current philosophy of science towards what Kitcher called well-ordered science.  

The conference specifically addresses early stage European researchers, both from within philosophy of science and related fields, and encourages them to participate and possibly present a poster on their current work.  

Abstracts, Posters & Short Oral Contributions

Participants whose abstracts or posters have been accepted as short talks have been informed.

Poster size should be no more than 100 cm high x 100 cm wide. Use letters and drawings that can be read from approximately 100 cm distance.

Application Form

To apply, fill in an Application Form 
Late applications are still being accepted

Registration Form

For accepted participants and invited speakers only

All participants - including speakers & session chairs - are kindly expected to confirm their attendance (and, when applicable, to pay the conference fee) by filling in a Registration Form.

GROUP TRANSPORTATION :

Two buses will be arranged on arrival day, Monday 28 September. The journey takes about 20 minutes.

Bus number 1 from Linköping airport, via Linköping train station:
Departure Linköping airport: 16.30 hrs
Departure Linköping train station: 17.00 hrs

Bus number 2 from Linköping airport, via Linköping train station:
Departure Linköping airport: 18.00 hrs
Departure Linköping train station: 18.30 hrs

Airport departure point: the meeting point is located just outside the small airport building. The coaches will have a sign in the window indicating “ESF Research Conferences” for easy recognition.

Train station departure point: the meeting point is located in the long distance bus terminal of the station. From the exit of the main building of the railway station, it is approximately 300 metres to the right.

Bus departure time on Friday 02 October: 14.00

ACCOMMODATION
Please note that SINGLE accommodation can only be guaranteed to invited speakers. All other participants will share a TWIN room. In case single rooms would become available at the time of the conference, rooms will be attributed on a “first come, first served” basis. Only the TWIN conference fee should be paid to the ESF when registering. The supplement for single should be paid to the venue directly. Should you wish to be put on the waiting list for single accommodation, please contact Ms. Jean Kelly.

What conference fee covers

Basic expenses comprise:

• registration and meeting costs;
• accommodation in twin room sharing with another participant;
  
• all meals, coffee breaks and drinks included;
  
• participation at the excursion and the conference dinner;
  
• group transportation from/to the nearest airport.

Extra costs:

Cancellation:

Should you need to cancel your participation, please contact the Conference Officer immediately. If notice of cancellation is received more than two weeks before the conference, all but EUR 100 will be reimbursed. No refund is possible if notice of cancellation is received less than two weeks before the conference.

ESF Contact

JeanKellyE-Mail

Conference Officer

Phone: +32 (0)2 533 2025
Fax: +32 (0)2 538 8486
Please quote 09-272 in any correspondence.

Partnership

This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with Linköping University.

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