Dear ISH Colleagues,
   Please see the recent announcements from our community. Please send me
any you would like to include in the next posting.

 

Call for Papers

 



Call for papers: SSoCIA 2024

 

1)  The Society for Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology (SSoCIA)
will hold its fifth biennial meeting June 3-5, 2024 in Rovaniemi, Finland.
SSoCIA is an international and highly interdisciplinary group of scholars
and other experts dedicated to investigation of the many social, cultural,
and conceptual issues surrounding humanity’s future in space. For our 2024
meeting, we welcome submissions addressing any of the many “broader
questions” in astrobiology and space exploration.  Previous presentations
have included:

*	Should there be private property in space?
*	Is human colonization of other worlds morally permissible?
*	Should we attempt to contact extraterrestrial intelligence (METI)?
*	What does “pollution” mean in the context of a lifeless world?
*	What is “life”?
*	What moral obligations might we have towards extraterrestrials?
*	How can we overcome problems inherent in interspecies communication?
*	What would be the religious significance of a “second genesis”?
*	How should off world colonies be governed?
*	Is the prime directive an appropriate ethical principle to use for
first contact?
*	How do our attitudes towards space reflect unexamined cultural
tropes?
*	How can we use astrobiology to further science education?

 

This year, we are very fortunate to have an excellent keynote speaker in Dr.
Tony Milligan:

 



 

If you wish to be considered, submit a 250-word abstract for a presentation
or poster (please specify) by January 31, 2024 to the program chair, Kelly
Smith ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ).  Additional information
about the conference will be posted to our website (ssocia.space) when it
becomes available.  Graduate students are especially encouraged to apply and
we anticipate having support to facilitate their participation.  

 

2) Call for Papers: HOPOS 2024 at The University of Vienna, July 9-12, 2024.

The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS)
will hold its biennial international congress at the University of Vienna,
Austria, 9–12 July 2024. The Society hereby requests proposals for papers
and symposia to be presented at the meeting.

Submission deadline: extended to Oct. 1 2023.

HOPOS is devoted to promoting serious, scholarly research on the history of
the philosophy of science. We construe this subject broadly, to include
topics in the history of related disciplines and in all historical periods,
studied through diverse methodologies. We aim to promote historical work in
a variety of ways, but especially through encouraging exchange among
scholars through meetings, publications, and electronic media. The program
committee particularly encourages submissions on philosophical themes that
cross time periods. The conference language is English.

The conference will take place directly after
<https://vcs.univie.ac.at/Feyerabend_Vienna_July24.pdf> "Paul Feyerabend and
Austrian Philosophy: His Formative Years in Postwar Vienna”, an
international conference also to be held at the University of Vienna, from
July 5-6, 2024.

Guidelines for Submissions:

HOPOS 2024 accepts two types of submissions: contributed papers and
symposia, which are topical collections of 3-4 papers intended to be
presented in a single session.

To submit a proposal, contributors will need to create and account on the
HOPOS 2024 website. Proposals for contributed papers and symposia should be
prepared for anonymous review.

Proposals for contributed papers should include:

1.	Title of the paper.
2.	Abstract of the paper (maximum 500 words).
3.	Contact information for all co-authors.

Proposals for symposia should include:

1.	Title of the symposium.
2.	Symposium summary statement (maximum 500 words).
3.	Titles and abstracts of the papers (maximum 500 words for each
paper).
4.	Contact information for all symposiasts.

Further details about the conference are available at:
<https://hopos2024.univie.ac.at/> https://hopos2024.univie.ac.at. The direct
link to the submission portal is  <https://hopos2024.dryfta.com/>
https://hopos2024.dryfta.com.

HOPOS will continue its tradition of holding a mentoring program for junior
scholars during the conference. Details will also become available on the
conference website,  <https://hopos2024.univie.ac.at/>
https://hopos2024.univie.ac.at/.

Local Organizing Committee:
Martin Kusch, Georg Schiemer, Friedrich Stadler and Elisabeth Nemeth

Program Committees:
Kant and Before:
David M. Miller, Chair (Auburn University)
Sylvia Berryman (University of British Columbia)
Vincenzo De Risi (Laboratoire SPHère, Max Planck Institute for the History
of Science)
Lisa Downing (The Ohio State University)
Helen Hattab (University of Houston)

After Kant:
Fracesca Biagioli, Chair (University of Turin)
Scott Edgar (Saint Mary’s University)
Lucie Fabry (University of Burgundy)
Erich Reck (University of California, Riverside)
Michael Stoeltzner (University of South Carolina)

For further questions and inquiries, please contact
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]

 

Office Hour Program

 

1) Attention ISHPSSB graduate students and postdocs,

            The Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) is hosting a new
online office hour program as a pilot project
(https://www.philsci.org/psa_office_hour.php). Each month, for some months
of the year, a philosophical theme will be chosen and influential
philosophers working within that theme will be made available, individually,
to graduate students and postdocs via Zoom through an online sign-up sheet
posted on the PSA member website. (More details are at the site.) This fall
there will be a number of philosophers relevant to work being done by
graduate students in the ISHPSSB community. Here's the lineup:

 

Upcoming Office Hours - all times 12:00p - 1:30p (EST)

Wednesday, September 13: Mechanisms and Mechanistic Explanation 

*	Lindley Darden (The University of Maryland, College Park)
*	Arnon Levy (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)


Thursday, September 31: Mechanisms and Mechanistic Explanation


*	Jim Woodward (Pitt HPS)

Thursday, October 5: The Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology

*	Elisabeth Lloyd (Indiana University, Bloomington)

Thursday, October 19: The Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology

*	Roberta Millstein (University of California, Davis)
*	Michael Dietrich (Pitt HPS)

I hope many of you will be able to take advantage of these opportunities.

 

Best,

 

Alan

--

Alan C. Love

Winton Chair in the Liberal Arts
<https://cla.umn.edu/news-events/news/alan-love-places-evo-devo-front-and-ce
nter> 

Distinguished McKnight University Professor
<https://scholarswalk.umn.edu/faculty-awards/mcknight-awards/distinguished> 

Department of Philosophy & Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science

University of Minnesota
http://umn.edu/~aclove

 

Current Project: Agency, Directionality, and Function: Foundations for a
Science of Purpose <https://www.biologicalpurpose.org> 

New Paper! Teleonomy: revisiting a proposed conceptual replacement for
teleology <https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-022-00424-y>  (open access)

 

New Positions

 

1)  Cornell University - Historical Analyses of Data and Society 

            The Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell
University seeks an outstanding scholar for a tenure-track, Assistant
Professor position in Science & Technology Studies, with specialization in
Historical Analyses of Data and Society. We are particularly interested in
scholars engaged in counter-histories and studies of communities involving
underrepresented minorities and communities beyond North America and Western
Europe. Foci may include (but are not limited to): 

• The epistemic foundations of data science, artificial intelligence, and/or
information technology • The legacies of bias, inequality, and/or racial
discrimination in information systems. • The political economy of
information science and technology • The social making and deployment of
disciplines such as operations research, managerial and/or business science
• The production, perception, and politics of narratives about algorithms,
automation, and/or artificial intelligence. • Applications of information
systems in national security, healthcare, environment and/or the welfare
state. • Alternative histories of information and data science in the Global
South and/or underrepresented communities in the Global North. • The
evolution of expertise and authority in data-driven science, technology,
and/or medicine. • (De )colonizing domains of information science and/or
technology. • Subversive technological adaptations, interventions, and/or
resistance by marginalized groups. • The role(s) of information science and
technology in the emergence of new threats, vulnerabilities, and risks.

A PhD in science and technology studies (STS) or a closely related field is
required. The successful candidate will have an active research program in
STS, be expected to play an important role in both graduate and
undergraduate programs in the department, and be expected to offer courses
of interest to Cornell undergraduate and graduate students. 

We ask applicants for all faculty positions to share their experiences
and/or approaches (past, current, or future) to fostering learning, research
service, and/or outreach in a diverse community. Applicants may choose to
submit a stand-alone statement or embed the information in other parts of
their application materials.  
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25534

 

Best, Lloyd

 

Lloyd Ackert, Ph.D.

Teaching Professor
Department of History

Research Associate
Patrick Center for Environmental Research
Academy of Natural Sciences


Drexel University
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