Dear ISH Colleagues,
   Here are the announcements for Late November. 

1. LISTSERVE MODERATOR - Please consider serving as the Listserve Moderator.
It is an excellent way to be involved in ISH and to satisfy your
institution's Service to your Intellectual Community. It takes a only a few
hours per month and has a great impact on the viability of our institution.
Email [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>  for more
information.

Fellowships

2. November 30!: ASHG-NHGRI Genomics Communications Fellowship - We have a
new NHGRI/ASHG communications fellowship which is open to anyone with an
advanced degree (MS, PhD, JD) who is interested in genomics and science
journalism/science communication. We are actively looking for applications
but the deadline is short, November 30th.

               All necessary info and details
<https://www.ashg.org/careers-learning/fellowships/communications/>  

 

Thanks!

Chris Donohue

 

3. The Department of Philosophy at the University of Alberta (Canada)
solicits applications for the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral
Fellowship, which is tenable for 2 years (anytime after May 1, 2024).
Citizenship: open. $50,000 per annum plus benefits and one time $4000
research/travel grant. Application deadline: December 10, 2023.

Detailed job ad at
https://www.ualberta.ca/philosophy/news/2023/november/2024-killam-memorial-p
ostdoctoral-fellowship-application-now-open.html

 

Interested philosophers of science can contact Canada Research Chair in
Philosophy of Biology Ingo Brigandt ([log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) with questions about the fellowship and the
application process before submitting an application. 

 

-- 

Ingo Brigandt (he/him)

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Biology

Director of Graduate Programs

Department of Philosophy

University of Alberta

http://www.ualberta.ca/~brigandt

Call for Papers

 

4. CALL FOR PAPERS: SPP 2024

               The Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP) invites
submissions of papers to be presented at its 50th Annual Meeting to be held
June 19-June 22, 2024 at Purdue University (local organizer: Corey Maley).

 

Please submit an abstract of 750 words or less by January 31, 2024, 11:59pm
EST. in any area relevant to philosophy, psychology, linguistics,
neuroscience, or cognitive science. The submission portal can be found
there:
https://tinyurl.com/2024SPP
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om%2F2024SPP&data=05%7C01%7Cmachery%40pitt.edu%7Cd04e817e71ef49badf9408dbeb9
01a08%7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d%7C1%7C0%7C638362776445362806%7CUnkn
own%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVC
I6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=XB8F4%2Fv%2FlS2KnAYLH3RL1aS%2FgjK7OYN0kSQGDN9
1va0%3D&reserved=0> .

Submissions will be refereed and selected on the basis of quality and
relevance to SPP. Submissions are open format, but must be no more than 750
words + 1 figure and must be prepared for blind review. Authors will have
the chance to indicate whether they would like to be considered for a
poster, talk, or both. All submitters may be first author on only 1
submission (but may co-present any number of submissions). Upload a .pdf and
other required information at the submission site.

Further information about the 50th Annual Meeting will be made available on
the Society's website.

Already, we have a stellar program lined up: a 50th Anniversary special
session with Susan Carey (Harvard), a keynote by Nathaniel Daw (Princeton),
and outstanding invited symposia on Current Issues in Artificial
Intelligence chaired by Corey Maley (Purdue), and the Psychology of
Misinformation chaired by Gordon Pennycook (Cornell).

 

Serife Tekin (Center for Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical
University) is organizing the pre-conference workshop: Persons, Algorithms,
and Mental Disorders on June 19, 2024.

Dan Burnston and Laura Niemi

Co-Chairs, SPP 2024

Email inquiries are to be sent to [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 

 

Graduate Student Opportunities

5. Available through the PSA are some opportunities for grad students /
postdocs to interact with prominent philosophers to discuss their own
research. Some of the upcoming 'office hours' focus on philosophy of biology
and medicine and feature Anja Plutynski and Sabine Leonelli and I thought
these would be of interest to early-career people or their mentors in your
network.  

The link with all the information is here:
https://www.philsci.org/psa_office_hour.php

 

Don't hesitate to let me know if you'd like any more information before
posting.

Thanks, Kerry. 

 

Dr. Kerry McKenzie
Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science, UC San Diego

Director of Graduate Studies
Core Faculty, Science Studies Program

Chair, PSA Climate Taskforce

Seminars and Workshops

 

6. The Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh
invites you to join us for our Lunch Time Talks.  Attend in person, Room
1117 on the 11th floor of the Cathedral of Learning at the University of
Pittsburgh or visit our live stream on YouTube at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg.    

LTT: Margherita Harris
<https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/fellows/margherita-harris/>  Tuesday,
November 28th @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST 
Title: Some Conceptual Problems in the IPCC Uncertainty Framework and Where
to Go from Here
               Abstract:  Studies of climate change are afflicted by deep
uncertainty, the communication of which is made more challenging still by
the studies' immediate policy implications. The world of policy-making has
its demands: uncertain information should be communicated in a simple,
consistent and relevant manner. To address this, the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) uncertainty guide provides both a confidence and a
likelihood metric for IPCC authors to characterize uncertainty in their
findings. Unfortunately, as I will try to convince you in the first part of
my talk, the relationship between these two metrics is far from clear and
this ambiguity has worrying implications for how IPCC authors handle
uncertainties and the quality of the information provided in IPCC reports.
The aim of the second part of my talk is to critically reflect on what an
adequate IPCC uncertainty framework could look like. I will begin by
assessing two strikingly different proposals for a new IPCC uncertainty
framework (Winsberg's (2018) and Bradley et al.'s (2017)). After arguing
that both proposals are conceptually problematic for distinct and yet
related reasons, I will offer my own tentative proposal for a better IPCC
uncertainty framework.

LTT - Raphael Scholl
<https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/fellows/scholl-raphael/>  Thursday,
November 30th @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST
Title:  Empirical tests of infectious disease models
               Abstract:  Epidemiologists have been developing mathematical
and computational models to predict the course of epidemics since at least
the 1920s. In this talk I will consider how these models were tested
empirically, especially in the decades leading up to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Tests relied either on data from actual epidemics (such as influenza or
ebola) or on synthetic data that were themselves generated by infectious
disease models. The questions under investigation included whether the
models were capable of predicting the rate at which new cases would occur,
the time and case numbers at which the epidemic would peak, and the overall
duration of the epidemic. I will focus on two methodological issues raised
by such empirical tests of infectious disease models. First, which aspects
of infectious disease dynamics were these models intended to represent?
Second, what sort of confirmation did the models receive from tests of
(mere) predictive accuracy? I will situate my results within an
adequacy-for-purpose view of model evaluation.

LTT  - Dan Nicholson
<https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/fellows/daniel-nicholson/>  Friday,
December 1st @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST
Title: The New Physics Behind the Old Biology and the Old Physics Behind the
New Biology: A Tale of Two Revolutions (in Three Acts)
               Abstract: In this talk I tell the story of the
physics-biology dialectic in the twentieth century. It is a tale of two
revolutions: one that seemed inevitable but which never came to pass, and
another that unfolded spectacularly but in a manner radically different from
the way intended by those who triggered it. The first of these intellectual
revolutions has been almost completely forgotten, while the second stands
today as the most transformative event of twentieth-century biology. The
first is the failed organicist revolution that throughout the interwar years
seemed imminent and inescapable. The second is the triumphant molecular
revolution that transformed biology in the second half of the twentieth
century. Despite appearing very different, these two historical episodes are
intimately connected, and neither can be fully understood in isolation from
the other, or so I will argue. I tell this tale in three acts, opening with
a prelude that provides a starting point for my analysis, and closing with a
coda that adds a twenty-first century update to my tale. I end by drawing
lessons for the historian, for the philosopher, and for the scientist.

7. Call for Abstracts: 8th International Workshop on the History of Human
Genetics, Berlin, May 30&31, 2024. 

Submission of individual paper and poster abstracts, especially on The
History of Eugenics, Evolution of Techniques in Human Genetics and Women in
the History of Human Genetics, are invited. 

The workshop is a satellite symposium of the European Human Genetics
Conference 2024. 

***Deadline: Friday, February 14, 2024, 24.00 hrs CET
https://www.medizin.uni-muenster.de/egtm/institut/team/dr-heike-petermann.ht
ml#gen

 

Thank you.

 

All the best,

Heike Petermann

Conference: Call for Proposals

8.  CALL FOR PROPOSALS ***DEADLINE EXTENSION: NOVEMBER 30

Revitalizing Science and Values 

Conference Dates: April 6-7, 2024 

Location: Center for Philosophy of Science, Cathedral of Learning,
University of Pittsburgh 

  

The arena of science and values has grown in size and prominence in recent
philosophy of science. But debates about the role of science remain fairly
limited in terms of both the scope of topics discussed and the range of
views expressed. The aim of this conference is to broaden the horizons of
work on science and values, partly by making room for new (or new versions
of older) ideas and partly by getting it to interact with other parts of
philosophy. 

In this spirit we invite papers which expand the boundaries of current work
in the field, and/or that argue for views that are outside of the current
mainstream. These include, but are limited to: 



o Views bucking the trend towards value-laden science, and/or defending
(new) versions of value-freedom. 

o Discussions aiming to bridge work on values in science and general value
theory, especially political theory, political philosophy and moral
philosophy. 

o Work seeking to connect literature on values in science to other core
areas of philosophy of science, including confirmation, measurement and
experimental practice, explanation, modeling and theory structure. 

o Work drawing connections between debates over values and science and
topics in epistemology including the ethics of belief and moral and
pragmatic encroachment. 

  

Abstracts should be between 500-800 words long and should be sent by
November 30 to: [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> .

 

 

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Department of History

Drexel University

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