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1. Conference: "T. S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 
Impact, Relevance and Open Issues," Organized by the Department of 
Philosophy & History of Science, University of Athens and the 
Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago.  Conference will 
take place at the University of Athens, Panepistemiou 30, Athens, 
Greece, 21-23 August 2008. 
<http://www.ishpssb.org/listserv/20080705-1.html>http://www.ishpssb.org/listserv/20080705-1.html

2. McGill-Queen's University Press announces the recent publication 
of a book called Philosophy of Biology, by Brian Garvey. 
<http://www.ishpssb.org/listserv/20080705-2.html>http://www.ishpssb.org/listserv/20080705-2.html

3. The Department of Philosophy at Bristol will shortly be 
advertising two post-doctoral positions, each of three years 
duration, to begin in October 2008 or as soon as possible thereafter. 
Candidates with backgrounds in philosophy of science, evolutionary 
biology, economics, game theory, or political philosophy are 
encouraged to apply. 
<http://www.ishpssb.org/listserv/20080705-3.html>http://www.ishpssb.org/listserv/20080705-3.html

4. Call for Papers: "First International Conference on the Evolution 
and Development of the Universe."  They are seeking cosmologists, 
physicists, astrobiologists, theoretical and evo-devo biologists, 
complexity, systems and hierarchy theorists, philosophers, and other 
scholars who wish to explore and critique hypotheses of evolution and 
development at universal and subsystem scales.  Their first 
international conference on these topics will be occurring in Paris, 
France on 8-9 October, 2008. Their first deadline for abstract and 
paper proposal submission is July 30th, 2008. 
<http://www.ishpssb.org/listserv/20080705-4.html>http://www.ishpssb.org/listserv/20080705-4.html

5. The Tenth biennial IHPST conference will take place at Notre Dame 
University, South Bend, Indiana, June 24-28, 2009.  It will be hosted 
by the University of Notre Dame's HPS Graduate Program and Reilly 
Center for Science, Technology, and Values. 
<http://www.ishpssb.org/listserv/20080705-5.html>http://www.ishpssb.org/listserv/20080705-5.html


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