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The following submission is structured around studies and discussions between various academic disciplines (Philosophy of Science, History of Science, Science and Technology Studies) and their representatives. The main issue at hand rests on the tension between the theoretical terms that define the limits of two differing(?) practices: Science and Technoscience. In this context, we will attempt to sketch an answer on the following questions: Is a demarcation between Science and Technoscience possible? o If so, what might be the consequences of the expansion of the latter, perhaps to the detriment of the former, for disciplines that render Science the object of their study on a meta-level (Epistemology-Philosophy of Science)?
The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective
2009
The European Science Foundation (ESF) was established in 1974 to provide a common platform for its Member Organisations to advance European research collaboration and explore new directions for research. It is an independent organisation, owned by 67 Member Organisations, which are research funding organisations, research performing organisations and academies from 29 countries. ESF promotes collaboration in research itself, in funding of research and in science policy activities at the European level. Currently ESF is reducing its research programmes while developing new activities to serve the science community, including peer review and evaluation services.
One Hundred Years of Philosophy of Science: The View from Munich
Friedrich Waismann - Causality and Logical Positivism, 2011
These days, a number of philosophers of science indulge in lamenting about a crisis of their discipline. They complain about its loss of relevance, and bemoan the mar gi na lization of their dis cipline in the philosophical community and in the wider academia (cf. Howard (2003, 75), Hardcastle and Richardson (2003)). The Munich take on the philosophy of science does not succumb to this temptation. According to it, philosophy of science is well and alive. In Carlos Ulises Moulines's Die Entwicklung der modernen Wissen schaftstheorie (1890-2000) Eine historische Einführung (henceforth Einführung) the word "crisis" is used only in reference to the 1940s when clas sical logical positivism encountered some dif fi culties in dealing with problems concerning veri fi cation, the ana ly tic/synthetic distinction, and similar conundrums. For Moulines, "crisis" is not a word that applies to contemporary philosophy of science. My expectations to fi nd an encouraging piece of philosophy of science, something one doesn't come across so often today, grew, when I hit upon a Mexican review of the French version of Einführung that concluded with the enthusiastic verdict that "the community of philo sophers of science may congratulate themselves for the publication of this book" (Crítica 38 (2006), 120). Not only the French but also the German version of Moulines's book has found an extremally positive reception in certain quarters. A recent review of Einführung closes with the following acolades: "Without overstatement we claim that [Einführung] is the best historical overview of modern philosophy of science that has been published in German", and, the enthusiastic Austrian reviewers felt obliged to add, "[it is] the one and only existing book of this kind" (
First Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association, 14–17 November, Madrid, Spain
Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 2008
The newly founded European Philosophy of Science Association had its first conference in Madrid in November 2007. The conference was hosted by the Complutense University of Madrid and brought together over 300 philosophers of science from Europe and the rest of the world. The conference call for papers was launched in March 2007 and the response to it was beyond the expectations of the Steering Committee of EPSA. Over 400 abstracts were submitted in all kinds of areas in the philosophy of science. The 30-strong Programme Committee, consisting of renowned philosophers of science working in Europe and chaired by Mauro Dorato (Rome) and Miklos Redei (London), faced the difficult task of selecting 175 papers for presentation at the conference. Hard decisions had to be made within a very strong field of contributions and the result of the selection procedure was that the quality of papers presented in EPSA07 was invariably high.
European Philosophy of Science Association, 23–26 September
2015
-- Citation information: Christian, A., Feldbacher, C. J., Gebharter, A., & Retzlaff, N. (2015). European Philosophy of Science Association, 23-26 September [Conference report]. The Reasoner, 9(11), 95.