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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 28 February 1999
INCOMMENSURABILITY (AND RELATED MATTERS)
Conference to be held at the University of Hanover (Germany)
13-16 June 1999
Conference language: English
Conference website: http://sun1.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/zeww/inc.conf.html
CALL FOR PAPERS
This is the final call for contributed papers for the conference
=91Incommensurability (and related matters)' which will be hosted by the
Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science of the University of Hanover,
13-16 June, 1999. Papers may address various topics related to the issue
of the incommensurability of scientific theories. For a list of suggested
topics, please consult the conference webpage. To offer a paper, submit an
abstract of 2-4 pages in electronic form to Paul Hoyningen-Huene
([log in to unmask]), with a copy to Howard Sankey
([log in to unmask]). Abstracts may also be submitted by fax
(+49-511-762-4799) or by mail to: Prof. Paul Hoyningen-Huene, Universit=E4t
Hannover, ZE f=FCr Wissenschafts-theorie und Wissenschaftsethik, Oeltzenstr.
9, D-30169 Hannover, Germany. The deadline for submission of abstracts is
28 February.
AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE=20
The thesis of the incommensurability of scientific theories is one of the
most controversial claims to emerge from the post-positivist historical
turn in the philosophy of science. Incommensurability and post-positivism
are currently the subject of renewed discussion in the wake of the recent
deaths of Paul Feyerabend and Thomas Kuhn. Further interest has been
stimulated by the development in Kuhn's later work of a sophisticated
taxonomic version of the incommensurability thesis. Additional sources of
interest include the recent application of cognitive models of conceptual
change to the issue of incommensurability, as well as continued efforts to
develop an account of the reference of theoretical terms. This conference
seeks to promote discussion of the current status of the incommensurability
thesis, by drawing together various strands of contemporary debate on the
topic, and facilitating interaction between alternative approaches to the
problem currently being pursued. Among the matters related to
incommensurability which it is hoped the conference will explore are such
issues as: realist vs. anti-realist perspectives on incommensurability,
meaning vs. reference variance, reference and theory comparison, reference
of theoretical terms, translation failure between theories, rational theory
choice, local incommensurability, taxonomic incommensurability,
meta-incommensurability, cognition and conceptual change, historical
studies of conceptual change. For full details of suggested topics as well
as a continuously updated bibliography of the subject area, please consult
the conference webpage.
TITLES OF INVITED PAPERS
Prof. Peter Barker (Oklahoma): =91Incommensurability, taxonomic change, and
concept revision during the scientific revolution'. Commentator: Prof.
Michel Ghins (Louvain-la-Neuve).=20
Prof. Richard Boyd (Cornell): =91Correspondence and Commensurability'.
Commentator: PD Dr. Alex Burri (Bern).=20
Prof. Harold Brown (Northern Illinois): =91Incommensurability and Reality=
(or
Why Scientific Realism Requires Incommensurable Theories While the External
World Limits the Scope of Incommensurability)'. Commentator: Dr. Hanne
Andersen (Copenhagen).=20
Prof. Martin Carrier (Bielefeld): =91Incommensurability and Comparability'.
Commentator: Dr. Marcel Weber (Hanover).=20
Prof. Michael Devitt (Maryland): =91Incommensurability Revisited'.
Commentator: Eric Oberheim (Hanover).=20
Prof. Gerald Doppelt (UC San Diego): =91Incommensurability and the Normative
Foundations of Scientific Knowledge'. Commentator: Prof. Michael
Heidelberger (Berlin).=20
Prof. Hartry Field (NYU): =91Incommensurability and Semantic Indeterminacy'.
Commentator: Dr. Stephan Hartmann (Konstanz).=20
Prof. Fred Kroon and Prof. Robert Nola (Auckland): =91Ramsification, Causal
Descriptivism and Incommensurability'. Commentator: Prof. Hans Rott
(Amsterdam).=20
Prof. Nancy Nersessian (Georgia Tech): =91How do the processes of conceptual
innovation bear on the "problem of incommensurability"'. Commentator: Prof.
Andreas Bartels (Paderborn).=20
Prof. Dudley Shapere (Wake Forest): =91Incommensurability, Reasons, and
Radical Change in Science'. Commentator: Prof. Brigitte Falkenburg
(Dortmund).=20
Prof. Harvey Siegel (Miami): =91Rationality, Relativism, and
Incommensurability: In Science and Beyond'. Commentator: Prof. Hugh Lacey
(Swarthmore).=20
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE: Ronald Giere (Minnesota), Paul Hoyningen-Huene
(Chairperson, Hanover), Eric Oberheim (Hanover), Howard Sankey
(Melbourne/Hanover), Marcel Weber (Hanover).
FURTHER INFORMATION: The conference is sponsored by the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the Center for Philosophy and Ethics of
Science, University of Hanover. The conference will be held in the
Leibniz-Haus in the center of the old part of Hanover. Accommodation will
be in hotels close to the Leibniz-Haus. Further information about the
conference, including costs, accommodation, local transport, registration,
a statement of the aims of the conference, titles of invited papers,
suggested paper topics, and a comprehensive bibliography on
incommensurability, please visit the conference webpage at the homepage of
the Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science at the University of=
Hanover:
http://sun1.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/zeww/inc.conf.html=20
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INQUIRIES: Expressions of interest, questions and requests for further
information may be directed to either Paul Hoyningen-Huene
([log in to unmask]) or Howard Sankey
([log in to unmask]).
Howard Sankey
Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science
University of Hanover
Oeltzenstrasse 9
D - 30169 Hanover
Germany
Phone: ++49 -(0)511-762-4790=20
Fax: ++49-(0)511-762-4799=20
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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