Descartes 20: Descartes Lectures 2020 Tilburg, Netherlands, October 14-16, 2020 |
Conference website | https://descarteslectures2020.wordpress.com/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=descartes20 |
Submission deadline | April 30, 2020 |
7th René Descartes Lectures 2020
Pragmatic Naturalism: Progress in Science, Mathematics, and Values
Professor Philip Kitcher, Columbia University, USA
14-16 October 2020
Tilburg University, The Netherlands
https://descarteslectures2020.wordpress.com/
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Every other year, a distinguished philosopher visits Tilburg University and the Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS) to present the René Descartes Lectures. It is a great pleasure to announce that Professor Philip Kitcher (Columbia University in the City of New York) will deliver the 2020 Descartes lectures on the topic: Pragmatic Naturalism: Progress in Science, Mathematics, and Values. Professors Michela Massimi (Edinburgh), Cheryl Misak (Toronto), and James Conant (Chicago/Leipzig) will provide commentaries on each one of Professor Kitcher’s three lectures.
Concurrently with the lectures, we will host a workshop on the topic of the lectures. For this workshop, we invite submissions in the form of extended abstracts (about 500 words) by April 30 2020.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
- The nature and possibility of progress in science, mathematics or ethics
- Theories of progress—in particular, pragmatic and naturalistic theories of progress
- The normative criteria for individuating improvement (or regress) in science, mathematics or ethics
- Historical case studies of progress in science, mathematics or ethics
- The causes of long-term improvement (or regress) in science, mathematics or ethics
- Progress and human well-being
- Progress and realisms
- The social organization of inquiry and progress/regress
- Progress, diversity and disagreement
Abstracts should be submitted via easychair. Please submit your abstract in an anonymized form.
The Editors-in-chief at Synthese showed an interest in publishing articles related to the topic of this conference. When you submit your abstract, please indicate if you would like it to be considered for inclusion in a full proposal for a topical collection at Synthese.
Notifications of acceptance will be made by May 30 2020. All questions about submissions should be directed to the Chair of the Descartes Lectures 2020 Committee, Dr Matteo Colombo m.colombo @ uvt.nl
For more information, including the abstracts of all lectures, visit the website https://descarteslectures2020.wordpress.com/
The organizers:
Matteo Colombo
Caroline Harnacke
Georgie Mills
Sander Verhaegh
Committees
Program Committee
- Stathis Psillos
- Christine Tiefensee
- Mario De Caro
- Henk de Regt
- Felipe Romero
- Jan Sprenger
- Sandra Lapointe
- Sami Pihlstrom
- Elena Popa
- Matthew Brown
- Liam Bright
- Lavinia Picollo
- Sharyn Clough
- Penelope Maddy
- Erin Kelly
- Elizabeth ONeill
- Jan-Christoph Heilinger
- Nir Fresco
- Maureen Sie
Organizing committee
- Dr. Matteo Colombo
- Dr. Caroline Harnacke
- Dr. Sander Verhaegh
- Georgie Mills
Invited Speakers
- Professor Philip Kitcher (Columbia University, USA)
- Professor Michela Massimi (Edinburgh)
- Professor Cheryl Misak (Toronto)
- Professor James Conant (Chicago/Leipzig)
Contact
All questions about submissions should be directed to the Chair of the Descartes Lectures 2020 Committee, Dr Matteo Colombo m.colombo @ uvt.nl