UPPU 2020: Understanding Progress and Progress in Understanding University of Iceland Reykjavík, Iceland, June 19-20, 2020 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=uppu2020 |
Submission deadline | February 1, 2020 |
CfP: Understanding Progress and Progress in Understanding, a Conference at the University of Iceland on June 19-20, 2020
We invite abstract submissions for an international two-day conference on the topic “Understanding Progress and Progress in Understanding”. The conference will be held at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, on June 19-20, 2020.
Possible topics include (this list is not exhaustive):
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Scientific understanding (understanding in science)
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Philosophical understanding (understanding in philosophy)
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Scientific progress (progress in science)
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Philosophical progress (progress in philosophy)
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The epistemology of understanding
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Understanding and explanation
The conference is hosted by the project ‘Understanding Progress, in Science and Beyond’, which is a three-year project based at the University of Iceland, generously funded by the Icelandic Research Fund. Please visit the project webpage, and consider reading the detailed project description, to get a better sense of the range of topics covered by the project.
Confirmed invited speakers include:
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Catherine Elgin (Harvard)
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Henk de Regt (Radboud)
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Michael Strevens (NYU)
Organizers: Finnur Dellsén, Victor Magnússon, Insa Lawler, James Norton
Please submit two anonymized abstracts: an extended abstract of 1000 words (excluding bibliography) and a short abstract of 150 words here.
The deadline for submission is February 1, 2020.
We’ll send notifications of acceptance by February 22, 2020.
Funding: We will seek to reimburse travel and accommodation costs up to a maximum of 600 euros for at least two junior scholars whose abstracts are accepted for presentation. Please apply for this reimbursement after our notification of acceptance by sending an email to vkmagnusson@gmail.com, attaching a CV with your current employment status.