Call for papers:
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS:
CAUSATION AND EXPLANATION IN THE NATURAL AND
SOCIAL SCIENCES, GHENT
UNIVERSITY - BELGIUM, 15-18 MAY 2002.
The congress is organized by the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of
Science, of Ghent University, Belgium. All required information is
available at the congress website: http://logica.rug.ac.be/censs2002/
.
We will schedule a plenary session every morning, each with three
invited speakers who will have a one hour session (including
discussion). Contributed papers will be scheduled in the afternoon (at
least 30 minutes including discussion). The exact length will depend
on the number of submissions. The contributed papers will be divided
into the following parallel sessions: causation and explanation in
general, causation and explanation in the natural sciences and
causation and explanation in the social sciences.
Plenary lectures will be given by:
John Dupré, Phil Dowe, Dan Hausman, Christopher Hitchcock, Kevin
Hoover, Harold Kincaid, Peter Lipton, Matti Sintonen, Erik Weber,
Andrzej Wisniewski, Jim Woodward.
We welcome papers on causation and/or explanation in general, or
applications in the natural or social sciences. Logical analyses,
methodological studies, historical studies, epistemological and
ontological inquiries are all welcome. Abstracts should be no longer
than 1000 words. 4 printed copies must be sent to the contact address
and an electronic version (Word 97 or PostScript in ZIP format if
possible) should be sent by email. Abstracts received will be
acknowledged within ten days by email. They will be refereed in order
of arrival, and authors will be informed as soon as possible and not
later than 15 January 2002. Deadline for abstracts is 15 November
2001.
Contact Address:
CENSS2002
p/a Prof. Dr. Erik Weber
Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science
Ghent University
Blandijnberg 2
B-9000 Ghent
Belgium e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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