Dear MERSENNE Colleagues,
The December IHPST newsletter is now available on the web at:
Item #8 contains up-dated information about the biennial IHPST conference to be held in Thessaloniki (July 1-5, 2011). Please note that submission date for proposals is February 19th, and registration date is May 3rd.
Newsletter Contents are:
1. President’s Column: Formal Membership of IHPST now Available
2. Science & Education Volume 19 (2010) Contents
3. Science & Education Journal Report
4. Journal Special Issue: Philosophical Considerations in the Teaching
of Biology
5. Journal Special Issue: Philosophical Considerations in the Teaching
of Chemistry
6. Journal Special Issue: Mario Bunge’s Systematic Philosophy:
An Evaluation
7. Journal Special Issue: Philosophy of Commercialized / Commodifed Science
8. Eleventh International IHPST Conference, Thessaloniki July 1-5, 2011
9. DHST Teaching Commission Symposium: ‘The History of Science Textbooks’, during IHPST Thessaloniki Conference
10. History of Science Society, Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize 2010
11. Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917-2010)
12. HIPST Project and Final Conference in Kaiserslautern, Germany
13. Science Studies and Science Education: International Workshop on Science Teaching and History & Philosophy of Science, 23-25 June 2011, Aarhus
14. European Philosophy of Science Association, 3rd Conference,
Athens, Greece, 5-8 October 2011
15. Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP), Third Biennial Conference, June 22-24, 2011, University of Exeter, UK
16. Popularising Nuclear Energy in the Post-War Europe: Joseph Rotblat and the Atom Train
17. Notre Dame University, Graduate Programme in Theology and Science
18. 14th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science,
Nancy, France, July 19-26, 2011
(i) Susan Carey (2009) The Origin of Concepts. Oxford University Press [Marcus P. Adams]
(ii) Sibel Erduran & María Pilar Jiménez-Aleixandre (2008) Argumentation in Science Education: Perspectives from Classroom-Based Research. Springer [Agustín Adúriz-Bravo]
20. Metatheoria. Journal of Philosophy and History of Science
21. Current Research
22. Publications for Sale
23. Coming Conferences
24. IHPST Graduate Students
25. IHPST Council (2009-11)
26. IHPST Email List
27. Newsletter Items
Regards,
Michael Matthews
A/Professor Michael R. Matthews
School of Education
University of New South Wales
Sydney, 2052
Australia
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Editor, 'Science & Education' journal ( www.springer.com/journal/11191)
President, Teaching Commission of the Division of History of Science and Technology of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science
( http://dhst-tc.primedu.uoa.gr/index.htm )
Past-President, International History, Philosophy & Science Teaching Group
(http://ihpst.net/)