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Conference Announcement Theme: Feyerabend 2012 Type: International Conference Institution: Department of Philosophy, Humboldt University Berlin Location: Berlin (Germany) Date: 26.–29.9.2012 __________________________________________________ Feyerabend’s provocative proposals continue to incite an extensive assortment of heated discussions across a range of inter-related disciplines that have proven to be of interest to a broad audience from diverse backgrounds all around the world. Given the current state of the art, the conference has two closely related main aims. First, it is intended to encourage research by internationally renowned scholars who have worked on Feyerabend’s philosophy, in an attempt to do justice to the notorious complexity of his ideas and their relevance to ongoing debates in contemporary science studies. The second main aim of the conference is to promote the pressing issues concerning the nature of science and its impact on society and how they are structured. Such issues were central to Feyerabend’s philosophy as he repeatedly redeveloped it from the positivist climate prevalent in the 1950s to the post-modernist climate of the 1990s. In order to promote critical discussion of current issues in general philosophy of science in a Feyerabendian spirit, the conference includes contributions on a series of topics in general philosophy of science related to aspects of Feyerabend’s diverse and developing philosophical views. We especially wish to dispute on themes concerning the nature of science and its relation to society (e.g., science, democracy and public decision-making; patterns of exclusion in science and academia), the rise of Western rationalism, incommensurability, epistemic pluralism, and cultural relativism. A special plenary session will be devoted to the issue of implicit bias as a threat to pluralism, with particular emphasis on the problem of the exclusion of women from academic philosophy. Registration and Graduate Fellowship All prospective participants are kindly requested to register to the conference by sending an email to <[email protected]> by 20 September 2012 at the latest. A few travel bursaries for graduate students are available. If you wish to be considered please submit a CV and a travel budget in addition to your abstract. Venue The conference takes place in the Dorotheenstraße 26 building of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin campus (rooms 207 and 208), right behind the university main building and at short walking distance from the "Friedrichstraße" station of the public transport network (S-Bahn and U-Bahn). Organizing Committee: Dr. Eric Oberheim Dr. Matteo Collodel Contact: Dr. Eric Oberheim and Dr. Matteo Collodel Department of Philosophy Humboldt University Berlin Unter den Linden 6 D-10099 Berlin Germany Email: [email protected] Web: http://www2.hu-berlin.de/feyerabend2012/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
