Category: Other Announcements

The Second Call for Papers for the 15th conference organized by CiE (Computability in Europe) to be held in Durham 15-19 July 2019 is out at

http://sat.mdx.ac.uk/cie-wp/index.php/2018/11/30/cie-2019-second-call-for-papers/

The HaPoc Commission organizes a Special Session on the History and Philosophy of Computing which this year includes talks by Tony Hoare, Michael Jackson and Ray Turner. CiE2019 welcomes papers in the history and philosophy of computing and HaPoC supports submissions in this area with two grants of 250USD, see

https://hapoc.org/node/284

This is a reminder of the deadline for symposia proposals and individual papers for CLMPST 2019, to be held in Prague from 5-10 august 2019. The deadline is 15 December. For more details, see:

http://clmpst2019.flu.cas.cz/call-for-papers/

We are seeking authors for a proposed Routledge Companion to the History of Computing. We are looking for 4000-5000 word essays that survey a topic in the history of computing and critically discuss the existing scholarship (including your own, if applicable) and emerging trends in this area. Initially we are gathering names of interested authors and the topic(s) they would like to write on, for inclusion in the proposal. See attached CFP for more details.

If you would like to contribute—or have questions–please contact us (routledge.computing.history@gmail.com) by November 10 with a brief paragraph describing the topic you want to write on and the themes you would like to address.

Thanks!

The editors:
Janet Abbate
Corinna Schlombs
Stephanie Dick

The University of Eastern Finland, UEF, one of the largest multidisciplinary universities in Finland, invites applications for a Senior Researcher (Computational Thinking) position, School of Computing, Joensuu Campus. For more information see: https://rekry.saima.fi/certiahome/open_job_view.html;jsessionid=608AC0784440D436786947AECAC18452?id=00006200&did=5600&lang=fi&jc=16&nav_from_open_jobs_view_new=true#.W6sVgHaAMco.linkedin

nternational Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and technology
DIVISION OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (IUHPST/DHST)

2019 DHST PRIZE FOR YOUNG SCHOLARS
SCHEME
The International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Division of History of Science and Technology (IUHPST/DHST) invites submissions for the DHST Prize for Young Scholars, to be presented in 2021. Initiated at the 22nd International Congress of History of Science in 2005 held in Beijing, the DHST Young Scholar Prize is now awarded by the IUHPST/DHST every two years. Up to three awards for recent Ph.D. historians of science and technology will be awarded to recognize outstanding doctoral dissertations completed and filed between 1 September 2016 and 1 September 2018.

The 2019 DHST Prize does not specify distinct categories, but submissions must be on the history of science or technology in any part of the world. The Award Committee endeavors to maintain the broadest coverage of subjects, geographical areas, chronology and civilizations (African, American, Asian, Islamic, Western and Ancient Civilisations, and others not included in the above list).

Each Prize consists of a certificate, assistance with travel and accommodation expenditures to the IUHPST/DHST Congress in Prague in July 2021 and a waiver of registration fees. The winner of a prize whose dissertation engages substantially Islamic science and culture (over competitions five (2016-2018) and six (2018-2020), is also awarded the Ihsanoglu Prize given by the ISAR Foundation.

AWARD COMMITTEE
The Committee is comprised of the DHST Council members and distinguished subject specialists.

COMPETITION CALENDAR
Submission: Applications open 1 October 2018 and close 30 November 2018 (22:00, GMT)
Award Committee meetings: January and February 2019
Announcement of prize winners for fifth competition, March 2019
Award Ceremony for winners of competitions 5 and 6: July 2021 in Prague.

CONDITIONS and APPLICATION
Language: Submission in all languages is welcome. All dissertations must be accompanied by a detailed summary in English of no more than 20 pages.
Application procedure: Applicants must submit online at: http://dhstweb.org/youngscholarsprize, where they can also find additional procedural and application requirements.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The DLMPST Commission on the Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences calls for papers contributing to its second DLMPST symposium

ACADEMIC MEANS-END KNOWLEDGE IN ENGINEERING, MEDICINE AND OTHER PRACTICAL SCIENCES

organized during the 16th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (CLMPST 2019); Czech Technical University, Prague, Czechia; 5–10 August 2019: http://clmpst2019.flu.cas.cz/

Submission deadline: 15 December 2018

The difference between Theoretical and Practical reason has a long history in philosophy. Modern discussions concentrate on the relation between know-how and knowing-that, and ask whether one of two reduces to the other, or, if not, what the nature is of know-how. During the last decades, practical scientists in the information and social sciences (management, psychology, and law) have recognized the need to discern ‘procedural or action means-end knowledge,’ which may often be paraphrased as follows: ‘if one wants to achieve goal G in (technical, medical, etc.) context C, perform action A.’ This type of explicit (intersubjective—not tacit), or normative action knowledge seems hardly to be directly deducible from declarative scientific knowledge. Nevertheless, it prominently precipitates in countless patents and valuable academic research projects aiming at means-end or intervention knowledge. Despite its fundamental importance it has escaped the attention of most epistemologists. The purpose of this Symposium is to draw attention to, discuss and foster further interest in the production and results of academic (explicit, action) means-end knowledge in engineering, medicine, management or any other branch of practical science.

The commission warmly welcomes papers on topics that include but are not restricted to:

Identification of scientific action knowledge (know-how; means-end; intervention; design; action; procedural; practical; heuristics; grounded rules; prescriptive; technê)
Its characteristics (goal; action guiding; intentional; normative; context dependent)
Methodology (form; justification/validation by extended use; practical or thought-experiments; modelling; computational software; groundedness)

Assessment (truth(?); trustworthiness; efficiency; efficacy; allowed by law or morals)
Relation between action and declarative knowledge (reduction in practice or theory; coherence; intellectualism; hierarchical means-end relation; role mechanisms)

Case studies regarding production and assessment of scientific means-end knowledge
Similarities and differences between engineering, medicine and any other the branches of the practical sciences (criteria; object-based learning; model-based reasoning)

Contributors to the symposium are encouraged to submit a 500 word abstract (including the references) before December 15, 2018 to clmpst.tech@gmail.com.

Accepted contributed papers will be allocated in total 30 minutes (Q&A included).

Notification will be January 2019. For further details please consult the official CLMPST 2019 website: http://clmpst2019.flu.cas.cz/call-for-papers/

There is only one month left before the submission deadline for the HAPOC organised special issue of the Philosophy of Technology Journal “Computing and programming in context – The interplay between logic, science, technology and society”. To be considered for the special issue, submissions need to be submitted by 1 October 2018.

The special issue follows the recent HaPoC 2017 (Brno) and HaPoP 2018 (Oxford) events. This call is open both to authors of contributions to HaPoC and HaPoP who are encouraged to submit a full paper based on their presentations, and also to submissions not presented at the aforementioned conferences.

For more information about the special issue, including detailed call for papers and a link to a submission page with information about formatting, please see: https://www.shift-society.org/hapop4/special-issue.html

The International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IUHPST) invites submissions for the 2019 IUHPST Essay Prize in History and Philosophy of Science. This prize competition, planned to continue on a biennial basis, seeks to encourage fresh methodological thinking on the history and philosophy of science as an integrated discipline.

Entries in the form of an essay of 5,000–10,000 words in English are invited, addressing this year’s prize question: “What is the value of history of science for philosophy of science?” This question is intended as a counterpart to the question for the inaugural run of the prize in 2017, which asked about the value of philosophy of science for history of science. The 2017 prize was won by Theodore Arabatzis of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, for his essay “What’s in it for the historian of science?”,
which can be viewed here:

http://iuhps.net/media/pdfs/arabatzis.iuhpstprize2017.pdf

All entries should contain original work that has not previously been published. For entries written originally in another language, an English translation should be submitted, with an indication of the translator. Entries will be judged on the following criteria, in addition to general academic quality: a direct engagement with this year’s prize question, an effective integration of historical and philosophical perspectives, and the potential to provide methodological guidance for other researchers in the field.

The author of the winning entry will be invited to present the work at the 16th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (CLMPST 2019) to be held at the Czech Technical University, Prague, Czechia, 5–10 August 2019. Presenting at the Congress will be a condition of the award. The award will carry a cash prize of 1,000 U.S. dollars and, in addition, a waiver of the Congress registration fee. Other strong entries will also be considered for presentation at the Congress. In order to ensure this consideration, entrants should submit the entry also as an individual paper proposal for the Congress by the deadline of 15 December 2018, following the standard instructions indicated on the Congress website:

http://clmpst2019.flu.cas.cz/

Entries for this essay prize are invited from anyone, without restriction of age, nationality or academic status. Co-authored work will be considered, but if the winning entry is a co-authored work the cash prize will need to be shared out among the authors. This prize is administered by the Joint Commission of the IUHPST, whose remit is to make links between the work of the two Divisions of the IUHPST: the DHST (Division of History of Science and Technology) and the DLMPST (Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology). For further information about IUHPST, see:

http://iuhps.net/

Entries for the prize competition should be submitted in pdf format by e-mail to the Chair of the Joint Commission, Prof. Hasok Chang, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge (hc372@cam.ac.uk). Any queries should also be directed to him. The deadline for submission is 15 December 2018.

CONGRESS OF LOGIC, METHODOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
16th CLMPST

Prague, Czech Republic
5-10 August 2019
http://clmpst2019.flu.cas.cz/

The 16th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (CLMPST) will take place in Prague, August 5-10, 2019, organised under the auspices of the Division for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of
Science and Technology of the International Union for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (DLMPST/IUHPST) by the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Members of the programme committee include Hanne Andersen (chair), Rachel Ankeny, Theodore Arabatzis, Veronica Becher, Craig Callender, Hasok Chang, Xiang Chen, Eleonora Cresto, Zoubeida Dagher, Lisbeth De Mol, Valeria Giardino, Zuzana Hanikova, Paul Humphreys, Maria Kronfeldner, Sabina Leonelli, Fenrong Liu, Endla Loehkivi, Benedikt Loewe, Tomas Marvan, Michiru Nagatsu, R. Ramanujam, Adriane Rini, Federica Russo, Dirk Schlimm, Yaroslav Shramko, and Andres Villaveces.

We will soon issue the first Call for Papers. Stay tuned!

FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
WORKSHOP ON PHILOSOPHY AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR SIMULATION
22 – 23 November 2018
http://www.pts.deib.polimi.it/

Organised by

Dipartmento di Elettronica Informazione e Bioingegneria — Politecnico di Milano
Dipartimento di Filosofia — Universita’ Statale di Milano
Department of Computer Science — Middlesex University London
HLRS – Stuttgart

Supported by

HaPoC – Commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing
META – Unita’ di Studi Umanistici e Sociali su Science e Tecnologia, Politecnico di Milano
DLMPST – Division of Logic Methodology and Philosophy of Science – IUHPST

Description

Science has entered what has been called the ‘age of computer simulations’, with their massive use in virtually every domain. The wide applicability of simulations in science and technology has called upon an analysis of their results and it has drawn attention to the need for their epistemological justification. Many efforts have been devoted in the last decades to determining the relationship between computer simulations, experiments and theories as the classical sources of knowledge.

If computer simulations have been traditionally used as tools to build tractable models for solving the equations provided by theories, nowadays their role has expanded: besides dealing with the construction of models of greater and greater complexity, computer simulations can be employed in a variety of different situations and contribute in different ways to the definition of models, as well as the construction of artefacts. In particular in the Artificial Sciences, including Robotics, Network Science, AI, computer simulations seem to have a different role, between explanation and discovery. Accordingly, the appropriate justifications for this massive use of simulations in the Artificial Sciences are both methodologically and technical complex.

Following the successful organization of the First Summer School on Computer Simulation Methods, held in Stuttgart in September 25-29, 2017, the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Politecnico di Milano, Middlesex University London and the Philosophy Department at the Università degli Studi di Milano organize a Research Workshop on Computer Simulations at Politecnico di Milano in November 22-23, 2018. The workshop is meant as the first of a series on “Philosophy and Technologies of Simulations” to be organized every other year.

This first Workshop will be addressing methodological, conceptual and technical problems in computer simulation specifically for the artificial sciences. The aim is to have a small, discussion intense meeting where advances can be made in the foundations of computer simulations for the artificial sciences and current problems discussed.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Sabine Ammon (TU Berlin): Simulation, Test bench, and Hardware-in-the-loop: Validation in engineering design processes
Edoardo Datteri (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca): Simulations for the study of living systems
Gabriele Gramelsberger (RWTH Aachen University): Mark-up languages as tools for standardizing modeling in science
Andreas Kaminski (HLRS Stuttgart): Computer simulation as a means, medium and (research) object. A conceptual proposal for understanding the validation problem
Giuseppe Primiero (Università degli Studi di Milano-Middlesex University London): Isomorphisms and Variants of Simulationism for the Artificial Sciences
Michael Resch (HLRS Stuttgart): TBA
Viola Schiaffonati (Politecnico di Milano): Simulations for the study of artificial systems
Franck Varenne (Université de Rouen): From symbols to referents: An extensionalist and referentialist analysis of computer simulations in morphogenetic engineering and swarm robotics

LOCATION

DEIB – Seminar Room (Building 20)
via Ponzio 34/5, 20133 Milano

CONTACT

Participation to the workshop is open to everyone interested.
Please contact viola.schiaffonati@polimi.it