Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable Call for Papers

FIFTEENTH ANNUAL
PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE ROUNDTABLE
22-24 MARCH 2013
University of California-Santa Cruz

CALL FOR PAPERS

We are organizing the fifteenth annual working conference on topics in philosophy of the social sciences. The 2013 Roundtable will continue a tradition of meetings that brings together philosophers and social scientists to discuss a wide range of philosophical issues raised in and by social research. This year Paul A. Roth at the University of California-Santa Cruz will host the Roundtable. Abstracts on any topic in philosophy of the social sciences or in the philosophy of social phenomena are welcome. We especially welcome papers that tackle philosophical issues as they arise in, and are consequential for, practicing social scientists.

Keynote Speaker: 
Mark Bevir, Department of Political Science, UC-Berkeley

We will assemble a two-day program of papers to be presented in workshop format so that intensive discussion can be the focus of the meeting. We choose papers with the aim of ensuring a broad mix of topics and of presenters from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. We particularly welcome contributions from junior colleagues and colleagues new to the area. In this spirit, we have established an alternate year policy for regular participants; we give preference to new contributors over those who presented papers at the previous year’s Roundtable. Selected papers from the Roundtable will be published in an annual special issue of Philosophy of the Social Sciences (see any March issue of Philosophy of the Social Sciences from 2000 onward for papers from prior Roundtables).

 

Send a ONE-PAGE ABSTRACT to any member of the program committee (listed below) by DECEMBER 15, 2012.

If you would like to be on a distribution list for email notices, send a note to this effect to James Bohman at the address below. Check the Roundtable website for news and updates: http://humweb.ucsc.edu/roundtable/

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

James Bohman

Department of Philosophy
Saint Louis University
3800 Lindell Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63156-0907
bohmanjf@slu.edu

Stephen Turner
Department of Philosophy
FAO 226
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL 33620
turner@usf.edu

 

Alison Wylie
Department of Philosophy
University of Washington
Box 353350
Seattle, WA 98195
aw26@u.washington.edu

 

Mark Risjord
Department of Philosophy
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
mrisjor@emory.edu

 

Paul Roth
Department of Philosophy
UC - Santa Cruz
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
paroth@ucsc.edu