HOPOS 2016, the eleventh biennial meeting of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, will take place on June 22-25 in Minneapolis. We’re pleased to announce that several members of the Rotman Institute will take part in the conference. Sessions that include Rotman members are listed below. The full conference program and abstracts can be accessed on the HOPOS website.
THURSDAY, JUNE 23
Parallel Session II (11:00 – 12:30)
Contributed Papers: History and Laws in Hempel and Kuhn (HHH 15)
Jamie Shaw “The Search for Kuhn-loss: A New Strategy for HPS”
Parallel Session III (14:00 – 16:00)
Contributed Papers: Newton (HHH 25)
Craig Fox “The Newtonian Equivalence Principle”
Symposium: Hylomorphism and Extension in Late Medieval and Early Modern Natural Philosophy (HHH 15)
Henrik Lagerlund “The New Conception of Material Substance in the Fourteenth Century”
FRIDAY, JUNE 24
Parallel Session VI (14:00-16:00)
Symposium: The Causal Powers Debate: Historical and Conceptual Perspectives (HHH 25)
Henrik Lagerlund “Aristotelian Powers and the Rise of Mechanism”
Benjamin Hill “Occasionalism and the Critique of Causal Powers: A Cautionary Tale”
Symposium: Carnap and Quine on the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction (HHH 15)
Yousuf Hasan “The Evolution of Quine’s Revisability Thesis vs. Carnap”
Contributed Papers: Neo-Kantianism (HHH 35)
Michael Cuffaro “(Neo-)Kantian Frameworks for the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics”
SATURDAY, JUNE 25
Parallel Session X (14:00 – 16:00)
Contributed Papers: Ancient HOPOS (HHH 20)
Justin Bzovy “Aristotle, Pluralism, and the Essentialism Story”
