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===<div style="text-align:center;"><big><big><big><font color="6495ED">Fifth Young Researchers Days in Logic, History and Philosophy of Science</font></big></big></big></div>===
 
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<div style="text-align:center;">'''Royal Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (Hertogsstraat 1 rue Ducale, 1000 Brussels)'''
 
<br/>'''25 - 26 November 2016'''</div></big>
 
 
 
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:On 25 and 26 November 2016, we will host the fifth instalment of YRD in close cooperation with other Flemish and Francophone universities. Like in the past, YRD V will provide an excellent opportunity for young researchers (PhD students, young postdocs) working in the fields of Logic, Philosophy of Science and History of Science in Belgian Universities, to present their work to a larger community of emerging and established scholars in these fields. The event allows them to get to know their peers at other Belgian universities and to meet and discuss with professors at these universities.</big>
 
 
 
 
 
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:<div style="text-align:center;"><big><big>'''Call for papers'''</big></big></div>
 
 
 
<br/><big>Papers will be accepted in English, Dutch, and French. The lingua franca of YRD5 is English, and applicants are encouraged to present papers in this language. Paper presentations should be about 20 minutes in length, followed by 10 minutes for discussion.
 
 
<br/>Paper proposals (including title, abstract, and institutional affiliation) must be submitted through yrd5(at)bslps.be by  August 31, 2016. Abstracts should be 250-300 words in length. Confirmation of acceptance will be given before the 15th of September.</big>
 
 
 
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===<font color="6495ED">Organizing Committee</font>===
 
*Kenneth Bertrams (ULB)
 
*Steffen Ducheyne (VUB)
 
*Alexandre Guay (UCL)
 
*Bertrand Hespel (UNamur)
 
*Bruno Leclercq (ULg)
 
*Steven Vanden Broecke (UGent)
 
*Maarten Van Dijck (UGent)
 
*Geert Vanpaemel (KULeuven)
 
*Peter Verdée (UCL)
 
 
 
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===<font color="6495ED">Scientific committee</font>===
 
*Steffen Ducheyne (VUB)
 
*Bert Leuridan (UAntwerpen)
 
*Geert Vanpaemel (K.U. Leuven)
 
*Bruno Leclercq (Université de Liège)
 
*Kenneth Bertrams (ULB)
 
 
 
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===<font color="6495ED">Keynote speakers</font>===
 
*Ole Hjortland (Universitetet i Bergen) [[#Ole Hjortland|<small><font color="6495ED">[read more]</font></small>]]
 
*Omar Nasim (University of Kent), [[#Omar Nasim|<small><font color="6495ED">[read more]</font></small>]]
 
*Dominique Pestre (EHESS) [[#Dominique Pestre|<small><font color="6495ED">[read more]</font></small>]]
 
 
 
 
 
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===<font color="6495ED">Origins of the YRD</font>===
 
Over the past decade, science studies have enjoyed an unprecedented success
 
in Belgium. Researchers from philosophy, history, literature, and sociology departments
 
have fostered a healthy research tradition in Logic, History and Philosophy
 
of Science. This tradition is carried out at several universities of the
 
Francophone and Flemish communities. The Vrije Universiteit Brussel has
 
played a major rôle in the organization of the YRD in the past.
 
 
 
<br/>Since 2008, these researchers have shaped an interdisciplinary forum for
 
PhD-students working in the broad domain of science studies. These Young
 
Researchers Days in Logic, History, and Philosophy of Science (henceforth
 
YRD) are organised under the aegis of the National Committee for Logic,
 
History and Philosophy of Science (NCLGFW) and the Belgian Society for Logic
 
and Philosophy of Science (BSLPS), and have consistently been a success,
 
easily attracting between 20 and 30 doctoral students.
 
 
 
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===<font color="6495ED">Format of the workshop</font>===
 
The workshop will be based on 3 plenary lectures of 1 hour illustrating new
 
trends in Logic, History of Science and Philosophy of Science, on the one
 
hand, and on presentation sessions of young researchers' work in this broad
 
field, on the other. Each such session will also incorporate discussion of
 
the research of the participating students. The young researchers will have
 
20 minutes for their presentations which will be followed by a Q&A of 10
 
minutes.
 
 
 
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===<font color="6495ED">Keynote speakers</font>===
 
 
 
====='''Dominique Pestre'''=====
 
Dominique Pestre is one of the foremost European historians of science.
 
He is Director of Studies at the École des hautes études en sciences
 
sociales (EHESS). He has recently edited the multivolume Histoire des
 
sciences et des savoirs (2015), and works mostly on the history of
 
twentieth-century science and technology, particularly in relation to social,
 
political, economic, and military power.
 
Title: 'Between knowledge and power. Turning the environment into economy,
 
1970-2010'.
 
 
 
<br/>Abstract: ''The economization of environment is a program that started in the
 
1970s and that became the main way to frame the economics/ecology question in
 
most countries and international organizations. Taking OECD as a privileged
 
space of observation, I intend to show how notions of Environment and
 
Economization were both matters of debate, how different conceptualizations
 
and interests led to various tools and expert work – but also why they
 
directly led us to the quite disastrous Anthropocene situation today.''
 
 
 
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====='''Omar W. Nasim'''=====
 
Omar W. Nasim is lecturer at the School of History of the University of
 
Kent, joined Kent from the University of Oxford, where he remains a research
 
affiliate at the Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). Dr. Nasim has
 
published widely in a number of international journals. Along with a number
 
of co-edited works, he has also published two monographs: Bertrand Russell
 
and the Edwardian Philosophers: Constructing the World (Palgrave MacMillan,
 
2008); and more recently, Observing by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the
 
Nineteenth Century (Univ. Chicago Press, 2013).
 
Title: 'Producing scientific knowledge by drawing: 19th-century sketches of
 
nebulae'
 
 
 
<br/>Abstract: ''Today we are all familiar with the iconic pictures of the nebulae
 
produced by the Hubble Space Telescope’s digital cameras. But there was a
 
time, before the successful application of photography to the heavens, in
 
which scientists had to rely on handmade drawings of these mysterious
 
phenomena. During my presentation I will shed light on the ways in which the
 
production and reception of hand-drawn images of the nebulae in the
 
nineteenth century contributed to astronomical observation. I will examine
 
the ways in which the act of drawing complemented the acts of seeing and
 
knowing, as well as the ways that making pictures was connected to the
 
production of scientific knowledge.''
 
 
 
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====='''Ole Hjortland'''=====
 
Ole Hjortland is an Associate Professor at the University of Bergen. His
 
research is on logic and rationality. What makes an argument a good argument?
 
What does it mean to think and act rationally? Are there universal norms for
 
good reasoning? In 2016-2020 Hjortland is the Principal Investigator of a
 
project on the philosophy of logic, funded by the Norwegian Research Council.
 
He is an Associate Fellow of Arché Research Centre, University of St
 
Andrews, and the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich.
 
Hjortland serves on the editorial board of the Norwegian Journal of
 
Philosophy and Ergo: an open access journal of philosophy.
 
Title: 'What Validity cannot be'
 
 
 
<br/>Abstract: ''Anti-exceptionalism is the claim that Logic isn’t special. Its
 
theories are continuous with science; its method continuous with scientific
 
method. Logic is not a priori, nor are its truths analytic truths. Logical
 
theories are revisable, and when they are revised, they are revised on the
 
same grounds as scientific theories. The hypothesis that knowledge of logic
 
is obtained by a non-apriori, abductive method, leads to the sub-hypothesis
 
that this abductive method supports non-classical logic. Now the question
 
arises of what logical validity can and what it cannot be in such an
 
anti-exceptionalist frame.'''
 
 
 
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===<font color="6495ED">Target audience</font>===
 
As we have learned from previous editions, the YRD are relevant to young
 
researchers active in the fields of:
 
 
 
*Science Studies
 
*Environmental History
 
*History of Science
 
* Literature
 
*Logic
 
*Philosophy of Science
 
*History of Philosophy
 
 
 
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====='''Competences'''=====
 
<br/>The attending young researchers will:
 
 
 
*be familiarized with the state of the art in Logic, Philosophy of Science
 
and History of Science by the presentations by the keynote speakers;
 
*be able to sharpen their presentation and Q&A skills;
 
*be able to expand their intellectual horizons by interacting with other
 
young scholars active in the broad field of Science Studies;
 
*be able to train their networking skills;
 
and,
 
*be able to train their abstract writing skills.
 
 
 
<br/>Prior knowledge required: Not applicable.
 
 
 
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====='''Content'''=====
 
<br/>See the information provided in the section 'detailed format of the
 
activity', especially points 2-5.
 
<br/>Language used in seminar: English
 
 
 
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====='''Study material'''=====
 
Not applicable.
 
 
 
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====='''Condition(s) for attribution of credits'''=====
 
This course comprises 16 to 18 hours
 
of active participation.
 
<br/>Maximum number of participants: 30. We will guarantee that at
 
least 50 percent of the young researchers on the final programme are PhD
 
students.
 
<br/>Credits: 1
 
 
 
<br/>All information and registrations by sending an email to [mailto:steffen.ducheyne@vub.ac.be Steffen Ducheyne]
 
 
 
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