Call for Papers: 5TH YOUNG RESEARCHERS DAYS IN LOGIC, PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Location: Brussels, Royal Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, 25-26 November 2016.

Organizing Committee: Kenneth Bertrams (ULB), Steffen Ducheyne (VUB), Alexandre Guay (UCL), Bertrand Hespel (UNamur), Bruno Leclercq (ULg), Steven Vanden Broecke (UGent), Maarten Vandyck (UGent), Geert Vanpaemel (KULeuven), Peter Verdée (UCL)

Invited speakers: Ole Hortjland (Universitetet i Bergen), Omar Nasim (University of Kent), Dominique Pestre (EHESS)

The workshop will provide an ideal 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.

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.

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.