The submission for the Fifth International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science (GWP.2025) is now open. Proposals for individual papers or symposia can be submitted electronically.

The conference will be hosted by the FAU Kompetenzzentrum für interdisziplinäre Wissenschaftsreflexion (ZIWIS) at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and co-hosted by its Institut für Philosophie from 24th until 26th of March 2025. Contributed papers are invited from all fields of philosophy of science as well as from the history of science, science & technology studies (STS), and other related disciplines.

We welcome proposals for individual papers (30 min plus 10 min discussion) or symposia (3 speakers in a 2-hour session). Graduate students are especially encouraged to submit proposals for either individual papers or symposia. On the conference website you will find a full CFP and all detailed information on the submission process (including formatting guidelines of proposals for symposia) and, closer to the time, on how to register for the conference.

Please note that each person can only present one paper at the GWP.2025 (whether individual or as part of a symposium; co-authorship of papers presented by others is possible). The recommended conference language is English, but contributions in German will also be considered.

The deadline for all submissions is: September 1, 2024

Expected notification of acceptance by the beginning of November 2024.

Local Organizing Committee (LOC): Michael Jungert (chair), Sabine Dika, Gerhard Ernst, Katrin Götz-Votteler, Simone Hespers, Jon Leefmann, Erasmus Mayr, Josephine Musil-Gutsch, Vanina Rodriguez-Bauer, Anna Schneider, Sebastian Schuol

Program Committee: Axel Gelfert (GWP President), Gerhard Ernst, Vera Hoffmann-Kolss, Michael Jungert, Jon Leefmann, Erasmus Mayr, Josephine Musil-Gutsch, Sebastian Schuol

Please feel free to contact the organizers if you need any further information: ziwis-conference@fau.de.

The fourth international conference of the GWP, was hosted by the Technische Universität Berlin from August 15 to 17, 2022.

Invited Speakers

• Anjan Chakravartty (Miami)
• Mazviita Chirimuuta (Edinburgh)
• Brigitte Falkenburg (Dortmund/Berlin)
• Branden Fitelson (Northeastern/Boston)
• Hans Rott (Regensburg)
• Jutta Schickore (IU Bloomington)

Organisers

• Chair of LOC: Axel Gelfert (Berlin)
• Uljana Feest (Hannover)
• Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla (Cologne)
• Alexander Gebharter (Munich)
• Vera Hoffmann-Kolss (Bern)
• Thomas Reydon (Hannover)
• Gerhard Schurz (Duesseldorf)

Sponsors & Supporters

• TU Berlin
• Verlag de Gruyter
• Duesseldorf Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science
• Verlag Springer

The third triannual international conference of the GWP was hosted by the Universität zu Köln February 25 to 27, 2019.

Invited Speakers

• Martin Carrier (Bielefeld)
• Kärin Nickelsen (LMU Munich)
• Erik J. Olsson (Lund)
• Michael Strevens (NYU)
• C. Kenneth Waters (Calgary)
• Katherine Hawley (St. Andrews)

Organisers

• Chair of LOC: Andreas Hüttemann (Cologne)
• LOC: Michael T. Hicks (Cologne)
• Uljana Feest (Hannover)
• Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla (Duesseldorf)
• Alexander Gebharter (Duesseldorf)
• Thomas Reydon (Hannover)
• Gerhard Schurz (Duesseldorf)

Sponsors & Supporters

• Universität zu Köln
• GWP
• Verlag Springer
• Verlag de Gruyter
• Verlag mentis
• Verlag J.B. Metzler
• Duesseldorf Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science

The second triannual international conference of the GWP was hosted by the Duesseldorf Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (DCLPS) at the University of Duesseldorf March 8 to 11, 2016.

Invited Speakers

• Rainer Hegselmann (University of Bayreuth)
• Paul Hoyningen-Huene (University of Hannover)
• Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh)
• Stathis Psillos (University of Athens)
• Alexander Rosenberg (Duke University)
• Gila Sher (University of San Diego)

LOC

• Gerhard Schurz (Chair)
• Alexander Christian
  Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla
• Alexander Gebharter
• David Hommen
• Nina Retzlaff
• Paul D. Thorn
  (all: DCLPS, University of Duesseldorf)

GWP Organisers

• Uljana Feest (University of Hannover)
• Ulrich Krohs (University of Muenster)
• Holger Lyre (University of Magdeburg)
• Thomas Reydon (University of Hannover)

Sponsors & Supporters

• Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
• GWP
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
• Duesseldorf Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science
• Verlag Springer
• Verlag de Gruyter
• Verlag mentis
• Verlag J.B. Metzler

The first triannual international conference of the GWP, GWP.2013, was hosted by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hannover March 11 to 14, 2013.

Invited Speakers

• Peter Godfrey-Smith (The City University of New York)
• Stephan Hartmann (MCMP, LMU Munich)
• James Ladyman (University of Bristol)
• Sandra D. Mitchell (University of Pittsburgh)
• Chrysostomos Mantzavinos (University of Athens)
• Margaret Morrison (University of Toronto)
• Wolfgang Spohn (University of Konstanz)

Organisers

• Paul Hoyningen-Huene (University of Hannover)
• Dietmar Hübner (University of Hannover)
• Meinard Kuhlmann (University of Bremen)
• Holger Lyre (University of Magdeburg)
• Thomas Reydon (University of Hannover)
• Torsten Wilholt (University of Hannover)

Sponsors & Supporters

• Leibniz Universität Hannover
• GWP
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
• Andrea von Braun Stiftung
• Verlag Springer