GWP.2025
5th Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science (GWP.2025)
The German Society for Philosophy of Science (Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsphilosophie – GWP) was founded in September 2011 with the aim to better integrate the community of philosophers of science and academics interested in philosophy of science in Germany and thereby to promote the field at a local and international level. The GWP organizes an international conference every three years.
Their fifth 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. The ZIWIS pursues the goal of understanding philosophy of science in an application-oriented way and linking it with other areas of science studies, which is characterized by the concept of “Wissenschaftsreflexion” (“reflection on science”).
The GWP.2025 will comprise around 130 submitted talks in numerous sections ranging from General Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Medicine, AI, Physics and Biology to Science and Society, Science and Values and History of Science and many more.
In addition, there will be six symposia as well as six plenary lectures by our keynote speakers:
- Kevin Elliott (Michigan State)
- Roman Frigg (London School of Economics)
- Andreas Hüttemann (University of Cologne)
- Lina Jansson (University of Nottingham)
- Sabina Leonelli (Technical University of Munich)
- Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University)
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. All proposals will be submitted electronically here.
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.
Please submit this template if you intend to organize a symposium: Proposal for Symposium.
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. Contributed papers will be clustered into parallel sessions focusing on particular topics or special sciences.
The conference program is available at the GWP website and on the registration page on sciencesconf.org
The registration is open until February 16th, 2025. Please register via the conference tool sciencesconf.org
Conference fees are staggered with reduced fees for students and for GWP-members.
Conference Fees:
- non-student, non-GWP-member: 90,00 €
- non-student, GWP-member: 70,00 €
- student, non-GWP-member: 60,00 €
- student, GWP-member: 40,00 €
- optional additional fee for the conference dinner: 39,00 €
Conference fees can be payed via the online gateway of Staatsoberkasse Bayern or via bank transfer. Further payment information is provided during the registration process. If you have problems with the bank transfer do not hesitate to contact the local organizing team via ziwis-conference@fau.de. We will send confirmations of receipt of your payment on a weekly basis. So please be patient for a few days.
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.