Conference Program
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Conference Timetable
SPSP Conference: July 15th-17th
Wednesday (15/7)- Registrations and sessions 9:00-17:30. Keynote 10:30-12:30. Posters and reception from 17:30 on.
Thursday (16/7)- Sessions 9:00-17:30. Keynote 16:00-17:30. Conference dinner after 17:30.
Friday (17/7)- Sessions 9:00-15:30. Closing ceremony and Keynote 15:30-17:30.
Post-Conference Workshop
July 18th from 9:00-17:00. The workshop is free to attend, but please use the conference registration form to indicate whether you will attend. See more information about the workshop below.
The Bookshop Band & Egenis – Performance & Discussion
July 18th from 17:00-20:00. The event is free to attend, but please use the conference registration form to indicate whether you will attend. See more information about the event below.
Keynote Speakers
Uljana Feest, Leibniz Universität Hannover, "The Fine Print of Experimental Inferences in Psychology”
Matthew Lund, Rowan University, “How Scientific Practice Unlocks the History of Science: The Case of the Personal Equation”
Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge, "PSP, Inquiry and Science Education”
The Bookshop Band & Egenis – Performance & Discussion
The Bookshop Band are the musical offspring of an artistic love-affair between a group of award winning folk songwriters, Beth Porter and Ben Please, and an independent bookshop in the UK, Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights. The songs are the musical outpouring of the band’s own response to books they have read.
Throughout the second half of 2024, Beth and Ben had an artist’s residency at Egenis, the Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences at Exeter University, attending lectures, seminars and reading groups, interviewing researchers, and generally soaking up the academic vibes. Out of this, 10 songs were produced and (fitting with their discursive approach to songwriting) they were coupled with responses from the researchers who inspired them. These were performed for several audiences in Exeter in early 2026.
In this session, the bookshop band will perform four of these new songs, coupled with responses from Kirsten Walsh and Adrian Currie, followed by a discussion with the audience about the collaborative process of doing philosophy of science with songwriting and songwriting with the philosophy of science.
Post-Conference Workshop
The Consortium for Socially Relevant Philosophy of/in Science and Engineering (SRPoiSE) and the Center for Public Engagement with Science (PEWS) at the University of Cincinnati are organizations both of which are interested in how science, philosophy, and public discourse can productively engage.
One of the current gaps in knowledge and skills that both organizations are interested in addressing is the lack of understanding and experience among philosophers of science related to how scientists and science-adjacent institutions like museums engage the broader public. We believe that the SPSP attendees in particular will be interested in learning more about these topics and translating that knowledge into different institutional contexts around the world. As a result, SRPoiSE and PEWS are proposing a jointly-hosted workshop to immediately follow the SPSP conference on Saturday, July 18.
The workshop is tentatively scheduled from 9am until 4pm and participants will get to choose from a guided tour of the Whipple or the Polar Science museum. By the end of the workshop, participants will have draft materials to carry out their own science communication activities.