[hopos-g] CFP: Karl Popper in China
ZHANG Qiyue
29 - 31 May 2026, HKUST
Keynote Speakers
Adam Chmielewski (University of Wroclaw)
Zhilin Zhang (Fudan University)
Organising Committee
Zaza Doborjginidze
Xiaotao Liu (co-chair)
Yafeng Shan (co-chair)
Qinyi Wang
Qiyue Zhang
Funder
The Karl Popper Charitable Trust
Conference Description
Karl Popper (1902-1994) is widely considered as one of the most influential philosophers of science and one of the most prolific thinkers in the 20th century. His work heavily influenced the development of philosophy of science in China, especially in the late
1970s and early 1980s. Many renown Chinese philosophers of science were first attracted to the field because of their reading of Popper. In 1987, there was a conference on Popper's philosophy at Wuhan University, sponsored by George Soros, Popper's former
student. It featured talks by leading Popper scholars and philosophers of science (e.g. Ian Hacking and Alan Musgrave) and leading Chinese philosophers (e.g. Fan Dainian and Jiang Tianji) at the time. The proceedings of the conference were published as an
edited volume by Routledge in 1992. Recently there was a revival of interest in the work of Karl Popper in China. This conference aims to examine the influence of Popper’s work on the development of philosophy of science in China and assess and explore his
legacy on contemporary philosophy of science in China.
Submission Guidelines
Please submit a 500-word abstract for blind review to
Oxford
Abstracts by
5 March 2026.
Selected papers will be published in an edited volume.
Contact
If you have any questions, please contact Qiyue Zhang (qiyue...@connect.ust.hk).
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