[PHILOS-L] Society for the Study of Measurement CFP

[Mcclimans, Leah]

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Call for Proposals

 

Second Biennial Conference of the Society for the Study of Measurement

June 22-25 2026 University of Edinburgh

 

We are excited to announce that the Second Biennial Conference of the

Society for the Study of Measurement will be held at the University of Edinburgh

June 22-25 2026. The main conference will take place June 23-25, with a pre-conference day of workshops held on June 22.

 

We are delighted to announce that Professor Jana Uher (Greenwich) will be our keynote speaker and that Professor Luca Mari (Università Carlo Cattaneo - LIUC) will be giving the society’s inaugural presidential address.

 

Call for Proposals
We invite proposals on any topics in the theory, history, philosophy, and application of measurement. We especially welcome proposals connected to this year’s theme Ground Truth and Validity. Proposals may take any of the following forms:

 

1. Individual papers for a 20 minute presentation (+10 minutes Q&A)
2. Symposium of 2-4 papers for a 90 minute session
3. Posters
4. Workshops for 2-4 hours on June 22nd

 

Please submit proposals for individual contributions (~500 words) or symposia/workshops (~1,200 words), specifying the chosen format (a)-(d), and following the instructions of the website. Additional information and the forms to submit your proposal be found at the

dedicated submission site.

(full submission link: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80364/submitter)

 

Please feel free to share this announcement with colleagues.

 

We look forward to seeing you in Edinburgh in June 2026!

 

Important dates

• Submission portal opens: November 15, 2025

• Deadline for submission: January 15, 2026

• Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2026

 

Organiser and Host for the Conference: Jo Wolff (University of Edinburgh)

 

On behalf of the Council of the Society for the Study of Measurement: Luca Mari (President), Eran Tal (Secretary), and Council Members Leah McClimans, Nadine de Courtenay, Miguel Ohnesorge, David Torres Irribarra, and Mark Wilson.

 

Topics

Please see below for a non-exhaustive list of suggested topics; we particularly welcome contributions that make contact with this year’s conference theme: Ground Truth and Validity. While the notion of measurement validity is comparatively familiar, ground truth may need more of an introduction. The concept of ground truth has origins in remote sensing, where it is used to contrast the outcomes of a near or ground level measurement with outcomes of a remotely sensed measurement. From these origins, the concept has now moved to a wider use, particularly in machine learning contexts, where it denotes data assumed to be true, which can then be used to calibrate and validate machine learning data. The time seems ripe for a more careful investigation from a measurement perspective of the concept of ground truth—both in its original understanding and in its more metaphorical use.

 

 

Measurement and Simulation

• Connections between measuring and simulating
• Can simulation substitute for measurement?

 

Measurement and Data Science

• Measurement and data quality
• Measurement and data analysis
• Measurement and AI

 

Models in Measurement

• The role of models in measurement
• The role of models in justifying measurement results
• Models, intersubjectivity, objectivity, validation

 

Models of Measurement

• The general structure of the measurement process
• The structure of measurement in social and human sciences
• Transduction and calibration in measurement
• History of the conception of the structure of measurement

 

History, Philosophy and Sociology of Measurement

• Exploration across sciences with diverse philosophical perspectives
• New quantification and measurement approaches
• Epistemological and metaphysical approaches to measurement

 

Measurement Applications and their conceptual foundations in any area of science

• Life & Health Sciences
• Geosciences
• Social & Historical Sciences
• Physical Sciences
• Engineering & Computing

Leah McClimans

Professor of Philosophy

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Co-Director Ann Johnson Institute for Science, Technology & Society

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