[spsp-members] PSA Cognate Society Session - Call for SPSP Proposals

[Chiara Ambrosio via spsp-members]

The Philosophy of Science Association has again offered us the opportunity to organize an SPSP session during the Cognate Society portion of the 2026 PSA program.

This portion of the program will take place on the morning of Thursday, November 19, 2026 in San Diego, CA, USA, and each session will be scheduled for 90 minutes. The idea behind the Cognate Society program is to seek a broader representation of work in philosophy of science than has traditionally been represented on the regular program of the PSA conference. The PSA and SPSP will consider detailed proposals for sessions with structures different than those of traditional PSA symposia (e.g., panels, roundtables).

The SPSP Organizing Committee is now inviting proposals for symposia to be featured as the 2026 SPSP Cognate Society Session.

Proposals must include:

* The title of the proposed session
* Session topic(s)
* A list of participants with name, affiliation, and contact email, including any non-presenting co-authors
* A short descriptive summary of the proposal (100-200 words).
* A description of the topic and a justification of its current importance to the discipline (up to 1-2pp. or 1000 words, either individual talk abstracts or appropriately detailed alternative)

Submit proposals as a single PDF attachment by email to Julia Bursten, jrbu...@uky.edu<mailto:jrbu...@uky.edu>, no later than Friday, June 26. A decision will be announced by the end of June.

Please note a change in PSA policy from previous cognate society programs: For 2026, participation in a Cognate Societies session is NOT considered part of the PSA’s regular program, so Cognate Societies session participants MAY also participate in any capacity on the meeting’s regular program.

If you have questions about the submission process, please contact Julia Bursten at the email above.

If you would like to reach out to other SPSP members to brainstorm or solicit additional members on a proposal, the SPSP listserv is an appropriate venue for that type of outreach.

All the best,
Julia Bursten
on behalf of the Steering Committee


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Prof. Chiara Ambrosio (she/her)
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science
President, The British Society for the History of Science<https://www.bshs.org.uk/>
Department of Science and Technology Studies
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT

Phone: +44 02076790166
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/staff/ambrosio
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts

New Book - available open access: Chiara Ambrosio and Julia Sánchez-Dorado, Abstraction in Science and Art: Philosophical Perspectives<https://www.routledge.com/Abstraction-in-Science-and-Art-Philosophical-Perspectives/Ambrosio-Sanchez-Dorado/p/book/9781032462875?srsltid=AfmBOop56wxLWHqywX9KDeAwbpUBC8BbJKpApX1pziPfGAs_eppLrud->, Routledge

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