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Call for Proposal/ Abstracts
Ian Hacking’s Philosophical Legacy
The 13th Annual
Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology Conference (VMST-13)
at
May 20-21,2025
This conference celebrates and critically engages with the wide-ranging philosophical work of Ian Hacking (1936-2023). Hacking was one of the most influential and agenda-setting philosophers of science working in the post-positivist (history and philosophy
of science) tradition of philosophy of science.
We invite papers that discuss any aspect of Hacking’s contributions to history and philosophy of science. This includes (but is not limited to) papers on:
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Making up people/ looping effects
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Social construction
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Dynamic Nominalism
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Philosophy of Language
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Philosophy of logic and mathematics
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Experimental/ entity realism
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Probability and statistical inference
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Historical ontology/ historical epistemology
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Styles of scientific reasoning
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The Stanford School of Pluralism
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Integrated history and philosophy of science
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Philosophy of science in practice
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Socially relevant philosophy of science
Keynote Speakers
Paul Roth (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Submission Details
We invite submission of proposals for presentations on the conference theme. Please email your proposal as a DOC or PDF prepared for anonymous review, with title and abstract of 300-500 words, to <
CVMS...@gmail.com>.
Make sure the body of your email includes your institutional affiliation and contact information. Multiple submissions will not be considered, except in the case of co-authored paper where each proposal has a different presenting author.
Submission Deadline: March 17, 2025
Virtual Presentation
Proposals for virtual presentations are welcome. We will devote a segment of the conference for hybrid engagement with virtual presentations (a virtual conference will be held shortly after the live conference at UT Dallas). If you can only present virtually,
please indicate this in your submission email.
Publication opportunity:
Note that participants of this conference will be invited to submit their papers as chapters for an edited volume focused on Ian Hacking’s legacy in philosophy of science (tentative submission deadline: October 2025).
Organizing Committee
Jonathan Y. Tsou, Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology, UT Dallas
Şerife Tekin, SUNY Upstate Medical Center
Jamie Shaw, Institut für Philosophie, Leibniz Universität Hannover
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Institut für Philosophie
Leibniz Universität Hannover
