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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Reminder: Call for Papers: “The
Pursuitworthiness of Experiments Across the Sciences”</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
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mso-fareast-font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:Garamond;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US" lang="EN-US">Topical Collection in the <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">European Journal for
Philosophy of Science</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
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mso-fareast-font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:Garamond;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US" lang="EN-US">Guest Editors: </span></span><span
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mso-bidi-font-family:Garamond;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Enno
Fischer (Institute of Philosophy, TU Dresden) & Alejandro
Fábregas-Tejeda (Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, KU
Leuven)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> </b></span></p>
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style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
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115%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:
Garamond;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Open for submissions:<b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"> 1 November 2024 – 30 April 2025</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify"><span
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Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:Garamond;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Originally going back to Larry Laudan’s (1977)
distinction between the </span><span
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">‘</span><span
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mso-bidi-font-family:Garamond;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">context
of acceptance</span><span
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">’</span><span
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span><span
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mso-bidi-font-family:Garamond;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">and
the </span><span
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">‘</span><span
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mso-bidi-font-family:Garamond;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">context
of pursuit,</span><span
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">’ </span><span
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line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Garamond;
mso-bidi-font-family:Garamond;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">the
concept of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">pursuitworthiness</i>
has garnered considerable attention in the philosophy of science
in recent years. For instance, philosophers have explored the
different stances on pursuitworthiness adopted by towering
figures in the field such as Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend
(e.g., Šešelja & Straßer, 2013; Shaw, 2022), and have
advanced and debated manifold epistemic criteria on what makes a
scientific idea or proposal worthy of being undertaken (e.g.,
Achinstein, 1993; Šešelja et al., 2012; Šešelja & Straßer,
2014; Shan, 2020; DiMarco & Khalifa, 2019, Fleisher, 2022).
The significance of this enlarging body of scholarship
notwithstanding, philosophical reflections on the
pursuitworthiness of scientific research have almost exclusively
focused on theories, (and to a lesser extent on) models and
research programmes <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">in toto </i>(e.g., Lichtenstein, 2021; Cabrera, 2021; Haueis
& Kästner, 2022; Han, 2023; Fischer, 2024a; Wolf &
Duerr, 2024), whereas systematic and comprehensive reflection on
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">pursuitworthiness of experiments</i> is hitherto lacking (but
see Laymon & Franklin, 2022; DiMarco & Khalifa, 2022;
Fischer, 2024b). This is an important and somewhat surprising
lacuna because it is often the experiments, out of the many
elements that make up scientific practice, that require large
amounts of funding, deliberations, and long-term planning. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:
13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:Garamond;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">For the philosophy of science, delving into the
pursuitworthiness of experiments is also particularly pressing
given that since the years of Laudan’s initial proposal, the
philosophy of experiment has re-established itself as a central
element in the canon of the discipline (see, e.g., Hacking,
1983, 1988; Gooding et al., 1989; Steinle, 2002; Radder, 2003;
Weber, 2009; Feest & Steinle, 2016; Bokulich & Bocchi,
2024). Philosophers of experiment have foregrounded many
important considerations (e.g., material cultures of
experimentation and the role of instruments, the importance of
tacit knowledge in experimental manipulations, and how
experiments affect concept, model and theory formation), but
they have not inquired in detail about the context of pursuit of
experiments in different scientific settings. In this sense, the
topic of the pursuitworthiness of experiments lies at the
interface between two salient, overarching problem spaces in the
philosophy of science.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify"><span
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13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:Garamond;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">The aim of this topical collection is to put
discussions of the pursuitworthiness of experiments on the
agenda of general philosophy of science and the philosophies of
the special sciences. It will bring together contributions
addressing experiments across the sciences, from the physical
and chemical sciences to the life, biomedical, and cognitive
sciences, as well as the social sciences. </span><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:Garamond"
lang="es">For more details on possible topics and questions,
references and instructions for submission see the full call for
papers: </span></p>
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mso-bidi-font-family:Garamond" lang="es"><a
href="https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/phil/iphil/phisci/ressourcen/dateien/CfP_EJPS.pdf"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/phil/iphil/phisci/ressourcen/dateien/CfP_EJPS.pdf</a></span></p>
<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
Enno Fischer <br>
Juniorprofessur für Wissenschaftstheorie <br>
Technische Universität Dresden <br>
Zellescher Weg 17<br>
01069 Dresden<br>
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E-Mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext"
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