20-23 Sep 2013
Cambridge, England
FotFS VIII: History and Philosophy of Infinity 20-23 September 2013 Cambridge, England http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/loewe/HiPhI/ REGISTRATION & GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT. The registration for FotFS VIII is now possible online. Please see http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/loewe/HiPhI/registration.html for more information. Also notice that the Division for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science of the International Union for History and Philosophy of Science (DLMPS/IUHPS) is offering three DLMPS/IUHPS grants for junior researchers to cover their registration fees. Postgraduate students (both Master's and PhD students) and recent doctoral graduates are eligible to apply. The grant will cover the full registration fee (including conference dinner), but no accommodation or travel costs. Priority is given to applicants who are presenting a paper at FotFS VIII. In order to apply, please submit an application including a short CV (1 page) to b.loewe(at)uva.nl before the deadline of 31 May 2013. Submission website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fotfs8 Submission deadline: 31 May 2013. Notification: 20 June 2013. Accommodation booking deadline: 15 July 2013. Registration deadline: 31 August 2013. Conference: 20-23 September 2013. ***Submission.*** The Scientific Committee of FotFS VIII is cordially inviting all researchers to submit proposals for presentations covering either historical or philosophical aspects of infinity, or dealing with empirical investigations of infinity in relation to the historical and philosophical aspects. The submission deadline is 31 May 2013. Please submit the proposals for presentations via our EasyChair submission site at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fotfs8. A proposal should consist of a descriptive title and an abstract of 200 to 500 words. Do not submit a full paper and mark the "abstract only" checkbox of EasyChair for submission. Please make sure in your abstract how your presentation will relate to the theme of the conference. After the conference (as is the tradition for conferences in the series Foundations of the Formal Sciences), we will publish a post-proceedings volume in the book series Studies in Logic (College Publications, London). All authors of papers presented at FotFS VIII will be encouraged to submit a full version of their presentation. All submissions will be refereed according to the standards of high-quality journals of the field. The deadline for submission of these papers will be in December 2013. ***Scientific Committee.*** Brendan Larvor (Hatfield, U.K.), Benedikt Löwe (chair; Amsterdam, The Netherlands & Hamburg, Germany), Peter Koellner (Cambridge MA, U.S.A.), Dirk Schlimm (Montreal, Canada). FotFS VIII is sponsored by the ESF network INFTY: New frontiers of infinity and the Division for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science of the International Union for History and Philosophy of Science (DLMPS/IUHPS).