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British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference

BSPS ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL at the Frenchay Campus of UWE
THURSDAY 5 - FRIDAY 6 JULY 2007

Plenary sessions

We are sorry to announce that due to illness Susan Hurley has had to withdraw from the BSPS. Happily Nicholas Shea has kindly agreed to speak in her place. The revised programme is below.

Thursday: Dr Rachel Cooper and Professor Derek Bolton on Disorder.

Friday morning: Dr Nicholas Shea and Professor Chris Eliasmith on Philosophy of Neuroscience.

Friday afternoon: Professors Stathis Psillos and Kyle Stanford on Scientific Realism.

There will also be a contributed programme with a large number of short papers in parallel session.

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Programme

Thursday 5th July 11:00am Submitted Papers – Open Sessions
  1:00pm Lunch
  2:00pm Plenary Session: Dr Rachel Cooper and Professor Derek Bolton on Disorder
  4:00pm Tea and Coffee
  4:30pm Submitted Papers – Open Sessions
  7:00pm Drinks Reception Sponsored by Oxford Journals on behalf of The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
  7.30pm Conference Dinner
Friday 6th July 9:00am Plenary Session: Dr Nicholas Shea and Professor Chris Eliasmith on the Philosophy of Neuroscience
  11:00am Tea and Coffee
  11:15am Submitted Papers – Open Sessions
  1:00pm Lunch
  2:00pm Plenary Session; Professors Stathis Psillos and Kyle Stanford on Scientific Realism

Directions

Directions to the UWE Frenchay Campus are available at www.uwe.ac.uk/maps/frenchay_directions.shtml. Note that the nearest train station is Bristol Parkway rather than Bristol Temple Meads.