Joint Conference of
APPSA 2025 and LMPST Taiwan 2025
Submission Form
Submission Deadline
December 31, 2024, 23:59 (UTC+8)
Notifications of Acceptance
February 2025
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Asia-Pacific Philosophy of Science AssociationAPPSA Chair: Billy Wheeler
LMPST Taiwan
The Taiwan Association for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (LMPST Taiwan) is the local Taiwan chapter of the Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (DLMPST) of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IUHPST).
The association’s mission is to stimulate LMPST-related research, namely areas that fit the general label of ‘scientific philosophy’, including logic, philosophy of science, science and technology studies (STS), philosophy of social science, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and other fields of study.
LMPST Taiwan Chair: Professor Szu-Ting Chen
(Professor, National Tsing-Hua University)
The Keynote Speakers
Michela Massimi
Professor, University of Edinburg
Professor Massimi works on the history and philosophy of science with a focus on the physical sciences. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Astronomical Society, an elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, a Corresponding Member of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences, and an elected Member of the Academia Europaea.
She is also the recipient of the Royal Society’s Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture 2017 for her interdisciplinary work and communication of the philosophy of science, especially modern physics. Her monograph Perspectival Realism has received the 2023 Lakatos Award.
From 2015 to 2019, she was Vice-President of the European Philosophy of Science Association, and she currently serves as President (2023-24) of the Philosophy of Science Association.
https://www.michelamassimi.com/
Talk Title: Perspectival Realism and the Right to Participate in Science
Sabina Leonelli
Professor, Technical University of Munich (Starting 09/2024)
Professor Sabina Leonelli works on the philosophy and history of science and technology, focusing on data science and the life sciences broadly construed (especially plant science, public health and agricultural research).
She is a Board member of Philosophy of Science, Subject Editor for the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, Associate Editor for Harvard Data Science Review, and President-Elect of International Society for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (2023-2025).
She have been awarded many competitive grants including two European Research Council awards, “The Philosophy of Data-Intensive Science” (2014-2019) and “A Philosophy of Open Science for Diverse Research Environments” (2021-2026).
She is also engaged in science policy and governance of data infrastructures, and advise various bodies including the European Commission, Royal Society, FAIR-IMPACT and Italian National Centre for Big Data, High Performance and Quantum Computing.
She also served as Editor-in-Chief of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (2019-2023) and Open Science lead for the Global Young Academy (2014-2017).
She is also a Fellow of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie de la Science and Academia Europaea, and recipient of a University of Tilburg Honorary Doctorate (2023), 2021-2022 Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Fellowship and the 2024 Kluge Chair in Technology and Society from the Library of Congress.
Her 2016 book Data-Centric Biology won the Lakatos Award (2018) and the Patrick Suppes Prize for the Philosophy of Science (2022).
https://sociology.exeter.ac.uk/staff/leonelli/
Talk Title: Rethinking Empiricism for 21st Century Research
Timothy Bayne
Professor, Monash University
He is a philosopher of mind and cognitive science, with a particular interest in the nature of consciousness. He previously taught at Macquarie University, the University of Western Ontario, the University of Manchester, and the University of Oxford.
He is the author of The Unity of Consciousness (2010) and Thought: A Very Short Introduction (2013),and an editor of Delusion and Self-Deception (2008), The Oxford Companion to Consciousness (2009)and Cognitive Phenomenology (2011).
His current research concerns the measurement of consciousness, and whether it is possible to build a consciousness meter. Other research interests include the nature of conscious thought, disorders of consciousness and taxonomy in psychiatry. He is a member of the CIFAR Brain, Mind and Consciousness program.
https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/timothy-bayne
Talk Title: TBA
Invited Speakers
Featuring Established, Young, and Early Career Philosophers of Science from Asia
Jun Otsuka
Associate Professor, Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters
Talk Title: Changing Ideals of Science in the Age of AI
Hyundeuk Cheon
Associate Professor, Seoul National University
Talk Title: Transparency of What?
Ying-Tung Lin
Associate Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Talk Title: The Viewpoint of Large Language Models: What It Means and How It Should Be Shaped
Teru Miyake
Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University
Talk Title: Progress through Measurement: Interlinked Constants in Fundamental
Physics and Geophysics
Qiaoying Lu
Assistant Professor, Peking University
Talk Title: Two Interventionist Senses of Counterfactual in Explaining Causal Selection
Billy Wheeler
Assistant Professor, VinUniversity
Talk Title: Compressing the World: Structural Realism and Algorithmic Information
Hsiao-Fan Yeh
Assistant Professor, Chang Gung University
Talk Title: On the Diversity of Approaches in Cancer Research Exploration
Yafeng Shan
Assistant Professor, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Talk Title: Understanding across the Sciences
Soyeong An
Assistant Professor, University of Northern Colorado (Starting August 2024)
Talk Title: Is Truth Necessary for Scientific Explanation?
Minato Asari
Project Assistant Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Talk Title: Toward a Unified Approach in Animal Communication Studies: Integrating Evolutionary Biology, Naturalistic Semantics, and Biosemiotics
Xiaoquian Hu
Lecturer, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Talk Title: Symmetry in the Ontological Landscape: Reexamining Space-Time and Non- Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
Tushar Menon
Senior Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Starting January 2025)
Talk Title: The Inferentialist Guide to Scientific Realism
Mitsue Sugimoto
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Tokyo
Talk Title: Investigating the Role of 'Experts by Experience' in Scientific Research
Kayoung Kim
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Notre Dame
Talk Title: Dealing with Reproducibility Crisis in Biochemistry: Constructing Guidelines for a More Trustworthy Experimental Report on Enzyme Data
Organizing Team
Program Committee
Professor, National Tsing Hua University
Professor, National Chung Cheng University
Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Associate Professor, National Taiwan University
Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University
