The Asia-Pacific Philosophy of Science Association is a community of philosophers of science in Asia-Pacific areas. It was born as a small group of philosophers of science in Japan and the Republic of Korea in 2010 and initiated the East Asian Workshop on the Philosophy of Science in 2011. The small group was gradually expanded to an association embracing Asia-Pacific colleagues so that it was renamed as the "Asia-Pacific Philosophy of Science Association" (APPSA).
APPSA 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 Kok-Yong Lee
(Professor, National Chung Cheng University)
The Keynote Speakers
Michela Massimi
Professor, University of Edinburg
Talk Title: Local Coastal Communities and Their Ways of Knowing
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.
Sabina Leonelli
Professor, Technical University of Munich (Starting 09/2024)
Talk Title: Rethinking Empiricism for 21st Century Research
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).
The Presidential Address of
LMPST Taiwan 2025
Kok-Yong Lee
Professor, National Chung Cheng University
Talk Title: Is Base Rate Neglect a Problem for the No-Miracle Argument?
Kok Yong Lee, a professor at National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, specializes in epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science. He has published widely on knowledge, counterfactuals, normative reasons, and scientific inquiry.
Invited Speakers
Featuring Established, Young, and Early Career Philosophers of Science from Asia
Jun Otsuka
Associate Professor, Zen University (Starting April 1st)
Talk Title: Modeling Causal Processes with String Diagrams
Ying-Tung Lin
Associate Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Talk Title: Engineering Equity 2.0: How AI Can Reduce Bias Through a Multi-System and 4E Cognition Approach
Hyundeuk Cheon
Associate Professor, Seoul National University
Talk Title: Transparency of What?
Teru Miyake
Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University
Talk Title: Progress through Measurement: Interlinked Constants in Fundamental
Physics
Hsiao-Fan Yeh
Assistant Professor, Chang Gung University
Talk Title: On the Diversity of Approaches in Cancer Research Exploration
Billy Wheeler
Assistant Professor, VinUniversity
Talk Title: Compressing the World: Structural Realism and Algorithmic Information
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
Masanobu Toyooka
Postdoctoral Researcher, Tohoku University (Starting April 1st)
Talk Title: Augmented Intuitionistic Logic for Non-Monotonic Reasoning
Mitsue Sugimoto
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Tokyo
Talk Title: Investigating the Epistemic Contribution of Experts by Experience (ExE) in Medical Research
Kayoung Kim
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Notre Dame
Talk Title: What Counts as Replicability? Lessons from Biochemical Research
Program Committee
Professor, National Tsing Hua University
Professor, National Chung Cheng University
Professor, National Chung Cheng University
Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Associate Professor, National Taiwan University
Associate Professor, Kyoto University
Assistant Professor, VinUniversity
Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University
Assistant Research Fellow, Academia Sinica
Conference Chair
Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Administrative Staff
Yi-Ling Tsai
Project Research Assistant, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Stephnie Lu
Graduate Student, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
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