The finalized conference booklet is now available hopos2026 program final.pdf. 

Important note: The program is now finalized. Please do not request any changes unless absolutely necessary, as we will not be able to make changes to the printed version of the conference program at this time.

Changes from the printed version of program (Wed. June 24, 9am) 

(* indicates a new change)

Talks

Franceso Nappo's talk "Maxwell on Geometrical and Physical Reasoning" is cancelled. (Parallel session 2, 11am-12:30pm, Great Hall 3.)

Sofia Abelha Meirelles' talk "Rejecting Tradition Rejection" is cancelled. (Parallel session 4, 9-10:30am, Great Hall 3.)

* Kati Kish Bar-On's talk "A Tool or a Collaborator?" is cancelled. (Parallel session 5, 11am-12:30pm, Senate Chamber.)

Gregor Bös' talk "The Separation of Analytic and Phenomenological Philosophy of Science: A Quantitative Study" is cancelled. (Parallel session 6, 2-4pm, Senate Chamber.)

* Georg Gangl's talk "Schlick's Political Philosophy" has been moved to Parallel session 6, Wed. June 23, 2-4pm, Senate Chamber (from Parallel session 7, 9-10:30am, Senate Chamber, now in the 3:30-4pm time originally taken by Bös.)

Pascal Rodriguez Warnier's talk "Boltzmann and Gibbs' Armistice to an Undeclared Contest" is cancelled. (Parallel session 6, Thurs. June 25, 2-4pm, Great Hall 3.)

Bianca Crewe's talk "Symbolic Positivism: An Alternative Genealogy of the Sign-theory of Knowledge and its Significance for Scientific Philosophy" will be hybrid. (Parallel session 7, Thurs. June 25, 9-10:30am, Senate Chamber.)

Dejan Makovec's talk "Three Kinds of Conceptual Openness" is cancelled. (Parallel session 7, Thurs June 25, 9-10:30am, Great Hall 2.)

Chairs

Chris Pincock will chair Logical empiricism 2. (Parallel session 2, Tues. June 23, 11am-12:30pm, Senate Chamber.) (replacing Bianca Crewe.)

* Chris Pincock will chair Exploring the Legacy of the Vienna Circle I. (Parallel session 6, Wed. June 24, 2-4pm.) (replacing Mathias Neuber.)

* Chris Pincock will chair Schlick and Frank. (Parallel session 7, Thurs. June 25, 9-10:30am, Senate Chamber.) (replacing Alnica Visser)

* Lisa Downing will chair Leibniz and Newton. (Parallel session 7, Thurs. June 25, 9-10:30am, Traditions Room.) (replacing Maria Del Mar Yunis)

Chris Pincock will chair Reading William James Beyond the Standard Narrative (Parallel Session 8, Thurs. June 25, 2-4pm, Senate Chamber.) (replacing Pascal Rodriguez Warnier.)

Chris Pincock will chair Postwar philosophy of science 2. (Parallel session 9, Thurs. June 25, 4:30-6pm.) (replacing Bianca Crewe.)