Welcome to PhilSci Archive, an electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science. It is offered as a free service to the philosophy of science community. The goal of the Archive is to promote communication in the field by the rapid dissemination of new work. Authors who wish to post papers to the Archive should first consult the Archive Policy.

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    Conferences and Volumes

    The archive offers a category called "Conferences and Volumes" intended as as a convenience to those organizing conferences or preparing volumes of papers and seeking an easy way to circulate advance copies of papers.

    Posting to this area is restricted to those invited by the conference or volume organizers. However, the papers posted can be read by all users of the archive. We encourage those posting to cross-list their papers under other relevant subject categories.

    If you have a conference or volume you would like to list, please send an email to the archive's academic advisors at philsci-archive@mail.pitt.edu. Please supply enough information to establish the quality and central importance of your conference or volume to philosophy of science. Before any items can be posted to the dedicated category for your conference or volume of papers, we will require you to email us a list of approved authors and titles.


    PITTPHILSCI is running on GNU EPrints archive-creating software, which generates eprints archives that are compliant with the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting OAI 1.1 and 2.0.

    The eprints.org archive-creating software is available for free at http://www.eprints.org/.

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