Time: 23-28 August, 2027
Venue: Kobe University, Japan
Website: https://clmpst2027.org
CLMPST is the premier forum on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology. Its aim is to bring together active researchers in this broad field. The International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (CLMPST) is organized under the auspices of the Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology [https://www.dlmpst.org] of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology [https://iuhpst.org] (IUHPST/DLMPST).
CLMPST has a long history — it started in 1960, and has been held every four years since then in capital cities and/or by leading university centres in this field. Recent previous CLMPST Congresses were held in Buenos Aires (2023), Prague (2019), Helsinki (2015), Nancy (2011), and Beijing (2007). The 2027 edition will take place at Kobe University in Kobe, Japan.
We invite papers and symposia on all topics pertaining to our fields, presented by researchers from all regions and cultures of our academic world.
As in previous editions, CLMPST 2027 aims to foster connections between the research fields of logic and philosophy of science and technology, as well as research studying the foundations and methodology of science and technology. We are looking forward to having papers and symposia on all topics pertaining to our fields, from mathematical logic to metaphilosophy, from the foundations of the exact sciences to philosophy of the social sciences, from philosophy of technology to historical perspectives on the sciences, presented by researchers from all regions and cultures of the world.CLMPST 2027 calls for contributed papers and contributed symposia in 21 thematic sections:
- A.3 Computational Logic and Applications of Logic
- A.4 Historical Aspects of Logic
- A.5 Educational Aspects of Logic
B. General Philosophy of Science- B.2 Formal Philosophy of Science and Formal Epistemology
- B.3 Empirical and Experimental Philosophy of Science and Technology
- B.4 Metaphysical Issues in the Philosophy of Science and Technology
- B.5 Ethical, Social and Political Issues in the Philosophy of Science and Technology
- B.6 Historical Aspects in the Philosophy of Science and Technology
- B.7 Educational Aspects of Philosophy of Science and Technology
C. Philosophical Issues of Particular Disciplines- C.1 Philosophy of the Formal Sciences (including Logic, Mathematics, Statistics)
- C.2 Philosophy of the Physical Sciences (including Physics, Chemistry, Earth Science, Climate Science)
- C.3 Philosophy of the Biological Sciences
- C.4 Philosophy of the Biomedical and Health Sciences
- C.5 Philosophy of the Cognitive and Behavioural Sciences
- C.6 Philosophy of Computing and Computation
- C.7 Philosophy of the Humanities and the Social Sciences
- C.8 Philosophy of the Applied Sciences and Technology
- C.9 Philosophy of Emerging and Interdisciplinary Sciences
The language of the congress is English.Submissions will be made through the EasyChair platform, which will be available in mid-July.Once the submission page is open, please submit an abstract of 500 words, including the references, prepared for anonymous review. Indicate to which congress section you submit the paper (tick the appropriate box). The allocated time for each contributed paper is 30 minutes, including discussion.Symposia are groups of talks on a common theme. Each symposium consists of four to twelve papers.In EasyChair (which will be available in mid-July), please make a submission for (a) the symposium as a whole; and (b) each paper in the symposium (so, for example, for a four-paper symposium, you should make a total of five submissions).(a) For the symposium as a whole, please provide an abstract with a general description of the format and the topic of the proposed symposium and its significance (up to 500 words), and suggest a symposium chair. If desired, it is acceptable for the symposium organiser to be the chair. Indicate to which congress section you submit the symposium (tick the appropriate box). After the abstract, please list the titles of the talks in the order they should appear at the conference. Please provide the symposium with an acronym, and write this acronym at the beginning of the title of the symposium (<Symposium acronym>: <Title of symposium>). The acronym will be used by the Programme Committee to keep the individual submissions in a proposal together during reviewing and when creating the conference programme.
(b) For each paper within a symposium, please submit a 500-word abstract (including references). Indicate to which congress section the symposium belongs (tick the appropriate box). Please write the acronym of the symposium at the beginning of the title of the talk (<Symposium acronym>: <Title of the individual talk>). The acronym will be used by the Programme Committee to keep the individual submissions in a proposal together during reviewing and when creating the conference program.Note to symposium organisers: papers intended to be presented as parts of a symposium must be submitted by their respective authors. Symposium organisers should contact all symposium speakers in advance and make sure that they submit their abstracts by the submission deadline of 15 November 2025 (tentative). The symposium description is submitted by the symposium organiser by the same deadline. Please make sure that all parts of the submission are prepared for anonymous review and submitted to the same congress section (the same box is ticked in all of them). When submitting a symposium proposal, the EasyChair requires you to take the role of a “speaker”. This is for formal reasons only, and in no way precludes you from submitting a paper of your own (to that same symposium, to a different symposium, or a contributed paper). In this case, you will appear as a “speaker” on 2 submissions, one of which must be the symposium proposal.Although the exact format of symposia is up to the symposium organizers, the allocated time for each symposium paper is 30 minutes. For instance, a symposium with 4 speakers is a 2 hour session (4 x 30 minutes). Note that if a symposium consists of more than 4 speakers, it might be split into two sessions due to coffee breaks in the programme.[Registration Requirements]The corresponding author of each individual paper and of each symposium paper as well as the organiser of a symposium must be registered in advance of the Congress and present the paper in Kobe. Failure to register by the specified date may result in cancellation of the accepted paper and/or symposium.The following rules also apply for multiple presentations:(a) Every corresponding author is allowed to submit only one individual or symposium paper as a “speaker.” (Organising a symposium does not count as being a “speaker,” despite the labelling in EasyChair.)(b) Authors are permitted to be listed as non-corresponding co-authors of additional papers.
- mid-July: Submission opens
- November 15: Submission deadline (tentative)
- Early March, 2027: Notifications of acceptance
- TBD: Early bird registration opens
- August 23-28, 2027: 18th CLMPST, Kobe University, Japan
