No 98 Summer/Été 2018President's Report

It is a pleasure to report that this year’s CSHPS conference was a very successful and enjoyable event.Regina and the University of Regina were characteristically hospitable, the weather was great and sowas the conference program, thanks in large part to the excellent work of our program committee,François Claveau (chair), Jennifer Hubbard and Vivien Hamilton. Special thanks also to YvonnePetry, our ever capable and unflappable local arrangements coordinator, for handling countlessmatters, large and small, leading up to and during Congress.

Among the many highlights of the conference were Ken Waters’s Drake Lecture, “HowGenetics Succeeds: An Account of Scientific Investigation,” the International Keynote Lecture ofJutta Schickore, “About Method”, and the awarding of the Hadden Prize for best student paper, toCristian Larroulet Philippi, for his paper “What Could Scientific Pluralism Be?” The special panelof Kim Tallbear, Andrew Reynolds, Gordon McOuat, Theodore Binnema and Lesley Cormack(organizer and chair) on the very timely subject of “Science and Indigenous Ways of Knowing:Synergies and Solitudes,” drew a large and engaged audience. The breadth and quality of the programas a whole reflects well on the strength of CSHPS.

Congress is also the occasion for our Annual General Meeting, and this year’s was very wellattended and had a lot of good discussion. Among other things, we agreed on some revisions to ourconstitution, as per the recommendation of the Constitutional Review Committee (Lesley Cormack,Conor Burns and Eric Desjardins), a committee that is struck every five years with the task of revisingthe document as needed. It was a pleasure to report that we have increased funds, possibly for severalyears yet, to support student travel, thanks to the good stewardship of Lesley Cormack. Sadly, theThree Societies Meetings, which had been held every four years in Britain, Canada and the US, haswound down. It turned out that CSHPS was the only body that seemed to still have enthusiasm forthese events; the other societies (BSHS and HSS) have decided it is time to move on to other things.Such partnerships can only work with the dedication of all three bodies. I note that the first of thesemeetings was held in 1992, in Toronto; the last in Edmonton in 2016; it can fairly be said that thesemeetings started and ended on high notes.

Finally, it is a pleasure to thank Alan Richardson and Tara Abraham, first and second vicepresidents, for their advice and support throughout the year. Also our nominating committee, Pierre-Olivier Méthot and Delia Gavrus, Communiqué editors Vincent Guillin and Jaipreet Virdi, websiteand listerv manager Allan Olley and our outgoing social media coordinator, Ellie Louson. And toall those who are starting new positions, I welcome you to CSHPS and look forward to working withyou! Conor Burns, our secretary-treasurer deserves special mention for his longstanding and dedicatedservice to CSHPS, especially as he is now entering his seventh and final year in this important position.Not only does Conor do a great job of keeping CSHPS on an even financial keel and keep a recordof our deliberations and decisions, he is an invaluable sounding board to me and the other CSHPSofficers.

Ernie HammPresident, CSHPS

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Communi qué

Newsletter of the Société canadienne d’histoire et dephilosophie des sciences/Canadian Society for the

History and Philosophy of Science

No 98Summer/Été 2018

www.cshps.ca www.schps.ca

Please direct submissions and inquiries toVincent Guillin or Jaipreet Virdi, preferably byemail (details below). Please note thatsubmissions can be sent in both officiallanguages. The editors are grateful to YorkUniversity for assistance with archival printingcosts. The newsletter layout was created usingScribus, an open source desktop publishingprogram.

Co-editors:

Vi ncent Gui l l i nPhilosophy DepartmentUniversité du Québec à Montréalguillin.vincent_philippe@uqam.ca

Jai preet Vi rdiDepartment of HistoryUniversity of Delawarejvirdi@udel.edi

CSHPS-SCHPS Executive:

President: Ernie Hamm (York)Past-President: Lesley Cormack (Alberta)First Vice-President: Alan Richardson (UBC)Second Vice-President: Tara Abraham (Guelph)Secretary-Treasurer: Conor Burns (Ryerson)

Edi tors' Message

Welcome back to another Fall Semester!

The 2018 CSHPS/SCHPS meeting produceda great turnout at the stunning First NationsBuilding on the University of Regina Campus.In this issue, you'll find Ernie Hamm'sPresident Report, the minutes from the AnnualGeneral Meeting held on Monday May 28, andthe committee reports. Of note: the ThreeSocieties Meeting (CSHPS/HSS/BSHS) hasreached its end (see p.4). While this is the endof a tradition, we all are looking forward tofurther international collaborations with ourscholarly peers. Congratulations to this year'sHadden Prize winner, Cristian LarrouletPhilippi! And do check out some memberphotos from the conference, starting on p.14!

Jaipreet and Vincent

I ssue Contents

President's Report..............................................................1

CSHPS/SCHPS 2018 Annual Meeting........................3

Announcements/Annonces............................................10Jobs/Emplois................................................................10Workshop Reports/Comptes rendus d'atelier.........10Conferences/Conférences.........................................11Call for Papers/Appels à contributions..................11Research Funding/Bourses de recherche...............12Congress 2018 Photos................................................14

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SCHPS/CSHPS

Société Canadienne d’histoire et philosophiedes sciences

Canadian Society for the History andPhilosophy of Science

AGENDAAnnual General Meeting

University of ReginaMonday 28 May 2018

1. Approval of Agenda2. Minutes of Last Meeting3. President’s Report4. Hadden Prize Award5. Constitutional Review6. Past President’s Report on CFHSS AGM7. Secretary’s & Treasurer’s Reports8. Programme Committee Report9. Nominating Committee Report10. Communiqué Report11. Social Media & Website-Listserv ManagerReports12. Other Business13. Meeting Adjourned

**Please note that the minutes of the 2017 AnnualMeeting can be found in Communiqué 96 on the

CSHPS website at www.cshps.ca**

In attendance (40 total):Isaac Record, Ellie Louson, Erlantz Etxeberria,Valérie Lynn Therrien, Justin Bzovy, AaronWright, Andrew Ede, Gordon McOuat, TiernanArmstrong-Ingram, Kristine Palmieri, RebeccaLivernois, Gary Divet, Yvonne Petry, AnthonyNairn, Jason Grier, Jennifer Hubbard, GuillaumePelletier, Eric Muszynski, Noele Natalia MirandaRodriguez, Matthew David Howery, BruceBurdick, Tom DeSaegher, John Lehmann,Andrew Reynolds, Tara Abraham, KlodianGoro, Jared Neumann, Cristian LarrouletPhilippi, Lesley Cormack, Danny Goldstick,Delia Gavrus, Jaipreet Virdi, Geoff Bil, FrançoisClaveau, Christopher Byrne, Lydia Patton, AllanRichardson, Ken Waters, Ernie Hamm, Conor

Burns.

CSHPS President Ernie Hamm calls meeting toorder

1. Approval of agenda

• Jennifer Hubbard MOVES to approve• Anthony Nairn: Second• Approval of agenda PASSES.

2. Approval of minutes of 2017 AGM

• Jaipreet Virdi MOVES to approve• Lesley Cormack: Second• Approval of 2017 AGM minutes PASSES

3. President’s Report (Ernie Hamm)

• Ernie gives general thanks to everyone forgood meeting; good turnout at AGM. Thanksespecially to Yvonne Petry for her work as LocalArrangements Coordinator and to her studentassistant Keegan Lloyd. Specific thanks go toAlison Wylie (Local Arrangements for next year’smeeting at UBC); to this year’s ProgrammeCommittee (François Claveau, Jennifer Hubbard,and Vivien Hamilton); to Conor Burns(Secretary Treasurer); to other member of theExecutive (Allan Richardson, Tara Abraham, andPast President Lesley Cormack); toCommuniqué editors Jaipreet Virdi and VincentGuillin); to Website and Listserv Manager AllanOlley; to Ellie Louson (Social Media); to theNominating Committee (Delia Gavrus andPierre-Olivier Méthot); to our advisory board;and lastly to our distinguished speakers for thisyear’s meeting, Jutta Schickore and KennethWaters.

• CPA issue: The Canadian PhilosophicalAssociation chose not to meet at Congress thisyear, and is meeting separately in Quebec. Wewere a bit worried whether this would affect thenumbers of philosophers attending CSHPS. Inthe end, there was nothing to worry about,philosophy was so well represented at thismeeting that it’s made the historians look bad.A bit of discussion followed about doing morehistory recruiting for next year’s meeting. It was

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also mentioned that CPA will in fact be back atCongress next year.

• The end of the Three Societies Meetings: Erniegives a brief rundown of the history of the 3Smeetings—joint meetings of CSHPS, HSS andBSHS held every four years, rotating betweenCanada, US and UK. Three Canadian meetings(Toronto, Halifax, Edmonton) were all verygood. Ernie had been contacted by Janet Browne(HSS President) and Patricia Fara (BSHSPresident) earlier this year; it was clear thatinterest in these meetings was waning among ourpartners. The BSHS, for example, couldn’t seecommitting itself in the longer term way thatthese meetings require. These meetings can onlywork with the enthusiastic support andcommitment of all three societies.

o Some discussion followed. According toLesley Cormack, this has been some time incoming; it was pretty clear at the San FranciscoHSS meeting that some were concerned that the3S Meetings were too Anglo-American and thatperhaps it was time to divert energies to othersorts of more international collaborations.

o Ernie proposes that we make a motion toput on record that while CSHPS has very muchsupported the Three Societies meetings andfound them very worthwhile, it can also see thatthey have run their course. By all accounts theEdmonton meeting was terrific, and it seemsgood to end things on that high note. We shouldhave a motion acknowledging the value of thesemeetings and a recognition that they have runthei course.

o MOTION [Put forward by Lesley]: Movedthat CSHPS agree to the termination of the 3Societies meeting as a regularly scheduledconference, with the Edmonton meeting as thefinal iteration of this conference.

o Tara Abraham: Secondo Motion PASSES

• Ernie and Lesley mention that we have extratravel grant money. While the Three SocietiesMeetings may now be officially over, the last onein Edmonton (U of A) resulted in a surplus ofseveral thousands of dollars, funds at theUniversity of Alberta that the organizer (Lesley)can disburse. Lesley has graciously made these

available to CSHPS, to be used to supplementour existing travel grant in the amount of $3000per year for five years (inclusive of 2018). Thesefunds are not part of the CSHPS budget, butwill be transferred from a U of A Three Societiesfund until depleted. Lesley also proposes thatnot only graduate student presenters, but alsocontract faculty and independent scholars whoare presenting at CSHPS and do not have othertravel support will be eligible to apply for travelreimbursements.

4. Hadden Prize Award (François Claveau)

• François Claveau presents Hadden Prize toCristian Larroulet Philippi (University ofColorado Boulder) for his paper entitled “Whatcould Scientific Pluralism be?” He received thebook Medical Nihilism by Jacob Stegenga.

5. Constitutional review (Ernie Hamm)

• Since last year’s AGM, a committee was struckto conduct a review of the CSHPS Constitution(see minutes of 2017 AGM). The Committeeconsisted of Lesley Cormack, Eric Desjardin,and Conor Burns. The review resulted in severalproposed amendments (sent out to the CSHPSlistserv three weeks prior to this AGM). [Thisdocument is attached to the bottom of theseminutes—cb].

o Lesley MOVES that the Constitution ofCSHPS, with these amendments, be renewed for5 years.

o Ernie suggests rewording movement asfollows: “Moved that the Constitution ofCSHPS be amended as described.”

o Isaac Record SECONDS.o Motion PASSES

6. Past President’s Report on CFHSS AnnualGeneral Meeting (Lesley Cormack)

• Lesley attended the CFHSS AGM on SundayMay 27. Lesley reminds us that CFHSS is both:a) a federal government lobbying group(especially in the wake of the Naylor Report [see2017 AGM CSHPS minutes for info on thisreport]); and b) responsible for runningCongress. At the AGM, Lesley says, CFHSS

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raised concerns about Congress and its futureand wondered about what might be donedifferently. Some issues raised: Cost ofhosting—hard for smaller universities; concernabout individual societies pulling out (a la CPAthis year); do the “Big Thinkers” talks work? Isthere a way to get societies involved in settingspeakers for these? Lesley reports that there wasalso some general discussion about the futureof the humanities and social sciences in generalin Canada.

• Lesley also says a few things re: internationalactivities / International Union for History andPhilosophy of Science (IUHPST) &International Council of Scientific Unions(ICSU).

o Thanks to those who submitted info on theirinternational activities; we successfully receivedan $800 membership in the Union as a result(IUHPST belongs to the United Nations ICSU,who contact us every year on work our membershave been doing)

o Next IUHPST meeting is of the Divisionof Logic & Methodology of Science andTechnology, in Prague. Theme is “BridgingAcross Academic Cultures”; People should go!It’s important for CSHPS to have arepresentative at these meetings.

o Lesley reminds that the various subsectionsof IUHPST meet more regularly and CSHPSmembers should get involved!

o Some general discussion follows; Erniereminds us that the forms Lesley fills out for theIUHPST each year are a lot of tedious work, soshe deserves big thanks.

7. Secretary & Treasurer Reports (ConorBurns; cf. Reports)

• Conor reports that things are generally in goodshape, although the 2017 Toronto meeting wasa bit more expensive than others recently, andthat membership numbers are down this year.Membership numbers tend to reflect meetingattendance, and this year was a smaller meeting,so Conor thinks it is not something to worryabout.

o Some discussion follows. Lesley Cormacksays lower numbers are a bit alarming. Tara

Abraham, Jaipreet Virdi and Gordon McOuatall comment on being more proactive in gettingpeople to join CSHPS and to come to meetings.Gordon mentions having databases of scholarsrelated to his Situating Science Cluster Grantproject; these could be used to contact morepeople outside the regular CSHPS channels.Conor agrees to contact him for these databasesand will make more of an effort to reach out.

• Approval of Secretary’s Reporto Delia Gavrus MOVES to approveo Isaac Record: Secondo Motion PASSES

• Approval of Treasurer’s Reporto Jaipreet Virdi MOVES to approveo Geoff Bil: Secondo Motion PASSES

8. Programme Committee Report (FrançoisClaveau, cf. Report)

• Approval of report:o Andrew Ede MOVES to approveo Isaac Record SECONDS.o Motion passes.

9. Nominating Committee Report (DeliaGavrus, cf. Report)

• Delia presents report, notes vacancies onProgramme Committee and Advisory Board

o Jennifer Hubbard stands to fill vacancy onProgramme Committee

o Andrew Ede and Andrew Reynolds stand tofill vacancies on Advisory Board.

• Ernie brings up issue of Secretary-Treasurerposition—Conor’s term up in 2018; haven’tfound a replacement. Conor willing to stay onin interim capacity for another year to findreplacement & make transition.

• Motion to approve of Nominating CommitteeReport, along with approval of JenniferHubbard, Andrew Ede, Andrew Reynolds andConor Burns to stand for or continue on inpositions:

o Lesley Cormack MOVES to approve

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o Jennifer Hubbard: Secondso Motion PASSES

10. Communiqué Report (Jaipreet Virdi; cf.Report)

• Jaipreet mentions that because Adobe productshave now become prohibitively expensive, wehave shifted to using Scribus for preparingCommuniqué.• Motion to approve:

o Danny Goldstick MOVES to approveo Anthony Nairn SECONDS.o Motion PASSES.

11. Social Media & Website-ListservManager Report (Ellie Louson; Allan Olley[not in attendance]; cf. Reports)

• See reports; no further discussion.

12. Other business

• Gordon McOuat announces that surplusmoney from the Situating Science /Cosmopolitanism and the Local projects will beused to fund a summer institute for juniorscholars. Further details will be announced byGordon at a later date.

13. Meeting adjourned:

• Isaac Record MOVES to adjourn meeting• Andrew Reynolds: Seconds• PASSES; meeting adjourned.

REVIEW OF THE CSHPSCONSTITUTION (2013)Committee: Lesley Cormack, Conor Burns, andEric Dejardins

The committee reviewed the completeConstitution, passed by the AGM in 2013, witha requirement for a 5 year review. Thecommittee feels that the Constitution is stillrelevant and should continue, with the followingmotions for amendment:

Moved: to amend the CSHPS Constitution as

follows:

Article II:Original: The aim of the Society is to promotethroughout Canada discussion, research, teachingand publication in the history and the philosophyof science and technology.Proposal: add to the end of this sentence: “inboth English and French”.

Article IV:Original until the end of subsection e)Add new f)If there are vacancies after the election at theAGM, or if vacancies appear in a standingcommittee or the local arrangementscoordinator, these shall be filled by appointmentby the Executive Council, such appointmentexpiring at the close of the next meeting of theSociety.Then renumber f) as g); g) as h); h) as i); i) as j).

Article VIII:Original:a. Nominating Committee consisting of twomembers serving staggered terms shall beelected at the Annual General Meeting. It shallbe the duty of this Committee to nominatecandidates for positions to be filled at the nextelection. The membership shall be notified ofthe Nominating Committee's nominees at leastthirty days before the Annual General meeting,after which time members of the Society maymake additional nominations. Additionalnominations by members shall be permitted atthe Annual General Meeting.

Add a final sentence to this sub article: “Thenominating committee will strive to have abalanced list with regards to gender, discipline,region, and language.”

Moved that the Constitution of CSHPS beamended as described.

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2018 Secretary’s Report, University ofRegina

Here’s the breakdown on our memberships for2018 as of 23 May 2018.

Membership Category Number

Regular 44Student/Retired/Underemployed 43Regular + Affilated CSHPM 3Student/Retired + CSHPM 2CSHPM Affiliates 26(paid through CSHPM)Honorary 1

Total 119

Total membership numbers from previous yearswith location of meeting:

2017 – 182 (Toronto)2016 – 185 (Calgary)2015 – 128 (Ottawa)2014 – 149 (Brock)2013 – 155 (Victoria)

From CFHSS, we received an $800 Aid forInterdisciplinary Sessions grant for the panel"SCIENCE AND INDIGENOUS WAYS OFKNOWING: SYNERGIES ORSOLITUDES?"; and an $800 InternationalActivities grant for Jutta Schickore’s keynote talk.

Respectfully,

Conor Burns

2018 Treasurer’s Report

Opening Balance 39,921.98

Credits

Membership dues (June 2017 to 23 May 2018)3740.04

CFHSS (Congress 2017 surplus) 76.98

CFHSS Aid for Interdisciplinary Sessions grant800.00

Total credits + 4617.02

Debits

Travel reimbursements for students to Toronto3989.20

AGM food & beverage 360.80Distinguished international speaker travelreimburse/honorarium 2000.00Honorarium for Interdisciplinary sessionspeaker 300.00Drake speaker travel reimburse 989.78Drake dinner 173.54CFHSS Dues 1687.89Web domain name fee 69.59Hadden Prize & AGM photocopies 96.59CSHPS/CSHM gathering food/cakes 107.362017 meeting programme copies 238.43

Total Debits - 10,013.18

Net 34,525.84

5-Year Running Balance

May 2013 29,941.64May 2014 31,961.12May 2015 35,852.43May 2016 39,750.48May 2017 39,921.98

Conor Burns, Secretary-Treasurer

2018 CSHPS Programme CommitteeReport

May 25th, 2018

Programme CommitteeFrançois Claveau (Université de Sherbrooke),ChairJennifer Hubbard (Ryerson University)Vivien Hamilton (Harvey Mudd College)

Local ArrangementsYvonne Petry (University of Regina)

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Programme

For the 2018 CSHPS Annual Meeting in Regina,the Programme Committee received 87individual abstracts and 6 panel submissions. Theprogramme committee rejected a few abstractsbased on quality and relevance. After severalcancellations, the final programme includes atotal of 85 presentations scheduled in 31sessions.

These numbers are significantly down from the2017 edition in Toronto (submissions: 129individual abstracts and 15 panels; finalprogramme: 150 presentations in 47 sessions),but closer to the average size of our annualmeeting in previous years.

We have one joint session with the CanadianPhilosophical Association (CPA), although thissociety exceptionally holds its meeting inMontreal outside Congress this year. This jointsession Science and Indigenous Ways of Knowing:Synergies or Solitudes? was organized by LesleyCormack. It received funding from the Aid forInterdisciplinary Sessions Fund of the FHSS.

The programme also includes the Drake lecture,which will be given by C. Kenneth Waters(University of Calgary), and the InternationalKeynote lecture by Jutta Schickore (IndianaUniversity Bloomington). We received fundingfrom this last keynote session from theInternational Keynote Speaker Support Fundof the FHSS.

In terms of scheduling, the committee puttogether 3 paper sessions. Due to cancellationssome sessions now have only 2 papers. Thesession time-slots were maintained fromprevious years. The Drake Lecture was put earlieron Sunday than in previous years to make itpossible for members to go to the President’sReception starting at 5pm.

Using the lists of history/philosophy of sciencesocieties and listservs created a few years ago,we reached out to a broad audience with our callfor papers. We also mailed posters to academicdepartments across Canada and emailed directly

a long list of scholars. Furthermore, wesignificantly extended the deadline from January12 to January 19 and, finally, to February 16. Asa result, the programme covers a very wide rangeof topics and time-periods, and includes speakersat different stages in their academic careers, fromCanada as well as from abroad.

Hadden Prize

The Program Committee received 7 excellentsubmissions for the Hadden Prize. The Prizewas awarded to Cristian Larroulet Philippi(University of Colorado Boulder) for his paperentitled “What could Scientific Pluralism be?”He will received the book Medical Nihilism byJacob Stegenga.

The members of the Program Committee wouldlike to express their gratitude to CSHPSPresident Ernie Hamm (York University), toConor Burns, Treasurer (Ryerson University),and to Delia Gavrus, the previous ProgrammeCommittee Chair (University of Winnipeg), fortheir invaluable help and advice; to Yvonne Petry(University of Regina) for her outstanding workwith local arrangements; to Allan Olley forupdating the CSHPS website; and, foremost, toPamela Giguère-Roy, Jordan Girard, AndréanneVeillette et Gilles Beauchamp (all researchassistants at Université de Sherbrooke) for doingmuch of the heavy lifting involved in thepreparation of a conference programme.

We also thank all speakers, chairs, sessionorganizers, and CSHPS members for theircontinued support of our society and forparticipating in the annual meeting.

Finally, I personally thank the two othercommittee members, Jennifer Hubbard andVivien Hamilton, for their dedication. A specialmention goes to Vivien who accepted to joinour committee this fall after the resignation ofanother member.

François Claveau, ChairCSHPS 2018 Program Committee

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2018 Nominating Committee Report

We have sought and obtained the agreement ofthe following members of the society to standfor election to the following positions at thisAnnual General Meeting.

Secretary-Treasurer:Conor Burns (Ryerson) to 2019 (3rd term)

Program Committee:Rebecca Woods (Toronto) to 2019Julien Prud’homme (UQTR) to 2019Jennifer Hubbard (Ryerson)to 2019 (2nd term)

Advisory Board:Vivien Hamilton (Harvey Mudd College)

to 2021Andrew Ede (Alberta) to 2021Andrew Reynolds (Cape Breton) to 2021

Local Arrangements:Alyson Wylie (UBC) to 2019

Nominating Committee:Pierre-Olivier Méthot (Université Laval) to 2021(2nd term)

Social Media Coordinator:Anthony Nairn (Toronto) to 2021

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For information only:

The following members will continue in theoffices they currently occupy, as per the termsof their previous election:

President:Ernie Hamm (York) to 2019

Past President:Lesley Cormack (Alberta) to 2019

Advisory Board:Jeffrey Wiglesworth (Red Deer College) to 2020

Gordon McOuat (King’s College) to 2019Eric Desjardins (Western) to 2019

1st Vice President:Alan Richardson (UBC) to 2019

2nd Vice President:Tara Abraham (Guelph) to 2019

Nominating Committee:Delia Gavrus (Winnipeg) to 2020

Communiqué Co-Editor:Jaipreet Virdi (Delaware) to 2020

Communiqué Editor:Vincent Philippe Guillin (UQÀM) to 2019 (2ndterm)

Website/Listserv Manager:Allan Olley (Independent Scholar) to 2020

Respectfully submitted,

Delia GavrusPierre-Olivier Méthot

2018 Communiqué Report

Communiqué’s Fall Issue for 2017 has seen JaipreetVirdi (History Department, U. of Delaware) jointhe team, for a first term as co-editor, runningto 2020. Thanks to Jai for her commitment anddedication!

Keeping with the decisions made at the 2016AGM, Communiqué is now fully electronic, withtwo digital versions of Fall / Winter issues beingdistributed via email and posted on the CSHPSwebsite.

In terms of content, the editors have, for thetime being, stuck with the custom of dedicatingthe Fall issue to CSHPS institutional matters(Agenda, Minutes and Reports for the AnnualMeeting), together with the ordinary staple ofannouncements, whereas the Winter Issue alsoincludes updates from our members The editors

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are currently thinking about new ways ofdiversifying content and gathering more newsfrom members.

From a technical perspective, we have startedusing Scribus, a free software, for the laying outof Communiqué. So far, the experiment hasproved successful but the editors will keep onlooking for alternatives, if needs be.

Respectfully,

Vincent Guillinon behalf of the Communiqué coeditors

2018 CSHPS Social Media Report

May 21st, 2018

The CSHPS Twitter feed is doing very well. Wehave 266 followers, up 77 from last year. We havegood connections with HPS/STS scholars andinstitutional accounts, so that ourannouncements circulate further and we getmore news of interest to our members. Iencourage all CSHPS members who use Twitterto follow @CSHPSnews and to share theirnotices with us. Please use our #CSHPS hashtagwhile tweeting during the conference.

Our Facebook group “CSHPS – SCHPS” is notas active during the year, but activity increasesleading up to the conference. We’ve stayedconsistent at 67 members. Because of changesto the way Facebook handles Pages, Irecommend we remain a group as it’s easier tocommunicate with our members.

Eleanor LousonSocial Media Coordinator

Announcements/Annonces

Jobs/Emplois

Assistant Professor tenure-stream in Scienceand Technology StudiesThe Institute for the History and Philosophyof Science and Technology at the Universityof Toronto

Deadline: October 30, 2018For details about the position, how to apply andcontact information, please seehttp://hps.utoronto.ca/university-of-toronto-faculty-association-utfa/

Workshop Reports/ Comptes rendusd’atelier

‘Advancing Environmental ImpactAssessment for Canada’s Socio-Ecological

Systems’ Workshop (Toronto, July 2018)

STS scholarship is increasingly turning to judicial,regulatory and other forms of governance-related contexts of applied science, with a viewto enriching the discussion concerning thechallenges of understanding how science &technology are enrolled for the purposes ofmaking decisions in the public interest.

A recent initiative spearheaded by CSHPSmember Ian Stewart (University of King'sCollege) with sociologist Debra Davidson(University of Alberta), with generous fundingfrom the Kule Institute of Advanced Studies(UoA), seeks to turn STS attention to theperennially vexed field of 'environmental impactassessment'.

On July 20, 2018, the first stage of this projecttook place in Toronto, with a meeting of scholarsfrom seven different Canadian universitiespresenting research results from four distinctcase studies: mining in NWT; hydraulicfracturing in Alberta; hydroelectric powergeneration in New Brunswick; and offshore oiland gas in Nova Scotia. Each case explored

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common and distinctive challenges in fourdiverse sectors of natural resource extractionprojects, specifically with respect to how 'science'and 'technology' are used in 'impact assessment'processes. The workshop included contributionsfrom the diverse fields of environmental law,social anthropology, sociology, environmentalresource studies, philosophy and, of course, STS.Publications are to follow.

This is the beginning of an inherently expansiveproject, with hopes of building a network ofinterested scholars across Canada andinternationally. If you are interested in learningmore about this project, contact Ian Stewart(ian.stewart@ukings.ca)

Conferences/Conférences

Society for the Philosophy of Science inPractice

Date : July 7-10, 2020Location : Michigan State University, EastLansing (MI)

The Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice 2020meeting will be held at Michigan State Universityin 2020, just a mere hour and a half from theCanadian border. Details are here:http://www.philosophy-science-practice.org/events/spsp2020-east-lansing anda keynote should be announced soon.

Call for Papers / Appels àcontributions

Living Well: Histories of Emotions,Wellness & Human FlourishingA special issue of the Journal of the Historyof the Behavioral SciencesSubmission deadline: November 1, 2018

Organized by the Forum for the History of theHuman Sciences in honor of historian John C.Burnham (1929-2017), this special issue willbring together historical studies that analyze howthe social and behavioral sciences have attended

to the meanings and conditions of living welland human flourishing. We are interested inaccounts that consider what these sciences, aswell as popular works that draw on them, havesaid about living well, in its spiritual,psychological, cultural, social, economic, and/orpolitical dimensions.

We welcome article-length submissions thatexplore the development, implementation, andcritique of social and behavioral science researchand theoretical frameworks in this area. Inaddition, we are interested in studies thatconsider the uptake of such work in the broadersociety, at the level of ideas, social practices,popular culture, and/or public policy. Wewelcome manuscripts that engage with thetopics, geographical areas, and theoreticalapproaches that Burnham used himself. But weare equally interested in manuscripts that advanceother lines of analysis.

Possible topics of historical investigation include:- self-help and other advice literature- humanistic psychology, positive psychology,and happiness studies- work on mindfulness and resilience- studies of the emotions- research from behavioral economics- social justice movements’ use of the behavioralsciences to challenge the conditions andinequalities impeding human flourishing at thelevels of the individual, group, and/or society- social and behavioral scientific studies of “badhabits” and strategies for overcoming them- critiques of scholarly work and popularaccounts of living well, happiness, and/orpositive thinking- the biopolitics of living well- the relationship between popular and expertviews of how to live well and flourish- the sponsorship of studies on well-being andthe use of such work by communities, groups,private organizations, philanthropy, business, andgovernment.

Send manuscript submissions of approximately10,000, including notes and references, byNovember 1, 2018 to guest editors Mark Solovey(mark.solovey@utoronto.ca) and Debbie

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Weinstein (debbie_weinstein@brown.edu). Theguest editors also welcome preliminary inquiriesabout the appropriateness of particular subjectmatters and lines of analysis. All submissionsshould follow the format outlined in the journal’sAuthor Guidelines. Submissions selected by theguest editors will be peer-reviewed per thestandard procedures of the journal.

HOPOS: The Journal ofthe International Societyfor the History ofPhilosophy of Science issponsoring four upcomingspecial issues. For all specialissues, the word limit is 7000

words and all submissions are peer reviewed.

Authors should consult the HOPOS submissionguidelines:www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/hopos/instruct

The journal's website is here:journals.uchicago.edu/hopos

Submissions can be made via Editorial Manager:www.editorialmanager.com/hopos/

More information about themes of the SpecialIssues: hopos.org/journal-special-issues/

For details or if you have questions, please feelfree to write: hoposjournal@gmail.com

Descriptive Psychology andVölkerpsychologie – in the Contexts ofHistoricism, Relativism, and NaturalismAdvisory Editors: Christian Damböck, UljanaFeest, Martin KuschSubmission Deadline March 31, 2019

Thought Experiments in the History ofPhilosophy of ScienceAdvisory Editors: Michael T. Stuart, YiftachFehigeSubmission Deadline March 31, 2019

Animism and its Discontents: Soul-BasedExplanations in Early-Modern NaturalPhilosophy and MedicineAdvisory Editors: Boris Demarest, JonathanRegier, Charles WolfeSubmission Deadline October 31, 2019

Nineteenth-Century French Philosophy ofScience: Positivism and its ContinuationsAdvisory Editors: Warren Schmaus, Olivier ReySubmission Deadline October 31, 2019

Research Funding/Bourses derecherche

Hewton, Griffin and Rae-Grant FundingAwards to Support Archival Research (2019)

The Friends of the CAMH Archives (FoCA),dedicated to the history of Canadian psychiatry,mental health and addiction, have establishedthree endowment funds. These endowmentsannually provide funding in memory of theirlate colleagues, Ms. E.M. (Lil) Hewton and Dr.J.D.M. (Jack) Griffin, OC, and – inaugurated thisyear through the generosity of the LaidlawFoundation – the Dr. Quentin Rae-GrantScholarship.

The purpose of these funding awards is toprovide financial assistance to students, andothers not necessarily associated with anacademic institution, who propose to undertakearchival research on an aspect of the history ofmental health or addiction in Canada. TheFoCA board at its discretion may approve awardsto a maximum of $2,500 each.

There is no application form. Candidates areinvited to submit a letter of intent not exceeding500 words, together with a budget and résumé,not later than November 30, 2018. Theseresearch awards are conditional on the recipientsagreeing to submit progress reports within oneyear, and a final report including a financialsynopsis within two years of receiving theirfinancial allocation.For examples of the archival research projects(formerly “Bursaries”) previously awarded,

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please refer to that feature as included in theSPRING editions of our past years’ Newsletters,indexed at: https://www.camh.ca/en/health-info/camh-library/camh-archives/friends-of-the-archives

To apply for a 2019 award, please submit anapplication by the November 30, 2018 deadlineto:

Sydney Jones – President, Friends of theArchivesCAMH, 1001 Queen Street WestToronto, Ontario M6J 1H4

Please note that electronic submissions arepreferred: John.Court@camh.ca

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Members can share event announcements andother items of interest on our website,www.cshps.ca or via our members-only emaillisterv.

For the listerv, please send items tocshps@yorku.ca using the email you used toregister for CSHPS. Please note that replies tolisterv messages are directed to the originalsender. To reply to the entire list, please sendto cshps@yorku.ca.

To report problems with the website or to senditems to post, email Allan Olley atallan.olley@alumni.utoronto.ca

To join CSHPS, please visit www.cshps.ca andclick "Join."

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Congress 201 8 Photos

All photos were obtained from social media channels using the hashtag #CSHPS or tagging @CSHPS

Greg Lusk introducing the "Teaching HPS" panel withIsaac Record and Jaipreet Virdi (photo by Geoff Bil)

François Claveau presenting the Hadden Prize to CristianLarroulet Philippi’s "What could Scientific Pluralism Be?"The book prize Cristian selected was Jacob Stegenga’sMedical Nihilism. Fun fact: Jacob is a past Hadden Prizewinner! (Photo by Ellie Louson)

CSHPS social media coordinator Ellie Lousondelivering her report at the AGM. Do follow thesociety handle for matters relating to history &philosophy of science and member achievements!(Photo by Jai Virdi)

Dr. C. Kenneth Waters delivering the Drake Lecture, "HowGenetics Succeeds" (Photo by Sinan Sencan)

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It's standing room only for the "Science & Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Synergies or Solitudes?"panel with Kim Tallbear, Andrew Reynolds, Gordon McOuat & Theodore Binnema (photo by Geoff Bil)

President Ernie Hamm kicking off the Annual General Meeting (Photo by Ellie Louson)

Tara Abraham introducing plenary speaker Jutta Schickore(photo by Alan Richardson)

Inside the First Nations building, the site of theconference. (photo by Ellie Louson)

The reception desk in the First Nations Building(photo by Ellie Louson)Devon Moriarty presenting on exertise and science

communication by looking at r/science AMAs(photo by Paua de Vill)

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Break between sessions (photo by Yvonne Petry)

Gordon McOuat presenting his work on P.CMahalanobis & the Indian Statistical Institute (photoby Sarah Qidwai)

Inside the First Nations Building (photo by Jai Virdi)

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Break between sessions (photo by Yvonne Petry)

Conor Burns trying to figure what's in the box during IsaacRecords' black box experiment (photo by Jai Virdi)

Lelsey Cormack, Andrew Ede, Gordon McOuat and YiftachFehgie (photo by Yvonne Petry)