Keynotes
Craig Callender
Craig Callender is the Tata Chancellor Professor of Philosophy and a Founding Faculty and Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics. He is also President of the Philosophy of Science Association and from 2019-2022 sat on the Freedom and Responsibility in Science Committee of the International Science Council. His main area of research and teaching is philosophy of science, ranging from the nature of time to various applied social and ethical issues. He obtained his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1997 with a dissertation on quantum mechanics and the direction of time. His book What Makes Time Special? (OUP 2017) won the 2018 Lakatos Award and the 2022 Suppes Prize.
Catarina Dutilh Novaes
Catarina Dutilh Novaes is professor of philosophy and University Research Chair at the Department of Philosophy of VU Amsterdam, member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and president of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) (2025-2029). Her research spans several philosophical areas and topics, including history and philosophy of logic, philosophy of mathematics, social epistemology, and philosophy of science. She is the author of, among others, The Dialogical Roots of Deduction (CUP 2020), which won the 2022 Lakatos Award, and Reason and Power in Argumentation (CUP 2026). Currently, she is primarily interested in the role of colonialism in science and epistemic practices more generally.