[Fis] Call for Abstracts: Abstraction and the Emergence of EvolutionaryThinking.

Dear FIS'ers:

The Washington Evolutionary Systems Society (WESS) is sponsoring a
symposium on:

Abstraction and the Emergence of Evolutionary Thinking.

The final call for abstracts is presented below. Please forward the
call to colleagues who may be interested.

Cheers

Jerry LR Chandler

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Dear Colleagues:

This is the final call for abstracts for the Washington Evolutionary
Systems Society conference to be held on Saturday and Sunday, March
20 and 21, 2004. (An electronic copy of the first call is appended
below. Please note the corrected dates. )

Our topic:

"Abstraction and the Emergence of Evolutionary Thinking"

has generated considerable interest across a wide range of
disciplines. We are looking forward to stimulating discussions of
the roots of emergence and the perplexity of evolutionary systems.

We are seeking further contributions from the mathematical, physical,
chemical, biological, biomedical, social and cultural disciplines.
Work that seeks to integrate across disciplines is of particular
interest.

  An abstract of about 500 words is desirable. Submission is by email
only. The heading of your abstract should contain the following
information:

Name
Title
Affiliation
Mail address
Title of Talk
Email address
Telephone number

The new deadline for abstracts is November 15, 2003.

Manuscripts of our symposium will be published by the Washington
Academy of Sciences and electronically distributed at the meeting.
The manuscripts are due Jan. 10, 2004. All manuscripts will be
reviewed.

In addition to this symposium, WESS is also sponsoring at the WAS
meeting a special Memorial Symposium for Professor I. Prigogine who
past away last summer. Professor Prigogine was an honorary member of
WESS.

For further information about the planning for the meeting, Capital
Science,2004, please see the website:

http://www.washacadsci.org
 

Please direct questions concerning the WESS participation to me at
this email address or call 703-790-1651.

Cheers
 
Jerry LR Chandler
 

>
> Dear Colleagues:
>
> You are invited to participate in a conference sponsored by the
> Washington Evolutionary Systems Society (WESS) and held in
> conjunction with symposium of the Washington Academy of Sciences
> (WAS). The conference will be held at the National Science
> Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, on March 21 and 22, 2004.
>
> Our objective is to create new insights into:
>
> "Abstraction and the Emergence of Evolutionary Thinking".
>
> Evolutionary thinking has extended itself into numerous disciplines
> in recent decades. When viewed from the dogmatic structures inherited
> from earlier centuries, evolutionary thinking can appear as an artful
> blend of history, science and policy. It may include the seeds of
> re-uniting the deeply fragmented natural sciences. The surprising
> emergence of evolutionary thinking as a cornerstone of physical,
> biological and social thought raises difficult and challenging
> questions for the scientific community.
>
> What is the nature of abstraction?
>
> Are scientific abstractions consistent from discipline to discipline?
>
> Is the emergence of evolutionary thinking a direct product of new
> conceptual abstractions about the perplexity of science?
>
> Are the traditional mathematical abstractions adequate for
> generalizations over multiple disciplines?
>
> Can traditional concepts, such as Liebniz's "monads" contribute to
> developing new foundations for scientific abstractions?
>
> Does the re-emergence of evolutionary thinking signify a renewal of
> Darwinian social philosophy and political policies?
>
> Or, is evolutionary thinking merely a temporal way station on the
> path to a substantial integration of the perplexities of the abstract
> sciences?
>
> This conference can be viewed as an extension of the ongoing WESSbook
> discussions on the nature of mind, matter, time, place and space.
> However, all WESS members are invited to contribute to this
> conference, independent of the local discussions here in the WDC area.
>
> You are invited to submit an abstract (about 500 words) no later than
> October 15, 2003.
>
> The Washington Academy of Sciences has a deadline of Jan. 15, 2004
> for manuscripts for publication. More than 20 other scientific
> societies will participate in the meeting. WAS intends to publish
> the proceedings of the symposia.
>
> If you would like to submit a paper but may not be able to
> participate in the conference, please contact me.
>
> I am looking forward to a creative conference on the foundational
> issues that both unit and divide us .
>
> Sincerely
>
> Jerry LR Chandler
>
> President
> WESS
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