14th Principia International Symposium

14th Principia International Symposium July 28th to 31st, 2025 UFSC Campus, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil (around here)

Contemporary Philosophy of Science emerged at the beginning of the 20th century with a specific methodological proposal, applying the tools of the emerging formal logic not only to regiment scientific theories, but also to improve cognitive and linguistic practices. Although the limitations of formal methods for analyzing science have been widely discussed, the approach still finds valuable use today for understanding scientific reasoning and arguments, for ontological and metaphysical studies of science, for investigating the structure of scientific theories and models, and for clarifying the meaning of scientific concepts, among other tasks. As new advances are made in research into logic, new pathways open up for philosophical reflection on science, so that formal methods tend to remain in our toolbox, as well as discussions about their powers and limitations.