CPTS -
Center for Philosophy, Technology and Social Systems

CPTS Annual Working Conferences

• It lasts four days or a week.
• Each paper presentation occupies an unusually long time, in order to give space and time to delve deeply. Typically, a 'long paper session' lasts one-and-a-half hours:
  • 20 minutes to present paper
  • 20 minutes for two prepared reviews
  • 20 minutes for comments from other participants
  • 20 minutes for discussion of foundational issues related to the paper
  • 10 minutes in which presenter summarises how they respond.
• 'Short paper sessions' for presentation of less-developed ideas, have 45 minutes.
• The authors are then expected to consider the discussion and, later, feed back to the Conference how they intend to change the paper.
• The aim is that the paper might then be prepared for submission to a journal, or it might be part of a PhD Thesis.

Thus researchers - at all levels - receive critical mentoring. This formula has proved very successful in generating a flow of high quality papers in international scientific journals, informing PhD research, and sharpening up ideas on a wide range of issues. During the first ten years of CPTS Annual Working Conferences, a number of papers were published in important academic journals as a result of this process, and a number of PhD Theses were published. Some of these are listed in Publications page.

As a result of this formula, the quality of discussion is very high, such that it has attracted scholars of international repute in various areas including systems intervention, philosophy of technology and systems philosophy. They come because of the quality and depth of discussion, which exposes foundational assumptions. Part of the reason for this is because the part of the starting point of CPTS is a Biblical-Christian view of the world, which takes a philosophical rather than theological stance, which discloses whole sets of different issues for consideration. This has led CPTS into an emphasis on global problems and North-South relations, leading to links with IIDE.

This page is "http://www.cptsonline.org/conferences.html".

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