Dear Colleagues,

This is a friendly reminder that the deadline for submissions to our workshop on "Large Language Models (LLMs) in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science (HPSS)" is fast approaching!

The deadline is December 31, 2024—just two weeks away. To contribute a talk, please send an abstract of your planned contribution of 300-600 words by e-mail to arno.simons@tu-berlin.de mailto:arno.simons@tu-berlin.de. We encourage every contributor to present on site and to participate in the whole workshop program. In exceptional cases, we will offer the possibility to present remotely.

The workshop will focus on exploring use cases and proposals for how, and to what extent, LLMs might help overcome long-standing challenges in studies of how science works. The event will take place from April 2–4, 2025, at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.

We look for contributions that help resolve questions like these:

How can LLMs help gain new perspectives on long-standing problems in HPSS such as determining the relevant contexts of knowledge claims, the dynamics of scientific controversies, problems of incommensurability, and generalizability of case studies? How can LLMs handle the specialized language of scientific texts, including technical jargon, citations, and mathematical formulas? How can LLMs bridge the gap between qualitative and computational methods and help overcome their limitations? How can LLMs be integrated into existing theoretical and methodological frameworks in HPSS, or how should these frameworks evolve to accommodate LLM-based analysis? How can we evaluate the validity of results generated by LLMs, given their opacity? How can LLMs account for the temporal development of scientific language and knowledge over time?

For more details about the workshop and the CFP, please visit: https://www.tu.berlin/hps-mod-sci/workshop-llms-for-hpss

We look forward to your contributions!

Best regards, Arno Simons