In modern times, cosmology has become one of the most epistemically fertile fields of science. Some of its successes are: explaining the Cosmic Microwave Background and its features (temperature, anisotropies, polarization, etc.); accounting for the chemical elements abundances in the universe; the discovery of the isotropic expansion of the universe; the establishment of a model which synthesizes various astronomical observations (SNIFS, BOSS, COBE, etc.) into a relativistic model (of on overall flat geometry) with predictive power; and much more. In spite of this, there are still some philosophical issues concerning not only cosmology as a science of the universe (Ellis, 2001), but also about the complex interactions between theory and evidence (Smeenk, 2017), between theory and technology (Doboszewski & Elder, 2026), and the status of theoretical entities whose evidence has been persistently indirect (Martens, 2022).
Our aim is to provide space for these discussions.
2027 Workshop:
Call for abstracts [here]