REPORT First Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association, 14–17 November, Madrid, Spain Stathis Psillos Æ Mauricio Sua ´rez Published online: 10 July 2008 Ó Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008 The newly founded European Philosophy of Science Association had its first conference in Madrid in November 2007. The conference was hosted by the Complutense University of Madrid and brought together over 300 philosophers of science from Europe and the rest of the world. The conference call for papers was launched in March 2007 and the response to it was beyond the expectations of the Steering Committee of EPSA. Over 400 abstracts were submitted in all kinds of areas in the philosophy of science. The 30-strong Pro- gramme Committee, consisting of renowned philosophers of science working in Europe and chaired by Mauro Dorato (Rome) and Miklos Redei (London), faced the difficult task of selecting 175 papers for presentation at the conference. Hard decisions had to be made within a very strong field of contributions and the result of the selection procedure was that the quality of papers presented in EPSA07 was invariably high. The conference was structured around five sections: General Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Natural Sciences, Philosophy of Social Sciences, Formal Methods in the Philosophy of Science, and Social and Historical Studies of the Philosophy of Science. Detailed information about the programme may be found at the conference website: http://www.ucm.es/info/epsa07. A number of papers have also been posted at the Pittsburgh Philosophy of Science Archive section devoted to the conference: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/view/confandvol/EPSA07. Here we provide a short review of the most relevant topics discussed. Within the first section (General Philosophy of Science), there were sessions devoted to nearly every topic actively pursued in philosophy of science today, such as causation, realism, confirmation, reductionism, structuralism, experiment and observation, prediction, models and repre- sentation, and simulation. The second section (Philosophy of Natural Sciences) concerned mainly philosophical aspects of physics and the biomedical sciences. Most of the S. Psillos (&) Department of Philosophy and History of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University Campus, Ano Ilisia, 15771 Athens, Greece e-mail: psillos@phs.uoa.gr M. Sua ´rez (&) Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University, 28040 Madrid, Spain e-mail: msuarez@filos.ucm.es 123 J Gen Philos Sci (2008) 39:157–159 DOI 10.1007/s10838-008-9057-x