New Publication – Devin Gouvêa
Congratulations to our former visiting fellow, Devin Gouvêa! Her paper “Historicizing the homology problem” that she worked on while at the center has been published in the journal Studies in …
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New Publication – Heather Douglas
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Congratulations to our former senior visiting fellow, Heather Douglas! Her paper “Differentiating Scientific Inquiry and Politics” that she worked on while at the center has been published in The Journal …
New Publication – Ruth Kastner
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Congratulations to our former fellow, Ruth E. Kastner! Her paper “The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics” that she worked on while at the center has been published in Philosophical Transactions …
Lunchtime Talk – Jim Woodward Slides
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Apologies for the technical difficulties from yesterday’s lunchtime talk that prevented the slides from being visible to those watching online. A link to the slides has been attached here: Link …
New Publication – Adam Koberinski
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Congratulations to our Postdoc Adam Koberinski! His paper “Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives on the Cosmological Constant,” based on his lunchtime talk last fall has been published in a special issue of …
New Publication – Eugen Fischer
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Congratulations to our former fellow, Eugen Fischer! His paper, “Fragemented and conflicted: Folk beliefs about vision” that he worked on while at the center has been published in Synthese! You …
New Publication – Adam Koberinski
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Congratulations to our Postdoc Adam Koberinski for his newly co-published paper “Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories” in the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. …
Former Fellow Serife Tekin – On the News
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We are excited to learn that a former fellow, Serife Tekin, has attracted significant attention from her new and popular class, “Philosophy of Space Exploration” at the University of Texas …
New Published Paper by Riet Van Bork
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Congratulations to our former fellow Riet Van Bork for her paper “Estimating the Number of Factors in Exploratory Factor Analysis via Out-of-Sample Prediction Errors” getting published! We are excited that …
Apply for PSP7!
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Applications are open for our annual Pittsburgh Summer Program in Philosophy of Science for Underrepresented Groups (aka PSP.) Please apply to our Pittsburgh Summer Program! We’re excited to meet you! …
Welcome, Chantel!
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We are very excited to welcome the newest member of the Center community! Chantel Snodgrass is our new Programs Administrator. Chantel has a Communication Degree from the University of Toledo. …
Society for Philosophy and Psychology Conference
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Featured Former Fellow: Janella Baxter
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We caught up with former fellow, Janella Baxter before her online talk on Tuesday, October 25th! Here’s what she had to say: 1. Where are you now? Sam Houston State …
Paper by former Center Fellow Deivide Garcia da S. Oliveira
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Please join us in congratulating former Fellow Deivide Garcia da S. Oliveira on their recently published paper about scientific models and Darwinian evolutionary theory. The paper is available Here.
Welcome to our Pitt Summer Program students!
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This year’s Pittsburgh Summer Program in Philosophy of Science for Underrepresented Groups will take place in person this year! Please join me in welcoming the students selected to take part …
Congratulations to our postdoctoral fellows!
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Aydin Moheseni will be a “Senior Fellow” in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and Ravit Dotan will be the head of research at the Ethical AI …
FFF: Catching up with Alison Fernandes
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We caught up with Alison Fernandes, before her online Featured Former Fellow talk on Tuesday April 19th at 12:00pm EST. Here’s what she had to say: Where are you …
Serife Tekin Interviewed by The Guardian.
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Read “Young and depressed? Try Woebot! The rise of mental health chatbots in the US” where Serife explains her research and the importance of interpersonal therapy as opposed to chatbots. …
Woodward Workshop Rescheduled for April 29th
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Join us for the rescheduled workshop “Causation with a Human Face: James Woodward Book Workshop” on April 29th at 3:00pm. For more information on this event, click here!
Woodward Workshop Cancelled
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PLEASE NOTE: Due to the winter storm, the workshop “Causation With A Human Face” planned for Feb.4 has been postponed until further notice. We will announce new dates as soon …
Welcome, Shoshi!
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We are very excited to welcome the newest member of the Center community! Shoshi Burd-Baugh is our Programs Administrator. Shoshi brings experience in event planning, social media, and was once …
Catching Up With Naftali Weinberger
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Where are you now? At the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy What are you working on? Right now I have two primary projects: One on causation in dynamical systems and …
Apply for PSP6!
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Applications are now open for our annual Pittsburgh Summer Program in Philosophy of Science for Underrepresented Groups (aka PSP.) This week-long intensive course introduces undergraduate students to important concepts and …
COVID Plan, Spring 2022
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Unless University policy changes, we will be continuing the same COVID mitigation practices from the Fall term. They are: All individuals, regardless of vaccination status, must wear a face covering …
Tony Beavers Talk Moved Online
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Please note, Anthony Beavers’ talk scheduled for Friday, Nov. 19 has been moved to online-only. See the talk listing for Zoom registration. Or, you can stream the talk live on …
Catching Up With Erik Curiel
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Our last Featured Former Fellows talk of the fall is happening right after Thanksgiving break! These online-only talks occur throughout the year and reunite our Center community with past Fellows …
James Weatherall Returns for ALS and Science Revealed
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Former Center Fellow James Owen Weatherall (author of the popular book Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing), will return to Pittsburgh in December for two events. On December 2, he will be …
PHEP 2021 is now PHEP 2022!
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We now have a date for the Particle and High-Energy Physics conference, originally planned for Nov. 2021 but rescheduled due to COVID travel restrictions. The new dates are March 26-27, …
Congratulations Darrell
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Our Visiting Fellow Darrell Rowbottom (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) has just had a paper accepted for publication. The paper, entitled “Why Might an Instrumentalist Endorse Bohmian Mechanics?” was written during …
PHEP Postponed
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The Particle and High-Energy Physics conference, scheduled for Nov. 6-7, has been postponed until spring. The organizing committee hopes that at that time, international travel will be easier for potential …