2023-2024 Adolf Grünbaum Memorial Lecture
The Center for Philosophy of Science proudly presents the next 2023-202 Adolf Grünbaum Memorial Lecture. Adolf Grünbaum was the first Andrew Mellon Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh …
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The Center for Philosophy of Science proudly presents the next 2023-202 Adolf Grünbaum Memorial Lecture. Adolf Grünbaum was the first Andrew Mellon Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh …
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With the release of the brand new Podcast, “Conversations at the Center”, The Center is proud to announce the ‘DailyNous’, dailnous.com, has featured the podcast on their website. The aim …
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The Center for Philosophy of Science announces Shan Gao, 2024 visiting fellow, has been recently published by the journal Foundations of Physics. Shan Gao is a professor of philosophy at …
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On Friday, March 15, Carnegie Mellon University Philosophy Department is hosting their Carnegie Mellon University Philosophy Colloquium Talk. The speaker is Saira Khan, Postdoc Fellow at the Center for Philosophy …
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The Center regrets to announce that Dr. Allen Janis, Pitt professor of Physics, has passed away. Allen Janis was a Pitt professor of physics from 1956 through his retirement in …
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The Center of Philosophy of Science is very sad to report that Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, Dr. Nicholas Rescher, has passed away. Professor Nick Rescher, former Center Director, and …
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Dr. Matt Waldschlagel was a Summer Archival Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science in Summer 2022. During his time at the Center, he pursued research on Carl Hempel …
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Congratulations to our former visiting fellows Devin Gouvêa and Ingo Brigandt! Their paper “Against unifying homology concepts: Redirecting the debate” has been published in the Journal of Morphology. …
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July 10 – 14th, 2023 This year’s Pittsburgh Summer Program in Philosophy of Science for Underrepresented Groups was a great success! We are grateful to be able to have …
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Congratulations to our former visiting fellow, Ryan M. Nefdt! On the publication of his new book “Language, Science, and Structure – A Journey into the Philosophy of Linguistics.” It is …
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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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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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! …
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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. …
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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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!
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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 …