Catching Up With Peter Vickers
Next week we’ll be kicking off our new Lunchtime Talk series Featured Former Fellows! These online-only talks will occur throughout the year and reunite our Center community with past Fellows …
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Senior Visiting Fellow Conference Announced
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We are pleased to announce the date and topic of this year’s Senior Visiting Fellow conference, designed by our current SVF Heather Douglas. Institutions and the Scientific Research Agenda April …
The Center’s COVID Plan, Fall Term 2021
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This Fall we will welcome back back in-person Fellows and in-person events in compliance with the University’s COVID-19 guidelines, with additional precautions added. All individuals, regardless of vaccination status, must …
Goodbye Alex!
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We are sad to announce that Alex Magee, our amazing Program Administrator, has left the Center to take a new position in Pitt’s Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. Alex …
Call For Papers – Particle Physics Conference
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The CFP for our Early Career Conference in Philosophy of Particle & High Energy Physics (Nov. 6 – Sunday, Nov.7, 2021) is now open. Proposals for contributed talks are invited …
Welcome 2021 Fellows
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The Center is pleased to announce our Fall 2021 Visiting Fellows. We are very excited and hopeful that this will be the first group of Fellows to return to in-person …
Thanks, PSP students!
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The fifth annual Pittsburgh Summer Program in Philosophy of Science for Underrepresented Groups wrapped up last week, and a great (and intellectually stimulating) time was had by all. Once again, …
The First Issue of Philosophy of Medicine
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The first issue of Philosophy of Medicine (sponsored in part by The Center) has been published. Philosophy of Medicine is an open-access journal that publishes exceptional original philosophical research and perspectives …
PSP5
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Announcing our student cohort for the 5th annual Pittsburgh Summer Program in Philosophy of Science for Underrepresented Groups Fabio Cabrera, Cornell University Lawrence Cao, Johns Hopkins University Joe Ding, Haverford …
Ryan Nefdt’s New Book
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Ryan Nefdt (Univ. of Cape Town), a Spring 2021 Visiting Fellow, has edited and contributed a chapter to a newly-published work on philosophy of language. The Philosophy and Science of …
Hannah Rubin Wins NSF Grant
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Hannah Rubin (Spring 2021 Visiting Fellow) has been awarded a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant begins this summer and the topic is: “Race, Gender, and the …
2021- 22 Fellows Announced!
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The Center is pleased to announce our list of the Fellows who will be joining us for the 2021-22 academic year. We’re especially happy to have some past visitors back …
Podcast With Riet Van Bork
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One of this year’s post-doc Fellows, Riet Van Bork, sat down with two University of Amsterdam undergraduates for a podcast interview on how the current pandemic times influence different research …
New Fellows’ Publications
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Congrats to our Visiting Fellows Hannah Rubin and Chris Weaver for their recent publications! You can find Hannah Rubin’s new publication “Reintroducing Kin Selection to the Human Behavioral Sciences” in …
Archival Fellowship
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The Summer Archival Fellowship is open for applications. This unique position will give the appointee the opportunity to work with the University of Pittsburgh Library System’s one-of-a-kind Archives of Scientific …
Cosmology Beyond Spacetime
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Theories of quantum gravity suggest that classical spacetime may not be fundamental, but only arise as higher order phenomena. What implications does such a possibility have for cosmology, which generally …
Holiday 2020
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Programs resume on Jan 19. See you in 2021!
The Center’s Pandemic Response, Spring Term 2021
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As the University of Pittsburgh moves to the Spring semester, we are committed to providing the same challenging, stimulating programs for which the Center has been known for sixty years, …
PSP5
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The Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh is pleased to announce a call for applications for the 2021 PSP5: A Summer Program in Philosophy of Science …
ALS 11/6 Cancelled
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We regret that today’s (November 6) Annual Lecture Series talk with Lise Vesterlund has been cancelled. Apologies for the inconvenience.
Welcome, Katie!
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As we say ‘Goodbye’ to Carolyn this week, we are also welcoming our new Assistant Director, Kathleen “Katie” Labuda. Katie will be a familiar face to many of you, as …
Farewell, Carolyn
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Carolyn Oblak, the Center’s Assistant Director, has retired! Carolyn joined the Center in late 2015 and has helped usher in many changes and programs that have greatly enriched the Center, …
Sept. 22 LTT Cancelled
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We regret that today’s (Sept.22) Lunchtime Talk with Subrena Smith has been cancelled. Apologies for the inconvenience, and we hope you can join us for our next Lunchtime Talk!
The Center Debates!
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“The Center Debates” is a new initiative of the Center for Philosophy of Science. Our goal is to promote serious, but respectful and constructive exchanges about controversial topics of interest …
Call for Papers: Ancestry conference
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The aim of this virtual conference is to bring together anthropologists, biologists, historians, and philosophers of science to address the concept of ancestry in relation to scientific inferences about the …
Announcing a New Journal: Philosophy of Medicine
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NEW OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL: PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE The mission of Philosophy of Medicine is to serve as the flagship journal for the field by advancing research in philosophy of medicine, by engaging …
The Center’s Pandemic Response, Fall Term 2020
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As the University of Pittsburgh reopens for the Fall semester, we are committed to providing the same challenging, stimulating programs for which the Center has been known for sixty years, …
Register now for Lunchtime Talks!
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Our classic Lunchtime Talks series will begin online this Fall. We have an interesting slate of speakers this September, including Mark Wilson, Liam Bright, Yolonda Wilson, Mike Dietrich, and Subrena …
Online Seminar Series: Problem of Cognitive Ontology
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Functional brain imaging studies try to map patterns of activation to cognitive functions, and usually rely upon functional task decomposition based on hypotheses …
PHEP2020 Cancelled
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In light of the disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic, with regrets, we have decided to cancel this year’s planned conference, PHEP2020: Early Career Conference in Philosophy of Particle & …