Tag: interdisciplinary
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New: an MA Program in Philosophy & Computing
The University of Bayreuth is launching a new interdisciplinary Master’s degree (MA/MSc) in Philosophy & Computer Science.
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The Challenges of a Large Interdisciplinary Project (guest post)
Over the past decade or so we’ve seen philosophers win sizable grants for projects involving multiple teams of researchers with different disciplinary and institutional…
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New £20,000 Transdisciplinary Philosophy Book Prize
The Royal Institute of Philosophy (RIP) has announced the creation of a new book prize to recognize “the most original philosophical research that transcends…
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$3.4 Million Grant for Project on Humility in Inquiry
Philosopher Nathan Ballantyne (Arizona State University) and psychologist Norbert Schwarz (University of Southern California) have won a $3.4 million grant for their project, “Humility…
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Are Philosophy’s Glory Days in Bioethics Over? (guest post)
How has philosophy’s role in cognate disciplines been changing? We could ask this question about philosophy and political theory, or cognitive science, or business…
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The Problems with Philosophers: A Reply to Weinberg (guest post)
Last week, I posted about an exchange between historians Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder (both of Carleton College), and philosopher Michael Veber (East Carolina), using Veber’s contribution to…
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“Negative attitudes toward philosophy and philosophers”
Yesterday morning, Laura Kennedy, a writer and freelance journalist who often writes about philosophy (and who recently earned her PhD in philosophy at Trinity…
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Stepping Outside of Philosophy: Reflections on a Transdisciplinary Career (guest post)
Universities say they want their faculty to pursue “interdisciplinary” and “transdisciplinary” work. Yet it might be difficult to figure out how to do that…
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$3 Million Grant for Interdisciplinary Project on Time & Quantum Biology
An interdisciplinary team of scientists and philosophers has won a $3 million grant to support a project on time and quantum biology called “Life…
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How Are Today’s Philosophers Philosophical?
In a recent live interview, Tyler Cowen (GMU) asks Elijah Millgram (Utah), “To what extent do you think philosophers today are even still philosophical,…
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Which Scientific Disciplines Cite Philosophy of Science? (guest post)
What is the impact of philosophy of science on science?
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Jargon & Citation in Philosophy
A study of papers published in academic science journals on the topic of “cave science” found that “papers containing higher proportions of jargon in…
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New Journal: AI and Ethics
A new interdisciplinary academic journal, AI and Ethics, aims to “promote informed debate and discussion of the ethical, regulatory, and policy implications that arise from…
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The 2020 Class of Newcombe Fellows in Ethics & Religion Includes (Just) One Philosophy Student
Joanna Demaree-Cotton, a Ph.D. student in philosophy at Yale University, has won a 2020 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship…
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$2.6 Million Funding for Epistemology of the Large Hadron Collider
An interdisciplinary research group has received funding totalling approximately US$2.6 million to pursue its study of “the world’s largest research instrument”: the Large Hadron…
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New: Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
The International Journal of Machine Consciousness, which ceased publication in 2014, is being reborn as the Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness.
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Bowling Green Receives $1.6 Million to Expand Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law Program
Bowling Green State University (BGSU) has received a $1.6 million donation from the Charles Koch Foundation to expand its Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law…
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New: The Journal of Sociotechnical Critique
There’s a new, open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal focusing on philosophy of technology and related fields, with an emphasis on public engagement.
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How Science Can Get the Philosophy It Needs
A recent essay in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by an interdisciplinary group of scholars argues that philosophy has had “an…