Tag: science
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€1.35 Million Grant for Philosophical Project on AI & Scientific Understanding
Florian J. Boge, currently an interim professor for philosophy of science at Wuppertal University and a postdoc in the interdisciplinary research unit The Epistemology…
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New Journal: Philosophy of Physics
The Philosophy of Physics Society is launching a new journal: Philosophy of Physics.
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Philosophers Call for more Scientific Research on “Civilization Collapse”
“Civilization collapse [is] the loss of societal capacity to maintain essential governance functions, especially maintaining security, the rule of law, and the provision of…
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Philosophy’s Happiness Literature: More of It, More Empirical (guest post)
In the following guest post, Michael Prinzing (Yale) discusses trends in philosophical discussions of happiness and well-being.
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Philosophers Among Recent NSF Grant Winners (updated)
Several philosophers have been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) over the past couple of months.
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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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Philosophy of Well-Being: A “Dysfunctional” Situation?
A “responsible definition of wellbeing,” says Anna Alexandrova (Cambridge), “needs to be appropriate to the goals of the project—epistemically accessible, reasonably simple, in other…
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Philosophers Cited in IPCC Report
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations body for assessing science related to climate change, earlier this week released the report…
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$1 Million Grant for Work on Philosophy of Contemporary and Future Science
Darrell Rowbottom, professor of philosophy at Lingnan University, has been awarded a grant of approximately $1 million for his project, “Philosophy of Contemporary and…
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Strange Philosophical Claims By Scientists
Did you know that the brain cortex has “an amount of free will exceeding 96 terabytes per second”? No? Is it because… umm… you…
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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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NSF Bill Emphasizes Ethics, Includes Ethics Grants
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology has introduced a bill for the funding of the National Science Foundation (NSF)…
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Philosophers Among New Class of AAAS Fellows
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAs) has announced its 2020 class of fellows. Most of the 489 new fellows are scientists,…
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Things Philosophers Know About Science That You Don’t
What do philosophers know that others don’t? This post intiates an occasional series that asks philosophers to engage with the “conventional wisdom” on various…
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Philosophers Win Artificial Intelligence Award
The Tetrad Automated Causal Discovery Platform, a software and text project developed by Peter Spirtes, Clark Glymour, Richard Scheines and Joe Ramsey of Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Philosophy, earned the “Leader” Award…
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Understanding the Brain
“Maybe human brains aren’t equipped to understand themselves.”
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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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2019 Popper Prize Winner Announced
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (BJPS) has selected Carlos Gray Santana (University of Utah) as the winner of its 2019 Karl Popper…