Utrecht: Three PhD Positions in History and Philosophy of Physics, Biology and Science

For more information, please see https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/three-phd-positions-in-history-and-philosophy-of-physics-biology-and-science

C4A: Foundational challenges in cosmological studies of black holes, Bonn, 14th May 2024

Foundational challenges in cosmological studies of black holes
14th May 2024
University of Bonn

With the emergence of new observational windows, black holes are increasingly used in constraining cosmological theories. This workshop aims to address the major foundational and methodological challenges in cosmological studies of black holes: What are the methodological principles of these searches? What should we expect from future observations? How do long-standing research programs look from the new vantage points? What foundational lessons can be drawn from cosmological studies of new physics? The workshop will facilitate a multi-disciplinary perspective on the cosmological implications of black holes, by bringing together contributions from theoretical physics, astronomy, and the philosophy of physics.

Utrecht: Philosophy of Inflation Workshop

The UPAC research group and COSMO-MASTER project team are organising a half-day workshop around the Physical and Philosophical interpretations and implications of the Inflationary paradigm. We will convene physicists and philosophers to discuss the subfield’s current state of the art and its prospects. The workshop will be held at Utrecht University on Friday the 24th of May 2024. We welcome researchers and students within either philosophy or physics to join the discussion as attendants. We will have three invited speakers to provide an overview of the state of the art on Inflation: Marieke Postma (Radboud University), Richard Dawid (Stockholm University) and Daniel Meerburg (University of Groningen).

For more information, please see https://www.uu.nl/en/research/utrecht-philosophy-of-astronomy-cosmology/events/philosophy-of-inflation-workshop

Utrecht, 8 April 2024: 2nd HPP-NL Workshop

During the inaugural History and Philosophy of Physics in the Netherlands (HPP-NL) Workshop in December 2023, our community decided to organise regular HPP-NL mini-workshops, roughly twice a year, in varying cities. The 2nd HPP-NL Workshop will take place in Utrecht on the afternoon of Monday the 8th of April 2024. This workshop will feature three research presentations: an international keynote by Elena Castellani (University of Florence) as well as talks by an NL-based historian of physics and a philosopher of physics.

For more information, visit https://www.uu.nl/en/research/history-and-philosophy-of-physics/events/2nd-hpp-nl-workshop

Geneva: PhD position/assistant in Philosophy of Science

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Geneva invites applications for a position of

Assistant in Philosophy of Science.

Application dossiers should be sent, as a single PDF, to Professor Christian Wüthrich, Department of Philosophy, christian.wuthrich@unige.ch, by 31 March 2024.

Fourth Irvine-London-Munich-PoliMi-Salzburg Conference in Philosophy and Foundations of Physics

Dates: June 10-11 2024  

Venue: King’s College London Strand Campus (London, UK)

Organizing committee: John Dougherty (LMU), Alexander Franklin (KCL), Eleanor Knox (KCL), Patricia Palacios (Salzburg), Bryan Roberts (LSE), Giovanni Valente (PoliMi),  Jim Weatherall (Irvine)

Call for Abstracts: 

Postdoc research assistant at Royal Holloway

Full-Time, Fixed-Term (to 31/08/2025)

Applications are invited for the post of Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Department of Mathematics at Royal Holloway.

Christopher Fuchs, Jacques Pienaar, and Rüdiger Schack are seeking a postdoctoral researcher for a recently awarded John Templeton Foundation grant to set up a three-year international consortium to explore, “What is Metrology if Quantum Measurements Participate in Making Reality?” QBism is part of the subject of research, but not exclusively so, as the grant is based upon a healthy debate between a number of parties.

JOB: 3-year Postdoc Fellowship in Philosophy of Physics, USI, Lugano

The postdoc will work at the Institute of Philosophy at USI, Lugano (Switzerland), under the supervision of Professor Damiano Costa in the framework of the SNSF funded Starting Grant project ‘Temporal Existence’. A brief description of the project is provided below.

The approximate gross salary will be CHF 75’000 CHF per year.

The tentative starting date is flexible (earliest starting date is May 1, 2024).

CFP: Ninth Annual Conference of the International Association for the Philosophy of Time (IAPT)

The International Association for Philosophy of Time (IAPT) is pleased to announce its 9th annual conference to be held at the Institute of Philosophy at Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) in Lugano, Switzerland, on 24th–28th June 2024.

The 5-day conference will include 13 keynote speakers, two symposia as well as 24 slots for selected speakers. Talks will deal with any aspect pertaining to the philosophy of time, broadly construed.

The list of invited speakers includes: Craig Callender, Fabrice Correia, Nina Emery, Kit Fine, Jenann Ismael, Tim Maudlin, Kristie Miller, Laurie Paul, Oliver Pooley, Thomas Sattig, Daniel Sudarsky, Emily Thomas, Christian Wüthrich.

Call for Abstracts: the organisers request submissions of high-quality abstracts (500 words max.) of papers on the philosophy of time, broadly construed, suitable for 40-minute presentations. Abstracts should be prepared for blind review and submitted by email (as a .docx or .pdf file) to iapt9lugano@gmail.com by 31st January 2024, 12.00 pm (noon) GMT. The submission email should include your name, institutional affiliation, and the title of the paper (in the body of the email). Successful applicants will be notified and the full programme confirmed in April.

https://www.iapt9.usi.ch

PoliMi: Post-doc in Philosophy of Physics

A 24-month post-doctoral fellowships in philosophy of physics is opening in the Department of Mathematics at the Politecnico di Milano (PoliMi). The position is funded under the PRIN 2022 grant on “Analogical Reasoning in Contemporary Physical Theories”, which is led by Giovanni Valente (Politecnico di Milano) in collaboration with the philosophy of science group at University of Urbino directed by Prof. Vincenzo Fano. The project aims to explore the force and plausibility of analogical inferences in case studies from quantum field theory and black-holes physics.