The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy invites registration for the following event:
Foundations of Observational, Classical and Semi-Classical Gravitational Physics and The Problem of Agency and Laws of Nature
MCMP, LMU Munich
28-31 March 2023
https://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/events/workshops/container/fndnsphys23/index.html
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We are looking for two Assistant Professors who will join the newly established Radboud Center for Natural Philosophy (RCNP), a collaboration between physicists, philosophers and historians of science from Radboud University’s Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies. The RCNP is an initiative of 2022 Spinoza Prize winner Prof. Klaas Landsman. Its focus will be on the foundations of physics, studied in an interdisciplinary way combining mathematical, philosophical, and historical approaches. In particular, the closely related themes of causality, determinism, randomness, and emergence will be studied in the context of the important theoretical frameworks of modern physics.
The links to the vacancies are:
https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities/assistant-professor-of-philosophy-of-science
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STEM, social science & humanities scholars are joining forces to create high-quality videos of black holes with an Earth-sized virtual telescope. New white paper out now (open access): https://www.mdpi.com/2139392If you are a philosopher, historian, sociologist, HPS, STS or legal scholar interested in contributing to the Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (ngEHT.org), contact n.c.m.martens[at]uu.nl or @EU_phil_cosmo with a brief description of your background and thoughts about contributing to the ngEHT.
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Application deadline: February 15, 2023
More at: https://www.usi.ch/en/reality
Lecturers: Magdalena Balcerak Jackson, David Chalmers, Nathan Wildman
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University of Illinois at Chicago
The philosophy of physics group at the Department of Philosophy at UIC solicits applications for a junior visiting fellowship for advanced PhD students, August 2023 (or as soon as possible thereafter) through December 2023. The position is funded by the John Templeton Foundation grant ‘Cosmology Beyond Spacetime’.
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The 22nd annual Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Physics (LMP) Graduate Conference will take place on May 17-18, 2023. We are pleased to announce that Jenann Ismael (Johns Hopkins University) will be giving the keynote address.
Call for Papers: Graduate students who have not yet defended their PhD thesis are invited to submit papers on any topic in philosophy of logic, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of physics. Papers in philosophy of physics will be considered for the Annual Clifton Memorial book prize. The contest will be adjudicated by philosophy of physics faculty members at Western.
Continue readingTHE BLACK HOLE INITIATIVE
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
https://philjobs.org/job/show/22769
Applications are invited for a three-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in the History, Philosophy, & Sociology of Science in the Black Hole Initiative (BHI) at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO). We are looking for candidates interested in a full range of questions regarding black holes, black hole observation, theory, or cultural resonance. The BHI is the first interdisciplinary research center worldwide to focus on the study of black holes. It is located within Harvard University at 20 Garden Street in Cambridge, MA. Current senior members of the BHI include Harvard faculty Peter Galison (Director; Physics/ History & Philosophy of Science), Ramesh Narayan (Astronomy); Priya Natarajan (Astronomy); Andy Strominger (Physics); Netta Engelhardt (Physics); as well as SAO astronomer Sheperd Doeleman (Astronomy; Director of the next generation Event Horizon Telescope project).
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The First International Colloquium: ‘Emergence and Time’
The Catholic University of Portugal announces a call for papers for the First International Colloquium: ‘Emergence and Time,’ to be held at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Catholic University of Portugal (Universidade Católica – Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Sociais) in Braga, Portugal, July 3-5, 2023
Continue readingPhilosophy of Dark Matter
XXVI International Summer School in Philosophy of Physics
05-09 June 2023, University of Urbino
DEADLINE: March 24, 2023.
Notification of acceptance is expected no later than April 7, 2023. Continue reading
Science is our best source of knowledge. Yet, the theories, laws, and models of science are often highly idealized and, in a sense, false. How do we discover truth by appealing to lies (in the way of idealizations)? How does science provide accurate descriptions, true explanations, and genuine understanding if appeals to idealizations, abstractions, and approximations abound? Elay Shech’s new book, Idealizations in Physics (Cambridge University Press), sheds light on such questions and connects issues such as epistemic justification, mathematical Platonism, scientific realism, and scientific understanding.
Download it for FREE until Jan. 26, 2023: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108946742
A blog on (all of) philosophy of physics run by Christian Wüthrich (wuthrich), with contributions by John Manchak (manchak) and Chris Smeenk (smeenk).
(Photograph by Jonathan Cohen)
Taking up Spacetime 