PhD position: 3-year PhD position in philosophy of physics at the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Call for applications
Starting date: 4 May 2020

The International Center for Formal Ontology (ICFO) at the Warsaw University of Technology invites applications for a 3-year doctoral position within the NCN funded project “Self-subsisting structures in quantum gravity” (Principal investigator: Antonio Vassallo; see below for the project’s description).

2nd Undergraduate Weekend Seminar in Philosophy of Physics

University of Bremen (5-7 June, 2020)

We invite applications to a 3-day weekend seminar on Philosophy of Physics at the University of Bremen. The seminar is meant as a first encounter with the academic discipline of Philosophy of Physics, and aimed at university students from both Philosophy and Physics. For further information, please see the text below. Note that the seminar will be carried out in German.

Call for nominations: 2020 Cushing Prize in History and Philosophy of Physics

We are pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2020 Cushing Prize in History and Philosophy of Physics.

Eligible for nomination are works by what we term “younger scholars,” meaning individuals who are within five years of the receipt of the Ph.D, and work in any area of the history and philosophy of physics may be nominated.

BBLOC Philosophy of Physics Research Seminar

The Birmingham-Bristol-London-Oxford-Cambridge (BBLOC) Philosophy of Physics research seminar is restarting. This is a termly research seminar on philosophy of physics, hosted at King’s College London.

For further details and for future events, visit our website: https://kingsphilosophy.com/bbloc/

CFP: Synthese Topical Collection

Simplicity out of Complexity? Physics and the Aims of Science

Deadline: 31 July 2020

Guest Editors

Florian J. Boge (University of Wuppertal)
Paul Grünke (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Martin King (University of Bonn)
Miguel Ángel Carretero Sahuquillo (University of Wuppertal)

Description

CFA: Physics, Time and Agency Conference, Dublin, 6-7 July 2020

Call for Abstracts: Physics, Time and Agency Conference

6th−7th July 2020

Dublin, Ireland (Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin)

Speakers: Craig Callender (UCSD), Jenann Ismael (Columbia), Natalja Deng (Yonsei), Stephanie Rennick (Glasgow), Alison Fernandes (Trinity College Dublin), David Albert (Columbia), Huw Price (provisional; Cambridge)

James T. Cushing Memorial Prize in History and Philosophy of Physics: Call for Nominations

We are pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2020 Cushing
Prize in History and Philosophy of Physics.

Eligible for nomination are works by what we term “younger scholars,”
meaning individuals who are within five years of the receipt of the Ph.D,
and work in any area of the history and philosophy of physics may be
nominated.