The conference on “How Can HPS Contribute to Science Literacy and Citizenship?” focused on what should be taught to prepare students to participate as citizens in discussions of policy when scientific ...

Prof. Emeritus Howard Stein, a renowned philosopher and historian of physics at the University of Chicago, died March 8 at his home in Hyde Park. He was 95. A trained philosopher and mathematician, ...

The history of philosophy studies how philosophical ideas have developed over time and how thinkers from different periods responded to questions about reality, knowledge, ethics and politics. By ...

Early modern science emerged from a complex confluence of philosophical, religious and cultural transformations in Europe between the mid sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Its foundational debates ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

With this joint major, the Physics and Philosophy departments enable students to explore the rich relationship between theoretical physics and the philosophy of science, including fundamental ...

My last blog posts calling for a scientific turn in philosophy and the abandonment of aprioristic philosophy largely resulted in three responses. There were philosophers who agreed, of course, but the ...

Julie Gould is a freelance journalist in London, and produces the Nature Careers Podcast. In the first episode of this six-part Working Scientist podcast series, Julie Gould explores the history of ...

Source: Image created with ChatGPT/OpenAI This post is a continuation of a previous entry on the merits of analytical philosophy (see here for context). The reason, I suspect, that naturalistic ...

The PhD in Philosophy at the University at Buffalo is a program for students who want to advance the research frontier in Philosophy. You will work closely with faculty mentors, refine your ideas in ...