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Taking up Spacetime
http://takingupspacetime.wordpress.com/
A blog on (all of) philosophy of physics run by Christian Wüthrich (wuthrich), with contributions by John Manchak (manchak) and Chris Smeenk (smeenk).
LATEST ARTICLES ( 578 )
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CFA: History, Philosophy and Sociology of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics...
Submission deadline: 21 March 2022Event details: Bonn, Germany, 29-30 June 2022 with pre-event on 28 June at... Read more
Posted on 01 March 2022 PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, SCIENCE -
2nd CFA: ‘Cosmology Beyond Spacetime’ Summer Institute, 26 June – 1 July 2022
2nd Call for Applications:International Summer Institute in Philosophy of Physics on the PHILOSOPHY OF COSMOLOGY and the PHILOSOPHY OF QUANTUM GRAVITYHosted by... Read more
Posted on 16 February 2022 PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, SCIENCE -
Call for Abstracts: “Quantum Epistemology Beyond Quantum Measurement”
(QEBQM) Early Career Summer Seminar RetreatAugust 17 to 21, 2022DescriptionRecent work on the interconnections between formal epistemology and foundations of... Read more
Posted on 07 February 2022 PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, SCIENCE -
CFA: CEU Summer Course on the History and Philosophy of Laws and Probabilities
There will be a summer course organized by Barry Loewer at CEU in Budapest July 11-22 on laws and probabilities. For more information, including on how to apply... Read more
Posted on 10 January 2022 PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, SCIENCE -
Call for Abstracts: Philosophy of Physics Group of the German Physical Society
CALL FOR PAPERS (Online Conference, Deadline: 21 January 2021)Call for abstracts for the annual conference of the Philosophy of Physics Group of the German... Read more
Posted on 05 January 2022 PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, SCIENCE -
Western: Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Physics (LMP) Graduate Conference
The 21st annual Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Physics Graduate Conference will take place on June 23-24, 2022. We are pleased to announce that Craig... Read more
Posted on 23 December 2021 PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, SCIENCE -
6 PhD Positions in History, Philosophy Or Sociology of Science (Wuppertal)
The Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg, GRK) 2696 “Transformations of science and technology since 1800: topics, processes, institutions” at the... Read more
Posted on 02 December 2021 PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, SCIENCE -
Call for Nominations: 2021 Hanneke Janssen Memorial Prize
The Jury would like to issue a call for nominations for the 2021 Hanneke Janssen Memorial Prize, which is awarded annually for the best work in History and/or... Read more
Posted on 21 October 2021 PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, SCIENCE -
Du Châtelet Prize 2021: Elder and Ohnesorge
The winners of the 2021 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics are:Jamee Elder, for her paper “On the ‘direct detection’ of gravitational waves”andMiguel... Read more
Posted on 04 October 2021 PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, SCIENCE -
CFP: Workshop on The Role of Theory Confirmation in Science, Stockholm, 5-7 May...
There are two ways of viewing theory confirmation. At a formal level, a theory is taken to be confirmed when collected data agrees with the theory’s predictions. Read more
Posted on 30 September 2021 PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, SCIENCE -
Introducing the Möbius Seminars: Seminars by Philosophers to Physicists
Philosophers of physics study the foundational, metaphysical and epistemological aspects of this natural science. Physicists carry their research with the hope... Read more
Posted on 29 September 2021 PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, SCIENCE -
CfA: Edited Volume in Philosophy of Astrophysics
While cosmology has long attracted attention from philosophers, the rise of philosophy of astrophysics as a distinctive focus of research is relatively new. Read more
Posted on 20 September 2021 PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, SCIENCE -
JUNIOR FELLOWSHIP in PHILOSOPHY OF QUANTUM GRAVITY
University of Illinois at ChicagoThe philosophy of physics group at the Department of Philosophy at UIC solicits applications for a junior visiting fellowship... Read more
Posted on 13 September 2021 PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, SCIENCE -
CFA: Editor-in-Chief for Philosophy of Physics
The Philosophy of Physics Society invites applications for the position of Editor-in-Chief of the society’s new journal, Philosophy of Physics. Read more
Posted on 25 June 2021 PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, SCIENCE -
Call for Abstracts for the Online-Workshop “Metaphysics of Physics”, 30 August...
The Working Group “Philosophy of Physics” (AGPhil) of the German Physical Society (DPG) invites submissions for its annual workshop at the virtual DPG... Read more
Posted on 18 June 2021 PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, SCIENCE -
20th Annual LMP Conference
JUNE 24 – 25, 2021Join us for the twentieth annual Philosophy of Logic, Math and Physics (LMP) graduate student conference in philosophy hosted by Western... Read more
Posted on 01 June 2021 PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, SCIENCE -
Online Conference: Philosophers and Einstein’s Relativity
We are delighted to announce a conference on the early philosophical reception of relativity theory, to be held online, and organized by Chiara Russo Krauss... Read more
Posted on 26 May 2021 PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, SCIENCE -
Online Philosophy of Lambda Workshop
Wednesday, 16 June 2021Online via ZoomThis online workshop focuses on various philosophical aspects of Lambda, i.e. dark energy/ the cosmological constant/... Read more
Posted on 17 May 2021 PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, SCIENCE -
New Philosophy of Physics Society: Town Hall
We are delighted to announce that we are in the advanced stages of the foundation of a Philosophy of Physics Society which is going to be created to support... Read more
Posted on 12 May 2021 PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, SCIENCE -
Pittsburgh: 2-year Postdoc in Philosophy of Physics
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral associate position in the philosophy of physics at the University of Pittsburgh, affiliated to the department of... Read more
Posted on 15 March 2021 PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, SCIENCE