Department of

June, 2008

• The Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et Techniques, the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, and the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh organize a workshop on Adaptations in Psychology and in Biology the 4th and 5th of June at the IHPST in Paris. More information here.
  

May, 2008

• Der Spiegel Online published an essay by Sandy Mitchell on the ideas developed in her new book, "Komplexitaten. Warum wir erst anfangen, die Welt zu verstehen." See announcement here.
  

April, 2008

• Lee Smolin (Physics, University of Waterloo) will give a lecture on "Remarks on the Reality of Time in Physics and Cosmology" in the Annual Lecture Series, Friday, April 11, 2008, at 3:30pm 817CL.
  

March, 2008

• Christopher Smeenk (University of Western Ontario, HPS Alumnus 2003) will give the annual Alumnus lecture on “The cosmological constant problem”, Friday, March 28, 2008, 3.30pm, 817CL (pics here).
  
  
• The tenth annual Pitt/CMU Graduate Student Philosophy Conference on the topic of “Relativism and Rational Reflection" will take place on March 1, 2008. Bas Van Fraassen, Peter Machamer, and Gordon Belot are the keynote speakers. More information here.
  

February, 2008

• Theodore Porter (UCLA, History) gave a lecture on "Mutation, Chance, and Heredity: Some Historical Roots" in the Annual Lecture Series, Friday, February 29, 2008.
  
  
• We invite you to attend the play “Not Eureka,” written by Cory Tamler, who is majoring in History and Philosophy of Science. The play mixes up history of science and theater (February, 20-24, more information here.)
  
  
• Edouard Machery (HPS, Pittsburgh) will a lecture on "How null hypothesis testing obstructs progress in psychology" in the Annual Lecture Series, Friday, February 01, 2008, at 3:30pm 817CL.
  

January, 2008

• John Earman and John Norton have been elected to the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences. Congratulations!
  
  
• Gerald Massey gave a lecture on "Deciphering Duhem" in the Annual Lecture Series, Friday, January 18, 2008.
  
  
• Sandy Mitchell's new book on understanding complexity will be published in March, 2008 by the German publisher Suhrkampf. The title is "Komplexitaten. Warum wir erst anfangen, die Welt zu verstehen." More information here.
  

December, 2007:

• The New York Times writes up Edouard Machery's contribution to experimental philosophy. See here.
  
  
• Bas van Fraassen (Princeton, Philosophy) will be the keynote speaker at the 10th annual Pitt/CMU Graduate Student Philosophy Conference on the topic of "Relativism and Rational Reflection". The conference will take place on March 1, 2008. CfP deadline: December 10, 2007. See here for additional information.
  
  
• Helen Longino (Stanford, Philosophy) will give a lecture on "Pluralism about the sciences of behavior" in the Annual Lecture Series, Friday, December 7, 2007, 3:30 pm, 817CL.

November, 2007:

• Edouard Machery has organized the bi-annual meeting of the Moral Psychology Research Group at the Center for Philosophy of Science of the University of Pittsburgh (November 17-18, 2007). The program can be found here. For some pics, go here.
  
  
• Elizabeth Spelke (Harvard Psychology) will give a lecture on "Core knowledge of number and geometry" in the Annual Lecture Series, Friday, November 9, 2007, 3:30 pm, 817CL.

October, 2007:

• The &HPS Conference (Integrated History and Philosophy of Science) will take place at the Center for Philosophy of Science from Thursday, 11 October to Sunday, 14 October.
  
  
• Marcel Weber (Science Studies Program & Philosophy, University of Basel) will give a lecture "Reference, truth, and biological kinds" in the Annual Lecture Series, Friday, October 5, 2007, 3:30 pm, 817CL.

September, 2007:

• Congratulations to our graduate students Justin Sytsma, Jonathan Livengood, and Jason Byron: Justin has recently published “Neuroscience and theoretical psychology—What’s to worry about” with Peter Machamer in Theory & Psychology; Jonathan has just published "The folk probably don’t think what you think they think: Experiments on causation by absence" with Edouard Machery in the last volume of the Midwest Studies in Philosophy; and Jason has just published “Whence philosophy of biology?” in the last issue of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
  
  
• We welcome Professor Alan Chalmers (The Flinders University of South Australia, Philosophy) who will be visiting our department. Alan is currently writing a book called “The scientist’s atom and the philosopher’s stone: How science succeeded and philosophy failed to gain knowledge of atoms”.
  

August, 2007:

• Welcome to our incoming class: Aleta Quinn, Yoichi Ishida, and Elay Shech!
  
  
• Another year, another wine-and-cheese welcome party for our new graduate students. Pics here.
  
  
• Adolf Grünbaum, Andrew Mellon Professor of Philosophy of Science, and Primary Research Professor of HPS at the University of Pittsburgh is the President of the International Union of History & Philosophy of Science (IUHPS) for 2006/2007. He will deliver his Presidential Address at the next quadrennial international congress of the Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science of the IUHPS, which will be held in Beijing, China from August 9 – 15, 2007. The web address of the Congress is www.clmps2007.org.
  
  
• Congratulations to Daniel Steel (Pittsburgh HPS, 2002) who got tenure at Michigan State and to Eric Angner (Pittsburgh HPS, 2005) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham who just published his first book, Hayek and Natural Law.
  

top