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2016-17 monthly bulletins

August 16, 2016

Announcing the 57th Annual Lecture Series, 2016-17
Full speaker line-up here

Please join us for

Reductionism and Integration, Bioethics and Behavior:
A Conference Celebrating the Career of Kenneth F. Schaffner
23-24 September 2016

Descartes Day III
15 October 2016

September 1, 2016

We welcome our new visitors:
Yann Benetreau-Dupin, Matthew Brown, Anjan Chakravartty, Alison Fernandes, Tobias Henschen, Kareem Khalifa, Daniele Muttini, and Viorel Paslaru

In the Spring Term, we'll be joined by:
Mikael Cozic, Sharon Crasnow, Greg Frost-Arnold, and Catherine Kendig

Speakers this month are:

Nicholas Rescher, Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, Roberto Fumagalli, Marie Kaiser, and Tobias Henschen

Please join us for:

Reductionism and Integration, Bioethics and Behavior: A Conference Celebrating the Career of Kenneth F. Schaffner
23-24 September 2016

Descartes Day III
15 October 2016

Also happening here:

Dept. of Philosophy Conference
Perceptual Experience and Empirical Reason
October 21-23, 2016
For further information and registration, please go to pittperception2016.net.

October 14, 2016

The Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for Fellowships supporting visits in the Center for a term or an academic year. For details, visit the Center Website, www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr and see:

Postdoctoral Fellowship
Visiting Fellowship

The Center has invited Colin Allen to be the Senior Visiting Fellow for the academic year September 2017 - April 2018. We encourage applications for Postdoctoral and Visiting Fellowships from scholars whose research intersects with Professor Allen’s.

We also invite applications for the academic year September 2018 - April 2019 for the position of Senior Visiting Fellow. For details, see:

Senior Visiting Fellowship

February 2017

::: Application process is now open for our new Summer Program initiative for underrepresented undergraduate students! APPLY HERE

::: Watch our "5-Minute Fellows" video series on YouTube.

Speakers this month are:

Kristin Andrews, Greg Frost-Arnold, Sharon Crasnow, Charles Sebens, and Wang Wei.

Join us for:

Formal Representations of Ignorance
17 - 18 March 2017

Scientific Knowledge Under Pluralism
31 March - 1 April 2017

Philosophy of Science: The Pragmatic Alternative
21 - 22 April 2017