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, ...

Marshall Abrams, Ph.D., associate professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Philosophy, teaches about and conducts research on philosophy of science. The College of Arts and ...

1:00 Lunch (Participants are on their own for this. There are many good restaurants to choose from on the Hill nearby.) 2:30 Saakshi Dulani (Johns Hopkins) "Revitalizing Non-Reductive Phyiscalism in ...

Philosophy of science interrogates the nature, boundaries and assumptions of scientific inquiry. It examines how theories are formulated, tested and ultimately accepted or revised, and explores the ...

Marga Vicedo is a historian of science in the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto, Canada. Evelyn Fox Keller achieved prominence for her ...

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 ...

Philosophy of science examines how scientific knowledge is created, tested and applied. It asks foundational questions about evidence, explanation, models and scientific reasoning across disciplines ...