Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science

By interrogating the assumptions and evidence behind scientific models and characterizing the diversity of scientific practices, we advance our understanding of how the sciences work and decipher what kinds of answers they deliver.

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Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota invites applications for a two-year full-time postdoctoral…

New MCPS postdoc Corey Dethier

Corey Dethier is joining the MCPS for a two-year postdoctoral position in August 2023 as part of Samuel Fletcher's NSF-sponsored project, A Modern Philosophy for Classical…

University of Minnesota Unit Service Award has been awarded to Catharine Saint-Croix, Assistant Professor

Catharine Saint-Croix, Dept of Philosophy, has been awarded the U of MN Unit Service Award

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MCPS postdoc appointed

Dana Matthiessen has accepted a two-year postdoc position at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science.

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Professors Alan Love (philosophy) and Hui Zou (statistics) honored as lifetime AAAS Fellows

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, announced its…