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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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Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test

MCPS Fellow, Regents Professor Marlene Zuk (Ecology, Evolution and Behavior) has a new book published by W. W. Norton: Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test: How Behavior…

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Ideology as Biology

MCPS Fellow, Mark Borrello (EEB) and David Sepkoski (UMN PhD alum, University of Illinois) published "Ideology in Biology" in the New York Review of Books on E. O. Wilson and…

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Rethinking the Nature of Immunity Martin Zach

International Postdoc Forum for the Philosophy of Science Rethinking the Nature of Immunity Martin Zach Analytic Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences How should we think…

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Jennifer Jhun, Markets and Demarcation

Markets and Demarcation Jennifer Jhun, Philosophy, Duke University How does one delineate a system of interest? Here I consider categories such as market, which pick out…

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Nora Boyd, Calibrating Cosmic Dawn Instruments

Calibrating Cosmic Dawn Instruments Nora Boyd, Philosophy, Siena College This talk explores the epistemology of empirical science in a difficult epistemic context: the study…

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