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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…

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Samuel Fletcher receives the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers

Associate Professor Samuel Fletcher has received the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. It will support…

Postdoctoral Fellowship

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

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…