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 (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…

Alan C. Love appointed Distinguished McKnight University Professor

MCPS Director Alan C. Love has been appointed a 2022 Distinguished McKnight University Professor. The Distinguished McKnight University Professorship program recognizes…

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Assistant Professor Michael Bennett McNulty has received the 2022–24 McKnight Land Grant Professorship

Assistant Professor Michael Bennett McNulty has received the 2022-2024 McKnight Land Grant Professorship.

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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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December 09, 2022

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…