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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…

Professor and Director of MCPS Alan Love discusses how he got into philosophy of science and shares advice for graduate students.

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

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

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…

Through nearly $15 million in Templeton Foundation funding, a new international cohort program led by philosophy researcher Alan Love aims to explore purposive-looking…

MCPS fellow and board member Samuel C. Fletcher has been awarded a 5-year, $442,998 CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to develop new conceptual foundations for…

Newest Winton Chair embraces synergy between biology and philosophy

Congratulations to Ruth Shaw (MCPS fellow and board member) newly elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Samuel Fletcher adds a pedagogical note in the American Philosophical Association's "Teaching and Learning Video Series"
The Argument Clinic.

We are sad to announce that former Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science (MCPS) Director, C. Wade Savage, passed away at the age of 88 in November 2020. Professor Savage…

We are delighted to announce that Philosophy PhD candidate and MCPS graduate student fellow, Lauren Wilson, has been awarded one of the Yudof fellowships for the 2021-2022…

Join us for the Friday colloquia. The online webinars are held on Fridays at 3:35pm CST via Zoom: January 29, February 12, March 12.

The International Postdoc Forum for the Philosophy of Science will showcase virtual research presentations from international scholars with commentaries from local Minnesota…

Megan Moore (Anthropology) has been awarded an Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship (IDF) with the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science for the 2020-2021 academic year…

Alan Love of the philosophy department has developed an interdisciplinary course on “how we know what we know in medicine,” co-taught with Steven Stovitz of the medical school…

MCPS Director Alan C, Love (Philosophy) and Steven D. Stovitz (Family Medicine and Community Health) have a commentary published in the Los Angeles Times (May 7, 2020) on the…

Sara Parhizgari awarded a prestigious 2020-2021 Josephine de Karman Fellowship

In response to the COVID-19 health concerns, all in-person MCPS activities have been cancelled for the remainder of the spring semester. The Center office will be answering…

Center Fellow, Samuel C. Fletcher (Philosophy) has been awarded a McKnight professorship for 2020-2022.