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