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Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy
@rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social
The Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy at Radboud University; dedicated to research at the intersection of mathematical physics, philosophy of science, and the history of science.

Website: rcnp.science.ru.nl
An open question at the end: How to teach Natural Philosophy in a >425 ppm world?

Bryan puts it nicely: we act when we care and we care when we understand
January 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
What a blast! Sylvia Wenmackers now delivering the final presentation on teaching natural philosophy before we'll come to a typical Dutch end: Borrel (drinks)!
January 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Bryan Roberts urging you to be a good philosopher of physics by heeding Jeremy's call: Be a wizard! #rcnp2025
January 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Flavio del Santo mentions guest editing work together with @bernalessel.bsky.social in his talk "The future of indeterminism looking at the past". #rcnp2025
January 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
James delivering bad news to some #rcnp2025
January 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
What a performance! Hard to follow for many, but not so for James Read who now kicks off the "Into the future" session! #rcnp2025
January 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Klaas announces "Big Bang Variations" #rcnp2025
January 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Tomasz Placek is speaking about Montague for our last session before lunch. #rcnp2025
January 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
We are back after the coffee break to listen to Lena Zuchowski‘s fascinating presentation on fundamental dimensions of (dis)order. #rcnp2025
January 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Klaas is following up on the „Butterfield-Landsman determinism“ introduced by Hans. #rcnp2025
January 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
We continue on the theme of determinism with a great talk by Hans Halvorson. #rcnp2025
January 10, 2025 at 8:57 AM
We are starting the second day of our opening conference with a talk by Kerry McKenzie on one of the center‘s main themes, determinism. #rcnp2025
January 10, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Final discussion for today, amongst others, with our dear friend from Utrecht, Niels Martens, pressing Dennis for additional details and receiving surprising news (no photo of the latter, unfortunately). #rcnp2025
January 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Dennis Lehmkuhl situating his talk in the broader context of Penrose’s results. #rcnp2025
January 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Dimmed lights for the next lecture by Emilie Skulberg on supermassive black holes! #rcnp2025
January 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
We are delighted to welcome so many friends and colleagues to our opening in Nijmegen. #rcnp2025
January 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Jeroen nicely stresses the collective effort behind Hawking's work on black hole radiation, amongst others his wife Jane Hawking and Jacob Bekenstein. #rcnp2025
January 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Can you spot familiar faces? #rcnp2025
January 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Now Jos Uffink on "The Erice Conference 1989, 60 Years of Uncertainty"
January 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Join us for the first lecture by the great Jeremy Butterfield.
January 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
3.. 2.. 1.. The RCNP opens by constructing what was thought impossible! #rcnp2025
January 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Carla Rita Palmerino now giving a very short introduction of the history of natural philosophy. #rcnp2025
January 9, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The RCNP gets off to a snowy start #rcnp2025
January 9, 2025 at 8:07 AM
We're very excited to welcome you all tomorrow in Nijmegen! Here is the conference poster featuring an artwork by Ramona Fontaine.
January 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM