Utrecht History & Philosophy of Science
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History and Philosophy of Science at Utrecht University
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Expect posts on events, podcasts, lectures, summer schools, papers and exhibitions coordinated by the Utrecht University History & Philosophy of Science Group, which covers teaching (HPS Master) and research in the history and philosophy of...
New preprint on dark matter epistemology, by Niels Martens
What does it mean to detect dark matter? What forms of indirectness are at play? New chapter on dark matter epistemology is out now!
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Detecting the Dark: Indirectness & Dark Matter Epistemology - PhilSci-Archive
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October 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
New preprint on dark matter epistemology, by Niels Martens
Cool stuff happening tomorrow! And you can even join online
Great news!
Our workshop will also be streamed online!
Join us this Wednesday morning from 8:30 by following the link available here: perspectivesrace.wixsite.com/the-human-di...
Our workshop will also be streamed online!
Join us this Wednesday morning from 8:30 by following the link available here: perspectivesrace.wixsite.com/the-human-di...
September 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Cool stuff happening tomorrow! And you can even join online
Join this proposal for an exciting collected volume with CUP. All open access fees would be covered.
Call for abstracts for an open access collected volume on the conceptual distinction between spacetime and matter, with Cambridge University Press. We invite philosophers of physics, physicists and any other interested scholars to submit a proposal for a short chapter.
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Collected Volume Spacetime-Matter Distinction
Open call for chapter contributions to an open access collected volume on the conceptual distinction between spacetime and matter.
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September 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Join this proposal for an exciting collected volume with CUP. All open access fees would be covered.
HPS researchers Diana Taschetto and Stefano Furlan discuss Bohr, Wheeler, and the history of quantum mechanics at the Descartes Colloquium tomorrow (23 Sept 2025, 15h30-17h00). For more information, visit: www.uu.nl/en/events/de...
Descartes Centre Colloquium with Diana Taschetto and Stefano Furlan (UU)
In this colloquium the speakers will highlight his work on the atomic model during the 1910s, and from that vantage point show how we can better characterize and understand the turn that led him to co...
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September 22, 2025 at 7:37 AM
HPS researchers Diana Taschetto and Stefano Furlan discuss Bohr, Wheeler, and the history of quantum mechanics at the Descartes Colloquium tomorrow (23 Sept 2025, 15h30-17h00). For more information, visit: www.uu.nl/en/events/de...
The final day of the Utrecht Philosophy of Astronomy and Cosmology Conference is upon us
September 5, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The final day of the Utrecht Philosophy of Astronomy and Cosmology Conference is upon us
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What can philosophy do for astronomy and cosmology, and vice versa?
Panel happening right now in Utrecht
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Panel happening right now in Utrecht
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September 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
What can philosophy do for astronomy and cosmology, and vice versa?
Panel happening right now in Utrecht
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Panel happening right now in Utrecht
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Ruward Mulder summarising the divide of responses to Reichenbach on universal forces
September 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Ruward Mulder summarising the divide of responses to Reichenbach on universal forces
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September 1, 2025 at 9:38 AM
On the 12th of September we'll be traveling up north for a dose of history and philosophy of physics: hpp-nl.nl/6th-hpp-nl-w...
6th HPP-NL Workshop (Groningen)
The 6th History and Philosophy of Physics in the Netherlands workshop will take place in Groningen on 12th September, from 13:00-17:40 followed by dinner at 18:00. The location of the workshop will be...
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August 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
On the 12th of September we'll be traveling up north for a dose of history and philosophy of physics: hpp-nl.nl/6th-hpp-nl-w...
Looking for some fun and short reads for over the holiday? Why not follow @shellsandpebbles.bsky.social on Bluesky, our long-running blog on interesting finds in the history of science!
August 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Looking for some fun and short reads for over the holiday? Why not follow @shellsandpebbles.bsky.social on Bluesky, our long-running blog on interesting finds in the history of science!
Happening in Utrecht
Final call for registration: conference on the philosophy and foundations of astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology.
Registration deadline: 10th of July
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Registration deadline: 10th of July
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July 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Happening in Utrecht
Final call for registration: conference on the conceptual distinction between spacetime and matter
Registration deadline: 10th of July
www.uu.nl/en/research/...
Registration deadline: 10th of July
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July 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Final call for registration: conference on the conceptual distinction between spacetime and matter
Registration deadline: 10th of July
www.uu.nl/en/research/...
Registration deadline: 10th of July
www.uu.nl/en/research/...
Yet another inspiring New Directions in Foundations of Physics conference concluded. For the second time in the gorgeous Logar Valley, Slovenia
June 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Yet another inspiring New Directions in Foundations of Physics conference concluded. For the second time in the gorgeous Logar Valley, Slovenia
Exciting workshop coming up in South Africa, co-organised by our "Microbiome research and race in the Local South" team
Save the date! Interdisciplinary Workshop:
The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the Intersection of Microbiomes, Ethics, and Society in Africa
#hpbio #histbio #philbio 🌱🐋
Check the Call for Abstracts for our special issue on our website: perspectivesrace.wixsite.com/the-human-di...
The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the Intersection of Microbiomes, Ethics, and Society in Africa
#hpbio #histbio #philbio 🌱🐋
Check the Call for Abstracts for our special issue on our website: perspectivesrace.wixsite.com/the-human-di...
June 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Exciting workshop coming up in South Africa, co-organised by our "Microbiome research and race in the Local South" team
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Exciting days with awesome colleagues 💕🌱🐬 #PhilSci @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @utrechthps.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Exciting days with awesome colleagues 💕🌱🐬 #PhilSci @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @utrechthps.bsky.social
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Such fun and intense two days at the Spring School "Forms of Knowledge and Values in Science and Society" @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @utrechthps.bsky.social
Yesterday was day 1 of our Spring School "Forms of Knowledge and Values in Science and Society" at Utrecht University 🤓
Engaging debates on transdisciplinary philosophy of science, research participation, and more — plus a lovely city walk through Utrecht!
Looking forward to the next days! #PhilSci
Engaging debates on transdisciplinary philosophy of science, research participation, and more — plus a lovely city walk through Utrecht!
Looking forward to the next days! #PhilSci
April 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Such fun and intense two days at the Spring School "Forms of Knowledge and Values in Science and Society" @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @utrechthps.bsky.social
The topic of this monday's Nijmegen Science Cafe will be Dark Matter, with Flavia Dias, Bas Zoutendijk & Niels Martens @eu-phil-cosmo.bsky.social
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Dark Matter
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April 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The topic of this monday's Nijmegen Science Cafe will be Dark Matter, with Flavia Dias, Bas Zoutendijk & Niels Martens @eu-phil-cosmo.bsky.social
www.sciencecafenijmegen.nl/actueel/2025...
www.sciencecafenijmegen.nl/actueel/2025...
Foundations of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology Conference happening in Utrecht in September
Philosophy of Astronomy and Cosmology Conference happening in Utrecht, 3-5 Sept 2025. It's not too late to submit your abstract.
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April 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Foundations of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology Conference happening in Utrecht in September
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Happy and proud to announce that the 17th History of Recent Economics Conference will happen at Radboud University, 23-24 October 2025!
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March 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Happy and proud to announce that the 17th History of Recent Economics Conference will happen at Radboud University, 23-24 October 2025!
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We are so happy to have @luciacneco.bsky.social with us at the HPS program @utrechthps.bsky.social Today presenting "Rethinking Race in Microbiome Research:
A Social Systems Approach" at the Descartes Colloquium @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #hps #philbio 🐋🌱
A Social Systems Approach" at the Descartes Colloquium @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #hps #philbio 🐋🌱
March 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
We are so happy to have @luciacneco.bsky.social with us at the HPS program @utrechthps.bsky.social Today presenting "Rethinking Race in Microbiome Research:
A Social Systems Approach" at the Descartes Colloquium @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #hps #philbio 🐋🌱
A Social Systems Approach" at the Descartes Colloquium @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #hps #philbio 🐋🌱
PhD position in philosophy of quantum cosmology (Amsterdam)
PhD position on the foundations of quantum cosmology, at the Universities of Amsterdam (primary host institution) and Utrecht
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Vacancy — PhD in the Emergence of Time and Laws in Quantum Cosmology
Do you enjoy working in an interdisciplinary research setting on foundational questions in physics? The Institute of Physics and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the University of ...
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March 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
PhD position in philosophy of quantum cosmology (Amsterdam)
Should we move beyond viewing space(time) as a container, and matter as that what's inside the container? Come find out at our Spacetime Matters conference.
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March 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Should we move beyond viewing space(time) as a container, and matter as that what's inside the container? Come find out at our Spacetime Matters conference.
www.uu.nl/en/research/...
www.uu.nl/en/research/...
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For the next UPAC colloquium speaker session (04 Mar 2025, 15h30-17h00), we will be hosting Jonathan Fay (University of Bristol), who will give a talk on Historical proposals for a Machian unification of gravity and inertia. For more information, visit:
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March 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
For the next UPAC colloquium speaker session (04 Mar 2025, 15h30-17h00), we will be hosting Jonathan Fay (University of Bristol), who will give a talk on Historical proposals for a Machian unification of gravity and inertia. For more information, visit:
www.uu.nl/en/research/...
www.uu.nl/en/research/...
Today in our course on the philosophy of space and time: subsystems with opposite arrows of time interacting; does a lone champagne bottle in an empty universe pop or unpop?; and Ken Wharton's tragic scifi love story on retrocausation
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Entropic Time (Backwards Billy Joel Parody) | A Capella Science
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February 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Today in our course on the philosophy of space and time: subsystems with opposite arrows of time interacting; does a lone champagne bottle in an empty universe pop or unpop?; and Ken Wharton's tragic scifi love story on retrocausation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6rV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6rV...