New Element in Philosophy of Physics just published!
Karen Crowther's "Why Do We Want a Theory of Quantum Gravity?" is available for free online for two weeks.
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Karen Crowther's "Why Do We Want a Theory of Quantum Gravity?" is available for free online for two weeks.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Why Do We Want a Theory of Quantum Gravity?
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Why Do We Want a Theory of Quantum Gravity?
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Come work with us! We are looking for a postdoc in #philbio or #philphysics to work on an interdisciplinary project that adopts the lens of self-organization & active matter to explore the boundary between living & nonliving systems www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #academicsky #philjobs #HPS #evosky
December 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Come work with us! We are looking for a postdoc in #philbio or #philphysics to work on an interdisciplinary project that adopts the lens of self-organization & active matter to explore the boundary between living & nonliving systems www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #academicsky #philjobs #HPS #evosky
Reminder 📢 We are advertising a postdoctoral position in #philbio or #philphysics to work on an interdisciplinary project that adopts the lens of self-organization & active matter to explore the boundary between living and nonliving systems👇 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #philjobs #philsci #evosky
January 13, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Reminder 📢 We are advertising a postdoctoral position in #philbio or #philphysics to work on an interdisciplinary project that adopts the lens of self-organization & active matter to explore the boundary between living and nonliving systems👇 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #philjobs #philsci #evosky
Final reminder 📢 We are looking for a #philbio or #philphysics postdoc for an interdisciplinary project exploring the boundary between living and nonliving systems through the lens of self-organization & active matter 👇 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #philjobs #philsky #HPS #devbio Please share!
February 5, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Final reminder 📢 We are looking for a #philbio or #philphysics postdoc for an interdisciplinary project exploring the boundary between living and nonliving systems through the lens of self-organization & active matter 👇 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #philjobs #philsky #HPS #devbio Please share!
New BJPS Short Read:
How does our philosophy of science affect our response to the information paradox?
Siddharth Muthukrishnan on black holes and reality
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#philsky #philsci #physics #philphysics
How does our philosophy of science affect our response to the information paradox?
Siddharth Muthukrishnan on black holes and reality
www.thebsps.org/short-reads/...
#philsky #philsci #physics #philphysics
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November 14, 2024 at 11:49 AM
New BJPS Short Read:
How does our philosophy of science affect our response to the information paradox?
Siddharth Muthukrishnan on black holes and reality
www.thebsps.org/short-reads/...
#philsky #philsci #physics #philphysics
How does our philosophy of science affect our response to the information paradox?
Siddharth Muthukrishnan on black holes and reality
www.thebsps.org/short-reads/...
#philsky #philsci #physics #philphysics
This seems like a physicists’ rendering of McTaggart’s regress. There is no point from which we can observe #spacetime independently of it, so to speak, so we can never know if #time began. #PhilSci #PhilPhysics
"The Malament-Manchak theorem shows that we can’t know how time began – or even if it began."
#physics #philsky #philsci
#physics #philsky #philsci
Scientists are no longer sure the Universe began with a bang | Aeon Essays
It was thought that science could tell us about the origins of the Universe. Today that great endeavour is in serious doubt
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December 11, 2024 at 10:06 AM
This seems like a physicists’ rendering of McTaggart’s regress. There is no point from which we can observe #spacetime independently of it, so to speak, so we can never know if #time began. #PhilSci #PhilPhysics
April 16, 2026 at 7:15 AM
The conference Empiricism and the Methodology of Modern Physics at Western University kicks off with a tribute to William Demopoulos, George Smith, Howard Stein, and Michael Friedman from Robert DiSalle.
#philsky #hopos #hps #philphysics
#philsky #hopos #hps #philphysics
May 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The conference Empiricism and the Methodology of Modern Physics at Western University kicks off with a tribute to William Demopoulos, George Smith, Howard Stein, and Michael Friedman from Robert DiSalle.
#philsky #hopos #hps #philphysics
#philsky #hopos #hps #philphysics
Physicists have long been enamored with “beautiful” models—but this seems to have changed in high-energy physics. In his new paper, Martin King argues that experimental contexts strongly determine the pursuitworthiness of “ugly models” 👇📃 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philphysics #HPS
October 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Physicists have long been enamored with “beautiful” models—but this seems to have changed in high-energy physics. In his new paper, Martin King argues that experimental contexts strongly determine the pursuitworthiness of “ugly models” 👇📃 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philphysics #HPS
An experiment can be pursuitworthy, even if its main target outcome seems unlikely. My new paper, analyzes “no-lose arguments”: arguments for experiments in which every plausible outcome advances science.
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#philsci #philphysics #HPS #physics #philsky
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No-lose arguments and the pursuitworthiness of experiments - Synthese
No-lose arguments state that—no matter what the result of an experiment will be—there will be a relevant epistemic gain if the experiment is performed. Here I provide an analysis of such arguments, lo...
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June 2, 2026 at 8:54 AM
An experiment can be pursuitworthy, even if its main target outcome seems unlikely. My new paper, analyzes “no-lose arguments”: arguments for experiments in which every plausible outcome advances science.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#philsci #philphysics #HPS #physics #philsky
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#philsci #philphysics #HPS #physics #philsky
New on the BJPS Review of Books:
Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity
– James Read
Reviewed by Sebastian De Haro
Read it here: https://www.thebsps.org/reviewofbooks/de-haro-on-read/
#philsci #philsky #philphysics
Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity
– James Read
Reviewed by Sebastian De Haro
Read it here: https://www.thebsps.org/reviewofbooks/de-haro-on-read/
#philsci #philsky #philphysics
James Read, Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity | BJPS Review of Books
Sebastian De Haro reviews Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity, by James Read
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February 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
New on the BJPS Review of Books:
Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity
– James Read
Reviewed by Sebastian De Haro
Read it here: https://www.thebsps.org/reviewofbooks/de-haro-on-read/
#philsci #philsky #philphysics
Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity
– James Read
Reviewed by Sebastian De Haro
Read it here: https://www.thebsps.org/reviewofbooks/de-haro-on-read/
#philsci #philsky #philphysics
Do we need laws or dispositions in our ontological picture of nature? In a new #OpenAccess #philphysics article, Joanna Luc contends that law-based accounts are better than disposition-based accounts, offering greater informativeness & theoretical virtues #philsci 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 11, 2023 at 12:10 PM
Do we need laws or dispositions in our ontological picture of nature? In a new #OpenAccess #philphysics article, Joanna Luc contends that law-based accounts are better than disposition-based accounts, offering greater informativeness & theoretical virtues #philsci 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Are there problems with the so-called "Evolving Block Universe" model that accounts for the emergence of spacetime? In a new discussion note, Peter J. Riggs argues that it has issues defining 'present moment' and the 'passage of time' 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philphysics
June 26, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Are there problems with the so-called "Evolving Block Universe" model that accounts for the emergence of spacetime? In a new discussion note, Peter J. Riggs argues that it has issues defining 'present moment' and the 'passage of time' 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philphysics
Over the next week we'll be attending two philosophy of physics conferences @rotmanphilosophy.bsky.social:
Empiricism and the Methodology of Modern Physics
The Logic, Mathematics &Physics Graduate Conference. #philsky #philphysics
To register/attend remotely: www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/2025-a...
Empiricism and the Methodology of Modern Physics
The Logic, Mathematics &Physics Graduate Conference. #philsky #philphysics
To register/attend remotely: www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/2025-a...
2025 Annual Philosophy of Physics Conferences - The Rotman Institute of Philosophy
Empiricism and the Methodology of Modern Physics REGISTRATION LINK ZOOM LINK
May 25-26
The structure of theories and how they represent the natural world, through introducing basic principles and...
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May 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Over the next week we'll be attending two philosophy of physics conferences @rotmanphilosophy.bsky.social:
Empiricism and the Methodology of Modern Physics
The Logic, Mathematics &Physics Graduate Conference. #philsky #philphysics
To register/attend remotely: www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/2025-a...
Empiricism and the Methodology of Modern Physics
The Logic, Mathematics &Physics Graduate Conference. #philsky #philphysics
To register/attend remotely: www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/2025-a...
Introducing the research of ISiS members at the RCNP 👇
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🙌 @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social #philphysics #philsci #HPS #histscience
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🙌 @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social #philphysics #philsci #HPS #histscience
Introducing the research of ISiS members at the RCNP | Radboud University
Recently, the Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy (RCNP) officially started its mission to conduct research at the intersection of mathematical physics, philosophy of physics, and history of physics...
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March 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Introducing the research of ISiS members at the RCNP 👇
www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...
🙌 @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social #philphysics #philsci #HPS #histscience
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🙌 @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social #philphysics #philsci #HPS #histscience
Could dynamism and adynamism be reconciled under a block universe view? What does 'adynamism' even mean for relativistic physics? For thought-provoking discussions, check out the new article by Emilia Margoni in the pages of JGPS! link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philphysics #philsky
June 12, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Could dynamism and adynamism be reconciled under a block universe view? What does 'adynamism' even mean for relativistic physics? For thought-provoking discussions, check out the new article by Emilia Margoni in the pages of JGPS! link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philphysics #philsky
John S. Bell proposed the notion of ‘beable’ to replace ‘observable’ for a clearer formulation of quantum mechanics. In his new article, Federico Laudisa (University of Trento) argues that Bell actually developed 𝘵𝘸𝘰 distinct beable theories 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philphysics
August 8, 2024 at 3:26 PM
John S. Bell proposed the notion of ‘beable’ to replace ‘observable’ for a clearer formulation of quantum mechanics. In his new article, Federico Laudisa (University of Trento) argues that Bell actually developed 𝘵𝘸𝘰 distinct beable theories 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philphysics
What might be the potential ramifications of the relational framework of 'Pure Shape Dynamics' for discussions on the metaphysics of #time? This is a question that Antonio Vassallo & Pedro Naranjo explore in their recent article for JGPS! 👇📃 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philphysics
April 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
What might be the potential ramifications of the relational framework of 'Pure Shape Dynamics' for discussions on the metaphysics of #time? This is a question that Antonio Vassallo & Pedro Naranjo explore in their recent article for JGPS! 👇📃 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philphysics
Many debates about the Free Energy Principle (FEP) have emerged, including realist & antirealist interpretations of it. In his new article, Majid Beni makes the case for a structural realist characterization of the FEP 📝👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philphysics #philcogsci #philsky
April 3, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Many debates about the Free Energy Principle (FEP) have emerged, including realist & antirealist interpretations of it. In his new article, Majid Beni makes the case for a structural realist characterization of the FEP 📝👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philphysics #philcogsci #philsky
Dean Zimmerman’s 2024 Newman Centre Annual Lecture in the Philosophy of Religion can now be found, along with a selection of previous #NewmanCentre lectures, on our website at www.ucd.ie/philosophy/n.... #PhilSky #PhilPhysics #PhilReligion #metaphysics
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March 14, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Dean Zimmerman’s 2024 Newman Centre Annual Lecture in the Philosophy of Religion can now be found, along with a selection of previous #NewmanCentre lectures, on our website at www.ucd.ie/philosophy/n.... #PhilSky #PhilPhysics #PhilReligion #metaphysics