The Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science advances research and graduate training in the philosophy of science and related studies of science and technology. It fosters a local community through a variety of activities and special events. This local community includes scholars from a number of different disciplines throughout the University of Minnesota as well as area colleges and universities. The Center brings together researchers from around the world through its visiting fellow program and conferences, and conducts collaborative research through its workshops, the results of which are published in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science.
Summer Newsletter (August 2016)
News
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Peter Truran, an MCPS Resident Fellow has a paper "The Development of Creative Thinking in Graduate Students Doing Scientific Research" published in the November/December 2016 issue of Education Technologies, volume 56 (6), pp 41–46.
December 9th, 2016
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We understand that some paperback copies of The Language of Nature: Reassessing the Mathematization of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science, volume 20) are missing pages 187–190. If your copy of the volume exhibits this problem, then please contact Matt Smiley for a replacement copy.
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November 2nd, 2016
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Janella Baxter profiled by the PSA women's caucus
Janella Baxter, a postdoctoral researcher on the "From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics" project is profiled on the PSA women's caucus
Highlighted PhilosopHer of Science blog. This project is funded by the John Templeton Foundation (grant #50191).
