- Campuses :
- Twin Cities
- Crookston
- Duluth
- Morris
- Rochester
- Other Locations
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 Philosophy of Science.
Frédéric Bouchard, Department of Philosophy, University of Montreal, Canada will be visiting in January.
Taylor Murphy, a graduate student from the Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta, Canada will be studying at the Center this semester.
Yeh, Hsiao-Fan a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan continues her stay at the Center.
Peter Truran and Douglas Marshall continue their residence.
We are pleased to announce that Douglas Marshall, postdoctoral fellow at MCPS, has won this year's Leibniz Society of North America prize essay competition. The annual essay competition is part of the Leibniz Society's efforts to encourage the study of Leibniz in North America and give recognition to deserving scholars. Douglas's winning essay, "Leibniz: Geometry, Physics, and Idealism" is forthcoming in the Leibniz Review.
September 16th, 2011Jos Uffink, an internationally acclaimed philosopher of physics and co-editor of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics joins the University of Minnesota Department of Philosophy faculty this fall from the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. He is a Center Fellow.
September 8th, 2011
