Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Part A

11/09/2021

An interesting upcoming webinar: https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events-and-activities/online/newton/?fbclid=IwAR15DC9NGseBFB-28WRHmk9bzYEmL0h9z2_4xsEo0W27P1eO3ISWZpm6KbA

This Webinar explores the different ways in which medicine developed beyond the traditional boundaries of an academic discipline thereby informing approaches and practices as diverse as pedagogy, magic, the professionalisation of surgeons across the German-speaking countries, as well as early modern...

02/07/2021

Interesting Webinar in April:

01/15/2021

Interesting opportunity:

SANTORIO FELLOWSHIP FOR MEDICAL HUMANITIES AND SCIENCE
Edition 2021

DEADLINE: 15th April 2021

The "Santorio Fellowship for Medical Humanities and Science" is designed to support young scholars willing to join CSMBR events and is named after the Italian physician Santorio Santori (1561-1636), who introduced the quantitative method to medicine and is considered the father of quantitative experimental physiology.

AIMS
The scheme offers travel grants to attend CSMBR events. It aims at encouraging cooperation amongst scholars across Europe and is awarded each year to students (BA, MA) and early career researchers (PhDs and Postdocs within 3 years from their viva) whose interests in the field of History of Medicine and Medical Humanities (Medicine and History of Medicine, Biology and History of Biology, History and Philosophy of Science, History of Ideas, Classics) are strong.

EDITION 2021
For the academic year 2020-21, the Santorio Fellowship will support participants to the International Summer School Latitudes of the Body. Human-Based Measurement and its Contexts, from Leonardo to Newton (21-24 July 2021, Domus Comeliana – Pisa) organised by Fabrizio Bigotti.


APPLICATION PROCESS
Five Santorio Fellowships, worth of €500 each, will be offered throughout as a gratuity to join the Summer School by means of an application process. Applicants should send a cover letter (max. 300 words), CV (max. 2 pages) and a reference letter to [email protected].

The deadline is on 15 April 2021 with successful applications notified by mid-May.

For further details or queries visit https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/santorio-fellowship/ or contact [email protected].

10/18/2019

So many questions.

US biotechnology company called Bioquark has been given permission to recruit 20 clinically dead pat

10/06/2019

Researchers trained a neural network to predict the circular patterns that would be created by a biological circuit embedded into a bacterial culture.

Biomedical engineers have devised a machine learning approach to modeling the interactions between complex variables in engineered bacteria that would otherwise be too cumbersome to predict. Their algorithms are generalizable to many kinds of biological systems.

10/01/2019

"Concepts are of great use to humans, insofar as they empower us to think in more general terms about things that are not present, and so survey past and future, co-ordinate our activities, and build societies and civilisations. However, the ability to lever ourselves off the present moment that reason, the medium of concepts, provides, can be a double-edged sword, insofar as concepts take us one step further away from what objectively exists." On Schopenhauer's World as Will and Representation

Christopher Ryan takes a dogged look at Schopenhauer’s view of the world.

09/22/2019

Astronomers at Green Bank Observatory have just discovered a (in fact, the most) massive neutron star, approx. 4,600 light-years away - teetering on the edge of existence, this record-breaking star's mass approaches the theoretically maximum possible for a neutron star.

Astronomers have discovered the most massive neutron star to date, a rapidly spinning pulsar approximately 4,600 light-years from Earth. This record-breaking object is teetering on the edge of existence, approaching the theoretical maximum mass possible for a neutron star.

09/10/2019

Do you agree?

The best philosophy of science books, recommended by Stathis Psillos, a leading defender of scientifc realism. He introduces the philosophy of science

09/06/2019

Scientists at Rice University have developed an electrocatalysis reactor that repurposes carbon dioxide, a common greenhouse gas, to produce pure liquid fuel solutions!

An electrocatalysis reactor built at Rice University recycles carbon dioxide to produce pure liquid fuel solutions using electricity. The scientists behind the invention hope it will become an efficient and profitable way to reuse the greenhouse gas and keep it out of the atmosphere.

08/29/2019

The interesting topic for this year's Du Châtelet Prize is: 'Mathematics as a tool of conceptual innovation in physical theory and/or experiment, 1780–1890'

Please share this with any relevant graduate students or young scholars (who received their PhD less than 5 years ago).

Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics The marquise Du Châtelet, c. 1741. Marianne Loir From the collection of the Château de Breteuil The Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics is awarded for previously unpublished work in philosophy of physics by a graduate student or junior scholar. T...

08/27/2019

Congratulations Mary Ellen Waithe:

Founded and directed by Ruth E. Hagengruber, the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Sci

06/17/2019

https://www.ed.ac.uk/giving/save-lyell-notebooks

Please consider supporting this campaign to keep this collection of notebooks together by making a pledge.

Darrell

Sir Charles Lyell’s notebooks at risk of export unless a UK buyer can be found to match the £1.4 million asking price.

03/27/2019

Congratulations Adwait Parker! https://philosophy.duke.edu/news/duke-recognizes-philosophy-physics-prize-winner-during-upcoming-campus-workshop

12/07/2018

https://duchateletprize.org/

12/06/2018

Duke Announces New Prize for Philosophy of Physics

DURHAM, N.C. (December 6, 2018) — Duke University is pleased to announce the Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics, an award that celebrates excellence in philosophy of physics and promotes breadth across the field both historically and philosophically.

The prize — supported by Duke in collaboration with the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science — will be awarded next Spring to a U.S. or international graduate student or recent Ph.D. to recognize their previously unpublished work in philosophy of physics. The winner will receive $1,000, an invitation to participate (all expenses paid) in a workshop at Duke, and consideration for the winner’s paper to be published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.

The Du Châtelet Prize is named in honor of Émilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749), the French philosopher who wrote on a range of topics at the intersection of physics and philosophy, including epistemology and method, the nature of matter and of bodies, and the laws of motion. Her work in physics was closely connected to her interest in human liberty and free will.

Submissions for the Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics are being accepted through February 17, 2019 at https://duchateletprize.org/call-for-submissions/. These entries should address this year’s topic — “How the parts of matter act on one another, as that issue stood at any time in the period 1680-1780.”

Entries will be evaluated by a five-member panel of philosophy professors who will select the winner. Members of the panel will also present during the free-to-the-public Du Châtelet Prize workshop on April 4-5 at Duke University.

For more information about the prize, submission information, and the workshop, visit https://duchateletprize.org.

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