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Dejan Makovec Published "Open Texture in Science and Philosophy"
Congratulations to Dejan Makovec whose paper "Open Texture in Science and Philosophy" has been published in 100 Years of ›Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus‹ – 70 Years after Wittgenstein’s Death.
Pitt's HPS Earned Top Honors in a Recent Report
Congratulations to Pitt's History and Philosophy of Science Department for winning top honors in the Philosophical Gourmet Report!
Jim Woodward awarded PSA's 2024 Hempel Award
James Woodward, emeritus professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, is the winner of the Philosophy of Science Association's 2024 Hempel Award.Congratulations Jim! Click here for more information.
Dejan Makovec Published in Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Congratulations to Dejan Makovec whose paper ""Entirely Different Kinds of Beast: The Ontological Challenge to Knowledge Integration in Ethnobiology" is published in Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
Sandra Mitchell elected as First Vice President of the Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology
In July, Sandra Mitchell was elected First Vice President of the Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (DLMPST) 2024-2027. DLMPST is division of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.
James Tabery, Professor of Philosophy, University of Utah, and HPS PhD (2007) published a guest essay in the New York Times
On August 5, James Tabery, Professor of Philosophy, University of Utah, and HPS PhD (2007) published a guest essay in the New York Times “A Revolution Is Coming to Medicine. Who Will It Leave Out?"
Hoerr and DiMarco Win Interdisciplinary Organized Session Prize!
Kyra Hoerr's and Marina DiMarco's session at the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology meeting in Toronto (July 2023) was awarded the Interdisciplinary Organized Session Prize! This award is made to the organizer and participants of the session that best cohesively combines research and methodologies from several disciplines.
PhD Student Brett Park wins Clifton prize
Brett Park is the 2023 winner of the Nineteenth Annual Clifton Memorial Prize, given to a graduate student working in the philosophy of physics for his paper "Causation Beyond Manipulation". Congratulations Brett! Previous winners from this department include Bixin Guo, Mike Miller, Bryan Roberts, Doreen Fraser, and Mike Tamir.
Peter Machamer (1942 - 2023)
We report with sadness the passing on May 31 of Peter Machamer. He was an influential historian and philosopher of science who was a member of the HPS faculty for four decades and served as Chair for fifteen years.
Former Student Zina Ward wins BJPS Popper Prize
Zina Ward (PhD, 2020) won the BJPS Popper Prize for 2022 with her essay "Registration Pluralism and the Cartographic Approach to Data Aggregation across Brains" which was published in the journal and can be read for free here.
Kabir S. Bakshi (1st yr PhD student) publishes in SHPS on Mach and thought experiments
Congratulations to our first year student Kabir S. Bakshi whose paper "Clarifying some misconceptions in interpreting Ernst Mach's views on thought experiments" appears in the February 2023 issue of Studies in History & Philosophy of Science.
Edouard Machery's Geography of Philosophy project has a new video
You can watch the video Thinking about philosophy across cultures on YouTube