PhilSci-Archive
This electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science is offered as a free service to the philosophy-of-science community. The goal of the archive is to promote communication in the field by the rapid dissemination of new work. The archive is sponsored by the Philosophy of Science Association, the Center for Philosophy of Science, and the University of Pittsburgh Library System.
Center for Philosophy of Science
The Center for Philosophy of Science, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2011, promotes scholarship and research, encourages scholarly exchanges, and fosters publications in the philosophy of science as well as in philosophically informed history-of-science and related fields. Among its many activities are an extensive Visiting Fellows Program, frequent conferences and workshops, biweekly lunchtime talks and the Annual Lecture Series.
Archives for Scientific Philosophy
The Archives of Scientific Philosophy (ASP) is an archival collection of over thirty philosophers who represent the Logical Empiricist tradition, its merging with American pragmatism, and its extensions into other areas of the philosophy of science such as the philosophy of biology. The collection is anchored by the Rudolf Carnap Papers and the Hans and Maria Reichenbach Papers and has since been enlarged by many of their intellectual heirs, who often came to be a part of the Philosophy Department at the University of Pittsburgh.
Included in the collection are microfilm copies of archival collections in other locations: the Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, and the papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Kurt Gödel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Herbert Feigl.
The ASP Library Guide is a portal to all the finding aids currently available. They are located in Archives & Special Collections in the University of Pittsburgh Library System and accessible in the reading room at 7500 Thomas Blvd, Pittsburgh, PA 15208. If you would like to talk further about doing research in ASP, contact Jason M. Rampelt, History of Science and Medicine Archivist.
Classics, Philosophy, and Ancient Science
The departments of Classics, Philosophy, and History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh cooperate in offering a program leading to the PhD degree in classics, philosophy, or history and philosophy of science, with a special concentration in ancient philosophy and/or science. The program also sponsors a lecture series and hosts colloquia and conferences.
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
The CNBC is a joint venture of the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. The center leverages the strengths of the University of Pittsburgh in basic and clinical neuroscience and those of Carnegie Mellon in cognitive and computational science to support a coordinated cross-university research and educational program of international stature. In addition to a Ph.D. program in Neural Computation, it sponsors a graduate certificate program in cooperation with a wide variety of affiliated Ph.D. programs.
Center for Bioethics & Health Law
The Center for Bioethics and Health Law (CBHL) brings together clinicians, scholars, and researchers from many schools and disciplines across the University to investigate issues in bioethics and health law.
Medicine, Philosophy and the 'Scientific Revolution'
This collaborative project is funded in part by a Faculty Collaborative Research in the Humanities grant from the Humanities Center. Collaborators include James Lennox, Dennis Looney of the department of French and Italian, and Domenico Bertoloni Meliof the HPS Department at IU Bloomington. They also include advanced and recent graduate students from Pitt and IU Bloomington: Peter Distelzweig, Benjamin Goldberg, and Evan Ragland. The project aims to cultivate collaborative work on the interactions between medicine and natural philosophy during the 'Scientific Revolution' across several departments and institutions. It involves an ongoing working group and occasional small, one-day and afternoon workshops, and it will culminate in a large international conference on the topic hosted by the Center for Philosophy of Science, and co-sponsored by the Humanities Center, the World History Center, our department, the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, and the HPS Department at IU Bloomington. The conference took place in Fall of 2012.
HPS Pittsburgh Graduate Research Groups
The HPS graduate students organize a series of "WIP" (Work in Progress) talks each term.
Pitt Department of Philosophy
The Department of HPS works closely with Pittsburgh's world-class philosophy program at both graduate and undergraduate levels. The strengths of the two departments are assessed together in The Philosophical Gourmet Report.
Philosophy at CMU
The Department of HPS has close links with the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University.
Philosophy at Duquesne
Duquesne University, located in downtown Pittsburgh, has a philosophy department and is also home to the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center.
The Pittsburgh Area Philosophy Colloquium
The Pittsburgh Area Philosophy Colloquium was first held in 2010 in an effort to bring together philosophers in the region in a spirit of collegiality. Its program has been a mix of traditional hour-long paper presentations followed by discussion, and small working groups of philosophers with similar interests to share works-in-progress.