Philosophy of Science
Call for Papers: 2nd Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Group in India
Submission deadline: August 15, 2015 Conference date(s): December 19, 2015 – December 21, 2015 Conference Venue: Centre for Science, Technology and Society, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai Mumbai, India Conference Web page: https://psgi2015.wordpress.com Details: Topic Areas General Philosophy of Science Philosophy of Social Sciences Philosophy of Biology Philosophy of Economics Keynote Speakers: Richard Boyd, […]
Sir Karl Popper Prize for 2014
The decision of the Co-Editors of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is that the Sir Karl Popper Prize for 2014 should be awarded to Rachael L. Brown for her paper ‘What Evolvability Really Is’ (Br J Philos Sci [2014], 65, pp. 549-72). The paper is free to read here: http://bjps.oxfordjournals.org/content/65/3/549.full The prize […]
Economics: Theory/Data (Guest Post)
by Alex M. Thomas Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.’ – Albert Einstein 1 1776. Adam Smith formulates a system of economic theory capable of understanding the levels and movements of commodity prices, real wages and […]
50th anniversary of The structure of Scientific revolutions
This is the 50th anniversary of Thomas Kuhn’s path breaking work in Philosophy of Science: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. The British Journal of Philosophy of Science published a virtual edition on Kuhn’s thoughts to celebrate the moment. Here is the Virtual edition.
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