News for August 2011
2012-13 Visiting Fellowships at The Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science
We are currently inviting applications for one-semester visiting fellowships at The University of Sydney, for either second semester (August to November) 2012 or first semester (February to May) 2013. This program is associated with The Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science (SCFS), a research centre sponsoring work into the logical, philosophical, and historical foundations of science (further details below). We are hoping to receive applications from leading historians and philosophers of science (including the special sciences and biomedical sciences) at any post-PhD career stage. This is the fifth round of such fellowships and we anticipate being able to offer them each year.
Up to four fellowships are available, and each fellowship will come with a travelling allowance of up to AUD 6,000. These fellowships will provide opportunities for academics on sabbatical from their home institution to spend a semester in a productive and collegial research environment (in a beautiful city), to work with members of the SCFS and with other visiting fellows. It is important that the applicant has a position at their home institution that extends beyond the term of the intended stay in Sydney and is on salary from their home institution for the duration of their intended stay. The allowance is to help offset some of the travelling and living-away-from-home expenses; it is not a salary. The successful applicants will be expected to work on a specific research project that is of interest to members of the SCFS. One of the aims of the SCFS is to strengthen international links in history and philosophy of science, so expressions of interest from researchers outside Australia are particularly encouraged.
Applications should including a cover letter, a CV, and a brief outline of the proposed research project (including why you wish to pursue the research at the University of Sydney and which members of the SCFS team you anticipate collaborating with). Applications should be sent (preferably electronically) to:
- Dr Rodney Taveira
- Administrative Officer
- Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science
- School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry
- A14, Main Quadrangle
- University of Sydney
- Sydney, NSW, 2006
- Australia
- Email: rodney.taveira@sydney.edu.au
by 14th November 2010. Applicants will be informed of decisions by 19th December 2010.
About The Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science
The SCFS is an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Sydney. We draw together researchers from philosophy, history, history and philosophy of science, science and medicine, with research concentrations in and around foundations of physics, decision theory, history and philosophy of biology, history of early modern science, history of medicine, and decision theory. Senior members of the SCFS include, Warwick Anderson, Stephen Bartlett, Alison Bashford, David Braddon-Mitchell, Mark Colyvan, Clio Cresswell, Ofer Gal, Stephen Garton, Stephen Gaukroger, Paul Griffiths, Ian Kerridge, Dominic Murphy, Maureen O'Malley, Hans Pols, Huw Price, Dean Rickles, Nick Smith, and Karola Stotz. We also have a number of mid-career and junior faculty, as well as several postdoctoral fellows and graduate students associated with the SCFS. Further details can be found on our website: http://sydney.edu.au/foundations_of_science/.
Sir Karl Popper Essay Prize 2011
The Sir Karl Popper Essay Prize was established by a bequest from the late Dr Laurence B. Briskman, formerly of the Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh.
In 2011, arrangements for the Sir Karl Popper Essay Prize have changed.
From 2011 on, the Prize will be awarded for the best paper appearing in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science for that year, on a topic or topics to which Sir Karl made a significant contribution.
The value of the Prize is £1000 and will be awarded on the basis of the judgement of the Editors of the Journal.
See http://www.thebsps.org/society/bsps/popper_prize.html for further details.
PSA2012 Call for Papers and Symposium Proposals
The Calls for Papers and Symposium Proposals for the 2012 PSA Biennial Meeting have been posted. Please see the linked files for full details.
For more information on PSA2012, please see the meeting page.
Elliot Sober Named President of the DLMPS
Elliot Sober, Hans Reichenbach Professor and William F. Vilas Research Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was elected President of the Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (DLMPS) at the General Assembly of the DLMPS held in Nancy, France, 22 July, 2011. Professor Sober begins his four-year term as president on January 1, 2012.
Professor Sober succeeds Wilfrid Hodges and joins a long line of distinguished presidents of the DLMPS, including Patrick Suppes, Jaako Hintikka, Dana Scott, Wesley Salmon, and Adolf Grünbaum. For more information about Professor Sober, see http://philosophy.wisc.edu/sober/. Professor Sober's email address is ersober@wisc.edu.
With the Division of the History of Science and Technology (DHST), the DLMPS comprises the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (IUHPS), itself a member of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU). The 2015 General Assembly of the DLMPS will be held in Helsinki, Finland. More information about the DLMPS and related organizations can be found at http://www.dlmps.org.
