@rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social
The Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy at Radboud University; dedicated to research at the intersection of mathematical physics, philosophy of science, and the history of science. Website: rcnp.science.ru.nl
Our PhD student Karla Weingarten (@karlawg.bsky.social) just published her first paper! "Understanding Particle Interactions: Feynman Diagrams as Representative Models" is now available open access at @thebjps.bsky.social.
25.07.2025 16:07 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Our PhD student Karla Weingarten (@karlawg.bsky.social) just published her first paper! "Understanding Particle Interactions: Feynman Diagrams as Representative Models" is now available open access at @thebjps.bsky.social.
25.07.2025 16:07 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy says yes!
18.07.2025 17:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New from the BJPS Review of Books
The Non-fundamentality of Spacetime
– Kian Salimkhani
Reviewed by Noel Swanson
Read it here: www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...
#philsci #philsky
Great review!
#physics
Wonderful piece by James Read with a shout-out to the apparently roughly 300 philosophers of physics, @seanmcarroll.bsky.social, and the RCNP!
07.06.2025 13:28 — 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1Two RCNP members are part of the organizing team of this lecture series, which aims to present topics in the philosophy of science broadly construed to a general audience, especially to undergraduate and graduate students.
03.06.2025 19:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New Quarterly Lecture in Philosophy of Science
On Wednesday (tomorrow), 4 June, at 4 pm CEST, Jill North (Rutgers) will talk about "Losing an i: On the Naturalness of Complex Numbers for Quantum Mechanics". Join us online!
More information and the Zoom link:
Newly advertised PhD position supervised by Marij van Strien.
The focus is on philosophical discussions around physics in the nineteenth or twentieth century. Possible topics include conceptions of causality, chance, emergence, or chaos theory.
Newly advertised PhD position supervised by Marij van Strien.
The focus is on philosophical discussions around physics in the nineteenth or twentieth century. Possible topics include conceptions of causality, chance, emergence, or chaos theory.
Marij van Strien wrote a short article for IAI News, "How quantum mechanics changed science forever: Rationality, anarchy, and bad science".
22.04.2025 17:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Introducing the research of ISiS members at the RCNP 👇
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In a few minutes our postdoc Martin Voggenauer will present a recently accepted paper at our RCNP colloquium: "Explaining Objective Probabilities by Physical Symmetries". Feel free to join us from time to time, it's hybrid!
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Today marks 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. Here is Eva Szepesi, a survivor of the Shoah, addressing the German Bundestag one year ago.
27.01.2025 18:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0At the end paraphrazing Greenberger: maybe we are much closer to the start of natural philosophy than to its end
11.01.2025 14:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Jeremy offered a reflection on the discipline, exploring the idea and role of natural philosophy. Should a philosopher of physics be more like a pilot fish, a miner, or the conscience of physics? And he had some remarks on math. We'll post the link to the recordings soon!
11.01.2025 14:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The RCNP members during the second day of our opening conference Impossible Triangles of Thought #rcnp2025
10.01.2025 20:11 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0That was amazing! Many many thanks to all the speakers for really wonderful talks and all the participants for all the inspiring discussions! More soon! ##rcnp2025
10.01.2025 17:07 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How to teach Natural Philosophy in a >425 ppm world?
An open question at the end: How to teach Natural Philosophy in a >425 ppm world?
Bryan puts it nicely: we act when we care and we care when we understand
Sylvia Wenmackers
What a blast! Sylvia Wenmackers now delivering the final presentation on teaching natural philosophy before we'll come to a typical Dutch end: Borrel (drinks)!
10.01.2025 16:40 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bryan Roberts standing behind a cluttered desk
Bryan Roberts urging you to be a good philosopher of physics by heeding Jeremy's call: Be a wizard! #rcnp2025
10.01.2025 16:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Flavio. Background: slide on a special issue in EPJH
Flavio del Santo mentions guest editing work together with @bernalessel.bsky.social in his talk "The future of indeterminism looking at the past". #rcnp2025
10.01.2025 14:58 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
James in front of a slide: some might complain that the list is lacking... past hypothesis, hole argument, usual suspects... sorry guys you are old news.
James delivering bad news to some #rcnp2025
10.01.2025 14:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Echoing Hilbert, James Read is settling for once and for all what the 23 most important problems in philosophy of physics are #rcnp2025
10.01.2025 14:01 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
James Read on the stage
What a performance! Hard to follow for many, but not so for James Read who now kicks off the "Into the future" session! #rcnp2025
10.01.2025 14:04 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
A stage with 3 people, stuff laying around
Klaas announces "Big Bang Variations" #rcnp2025
10.01.2025 12:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And now for something completely different: a theatre performance! ##rcnp2025
10.01.2025 12:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Tomasz Placek is speaking about Montague for our last session before lunch. #rcnp2025
10.01.2025 11:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are back after the coffee break to listen to Lena Zuchowski‘s fascinating presentation on fundamental dimensions of (dis)order. #rcnp2025
10.01.2025 10:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
