Jan Potters

100 Years of Quantum: Perspectives on its Past, Present, and Future In July 1925, Heisenberg published his paper on matrix mechanics, followed shortly thereafter (in early 1926) by Schrodinger’s paper on wave mechanics. As such, 2025 is the centenary of the modern qua...

CFA: 100 Years of Quantum: Perspectives on its Past, Present, and Future - October 20–24, 2025 - @perimeterinstitute.ca, Waterloo, Canada
Abstract deadline is August 24, 2025
Details: events.perimeterinstitute.ca/event/1013/ (via Doreen Fraser) #HPS ⚛️

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En ook het laatste deel van de werken in Vorst aan de Brusselsesteenweg (vervanging van de rails van tram 82)! Screenshot facebook

Is this from one of Kuhn's interviews with Heisenberg?

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HOPOS 2026 Paper and symposium proposals for HOPOS 2026 can now be submitted through this web site. For detailed instructions, plea

Cfp: HOPOS 2026 Sixteenth Biennial Congress of International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science
Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)
22-26 June 2026

Call for paper & symposium proposals. Deadline: 30 September 2025, 11:59 (PT). Submit at congress web site: hopos2026.dryfta.com
#HPS

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Racistische pseudowetenschap hoort niet thuis aan de universiteit Vakgroepleden distantiëren zich van haar associatie met racistische pseudowetenschap en eugenetica.

Samen met enkele collega's schreef ik een stuk in Apache waarin we ons distantiëren van de associate van onze vakgroep met racistische pseudowetenschap en eugenetica.
apache.be/2025/07/04/r...

Very eager to see this into print, with a chapter by @masssimons.bsky.social and me on the history of philosophy of experimentation. Immense respect for the work by Adam and Flavia on this huge book

Political philosophy of experimentation - European Journal for Philosophy of Science In this article, I sketch out the contours of a political philosophy of experimentation. Drawing on the work of Joseph Rouse, Hans Radder, Gilbert Hottois, and Jerome Ravetz, I argue that such a polit...

🧵1/ I'm happy to share my new article just published in the European Journal for Philosophy of Science:

"Political philosophy of experimentation"
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#philsci #STS #politicalphilosophy

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'Appropriating Empowerment: Precision Medicine’s Proclivity to Epistemic Injustice' by Daan Kenis has just been published open access

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📌 Oooh wow sounds super-interesting!

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Yeah, the method does have its limitations 😅

Yeah it really is frustrating .... I try to address it by offering feedback on their progress, by asking them to present their work to each other and to combine the essay with an exam-conversation about it. That forces them a bit to do the work, but it also is a lot more work for everybody 😅

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Second this! A lot of bike shops in Brussels are overwhelmed, it seems, and restrict the bikes they accept for reparations, but Cyclo is especially focused on keeping all bikes working :)

PhD Position: History and Philosophy of Modern Physics | Radboud University Do you want to work as a PhD Position: History and Philosophy of Modern Physics at the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies? Check our vacancy!

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.

Job ad for position in DFG project: "Progress through Principles: An Epistemology of Foundational Assumptions Guiding Contemporary Physics"

Apply to join a team of wonderful colleagues at Philosophy at TU Dresden. I am advertising a 3-year PhD position in philosophy of science/philosophy of physics as part of the DFG project 'Progress through Principles', deadline 28.06.2024. For details: tinyurl.com/3eb2f667
#philsci #philsky

For Belgian residents and visitors: we are screening the short film Data Shadows at VUB in Brussels on May 21 at 18, please come along & pass the word! It would be great to see you there.

More info on the film: opensciencestudies.eu/datashadowsf... #philsci #art #science @edinitiative.bsky.social

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In the new #HOPOS issue Fons Dewulf proposes a new "framework to describe the dynamics of academized twentieth-century philosophy in relation to its social and institutional context".

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Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

My guess would be that he will now rather be focusing on week 2, with the time trial and a few breakaway stages.