EU Philosophy of Astronomy & Cosmology

Including lots of astronomy and cosmology chapters

UPAC Colloquium Learn more about the weekly, hybrid UPAC Colloquium series.

The next UPAC colloquium speaker session will be held tomorrow (2 Dec 2025, 15h30-17h00), we will be hosting Marta Pedroni [University of Geneva], who will give a talk on "Singularity Resolution in Loop Quantum Gravity". For more information, visit:
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The Prediction and Interpretation of Singularities and Black Holes: From Einstein and Schwarzschild to Penrose and Wheeler - Physics in Perspective The Schwarzschild solution was the first exact solution to Einstein’s 1915 field equations, found by Karl Schwarzschild as early as 1916. And yet, physicists, mathematicians and philosophers have stru...

Dennis Lehmkuhl on the various interpretations of black hole singularities: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Prof Chris Smeenk (Western Uni, London Ontario) will be giving the 2025 Beth Lecture, presenting his upcoming book with @jamesowenweatherall.com on the aim and structure of cosmological theory.

10 Dec 2025, Academiegebouw Utrecht, 19:30-21:00, followed by reception.

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For the next UPAC colloquium Work in Progress session tomorrow (25 Nov 2025, 16h00-17h00), we will be discussing a draft by Antonio Ferreiro & Alex Fleuren (Utrecht University) titled "Another Critical Look at Inflationary Cosmology"

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Beth Lecture 2025 by Prof Chris Smeenk, on closing the loop on inflation

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Antoniou & Lorenzetti analyse Modified Newtonian Dynamics: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27152/1/Limi...

Where are singularities located?

Cudek answers: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27127/1/Loca...

The next UPAC colloquium will take place on next week's Tuesday (11 Nov 2025, 16h00-17h00), where we will be discussing the article "Excavation in the Sky: Historical Inference in Astronomy" by Siyu Yao, doi.org/10.1017/psa.2023.22 .

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The next UPAC colloquium speaker session will be held tomorrow (4 Nov 2025, 15h30-17h00), we will be hosting Christian Röken [University of Bonn], who will give a talk on "Stationary Limit Surfaces of Black Holes". For more information, visit:
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For the next UPAC colloquium Work in Progress session tomorrow (28 Oct 2025, 16h00-17h00), we will be discussing a draft by Antonios Papaioannou (University of Rennes) titled "Predictions in an Uncertain World"

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What does it mean to detect dark matter? What forms of indirectness are at play? New chapter on dark matter epistemology is out now!

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The next UPAC colloquium will take place tomorrow, Tuesday (14 Oct 2025, 16h00-17h00), where we will be discussing the article "How Theory-Laden are Observations of Black Holes?" by Juliusz Doboszewski and Jamee Elder, philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24752/.

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The next UPAC colloquium speaker session will be held tomorrow (7 Oct 2025, 1500-16h00), we will be hosting Jan de Boer (UvA), who will give a talk on "Holography and Black Holes". For more information, visit:
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For the next UPAC colloquium work in progress session tomorrow (30 Sept 2025, 16h00-17h00), we will be discussing a draft by Dominic Ryder (LSE) titled "Deidealizing Black Hole Evaporation; a case study in the large scale structure of deidealization"

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Collected Volume Spacetime-Matter Distinction Open call for chapter contributions to an open access collected volume on the conceptual distinction between spacetime and matter.

Call for abstracts for an open access collected volume on the conceptual distinction between spacetime and matter, with Cambridge University Press. We invite philosophers of physics, physicists and any other interested scholars to submit a proposal for a short chapter.

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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

Patrick Dürr and Finnur Dellsén discuss scientific progress through the lens of the history of cosmology: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26683/

UPAC Colloquium Learn more about the weekly, hybrid UPAC Colloquium series.

The next UPAC colloquium speaker session will be held tomorrow (16 Sept 2025, 1530-17h00), we will be hosting Franciszek Cudek (University of Oxford), who will give the talk "Localising the singular structure of spacetime". For more information, visit:

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What can philosophy do for astronomy and cosmology, and vice versa?

Panel happening right now in Utrecht

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Saakshi Dulani kicks off the second Utrecht conference, on the philosophy of astronomy and cosmology

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Spacetime Matters conference in Utrecht

Ending the first day of our Spacetime Matters conference with a keynote by Kian Salimkhani

And so it begins.

The Spacetime Matters conference in Utrecht

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Final call for registration: conference on the philosophy and foundations of astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology.

Registration deadline: 10th of July

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I'm putting the final touches on my second book #EdgeOfSpaceTime and the entire book is an argument for #cosmology and #particlephysics through #poetry. Part of what we can do in #scicomm is make those connections for people. Those connections are powerful & motivating for people, esp in hard times.

The next UPAC colloquium will be held today (03 Jun 2025, 16h00-17h00), where we will be discussing the article, Dark Matter: Explanatory Unification and Historical Continuity, by Simon Allzén, philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24413/ More info: www.uu.nl/en/research/...

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For the next UPAC colloquium work in progress session tomorrow (27 May 2025, 16h00-17h00), we will be discussing a draft by Anastasiia Lazutkina (University of Wuppertal) titled "Evidence in cosmology: how galaxies became complicated"
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Great 4th workshop on the history, philosophy and culture of black hole imaging

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In the next UPAC colloquium (13 May 2025, 16h00-17h00), where we will be discussing the article,
Black Holes & Idealisation, by Dominic Ryder, philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24402/
More info on:
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