Stephan Hartmann

And thanks to David Colaco for taking the picture.

Great Research Day of my Faculty at the Siemens Stiftung on Friday: excellent talks by Hannes Leitgeb, Andrew Stephenson, Christof Rapp, Ignacio Ojea Quintana, and Thomas Oehl, plus a PhD poster session and a discussion on AI in philosophy led by Sven Nyholm. Thanks to all who contributed.

Great news from the MCMP: Tom Sterkenburg has received the Karl-Heinz Hoffmann Award from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

A terrific and well-deserved recognition of his work on induction, statistics, and machine learning! badw.de/en/die-akade...

Excited to share that our edited volume "Open Systems: Physics, Metaphysics, and Methodology" (with Michael Cuffaro) is coming out soon with OUP.

Details here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

2nd SYMPOSIUM: CONNECTION BETWEEN PHYSICS AND METABOLISM IN BRAIN FUNCTIONS Following the success of the 1st international symposium (Barcelona, July 2024),we are pleased to welcome you in Paris for this 2nd edition

I’m joining the 2nd Symposium on Physics and Metabolism in Brain Functions at the Paris Brain Institute on Nov 7 — looking forward to discussing how physics can illuminate brain metabolism and consciousness.
🔗 www.eventbrite.fr/e/2nd-sympos...

#PhilosophyOfScience #Physics #Neuroscience

LMU Munich is looking to fill a W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education. The role involves research, teaching, and the design of a new study program in philosophy/ethics.
Deadline: 15 Nov 2025.
Apply here: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...

The collapse of the wave function 'The collapse of the wave function' is a phrase we see constantly in relation to quantum physics. Whilst many claim to understand what it means, its true character remains unknown. A century ago, Heis...

LMU’s Alyssa Ney joins Roger Penrose & Jacob Barandes to debate one of the biggest mysteries in quantum theory: the collapse of the wave function.
🔗 iai.tv/video/the-co...

Proofs and Research Programmes: Lakatos at 100 This open access book offers new insights into issues raised in philosophy of mathematics and in philosophy of science by Imre Lakatos.

Excited to share that the volume Lakatos @ 100 has just been published (open access)! It’s a great collection on Lakatos’s legacy.

📘 Book link: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Grateful to the editors for including me!

#Lakatos #PhilosophyOfScience #Bayes #OpenAccess

Sebastian Bender I am an Assistant Professor (a tenure track "Juniorprofessor") at the Philosophy Department of University of Göttingen. Before coming to Göttingen, I held positions at Humboldt University in Berlin (w...

Thrilled to announce that Sebastian Bender is joining LMU Munich as Professor of Early Modern Philosophy. His expertise in 17th-18th c. metaphysics & epistemology (Leibniz, Spinoza, Kant) will boost our History of Philosophy section. Welcome, Sebastian! sebastianbender.net

APS Awards 2025 Patrick Suppes Prize in Philosophy of Science, largest book prize in Philosophy, to Dr. Alyssa Ney | American Philosophical Society The American Philosophical Society has awarded the 2025 Patrick Suppes Prize in Philosophy to Dr. Alyssa Ney for her book The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics (Oxford Univ...

Big congratulations to Alyssa Ney for winning the 2025 Patrick Suppes Prize in Philosophy of Science! 🎉 Her book The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics just earned the APA’s top award. #PhilosophyOfScience #QuantumPhysics #CongratsAlyssa www.amphilsoc.org/news/aps-awa...

A theory of everything will never work at all scales

Is a final theory of everything still the goal—or has science moved on? In this piece for IAI, I reflect on what effective field theories teach us about explanation, emergence, and realism.
🔗 iai.tv/articles/a-t...
#PhilosophyOfScience #EFTs #Reductionism #Emergence #Realism #ScienceThreads

It is an honour for us to welcome one of the world's leading cosmologists as #CASFellow: George Ellis (Cape Town) is joining CAS at the invitation of Andreas Burkert @origins-cluster ‪@lmumuenchen.bsky.social‬ and Stephan Hartmann @stephanhartmann.bsky.social‬ @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social‬.

Reduction and Emergence in Physics and Cosmology Workshop in the context of the CAS Research Focus

Excited to announce our upcoming workshop: Reduction and Emergence in Physics and Cosmology at LMU Munich on May 16, 2025. We’ll explore how modern physics challenges traditional reductionist views, with insights from George Ellis and LMU scholars. Details here: www.cas.lmu.de/de/veranstal...

Roman Frigg and I have revised our entry on Models in Science for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. It is now online. plato.stanford.edu/entries/mode...

QS World University Rankings for Philosophy 2025 Discover the world's top universities for Philosophy. Explore the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025 in various disciplines.

Great news from the QS World University Ranking. Just like last year LMU Munich is ranked 6th worldwide in philosophy.
www.topuniversities.com/university-s...

Entropy Entropy, an international, peer-reviewed Open Access journal.

The concepts of computation and information are becoming increasingly important. A special issue of Entropy entitled “Information-Theoretic Concepts in Physics”, which I co-edited with Michael Cuffaro, provides an overview and might be of interest to some of you.
www.mdpi.com/journal/entr...

Call for papers: LMP 2025

Always a fun conference. If you're a grad student in philosophy of logic, math, or physics, please submit!!

Please share widely.

www.logicmathphysics.uwo.ca

Andrew Stephenson - Home I am a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Southampton. I am currently on leave with a Humboldt Research Fellowship at the University of Leipzig's Forschungskolleg for Analytic German Idealism...

Great news from my faculty: Andrew Stephenson has accepted the offer of a professorship in the history of 19th and 20th century philosophy at LMU Munich. This will consolidate our research strength in the philosophy of Kant (and related topics). www.acstephenson.com

4. Christian List | The Many-Worlds Theory of Consciousness The Formal Philosophy Podcast · Episode

Just released: Interview with Professor Christian List on the Formal Philosophy Podcast on "The Many-Worlds Theory of Consciousness" (interviewers: Sylvester Kollin & Eric Chen) #philosophy #consciousness #consci open.spotify.com/episode/7z8X...

Big success for LMU at Leibniz awards Hannes Leitgeb, Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla, and Bettina Valeska Lotsch have each been given a prestigious Leibniz Prize by the German Research Foundation – the top research award in Germany.

I am delighted to share the news that Hannes Leitgeb has been awarded the Leibniz Prize by the German Research Foundation. This is the most important and prestigious research prize in Germany and Hannes has more than earned it. www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

Are you interested in formal epistemology, social epistemology and agent-based modeling and would you like to join the MCMP? Then this DFG-funded three-year postdoc position within our project ‘Argumentation in a Social Context’ might be of interest to you. job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/0...

Conferences and Workshops Read about conferences and workshops sponsored by MCPS and other affiliated units.

Thanks to Alan Love and Sander Verhaegh for organizing a wonderful conference on the past, present and future of philosophy of science at the University of Minnesota. Today we talk about the future... cla.umn.edu/mcps/researc...