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Surrogate Reasoning Workshop Program

The final program for our workshop on “Surrogate Reasoning in Philosophy and Science” at the Australian National University is now set:

Monday, 16 August

9:30-9:45 Coffee, Introduction and Welcome

9:45-11:15
Daniel Nolan: “Epistemological Advantages and Disadvantages for Fictionalism”

11:15-11:30 Coffee

11:30-12:45
John Matthewson: “Why the Dispute Over Model Ontology is Largely Verbal, and how We Ought to Resolve It”

12:45-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30
Magdalena Balcerak Jackson: [...]

Dr. Miguel Hoeltje joining the group

Dr. Miguel Hoeltje has just accepted an offer to become a postdoctoral research fellow with our group. Miguel’s primary research interests are in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of logic, and he also has interests in the philosophy of mind and action, philosophy of science, metaphysics, logic and Frege. His doctoral dissertation was [...]

Dr. Jacek Brzozowski joining the group

Dr. Jacek Brzozowski has just accepted a position as postdoctoral research fellow with our group. Jacek works primarily in metaphysics, and has interests in the philosophy of mind and epistemology. His doctoral dissertation, Location, Parts and Properties concerns metaphysical accounts of the spatiotemporal locations of composite material objects. As part of his work with our [...]

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Position Available

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2 years)

Starting date: 1. September 2010 or soon thereafter

Salary Level: TV-L E13, appr. 37000 – 44000 Euro per year

We are currently seeking applications for a 2-year postdoctoral research fellow position. The successful candidate will be employed and based at the University of Cologne, and will be expected to carry out original work [...]

Wolfgang heading to Australia

Wolfgang Schwarz has accepted a post-doctoral position at the Philosophy Program of the Research School for Social Sciences, Australian National University. He’ll be leaving the Emmy Noether Group at the end of June. We wish him great success in his new position!

Surrogate Reasoning in Philosophy and Science

Workshop at the Australian National University
August 16-17, 2010
co-organized with Michael Weisberg (Pennsylvania)
and Daniel Stoljar (ANU)

Preparations are underway for a workshop to take place at the Philosophy Program RSSS, Australian National University, co-organized with Daniel Stoljar and Michael Weisberg. The workshop will bring together philosophers of science and researchers in metaphysics and epistemology to discuss “surrogate [...]

Workshop on the A Priori

New Research on the A Priori (14-15 May)

We’re very pleased to announce that we’ve just finalized the dates for an intensive research workshop focusing on new work on the a priori. The workshop will feature presentations by:

Magdalena Balcerak Jackson (Cologne)

Yuri Cath (Arché, St. Andrews)

Daniel Cohnitz (Tartu)

Jonathan Ichikawa (Arché, St. Andrews)

Carrie Jenkins (Nottingham)

Thomas Krödel (Konstanz)

This is [...]

Prize for Magdalena

Great news! Magdalena has just received word that she’s been awarded the Offermann-Hergarten-Stiftung Prize for her book, Intentional Horizons: The Mind from an Epistemic Point of View (Mentis 2009). Her book was selected from submissions by members of the University of Cologne from across all the disciplines of the humanities. In addition to recognition for [...]

New Webpage

Welcome to our new webpage! We’ve re-designed the pages, and have added some new information about the people involved in our project, as well as about upcoming events. We hope you find it useful.

Symposium with Scott Soames

Symposium with Scott Soames (17-20 May)

We are very pleased that Scott Soames (University of Southern California) has agreed to come to Cologne to participate in a symposium on “Meaning, Modality and Apriority” on 17-20 May, 2010. The symposium will comprise a graduate conference (17-18 May) with Soames as the keynote speaker, followed by a [...]

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