New academic year -- new ISiS colloquia with many super interesting talks about AI, human-nature relations, philosophy of physics and social science, research assessment, projects at our institute etc. etc. 👩🏽‍🔬🤖📃🌳 #STS #philsci #ecology

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

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.

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.

Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy says yes!

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

Wonderful piece by James Read with a shout-out to the apparently roughly 300 philosophers of physics, @seanmcarroll.bsky.social, and the RCNP!

New 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".

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Introducing the research of ISiS members at the RCNP 👇 www.ru.nl/en/about-us/... 🙌 @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social #philphysics #philsci #HPS #histscience

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!

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.

The RCNP members during the second day of our opening conference Impossible Triangles of Thought #rcnp2025

That 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

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

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)!

Bryan Roberts urging you to be a good philosopher of physics by heeding Jeremy's call: Be a wizard! #rcnp2025

Flavio del Santo mentions guest editing work together with @bernalessel.bsky.social in his talk "The future of indeterminism looking at the past". #rcnp2025

Echoing Hilbert, James Read is settling for once and for all what the 23 most important problems in philosophy of physics are #rcnp2025

What a performance! Hard to follow for many, but not so for James Read who now kicks off the "Into the future" session! #rcnp2025

And now for something completely different: a theatre performance! ##rcnp2025

Tomasz Placek is speaking about Montague for our last session before lunch. #rcnp2025

We are back after the coffee break to listen to Lena Zuchowski‘s fascinating presentation on fundamental dimensions of (dis)order. #rcnp2025

Klaas is following up on the „Butterfield-Landsman determinism“ introduced by Hans. #rcnp2025

We continue on the theme of determinism with a great talk by Hans Halvorson. #rcnp2025

We are starting the second day of our opening conference with a talk by Kerry McKenzie on one of the center‘s main themes, determinism. #rcnp2025

The first day of our RCNP opening conference was a big success, with many inspiring talks. Here is Dennis Dieks explaining the modal interpretatie of Quantum Mechanics #rcnp2025

Now, we'll head to Huize Heyendaal for the conference banquet! We'll continue tomorrow at 9am with Kerry McKenzie kicking off the second day of our opening. #rcnp2025

Final discussion for today, amongst others, with our dear friend from Utrecht, Niels Martens, pressing Dennis for additional details and receiving surprising news (no photo of the latter, unfortunately). #rcnp2025

Dennis Lehmkuhl situating his talk in the broader context of Penrose’s results. #rcnp2025

Dennis Lehmkuhl presenting joint work with Juliusz Doboszewski and Christian Röken on the role of the analogy with optical lensing in Penrose's journey towards the singularity theorem, at the launch of the Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy #rcnp2025 philosophyofphysics.lse.ac.uk/articles/10....

Very nice discussion of Emilie's insightful presentation on visual evidence for the existence of black holes, including comments by Radboud's own expert on black holes: Heino Falcke. Next: Dennis Lehmkuhl! #rcnp2025

What promises to be a beautiful talk, by Emilie Skulberg #rcnp2025

Dimmed lights for the next lecture by Emilie Skulberg on supermassive black holes! #rcnp2025

We are delighted to welcome so many friends and colleagues to our opening in Nijmegen. #rcnp2025

We kick off the black hole session with Jeroen van Dongen and Klaas Landsman on the history of Hawking radiation

Lunch break is over and the roughly 70 participants are back in the lecture hall to hear Jeroen van Dongen presenting joint work with Klaas Landsman on Hawking and the history of black hole radiation. #rcnp2025

Jos dedicates his talk to his mentor Jan Hilgevoord who passed away this morning at the age of 97.

Besides insights from the history and philosophy of physics, Jos has some very interesting stories about Bell and others who attended the Erice Conference 1989! #rcnp2025

Boosting to #philsci.

Can you spot familiar faces? #rcnp2025

And the final "superhero" is another member of the Utrecht crew, Jos Uffink

Now Jos Uffink on "The Erice Conference 1989, 60 Years of Uncertainty"

Moving on to the second "superhero" on the schedule, our own Dennis Dieks

Now we have 4 minutes for questions. Quite a schedule! #rcnp2025

Join us for the first lecture by the great Jeremy Butterfield.

3.. 2.. 1.. The RCNP opens by constructing what was thought impossible! #rcnp2025