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Caspar Jacobs, Marta Bielinska Winners of Du Châtelet Prize 2023 08 November 2023The Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics is awarded annually for previously unpublished work in philosophy of physics by a graduate student or j...
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Lukas Verburgt wins KNAW early career award 23 November 2021Dr. Lukas Verburgt, guest researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, has received an Early Career Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and...
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The usefulness of science: ‘Room for exchanging questions, values and ideas' 07 May 2021Is scientific research useful? In his dissertation, Jorrit Smit argues that in order to answer this question one should not look at, for example, prom...
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Digital guest lectures for high school students: 'Focus on what's really important' 23 April 2021Developing a digital guest lecture for high school students. Jan Sleutels was immediately enthusiastic when he got asked to do this. The end result? T...
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Academic Director Douglas Berger: ‘I want to help my fellow philosophers flourish’ 19 March 2021The Institute for Philosophy has a new Academic Director: on 1 February, James McAllister was succeeded by Douglas Berger. We asked him about his plans.