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Geneva Centre for Philosophy of Science
The Geneva Centre for Philosophy of Science promotes discussions among philosophers and scientists on various topics including new theoretical and methodological developments of science, its history and its practice and their relation to the philosophical questions of epistemic, ontological and metaphysical nature.
The Centre is co-directed by Professor Marcel Weber and by Professor Christian Wüthrich leading respectively the following groups
lake geneva BIOLOGICAL INTEREST GROUP (lgBIG)
Our members are based in different institutions at the Universities of Geneva, Lausanne, Bern, and Milan and we organise conferences, seminars, workshops and other events with groups from leading universities around the world.
Members in Geneva
Department of Philosophy
Augustin Baas (Geneva)
William Bausman (Geneva)
Lorenzo Casini (Geneva)
Pablo Carnino (Geneva)
Karen Crowther (Geneva)
Michal Hladky (Geneva)
Maximilian Huber (Geneva)
Baptiste Le Bihan (Geneva)
Niels Linnemann (Geneva)
Andrea Loettgers (Geneva)
Guillaume Schlaepfer (Geneva)
Raphael Scholl (Geneva)
Marcel Weber (Geneva)
Christian Wüthrich (Geneva)
Other departments
Bruno Strasser (Geneva)
External members
Christine Clavien (Geneva)
Michael Esfeld (Lausanne)
Pierre-Luc Germain (Milan)
Marie I. Kaiser (Cologne)
François Pellet (Münster)
Christian Sachse (Lausanne)
Pietro Snider (Basel)
Our research projects
From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics
sinergia project : Grounding – Metaphysics, Science, and Logic
What if? : Counterfactual Thinking and Thought Experiments
Beyond Spacetime - Philosophy of quantum gravity (Christian Wüthrich, Nick Huggett)
Southern California Philosophy of Physics Group
Inferentialism, Bayesianism and Scientific Explanation
Kindred groups
University of Minnesota Biological Interest Group
University of Exeter Biological Interest Group
Visit us
If you are interested in cooperation or participation to the activities of the Geneva Centre for Philosophy of Science, please do not hesitate to contact either Professor Marcel Weber or Professor Christian Wüthrich.
Calendar of events
18 June - 1 July 2017
Alberta, Canada
Summer Institute
From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics: Practices of Individuation and Classification in Science
Talks, Presentations
14 June 2017
Bastions, B101
Quodlibeta special
Bas van Fraassen (Princeton)
After Hempel's Dilemma: On the Evidence of Things Unseen
WEDNESDAYS 12h15 - 13h45
Bastions/Aile Jura, A206
Philosophy of Science seminar
WEDNESDAYS 18h00 - 19h45
Landolt L107
Beyond Spacetime seminars
Bastions, B002
Geneva Symmetry Group meetings
Past events
Basel
2016 Summer Institute: Reconceiving and Explaining the Success of Science (Details)
5-9 September 2016
Klosternburg/Vienna
EASPLS : Function and Malfunction in Biology and the Social Sciences (CFP)
13-14 September 2016
Geneva
Ground in Philosophy of Science - Society for the Metaphysics of Science - Satellite Conference (CFP)
15-17 September 2016
Geneva
Society for the Metaphysics of Science - 2nd Annual Conference (CFP)
1 December 2015, 12:15
28 October 2015, 16:15
Daniele Oriti (Albert Einstein Institute, Golm):
If space and time are emergent (in quantum gravity), what is cosmology?
2, Rue De-Candolle, Room L107
21 October 2015, 16:15
Michael Esfeld (Lausanne):
Relationalism about space-time and the essence of matter
2, Rue De-Candolle, Room L107
7 October 2015, 16:15
Vincent Lam (Lausanne) (and Christian Wüthrich, Geneva):
Functional emergence of spacetime in quantum gravity
2, Rue De-Candolle, Room L107