The Science for Policy and the Public Certificate is an interdisciplinary certificate program designed to provide learners with foundational knowledge in...

Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Philosophy of Mathematical Physics

Trump has killed the postwar social contract, but its demise was long in the making. To protect science as a public good, we need a different approach.

Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - The Philosophy of Time Reversal

Determinism is (roughly) the thesis that the past determines the future. But efforts to define it precisely have exposed deep methodological disagreements. Standard possible-worlds formulations of de...

Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Classical and Quantum Phase Space Mechanics

A guest post by (philosopher) Jim Weatherall and (mathematician) Jesse Wolfson

Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Philosophy of Cosmology and Astrophysics

A writer’s world is often invisible from the outside unless they let you in. Sometimes when a sentence, paragraph, or essay strikes you as forceful or elegant, you might try to reverse engineer the au...

A number of challenging questions arise in contemporary cosmology, and philosophers can contribute constructively to answering them. Over the past century cosmologists have debated whether, for exampl...

To restore public trust and prepare for the next pandemic, we need a reckoning with the U.S. experience—what worked, and what didn’t.

Trump is an agent of chaos, and chaos has a human cost.

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The International Centre for Theory of Quantum Technologies (ICTQT) at […]

Talks from the workshop "Symmetry and Structure", hosted by the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine. 27-28 ...

Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Why Do We Want a Theory of Quantum Gravity?

Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Gauge Theory and the Geometrisation of Physics

Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Causation in Physics

The social dynamics of “alternative facts”: why what you believe depends on who you know“Empowering and thoroughly researched, this book offers useful ...

Discussions of misinformation have tended to focus on lies, fraud, conspiracy theories, and inaccurate content more generally. But curation - the processes whereby just some accurate information is se...