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  • Natural Philosophy Symposium 2025

    Baltimore Marriott Waterfront 700 Aliceanna St, Baltimore, United States

    The Natural Philosophy Forum will be hosting an international symposium, May 29-31 2025, covering a variety of topics under the Natural Philosophy umbrella. Details here.

  • Third Annual Distinguished Lecture: Alison Gopnik

    Glass Pavillion Levering Hall, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

    Alison Gopnik, UC Berkeley 7:00pm, Glass Pavilion, Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus The Evolution of Human Intelligences: Exploit, Explore, Empower A common model of AI suggests that there is a single measure of intelligence, often called AGI, and that AI systems are agents who can possess more or less of this intelligence. Cognitive science, in contrast, […]

  • Work in Progress Seminar: John MacNeill Miller

    288 Gilman

    John MacNeill Miller is the author of The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science. Title: The Poetics of Science Abstract: When it comes to categorizing knowledge, academic institutions are divided—and increasingly unclear about what their divisional categories even are or should be. Terms with long institutional histories (the arts and sciences; the […]

  • Seminar: Heather Demarest

    217 Maryland Hall Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

    Heather Demarest is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Title: "Macrostates, Natural Kinds, and Statistical Mechanics" Abstract: The second law of thermodynamics states that entropy (almost) always increases over time. However, different systems do this in very different ways. In some systems, like boxes of gas, entropy increases smoothly and uniformly. […]

  • Fourth Annual Distinguished Lecture: P. James Peebles

    272 Bloomberg Center for Physics & Astronomy 3701 San Martin Dr, Baltimore, MD, United States

    P. James Peebles, Princeton University. The Physicists’ Philosophy of Physics Abstract: I will argue that physicists share an implicit but well-defined way of thinking that amounts to a  philosophy, though one that I expect is more tightly prescriptive than many discussed by real philosophers. The physicists’ philosophy differs from that of the other natural sciences […]