Huw Price, Kristie Miller, Dean Rickles and Alex Holcombe have been awarded a Templeton Grant for their project New Agendas for the Study of Time: Connecting the Disciplines. The award will be worth a little over $1.5 million over three years. It will enable the project to advertise four full time research positions at USYD in the Centre for TIme, a small grants program, and three major international conferences in Sydney, Cambridge and Capetown.
Friday, November 18, 2011
SCFS funding success
Here are the details of the latest ARC successes at Sydney in history and philosophy of science and medicine:
ARC Laureate Fellowship (2011–2016) awarded to
Prof Warwick Anderson for the project Southern Racial Conceptions: Comparative Histories and Contemporary Legacies
($2,120,561)
ARC Future Fellowships (2011–2015) awarded to
Prof Mark Colyvan for the project Mathematical Explanation
($788,424)
Dr Ivan Crozier (currently at the University of Edinburgh) for the project Culture-bound Syndromes, Koro, and the Emergence of 'Cosmopolitan' Psychiatry
($678,914)
ARC Discovery Early Career Research Awards (2012–2014) to
Dr Victor Boantza for the project The Making of the Modern Chemist: Struggles within Enlightenment Science
($375,000)
Dr Eric Cavalcanti (currently at Griffith University) for the project The Structure of Nonclassicality and the Foundations of Quantum Theory
($375,000)
ARC Discovery Grants (2012–2014):
Prof Warwick Anderson (with Ian MacKay)
Disease and the Modern Self: Becoming Autoimmune
($145,000)
Prof Mark Colyvan
Mathematical Notation: A Philosophical Account
($150,000)
Dr Dominic Murphy
The Structure and Function of Self-representation
($122,000)
This all adds up to a grand total of just over $4.7 million ($4,754,899) from the various ARC schemes in the last few months; this figure is over $6 million when we add Prof Huw Price's Templeton grant (see above post). Congratulations to all!
ARC Laureate Fellowship (2011–2016) awarded to
Prof Warwick Anderson for the project Southern Racial Conceptions: Comparative Histories and Contemporary Legacies
($2,120,561)
ARC Future Fellowships (2011–2015) awarded to
Prof Mark Colyvan for the project Mathematical Explanation
($788,424)
Dr Ivan Crozier (currently at the University of Edinburgh) for the project Culture-bound Syndromes, Koro, and the Emergence of 'Cosmopolitan' Psychiatry
($678,914)
ARC Discovery Early Career Research Awards (2012–2014) to
Dr Victor Boantza for the project The Making of the Modern Chemist: Struggles within Enlightenment Science
($375,000)
Dr Eric Cavalcanti (currently at Griffith University) for the project The Structure of Nonclassicality and the Foundations of Quantum Theory
($375,000)
ARC Discovery Grants (2012–2014):
Prof Warwick Anderson (with Ian MacKay)
Disease and the Modern Self: Becoming Autoimmune
($145,000)
Prof Mark Colyvan
Mathematical Notation: A Philosophical Account
($150,000)
Dr Dominic Murphy
The Structure and Function of Self-representation
($122,000)
This all adds up to a grand total of just over $4.7 million ($4,754,899) from the various ARC schemes in the last few months; this figure is over $6 million when we add Prof Huw Price's Templeton grant (see above post). Congratulations to all!
Friday, November 4, 2011
SCFS ARC success
Congratulations to the following SCFS researchers, who were recently awarded Discovery grant funding from the Australian Research Council.
Prof Warwick Anderson (with Ian MacKay)
Disease and the modern self: becoming autoimmune
Prof Mark Colyvan
Mathematical notation: a philosophical account
Dr Dominic Murphy
The structure and function of self-representation
Total amount awarded is $417,000.00
Prof Warwick Anderson (with Ian MacKay)
Disease and the modern self: becoming autoimmune
Prof Mark Colyvan
Mathematical notation: a philosophical account
Dr Dominic Murphy
The structure and function of self-representation
Total amount awarded is $417,000.00
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
2012-13 Visiting Fellowships at the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science
We are currently inviting applications for one-semester visiting fellowships at The University of Sydney, for either second semester (August to November) 2012 or first semester (February to May) 2013. This program is associated with The Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science (SCFS), a research centre sponsoring work into the logical, philosophical, and historical foundations of science (further details below). We are hoping to receive applications from leading historians and philosophers of science (including the special sciences and biomedical sciences) at any post-PhD career stage. This is the fifth round of such fellowships and we anticipate being able to offer them each year.
Up to four fellowships are available, and each fellowship will come with a travelling allowance of up to AUD 6,000. These fellowships will provide opportunities for academics on sabbatical from their home institution to spend a semester in a productive and collegial research environment (in a beautiful city), to work with members of the SCFS and with other visiting fellows. It is important that the applicant has a position at their home institution that extends beyond the term of the intended stay in Sydney and is on salary from their home institution for the duration of their intended stay. The allowance is to help offset some of the travelling and living-away-from-home expenses; it is not a salary. The successful applicants will be expected to work on a specific research project that is of interest to members of the SCFS. One of the aims of the SCFS is to strengthen international links in history and philosophy of science, so expressions of interest from researchers outside Australia are particularly encouraged.
Applications should including a cover letter, a CV, and a brief outline of the proposed research project (including why you wish to pursue the research at the University of Sydney and which members of the SCFS team you anticipate collaborating with). Applications should be sent (preferably electronically) to:
Dr Rodney Taveira
Administrative Officer
Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry
A14, Main Quadrangle
University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW, 2006
Australia
Email: rodney.taveira@sydney.edu.au
by 14th November 2010. Applicants will be informed of decisions by 19th December 2010.
ABOUT THE SYDNEY CENTRE FOR THE FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE
The SCFS is an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Sydney. We draw together researchers from philosophy, history, history and philosophy of science, science and medicine, with research concentrations in and around foundations of physics, decision theory, history and philosophy of biology, history of early modern science, history of medicine, and decision theory. Senior members of the SCFS include, Warwick Anderson, Stephen Bartlett, Alison Bashford, David Braddon-Mitchell, Mark Colyvan, Clio Cresswell, Ofer Gal, Stephen Garton, Stephen Gaukroger, Paul Griffiths, Ian Kerridge, Dominic Murphy, Maureen O’Malley, Hans Pols, Huw Price, Dean Rickles, Nick Smith, and Karola Stotz. We also have a number of mid-career and junior faculty, as well as several postdoctoral fellows and graduate students associated with the SCFS. Further details can be found on our website: http://sydney.edu.au/foundations_of_science/
Please feel free to pass on this announcement to anyone who might be interested. Thanks.
Up to four fellowships are available, and each fellowship will come with a travelling allowance of up to AUD 6,000. These fellowships will provide opportunities for academics on sabbatical from their home institution to spend a semester in a productive and collegial research environment (in a beautiful city), to work with members of the SCFS and with other visiting fellows. It is important that the applicant has a position at their home institution that extends beyond the term of the intended stay in Sydney and is on salary from their home institution for the duration of their intended stay. The allowance is to help offset some of the travelling and living-away-from-home expenses; it is not a salary. The successful applicants will be expected to work on a specific research project that is of interest to members of the SCFS. One of the aims of the SCFS is to strengthen international links in history and philosophy of science, so expressions of interest from researchers outside Australia are particularly encouraged.
Applications should including a cover letter, a CV, and a brief outline of the proposed research project (including why you wish to pursue the research at the University of Sydney and which members of the SCFS team you anticipate collaborating with). Applications should be sent (preferably electronically) to:
Dr Rodney Taveira
Administrative Officer
Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry
A14, Main Quadrangle
University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW, 2006
Australia
Email: rodney.taveira@sydney.edu.au
by 14th November 2010. Applicants will be informed of decisions by 19th December 2010.
ABOUT THE SYDNEY CENTRE FOR THE FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE
The SCFS is an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Sydney. We draw together researchers from philosophy, history, history and philosophy of science, science and medicine, with research concentrations in and around foundations of physics, decision theory, history and philosophy of biology, history of early modern science, history of medicine, and decision theory. Senior members of the SCFS include, Warwick Anderson, Stephen Bartlett, Alison Bashford, David Braddon-Mitchell, Mark Colyvan, Clio Cresswell, Ofer Gal, Stephen Garton, Stephen Gaukroger, Paul Griffiths, Ian Kerridge, Dominic Murphy, Maureen O’Malley, Hans Pols, Huw Price, Dean Rickles, Nick Smith, and Karola Stotz. We also have a number of mid-career and junior faculty, as well as several postdoctoral fellows and graduate students associated with the SCFS. Further details can be found on our website: http://sydney.edu.au/foundations_of_science/
Please feel free to pass on this announcement to anyone who might be interested. Thanks.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Congratulations, Warwick!
Warwick Anderson has received a prestigious and highly competitive Laureate Fellowship from the Australian Research Council for a project looking at, says Warwick, "scientific debates around what it meant to be human in the southern hemisphere in the 20th century, placing Australian racial thought in a new context."
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
John Wilkins at Scientific American
John has a guest blog entry on evolution and truth on the Scientific American site. Click here to read.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Blackheath Philosophy Forum lectures by SCFS members
Recent lectures by SCFS members to the Blackheath Philosophy Forum:
Arthur Eddington and Time's Arrow, Huw Price
How Evolution Selects for truth, Paul Griffiths
Available online at:
http://www.blackheathphilosophy.com.au/2011%20blackheath%20archive.html
Arthur Eddington and Time's Arrow, Huw Price
How Evolution Selects for truth, Paul Griffiths
Available online at:
http://www.blackheathphilosophy.com.au/2011%20blackheath%20archive.html
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