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Deadline: 15 January 2015 http://goo.gl/r8sxk1 Job: Assistant Professor of Science Communication, Michigan State University. The position will be appointed jointly in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science (HPS) group in Lyman Briggs College (75%) and in either the School of Journalism or the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (25%). Deadline: 6 January 2015. http://philjobs.org/job/show/3520 Postdoc: Presidential Fellows in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University. For researchers who have earned the doctorate, or its equivalent, in a humanities or social science discipline and who have extensive acquaintance with and critical understanding of neuroscience research. Deadline: 15 January 2015. http://goo.gl/FSxqfi Postdoc: The Rotman Institute of Philosophy (at Western University) is inviting applications for three Postdoctoral Fellowships in Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Neuroscience (in collaboration with Western's Brain and Mind Institute), and Foundations of Physics. Deadline: 15 January 2015. http://goo.gl/otNaah Postdoc: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh. The Fellowship is to support a scholar with a clearly defined monograph project in some area of the history of science or history and philosophy of science. Deadline: 15 February 2015. http://goo.gl/xY9maf Summer School: "Life on Earth and Beyond – The History and Philosophy of the Origin of Life," Island of Ven, Sweden, 4-6 May 2015. The summer school is open for students and scientists in humanities, natural, social and political sciences. Deadline: 15 January 2015. http://goo.gl/ZU02XC Workshop: "Fostering Critical Thinking and Reflective Practice in Times of Crisis," New England Workshop on Science and Social Change, Woods Hole, MA, 23-27 May 2015. Applications are sought from teachers, researchers, graduate students, and activists who are interested in facilitating discussion, reflection, avid learning, and clarifying one's identity and affinities in relation to the workshop topic. Deadline: 31 January 2015. http://sicw.wikispaces.com/newssc15 Call for Papers: "Philosophy of Science," Fourth Annual Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, University of Calgary, 13-14 March 2015. Applications from philosophy of biology, physics, chemistry, neuroscience, social science, and philosophy of mathematics will be welcomed. Deadline: 1 January 2015. http://goo.gl/bUu0bs Call for Abstracts: 15th Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Helsinki, 3-8 August 2015. Deadline: 9 January 2015. http://clmps.helsinki.fi/cfp.php Call for Abstracts: "The Origin of Life," Second Conference on History and Philosophy of Astrobiology, Höör, Sweden, 8-10 May 2015. This history and philosophy of science conference focuses on the transition from non-living to living matter, on how chemical processes evolve into biological ones, on the onset of biological evolution as well as the tree of life. http://goo.gl/CY5wMf Call for Abstracts: 8th Congress of the International Symbiosis Society, University of Lisbon, 12-18 July 2015. Historians and philosophy of biology may be particularly interested in the session "Reticulate Evolution Before and After the Modern Synthesis: Historical and Epistemological Perspectives and Wider Applications Beyond Traditional Fields." Deadline: 1 April 2015. http://goo.gl/K5lXYz Book: Peter Taylor, *Nature-Nurture? No: Moving the Sciences of Variation and Heredity Beyond the Gaps.* http://goo.gl/RxsNFa Book: *Classification, Disease, and Evidence: New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine.* Ed. 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