Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson: Science and Philosophy

Live Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson on Bilkent Philosophy YouTube Channel.

Wednesday, August 25, 2021 18:00 (GMT+3)

Tufan Kıymaz will be conducting an interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson on the relation between science and philosophy.

The interview will be aired live on Bilkent Philosophy YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzij4ZE6X-bu1d9t6DJhlLA 

We are collecting questions for this event. If you have any questions for Neil deGrasse Tyson about the relation between science and philosophy, you can let us know via tufan.kiymaz@bilkent.edu.tr. We will choose some of them for the live interview.

eil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, planetary scientist, author, and science communicator. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University. From 1991 to 1994, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. In 1996, he became director of the Hayden Planetarium and oversaw its $210 million reconstruction project, which was completed in 2000. Since 1996, he has been the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. The center is part of the American Museum of Natural History, where Tyson founded the Department of Astrophysics in 1997 and has been a research associate in the department since 2003.

From 1995 to 2005, Tyson wrote monthly essays in the “Universe” column for Natural History magazine, some of which were later published in his books Death by Black Hole (2007) and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (2017). During the same period, he wrote a monthly column in StarDate magazine, answering questions about the universe under the pen name “Merlin”. Material from the column appeared in his books Merlin’s Tour of the Universe (1998) and Just Visiting This Planet (1998). Tyson served on a 2001 government commission on the future of the U.S. aerospace industry and on the 2004 Moon, Mars and Beyond commission. He was awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal in the same year. From 2006 to 2011, he hosted the television show NOVA ScienceNow on PBS. Since 2009, Tyson has hosted the weekly podcast StarTalk. A spin-off, also called StarTalk, began airing on National Geographic in 2015. In 2014, he hosted the television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, a successor to Carl Sagan’s 1980 series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences awarded Tyson the Public Welfare Medal in 2015 for his “extraordinary role in exciting the public about the wonders of science”.

CFA: Int. Workshop on Improved Theoretical Structures in the Empirical Social and Behavioral Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey (deadline: 1 Sept 2021)

Fri to Sun, 8-10 October 2021

Bogazici University (BOUN), Istanbul, Turkey
https://mtrboun.wordpress.com/2021/07/27/its-2021/

Call for Abstracts and Discussants

We invite submissions of abstracts (for online or on-site presentation) that address the need for improved theoretical structures in the empirical social and behavioral sciences. Please submit either (i) your own scholarly work or (ii) your reasoned response to a draft by this research group (https://osf.io/zue4h).

Under (i), preference is given to presentations of reconstructed theoretical structures, proposals for new structures, and explanatory accounts why such structures are rare today, as evaluated by the organizers. (The prior probability of acceptance is independent of the type of submission.)

Format
Presentations last 20 minutes plus 20 minutes for discussion. We expect at least 10 active participants, plus audience members, meeting from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon, preferably on-site, with online participation possible.

Submission

Please indicate the title and content of your presentation in a max 500-word abstract, prepared for blind reviewing, and submitted on or before 1 September 2021 at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=its20210. (References do not count towards the word limit). 

Bursaries
The project hosts invited participants, covering their accommodation (at least 3 nights) and a dinner. Travel bursaries are available for invited junior scholars (within 7 years of obtaining their PhD). All other participants are expected to cover their own travel costs.

Local Organisers
Ayça Akan, Ecenaz Bal, Irmak Ergin, Frank Zenker & The MTR group

Venue
Boğaziçi University
South Campus, Bebek
34342 Istanbul, Turkey
https://goo.gl/maps/hBmsAxCpL5fdSX4MA

Important dates
Submission deadline (abstracts & discussants): 1 September 2021
Invitations sent: 7 September 2021
Registration deadline: 1 October 2021
Workshop: Fri-Sun 8-10 October 2021

Funder
TUBITAK
https://www.tubitak.gov.tr/en