Events

The RCNP organises a weekly research seminar, workshops, and various other events which can be found on this page.

RCNP Research Seminar

The weekly research seminar (see schedule) takes place in person in the RCNP office 18.02 in the Erasmus building, but can also be attended online and is open to researchers and students from Radboud University and other universities. For questions or if you wish to join, just send an email to rcnp@ru.nl.

Further upcoming events

22 September 2026 (12:30 CET) ISiS colloquium by Alice Murphy (U St Andrews) on Aesthetic and Moral Values in Science.

29 October 2026 (16:00 CET) Katherine Brading will give an online lecture as part of the Quarterly Lectures on Philosophy of Science.

24 November 2026 (12:30 CET) ISiS colloquium by Rasmus Jaksland (NTNU Trondheim) on Is Quantum Mechanics Epistemically Relevant for Social Theorizing?.

24–25 November 2026 Workshop Fundamentality in Physics and Metaphysics.

Past events

4 June 2026 (16:00 CEST) John D. Norton spoke about his new book small-e empiricism as part of the Quarterly Lectures on Philosophy of Science.

12 December 2025 (16:00 CET) Olimpia Lombardi spoke about Modal-Hamiltonian Interpretation of quantum mechanics: Making sense of the quantum world as part of the Quarterly Lectures on Philosophy of Science.

Fall 2025: Reading Group on Foundations of QFT in Curved Spacetimes. In the 2025 Oxford Michaelmas term the QFT^2 reading group focused on QFT in curved spacetimes. Sessions took place on Fridays at 16:00 UK time and ran from 17 October to 5 December.

On 4 June 2025 Jill North spoke about Losing an i: On the Naturalness of Complex Numbers for Quantum Mechanics as part of the Quarterly Lectures on Philosophy of Science (see here).

On 9–10 January 2025 we finally celebrated the official launch of the RCNP under the title “Impossible triangles of thought”. All recordings are now online.

On 29 November and 6 December 2024 Roman Frigg and Angela Potochnik presented at the Quarterly Lectures on Philosophy of Science (additional info here).

On 4 October 2024 we hosted the fourth HPP-NL workshop (see programme). Including online participation, we welcomed about 30 colleagues from the Netherlands and abroad.

On 6–8 September 2024 the yearly Weekend Seminar on Philosophy of Physics took place at Radboud University. We welcomed roughly 25 international physics and/or philosophy undergraduate students at Radboud.

On 8 April 2024 Klaas Landsman and Marij van Strien talked about chaos and randomness at the philosophical cafe in Nijmegen.