Professor Peter Vickers

British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship
2019

Description I held a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship from 2019-21, with the project 'Can We Identify Future-Proof Science?'

URL https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/mid-career-fellowships/past-awards/2019/

Description	<p>I held a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship from 2019-21, with the project 'Can We Identify Future-Proof Science?'</p>
URL	https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/mid-career-fellowships/past-awards/2019/

CLMPST invited speaker
2023

Description I am an invited speaker at the 17th edition of the International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology, with the theme 'Science and Values in an Uncertain World'.

URL https://clmpst2023.dc.uba.ar/invited-speakers

Description	<p>I am an invited speaker at the <span>17th edition of the International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology, with the theme 'Science and Values in an Uncertain World'.</span></p>
URL	https://clmpst2023.dc.uba.ar/invited-speakers

Plenary speaker at BSPS conference 2023
2023

URL https://www.thebsps.org/news/bsps-2023-annual-conference-5-7-july/

URL	https://www.thebsps.org/news/bsps-2023-annual-conference-5-7-july/

Invited presentation at The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge
2022

Description I presented at an event series entitled 'The Role of Uncertainty in Mathematical Modelling of Pandemics'

URL https://gateway.newton.ac.uk/event/tgm110

Description	<p>I presented at an event series entitled 'The Role of Uncertainty in Mathematical Modelling of Pandemics'</p>
URL	https://gateway.newton.ac.uk/event/tgm110

Keynote speaker in Israel
2022

Description I am a keynote speaker at 'The Future of the Past', a conference at the Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.

URL https://philevents.org/event/show/99714

Description	<p>I am a keynote speaker at 'The Future of the Past', a conference at t<span>he Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,</span><br><span>Jerusalem, Israel.</span></p>
URL	https://philevents.org/event/show/99714

Associate Editor of the BJPS
2022

Description In 2022 I took up the role of Associate Editor at the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

URL https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/bjps/about

Description	<p>In 2022 I took up the role of Associate Editor at the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.</p>
URL	https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/bjps/about

Invited plenary address in Poland
2022

Description Invited plenary address, at ‘Philosophical Perspectives on Sciences’, an international conference celebrating the 550th anniversary of the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus, at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland. 

URL https://ppshypothesis.umk.pl/pages/main_page/

Description	<p><span>Invited plenary address, at ‘Philosophical Perspectives on Sciences’, an international conference celebrating the 550th anniversary of the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus, at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland. </span></p>
URL	https://ppshypothesis.umk.pl/pages/main_page/

Invited presentation at the Center for Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh
2021

Description <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9QDqwZS704">I</a>nvited presentation at the Center for Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh, USA: 'Identifying Future-Proof Science'.

URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9QDqwZS704

Description	<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9QDqwZS704">I</a>nvited presentation at the Center for Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh, USA: 'Identifying Future-Proof Science'.</p>
URL	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9QDqwZS704

Leverhulme Research Project grant
2021

Description From 2021-24 I am leading a Leverhulme-funded project entitled Exploring Uncertainty and Risk in Contemporary Astrobiology, or ‘EURiCA’.

URL https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/humanities-engaging-science-society/research/eurica-project-leverhulme/

Description	<p>From 2021-24 I am leading a Leverhulme-funded project entitled <span>Exploring Uncertainty and Risk in Contemporary Astrobiology, or ‘EURiCA’.</span></p>
URL	https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/humanities-engaging-science-society/research/eurica-project-leverhulme/

Talk at NASA
2019

Description Invitation to speak at NASA Goddard on the topic 'Expecting the unexpected in the search for alien life'.

URL https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/seminars/exoplanetclub.html

Description	<p>Invitation to speak at NASA Goddard on the topic 'Expecting the unexpected in the search for alien life'.</p>
URL	https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/seminars/exoplanetclub.html

Associate Editor of Studies
2018

Description I was Associate Editor of the journal Studies in History and Philosophy of Science from 2018-2022.

URL https://www.journals.elsevier.com/studies-in-history-and-philosophy-of-science-part-a

Description	<p>I was Associate Editor of the journal <em>Studies in History and Philosophy of Science </em>from 2018-2022.</p>
URL	https://www.journals.elsevier.com/studies-in-history-and-philosophy-of-science-part-a

Invitation to UNAM, Mexico
2017

Description In February 2017 I was invited to UNAM, Mexico City, to deliver two <a href="http://www.filosoficas.unam.mx/sitio/historical-challenges-to-scientific-realism">graduate seminars</a> and two <a href="http://www.filosoficas.unam.mx/sitio/trusting-incomprehensible-metaphysics">research presentations</a>, with a focus on my book Understanding Inconsistent Science.

URL https://www.afm-ac.mx/evento/peter-vickers-durham-university-en-mexico/

Description	<p>In February 2017 I was invited to UNAM, Mexico City, to deliver two <a href="http://www.filosoficas.unam.mx/sitio/historical-challenges-to-scientific-realism">graduate seminars</a> and two <a href="http://www.filosoficas.unam.mx/sitio/trusting-incomprehensible-metaphysics">research presentations</a>, with a focus on my book <em>Understanding Inconsistent Science</em>.</p>
URL	https://www.afm-ac.mx/evento/peter-vickers-durham-university-en-mexico/

Keynote lecture in Nottingham
2017

Description I was invited to deliver a keynote lecture at the 13th Annual UK Integrated History and Philosophy of Science Workshop, held in Nottingham 20th-22nd June 2017.

URL https://sites.google.com/site/dfl2ijk/events/ihps2017-1

Description	<p>I was invited to deliver a keynote lecture at the 13<sup>th</sup> Annual UK Integrated History and Philosophy of Science Workshop, held in Nottingham 20<sup>th</sup>-22<sup>nd</sup> June 2017.</p>
URL	https://sites.google.com/site/dfl2ijk/events/ihps2017-1

AHRC Research Grant
2014

Description In 2014 I was awarded an AHRC Research Grant for a 42 month project (ending 31st January 2018) entitled 'Contemporary Scientific Realism and the Challenge from the History of Science'. This major project follows on directly from the success of the pilot project conducted in 2012, and builds directly on the issues explored in my 2013 paper 'A Confrontation of Convergent Realism'. The project is a collaboration with (Co-I) Timothy Lyons, based at Indiana University-Purdue University Indiansapolis (IUPUI), in the United States. Several international events are planned over the next few years as part of the project.

URL http://community.dur.ac.uk/evaluating.realism/

Description	<p>In 2014 I was awarded an AHRC Research Grant for a 42 month project (ending 31st January 2018) entitled 'Contemporary Scientific Realism and the Challenge from the History of Science'. This major project follows on directly from the success of the pilot project conducted in 2012, and builds directly on the issues explored in my 2013 paper 'A Confrontation of Convergent Realism'. The project is a collaboration with (Co-I) Timothy Lyons, based at Indiana University-Purdue University Indiansapolis (IUPUI), in the United States. Several international events are planned over the next few years as part of the project.</p>
URL	http://community.dur.ac.uk/evaluating.realism/

AHRC Exploratory Award
2012

Description In 2012 I received an AHRC Science in Culture Scheme Exploratory Award for a six-month project exploring the possibility that there are currently many episodes in the history of science which bear on contemporary scientific realism. The project was entitled 'Evaluating Scientific Realism: A New Generation of Historical Case Studies', and it led directly to my paper 'A Confrontation of Convergent Realism' (2013).

URL http://www.sciculture.ac.uk/project/evaluating-scientific-realism-a-new-generation-of-historical-case-studies/

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