(History and) Philosophy of Science Institutions

This page contains a list of selected institutions, which either offer (History and) Philosophy of Science degrees or which have a strong research tradition in the field. This list is compiled by Samuel Schindler.

United Kingdom

• University of Bristol - Department of Philosophy
• University of Bath - Science Studies Centre
• University of Cambridge - Department of History and Philosophy of Science
• University of Durham - Department of Philosophy
• University of Edinburgh - Science Studies Unit
• University of Exeter - Programme in the Philosophy of Biology
• University of Exeter - Egenis Centre for Genomics in Society
• University of Lancaster - Centre for Science Studies
• University of Leeds - Division of History and Philosohpy of Science
• London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
• London School of Economics (LSE) - Centre for Philosophy of Natural Science and Social Science
• University College London (UCL) - Department of Science and Technology Studies
• University College London (UCL) - Evidence, Inference, and Enquiry
• University of Oxford - Philosophy of Physics

North America

• University of Texas at Austin - Program in History and Philosophy of Science
• John Hopkins University, Baltimore - Department of Philosohpy, Program in the History and Philosophy of Science
• University of California, Berkeley College - Department of Philosophy, Concentration in HPS
• University of California, Berkeley College - Group in Logic and Scientific Methodology
• Virginia Tech, Blacksburg - Science and Technology Studies
• Indiana University, Bloomington - Department of History and Philosophy of Science
• Boston University - Center for Philosophy and History of Science
• University of Colorado, Boulder - The Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science
• University of Calgary, History and philosophy of Science Research Group
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge - Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
• University of Chicago - Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science
• Duke University, Durham - History and Philosophy of Science Technology and Medicine
• Duke University, Durham - Center for Philosophy of Biology
• University of California, Irvine - Logic and Philosophy of Science
• Cornell University, Ithaca - Science and Technology Studies
• University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo - History and Philosophy of Science
• University of Western Ontario, London - Philosophy of Science Research Group
• University of Wisconsin, Madison - Philosophy of Science
• University of Maryland - Committee for Philosophy and the Sciences
• University of Minnesota - Studies of Science and Technology (SST)
• University of Minnesota - Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
• University of Notre Dame - Reilly Centre for Philosophy of Science, Technology and Values
• California Institute of Technology, Pasadena - The Humanities and Social Sciences, Program in History and Philosohpy of Science
• University of Pennylvania, Philadelphia - Department of Philosophy
• University of Pittsburgh - Department of History and Philosophy of Science
• University of Pittsburgh - Centre for Philosophy of Science
• University of California, San Diego - Science Studies
• University of Washington, Seattle - Department of Philosophy, HPS program
• Stanford University - History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
• Stanford University - Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Science and Technology
• Washington University in St. Louis - Philosophy - Neuroscience - Psychology
• Florida State University, Tallahassee - History and Philosophy of Science
• University of Toronto - Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
• University of British Columbia, Vancouver - Program in Science and Technology Studies

• Situating Science - Cluster for the Humanist and Social Studies of Science, Canada

Australia

• University of Melbourne - Department of History and Philosophy of Science
• University of New South Wales - School of History and Philosophy of Science
• University of Sydney - Department of History and Philosophy of Science
• University of Sydney - Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science

German-speaking world

• Universität Basel, Switzerland - Programm für Wissenschaftsforschung
• Universität Bern, Switzerland - Wissenschaftstheorie und Wissenschaftsgeschichte
• Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
• TU Berlin, Germany - Institut für Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte
• Universität Bielefeld, Germany - Institut für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung (IWT)
• Universität Bielefeld, Germany - Department of Philosophy 
• Universität Hannover, Germany - Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science
• Universiät Leipzig, Germany - Institut für Logik und Wissenschaftstheorie
• Universität Münster - Zentrum für Wissenschaftstheorie
• Universität Konstanz, Germany - Zentrum Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie
• Universität Salzburg, Switzerland - Institut für Wissenschaftstheorie
• Universität Wien, Austria - Institut für Wissenschaftstheorie
• Universität Wien, Austria- Institute Vienna Circle
• Bergische Universität Wuppertal - IZWT (Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Technology Studies)

• Philosophy of Science in Germany
• Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Logik und Philosophie der Wissenschaften (Swiss Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science)

Benelux countries

• Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium - Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLWF)
• Ghent University, Belgium - Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science
• Tilburg University, Netherlands - Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science
• University of Twente - Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society
• Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands - History and Philosophy of Science
• Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands - Institute for History and Philosophy of Science
• Dutch-Flemish Network for Philosophy of Science and Technology
• HPS in the Netherlands

Israel

• Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel - Sidney M. Edelstein Center for History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Israel
• Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan (near Tel Aviv), Israel - Science and Technology Studies
• University of Tel Aviv, Israel - Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science
• Israeli Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (ISHPS)

Rest of the World

• Aarhus Universitet, Denmark- Department for Studies of Science and Science Education
• University of Athens and National Technical University of Athens, Greece - Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
• National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Department of Philosophy and History of Science
• Universitat de Barcelona, Spain - Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science
• Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest - Department of History and Philosophy of Science
• University of Campinas, Brazil - Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science (CLE)
• Kyoto University, Japan - Philosophy and History of Science
• Université Paris7, France - Centre Georges Canguilhem
• IHPST (Institut d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques ) - Paris, France
• Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland - Institute of Philosophy
• National University of Singapore - Science, Technology and Society
• Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran - Philosophy of Science Group

Other link lists:

• http://ppp.unipv.it/dhs/Inst.htm
• http://depts.washington.edu/hssexec/hss_acad.html
• Graduate Programs in History and Philosophy of Science - an international (subjective) survey
• Graduate Studies in Philosophy of Science @ the PSA site
• http://www.philosophylists.info/HPSDepartments.html