chris shambaugh
@cshambaugh.bsky.social
phil phd at the University of Oregon. 19th century German philosophy and philosophy of biology. he/him
My article on Schelling's conception of life and death is now out at European Journal of Philosophy! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Life and Death in Schelling's Philosophy of Nature
F. W. J. Schelling's philosophy of nature (Naturphilosophie) has received significant renewed interest and reappraisal. This research has – like the majority of work in the philosophy of nature and t...
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Life is nothing other than a productivity held back from the absolute transition into a product. The absolute transition into product is death. That which interrupts productivity, therefore, sustains life. | Schelling
Read Marjorie Grene! The interview, her autobiography ("A Philosophical Testament"), as well as her work! She is quoted in my senses book (pre-revision, there was a longer section on her, but the word limit made cuts necessary). The woman was 🔥 www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Arvid Ågren@arvidagren.bsky.social · last mo.This interview with Marjorie Green is a hoot! www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
We can pin posts now! Here's mine—please check out my new book, _The Land Is Our Community Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium_, available for purchase or free #OpenAccess download from UChicago Press. 🌱🐋 🌎 #EnvHist #EnvHums press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Land Is Our Community
A contemporary defense of conservationist Aldo Leopold’s vision for human interaction with the environment. Informed by his experiences as a hunter, forester, wildlife manager, ecologist, conservati...
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The form has a better claim than the matter to be called nature. | Aristotle
International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology July 18-23, 2027: ISHPSSB conference in Buenos Aires Argentina 🇦🇷 💃🏻 October 15, 2026: Submissions deadline / Fecha límite para el envío de propuestas #HPS #evobio #paleosky #STS
Maria Strecht Almeida@mstrechtalmeida.bsky.social · 4w agocongressin.com/e/ishpssb2027/ #hpbio #philsci #histstm #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts
As philosophy rushes to claim expertise on AI, AI companies rush to control the philosophical narrative. Unlike other disciplines, philosophy has no standards for reporting conflicts of interest. This petition endeavors to change that: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open Letter about Industry Funding and Disclosure in Philosophy
*For full list of signatories, updated every few hours, please click here.* In recent years, philosophical writing on areas such as climate change, technology, misinformation, and artificial intellige...
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A little while ago, Alison Stone wrote a lovely guest blog on the philosophy of Frances Power Cobbe - check it out for free here: acezekiel.com/2022/08/04/w...
Why We Should Read Frances Power Cobbe as a Philosopher – Guest Blog by Alison Stone
Until recently, women were systematically excluded from the history of philosophy – so systematically that it used to be assumed that there were no women philosophers in the past. Women have …
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The whole of organic nature is one continuous proof of the identity or inseparability of form and content. Morphological and physiological phenomena, form and function, mutually determine one another. | Engels
It is only by a real hallucination that the separate parts of our body appear to be sensitive; for it is our entire being that feels or rather undergoes a general effect, on the stimulus of some affective cause. | Lamarck
We are very excited to share our latest 📄 (@philsci.bsky.social): a revamped version of #nicheconstruction theory that captures the evolutionary consequences of organismic activities beyond changes in selection. We call it the 'Matrix Account' 👇 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30043/ #evobio #HPS #hpbio
I'm very excited to share my book, Natural Lection, with you all! A deconstruction of "cultural evolution" and notions of nature/culture that circulate in the sciences and the humanities:
Leah Pennywark@lpennywark.bsky.social · 2mo agoOut today: Jonathan Basile's @jonothingeb.bsky.social radical deconstructive approach to evolutionary theory, Natural Lection: Cultures of Evolution! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791998...
I’m happy to share that our book proposal has been accepted in Routledge’s History and Philosophy of Biology series! I’m so excited and honored to be co-editing the volume - titled Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin - with Jonathan Basile and Denis Walsh.
Another great paper on phenomenology and science by @themispant.bsky.social and @haraldwiltsche.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The life-world as the empirical basis of science - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
The empirical foundation of science has often been characterised in terms of the observable-unobservable distinction, developed either syntactically, as a set of statements, or semantically, as aspect...
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Flexibility is the hallmark of human evolution. If humans evolved, as I believe, by neoteny, then we are, in a more than metaphorical sense, permanent children. | Gould
Dissertation defended! Feeling very grateful for all the support from my committee, colleagues, friends, and family
It is publication day for The Organism-Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! This 📗 has been deeply formative for me as a scholar, and it owes so much to so many wonderful people. I truly hope it finds many readers! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #booksky #philsci #histsci #philsky #evosky
This is a good book. I’ve been having a bunch of fun reading it. If you want to be a “left-Aristotelian,” it’s a must read!
What are your laws and systems compared with a bird that knows how to build its nest and fills the warm summer nights with songs? Or compared with a flower, or in comparison with the world that forms in and around a flowering tree? | von Arnim
It's Karl Marx's Birthday today (He'd be 208). And by a happy coincidence, it's also the publication day of my book, Flourishing Together Karl Marx's Vision of the Good Society. academic.oup.com/book/62523
Flourishing Together: Karl Marx’s Vision of the Good Society
Abstract. This book provides a novel interpretation of Marx’s vision of the good society that places the idea of self-realization in work at its centre. Th
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We're very happy to announce a new lecture series organized by Sergei Shevchenko. It reconsiders Soviet biology as a science of life changing together with its milieu. The four lectures take place online via zoom in May and June. Information and registration 👉 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
The blank between life and death does not come in place of an and or an is. | Derrida
I wrote for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social about Kathryn Paige Harden's new book, an attempt to popularize the eugenics of criminality. I read it as a gambit to build liberal support for the project animating far right politics today, inspired by Replacement theory.
Los Angeles Review of Books@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago"The book reads like an 'Eat Pray Love' of biotech grifting, designed to make her into a public figure based on her personal journey." Jonathan Basile reviews Kathryn Paige Harden’s “Original Sin.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/original-sin-eugenics-scientific-calvinism-kathryn-paige-harden/
@karenkyng.bsky.social reviewing @vcwills.bsky.social 's Marx's Ethical Vision ( @academic.oup.com ) for Constellations. bit.ly/41KTpPi
You can still register for tomorrow's talk in our Lecture Series: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... Alejandra Petino Zappala will talk about canalization, stabilizing selection and evolution. It's a hybrid talk, so come around if you're at RUB! If not, see you on zoom!🤗 #HistSci #PhilSci #HPBio
The Organism-Environment Pairing will be published in exactly two weeks by @mitpress.bsky.social ! I am so excited to share it with everyone! If you spot copies in the wild, please do let me know, as I would love to see them! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #philsky #HPS #evosky #boosky #histsci 🌱🐋
My paper on metabolic rift is out in @histmat.bsky.social! The piece develops the notion of self-consciousness implicit in the concept of rift. Against Moore & others, I argue that overcoming dualism requires accounting for human distinctiveness, not relinquishing it: brill.com/view/journal...
