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One more paper of our special issue on comparative #philsci is out: link.springer.com/article/10.1..., Gonnerman et al. analyse how scientific method, theory, and hypothesis are portrayed in science textbooks across the natural and social sciences. #ScienceEducation

Comparative Philosophy of Science Through the Lens of Science Textbooks - Journal for General Philosophy of Science

This paper analyzes how scientific method, theory, and hypothesis are portrayed in introductory, college science textbooks across the natural and social sciences. While philosophers of science have lo...

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Simon Lohse@simonlohse.bsky.social · last mo.

Update: I’m co-editing a special issue of @jgps.bsky.social on “Comparative Philosophy of Science” (i.e. the systematic comparison of scientific fields and practices from a philosophical perspective) together with @karimbschir.bsky.social #philsci #HPS #HOPOS philevents.org/event/show/1...

Routledge have a video to advertise their classics series that offers a number of suggested next reads from the series if you enjoyed other books - the suggestions get enjoyably weirder as they go on, cumulating with 'if you liked The Hunger Games, try Popper's The Open Society and its Enemies'

Recipes for Science, coauthored with Matteo Colombo and Cory Wright, will have a Japanese translation coming out in a few months! Here I am with Ryota Morimoto, the translator, at the recent meeting of the Asian Philosophy of Science Association in Singapore. #philsci #philsky #scicomm 🧪

Our call for our next history of philosophy of technology conference is out! Spread the word and submit your abstracts. Looking forward seeing you in Maastricht in October! #philtech

Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT)@hptsociety.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Call for Abstracts 2nd International Conference The History of the Philosophy of Technology October 26-28, 2026 Maastricht University Theme: national and regional traditions Abstracts by 25 May 2026 fasos-research.nl/history-of-p... #philtech #hopot #hopos #histtech

Please also check out the www.hps-mentoring-in-biology.org that comes from the ideas discussed in this paper. #HPS-mentoring-in-biology

Kostas Kampourakis@kampourakisk.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Just published: "Improving scientific mentoring with history and philosophy of science" (open access) With my good friends and colleagues Alan Love and Tobias Uller. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

I found this chart aspirational; I too hope to live to 120 even if it means my influence wanes a bit.

Justin Weinberg@dailynous.com · 5mo ago

A new analysis suggests that, in general, philosophers of the past 100 years or so have tended to reach “peak influence” between their early 50s and late 60s.

Otto Warburg's grant application: "I need 10,000 marks".

Amidst all the craziness, some news worthy of celebration: dailynous.com/2026/01/21/b...

Bas van Fraassen Wins Schock Prize - Daily Nous

Bastiaan "Bas" van Fraassen, professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, has been awarded the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. The Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy is ...

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The Nagel-Hempel correspondence has just been published in the Vienna Circle Institute Library. Check it out! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Ernest Nagel on Science and Philosophy

This book provides new perspectives on the twentieth-century history of philosophy of science through the person of Ernest Nagel

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The new Editor in Chief of #HOPOS, Matthew J. Brown, sets out his vision for the future of the journal in a new #openaccess editorial. It is "part manifesto, part call for papers, part love letter to one of my favorite fields of study." www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

I am quite excited to share a new preprint on the prospects for a 'metaphilosophy of science'—a second-order inquiry into the concepts, assumptions, aims, and methods that underpin philosophy of science itself. 👇📃 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26661/ 1/3 #philsci #philsky #HPS #HPbio #metaphilosophy

Hello, #AcademicSky! We are the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at KU Leuven. Our senior and junior researchers focus on #logic, #epistemology & #philsci. We’re here to share our work and connect with logicians and philosophers of science worldwide—help us spread the word! #philsky

So, if I understand this whole 4E thing, the mind is not a computer, unless you own a computer, in which case it is?

3 Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Positions in the History of Science, Technology, Medicine, and the Environment at Texas State University 🗃️ #HPS #histsci #histmed #envhist networks.h-net.org/jobs/68829/t...

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

no i don’t want to “manage cookies” r u insane

My good colleague and friend Jip van Besouw (not on Bluesky) and I wrote a paper on 18th century fountains used for research and teaching in physics. It was fun stuff to colaborate on, including arguing for the use of the concept "pissing machine". /1

I decided to make an introductory episode, to provide some orientation for the later episodes. In it, I introduce DAGs and explain how causation is a strategy for managing complexity. I spent a lot of time improving the sound quality, so I hope that paid off. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h6t...

E0: What is a Causal Model?

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So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...

Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees

Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.

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The history of medicine, in a nutshell...

tova@tovanish.kimdokja.company · last yr.

people nowadays underestimate how much people used to just die all the time of things we don't have to think about now

Already read empiricism semantics and ontology so I won't be buying this.

JAMA Forum on the proposed NIH budget… jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe

This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...

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HOPOS welcomes four new Associate Editors joining Editor Matthew J. Brown's team in 2025: Andreas Vrahimis, Sander Verhaegh, Bennett McNulty, and Emma Gannage. They join current AEs Sophie Roux, Francesca Biagioli, and Teru Miyake. Welcome to our new Associate Editors!

The USA is about to rediscover that Louis Pasteur is at least as important a scientist as Albert Einstein.

Ferric Fang, MD@fangferric.bsky.social · last yr.

RFK Jr celebrated the release of the MAHA report by downing raw milk shooters in the White House with influencer Paul Saladino. Hazards of raw milk include Listeria, Salmonella, Campylobacter, Yersinia, E. coli O157:H7, and now-- avian flu.

Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

The US Administration has indefinitely blocked *all* student visa applicants from getting a visa interview. Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All. International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.

Rubio Reportedly Pauses New International Student Visa Interviews

More than 1.1 million international students were enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities in the 2023-2024 school year.

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It’s hard to put into words just how comprehensively this bill is going to hurt public colleges and universities in Texas—especially UT.

Benjamin Park@benjaminepark.bsky.social · last yr.

Texas legislators just passed a bill that gives politically-appointed regents control over faculty curriculum, hiring, & governance. It does what they accuse academics of doing: privileging ideas, biases, & agendas on political grounds, & silencing those that do not follow their ideology.

Submit a manuscript proposal for the series History of Philosophy and Science at De Gruyter Press. blog.degruyter.com/call-for-man... #HPS #histsci

Call for Manuscripts: History of Philosophy and Science - De Gruyter Conversations

We are looking for English-language manuscripts on the history of the engagement between philosophy and science.

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"Real Possibilities" - what Husserl means by those and what he should have said instead*. Forthcoming in ergo, preprint now here: philpapers.org/rec/BSRPFX *Insofar as they're supposed to link contingent truth and evidence

G. E. Bös, Real Possibilities for Husserl's Correlation between Truth and Evidence - PhilPapers

Already before endorsing transcendental idealism, Husserl pairs truths and possibilities of evidence. This ‘correlationism’ is central for phenomenological metaphysics, but it remains disputed how it ...

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