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Jan Potters

@janpotters.bsky.social

Philosophy of Science, History of Physics; Postdoc University of Antwerp (Belgium)

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Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT)@hptsociety.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢 Call for Abstracts 2nd International Conference on the History of the Philosophy of Technology 📍 Maastricht University 🗓 Oct 26–28, 2026 Theme: National and Cultural Traditions in the Philosophy of Technology 📅 Deadline: May 25, 2026 #philtech #histtech fasos-research.nl/history-of-p...

CfA: 2nd International Conference ‘The History of the Philosophy of Technology’ (Maastricht, October 26-28, 2026) | HoPoT

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Marco Facchin@marcofacchin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Registrations are still open for our Beyond Neuro-compuationalism workshop in Antwerp (4/5 of June). You can check our stellar line-up of speaker and register here www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-... #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

Marco Facchin@marcofacchin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Still two weeks to submit your abstract for our Beyond Neurocomputationalism workshop (Antwerp 4-5 June). Keynote Speakers include Kate Nave, Romain Brette, Vicente Raja, Matteo Mossio, Mazviita Chirimuuta & Alicia Juarrero! Info below! #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

The HOPOS Journal@hoposjournal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Routledge Handbook of the History of Philosophy of Science After Kant (2026). Edited by Flavia Padovani, Adam Tamas Tuboly. The 50 essays in this Handbook cover perspectives, theories, movements, and traditions in the field. Link: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Philosophy of Science After Kant

The History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) is a relatively new yet rapidly growing field. Emerging from diverse approaches within the history and philosophy of science, it encompasses a wide range…

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Jan Potters@janpotters.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Why study the history of history of science? This essay review by @velivirmajoki.bsky.social interestingly suggests that it can show us how this discipline, notwithstanding historians' implicit or explicit rejections of Kuhnian historiography, can be characterized as a Kuhnian discipline

Philip Ball@philipcball.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Very interesting essay review that discusses how modern historians of science tend to dismiss or ignore Thomas Kuhn, and the pros and cons of doing so. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Will Thomas@williamthomas.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If you'd like to *listen* to Thomas Kuhn interview Robert Oppenheimer, we've got you covered: repository.aip.org/node/151144 Audio quality is a little iffy, so you'll need the transcript: repository.aip.org/node/150787 More on this soon!

Kuhn: Good. You said that you found, in thinking about these things, that your memory on detail was not what it might have been and so forth. I’d just like to say, let’s get as much of that as we can, but I’d like you to think of one of the topics that interests us, no necessarily the primary one but one which is pretty obviously of a good deal of importance; I think you can help with a lot and it’s not so dependent upon details of memory about technical papers. It is the whole subject of the development of physics in this country and the turning point with respect to theoretical physics that you come in so much with yourself. Oppenheimer: I will do my best.
Will Thomas@williamthomas.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In today's AIP History Weekly Edition @janpotters.bsky.social looks at Tom Kuhn's frustrations interviewing ~100 physicists for the landmark Sources for History of Quantum Physics project. An important lesson in what we want from oral history and what it can give us. 📷Niels Bohr & Homer Dodge #HPS

Pieter T. L. Beck@ptrbck.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Last Thursday, the far-right student organization KVHV organized a public lecture by Nathan Cofnas. The lecture was an absolute train wreck. It will take a while to analyze everything, but here are some first impressions. /1

Ben Gross@bhgross144.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"What I hadn’t anticipated was the number of times people would say, ‘I don’t know, I can’t remember; how, why would you expect me to remember that?’” Anyone who has ever conducted an #OralHistory can sympathize w/Thomas Kuhn's frustration while documenting the history of quantum #physics. #histSTM

Will Thomas@williamthomas.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In today's AIP History Weekly Edition @janpotters.bsky.social looks at Tom Kuhn's frustrations interviewing ~100 physicists for the landmark Sources for History of Quantum Physics project. An important lesson in what we want from oral history and what it can give us. 📷Niels Bohr & Homer Dodge #HPS

Sean Carroll@seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Makes perfect sense to me. It's extremely hard in retrospect to remember how some particular idea was developed. I suspect that most detailed reconstructions along those lines have a lot of confabulation in them.

Will Thomas@williamthomas.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In today's AIP History Weekly Edition @janpotters.bsky.social looks at Tom Kuhn's frustrations interviewing ~100 physicists for the landmark Sources for History of Quantum Physics project. An important lesson in what we want from oral history and what it can give us. 📷Niels Bohr & Homer Dodge #HPS

Philip Ball@philipcball.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Having read a lot of these interviews for my book on Bohr, I found this fascinating. I think Heilbron is right to speak of "ridiculously detailed questions". Kuhn will whip out a 40-year-old paper and start going through it, and folks like Heisenberg won't really remember it at all.

Will Thomas@williamthomas.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In today's AIP History Weekly Edition @janpotters.bsky.social looks at Tom Kuhn's frustrations interviewing ~100 physicists for the landmark Sources for History of Quantum Physics project. An important lesson in what we want from oral history and what it can give us. 📷Niels Bohr & Homer Dodge #HPS

Jan Potters@janpotters.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Very honoured to have an AIP Weekly piece on Kuhn's frustrations with interviewing quantum physicists! For those interested in more on this, I have a few forthcoming papers on this (which I would be happy to share via DM) as well as a book manuscript in progress about Kuhn and quantum physics

Will Thomas@williamthomas.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In today's AIP History Weekly Edition @janpotters.bsky.social looks at Tom Kuhn's frustrations interviewing ~100 physicists for the landmark Sources for History of Quantum Physics project. An important lesson in what we want from oral history and what it can give us. 📷Niels Bohr & Homer Dodge #HPS