It's been over a month since our workshop on entity realism, held at the @unibe.ch and supported by the @snsf.ch, where among others @msuarez.bsky.social and @kenaizawa.bsky.social delivered great talks! The recordings are finally available here: www.philosophie.unibe.ch/research/pro... #philsci

The NYT finally gets it. It's not just, not even mainly, down to global warming. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/c...

European Wildfires Amplified by Emptying Countryside and Fewer Farms

A warming planet and a shift away from farming have set the stage for larger fires on the continent. “We must learn to coexist with them,” one report said.

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Just published: Centenary Issue of Philosophy, co-eds Bill Brewer, Maria Alvarez, Sarah Fine. How should Philosophy understand itself? Issue reflects on Bernard Williams’s ‘Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline’, published in the journal in 2000. #philsky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#SPSP26 was a riot of a conference. Wonderful papers by wonderful people in a wonderful setting: spspcambridge2026.com #philsci #histsci #metascience #hps

Reposting with a free access link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... New paper out responding to critics on Fictionalism and Scientific Realism #hps #philsci #PhilSky #metascience #histscie #sts

#hps #philsci #PhilSky #metascience #histscie #sts

Mauricio Suárez@msuarez.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New paper out responding to critics: Fictionalism and Scientific Realism: A Response to Ungrounded Criticism www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper out responding to critics: Fictionalism and Scientific Realism: A Response to Ungrounded Criticism www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very enjoyable conference at the Sorbonne with old friends and famous colleagues such as @michelamassimi.bsky.social and Victor Hugo (pictured 🙂). Thanks to the organizers for putting it all together!

Daian Bica@daianbica.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My wonderful colleague, Adrien Avramoglou, and I are going to organise a two-day conference about the role of pluralism in contemporary metaphysics of science. Come to Paris for the city, stay for the metaphysics! sites.google.com/view/hhu-sor...

This great 2-day conference on the metaphysical challenge of scientific pluralism is happening now in Sorbonne — so grateful to the organisers and wonderful hosts @daianbica.bsky.social and Adrien Avramoglou— with @msuarez.bsky.social Anjan Chakravartty, Andrea Hüttemann and many more speakers.

Daian Bica@daianbica.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My wonderful colleague, Adrien Avramoglou, and I are going to organise a two-day conference about the role of pluralism in contemporary metaphysics of science. Come to Paris for the city, stay for the metaphysics! sites.google.com/view/hhu-sor...

Wonderful session at Cambridge HPS - the old laboratory of physical chemistry. Thanks to everyone who came along! #hps #sts #philsci #histsci #philsky

At Kathy Wilkes memorial conference. @barrycsmith.bsky.social giving a superbly entertaining talk with Andy Clark in the audience. #philsci #philsky #metascience

Mike Christenson continues to publish wonderful papers putting the inferential conception to use in architecture. I could not be more chuffed - exactly the kind of reaction I was hoping for with Inference and Representation: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #hps #philsci #histsci #metascience

Plan-based occlusion maps: Theoretical overview and parametric variations - Mike Christenson, Joy Quach, 2026

Occlusion maps are qualitative, plan-based visualization tools composed of multiple, distributed isovist polygons. This paper formalizes occlusion maps as a rep...

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Honoured by the election to Academia Europaea / The Academy of Europe: www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Su... Very grateful and much obliged to my proponents - Martin Carrier and Tarja Knuuttila - both of whom I admire and respect hugely.

Esto de David está bastante bien. Ojalá pueda hacerle ver la realidad a gente como @sebasfaber.bsky.social. “La chica más lista que conozco” quiere estudiar filosofía ctxt.es/es/20260401/...

“La chica más lista que conozco” quiere estudiar filosofía

Reglas para intentar alejar de la frustración a esos jóvenes aspirantes a filósofos

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Lovely session (in Spanish!) last Wednesday with researchers at UNAM's Institute of Philosophy on Inference and Representation. Amazingly good questions and comments. Thanks for the careful reading and attention! ¡Gracias! youtube.com/live/lTYzdDI... #philsci #hps #sts #metascience #philsky

Seminario de investigadores • Guadalupe Mettini y Bruno Malavolta

YouTube video by Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM

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One of Habermas' many merits was to be the first to understand the reactionary form of postmodernism behind Adorno and Horkheimer's unduly influential Dialectics of Enlightenment. No thinker ever did so much to restore the cause of reason. #philsci #hps #philtech #sts #metascience

Now out: How did earthquakes come to have a (quantitative) size? How can we quantify without experimental control? @cristianlarph.bsky.social and I answer both questions and show their implications for human science measurement. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #philsci #histsci #seismology

Lessons for human science measurement from the quantification of earthquake size

It remains controversial whether the human sciences can quantify the phenomena they study. The feasibility of quantification is usually assessed by id…

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John Herschel was born OTD in 1792. His 1831 Preliminary Discourse launched a flowering of reflection on the aims and methods of science among British thinkers that was so rich and influential that Charles Sanders Peirce would later dub it “the Age of Method.” 🧪#HistSTM #PhilSci 🐋🌱

It was a great pleasure to talk to Ricardo Lopes about Inference and Representation. A long standing invitation to his Dissenter podcast, and we finally made it!

The Dissenter@thedissenteryt.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New episode (1215), with Dr. Mauricio Suárez (@msuarez.bsky.social). We talk about his great book, Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science. #Philosophy #Science YouTube: youtu.be/jMSVX0fQJYo Podcast: bit.ly/4rKRRQb

#philsci #hps #philsky #sts #philtech #metascience

Mauricio Suárez@msuarez.bsky.social · 6mo ago

It was a great pleasure to talk to Ricardo Lopes about Inference and Representation. A long standing invitation to his Dissenter podcast, and we finally made it!

"An account of representation must make room for misrepresentation in all its different varieties." "Representation is not a success term. You can represent something and do it very poorly, with very little success." #PhilSci

The Dissenter@thedissenteryt.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New episode (1215), with Dr. Mauricio Suárez (@msuarez.bsky.social). We talk about his great book, Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science. #Philosophy #Science YouTube: youtu.be/jMSVX0fQJYo Podcast: bit.ly/4rKRRQb

New episode (1215), with Dr. Mauricio Suárez (@msuarez.bsky.social). We talk about his great book, Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science. #Philosophy #Science YouTube: youtu.be/jMSVX0fQJYo Podcast: bit.ly/4rKRRQb

#1215 Mauricio Suárez - Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science

YouTube video by The Dissenter

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It was a great pleasure to talk to Ricardo Lopes about Inference and Representation. A long standing invitation to his Dissenter podcast, and we finally made it!

The Dissenter@thedissenteryt.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New episode (1215), with Dr. Mauricio Suárez (@msuarez.bsky.social). We talk about his great book, Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science. #Philosophy #Science YouTube: youtu.be/jMSVX0fQJYo Podcast: bit.ly/4rKRRQb

"Nothing represents unless it has the capacity to license some surrogative inferences ... however minimal, inappropriate, misleading, or incorrect these inferences might be’ (Mauricio Suárez, 2024, p. 157)

Gui Sanches de Oliveira@guicogsci.bsky.social · 9mo ago

My review of "Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science" by Mauricio Suárez (University of Chicago Press, 2024) has been out for a while: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... the text is now also openly accessible here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Excellent review of Inference & Representation by @guicogsci.bsky.social in Philosophy, the journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy. Welcome to Bluesky, Gui! #philsci #hps #philsky #sts #philtech #metascience

Gui Sanches de Oliveira@guicogsci.bsky.social · 9mo ago

My review of "Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science" by Mauricio Suárez (University of Chicago Press, 2024) has been out for a while: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... the text is now also openly accessible here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

It was an honor and a privilege to study under, and work with, Bas at San Francisco State. In particular, his advanced logic course brings back so many wonderful and impactful memories. I can't think of a more deserving philosopher for such a prize! #philsci #philosophy

Justin Weinberg@dailynous.com · 7mo ago

Bas van Fraassen has won the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy

Bas van Fraassen has won the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy

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 Prizes are bestowed by the Royal ...

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Truly historic, for Latin America, Europe, and the world: youtu.be/9XRaHzTEOXs?...

Von der Leyen Hails 25-Year Mercosur-EU Trade Breakthrough in Paraguay | DRM News | AC1F

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Deadline approaching!👇 #philsci

Frederick Britt@fbritt.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Call for Papers Workshop on 'ENTITY REALISM BEYOND MANIPULATION' (June 16 - 17, 2025) at the University of Bern (CH). We are very much looking forward to welcoming Nora M. Boyd and @msuarez.bsky.social as keynote speakers and invite further contributions! #philsci philevents.org/event/show/1...

New paper just published in Synthese: Instrumental Understanding link.springer.com/article/10.1... In this paper I start developing an account of pragmatic understanding fit for an epistemology of scientific instruments, drawing especially on Davis Baird's Thing Knowledge. #philsci #philsky