⚗️🔭 How do we spark new scientific discoveries? Why do some breakthroughs seem accidental? The new book 'The Engine of Scientific Discovery' by CPNSS Research Associate Alexander Krauss is for anyone who wants to understand how we make discoveries. ➡ Link to the book: doi.org/10.1093/oso/...

The Engine of Scientific Discovery: How New Methods and Tools Spark Major Breakthroughs

Abstract. How do we spark new scientific discoveries? Why do some breakthroughs seem even accidental? And most importantly, how can we accelerate them and

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Bordeaux Summer School – Philosophy in Biology & Medicine (1–5 June 2026) Join us in collaboratively exploring the conceptual foundations of scientific research at the crossroads of philosophy, biology and medicine! Apply by March 15 More information: bss-philinbiomed.u-bordeaux.fr/en/

Jokes on us. #philosophy

Veřejná diskuse: 🧐 Co je a není podle laiků filosofie, kdo se může označovat za filosofa a jakou roli tato disciplína hraje v očích běžné veřejnosti? Rezervovace místa: bit.ly/TAV2025

Happy to see this one published. From interest in the topic in 2017 to first presentation in 2018, draft in 2021 and submitting in 2022. #philsci www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

On representation and similarity: The case of mouse models of cancer

According to the similarity account, scientists use models to represent their targets by utilizing similarities in certain respects and to certain deg…

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I am glad to have hosted Shimon Sakaguchi in Prague last year. I expect he's going to be a very busy man very soon. 🙂

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BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance" Stay tuned for more. #NobelPrize

New paper out! rdcu.be/etKdN Experts in #cancer across the tree of life and philosophers of science teamed up to explore how comparative thinking can improve current approaches to cancer, including conceptually and therapeutically. #evolution #ecology #oncology #philosophy

Advancing cancer research via comparative oncology

Nature Reviews Cancer - Comparative oncology combines evolutionary biology, ecology, veterinary medicine and clinical oncology to better understand cancer, for example, by identifying the molecular...

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A Complementary Account of Scientific Modelling – Martin Zach Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

Here's a guest piece (credits to @vtgvzdk.bsky.social ) which draws on a report we wrote together for the Czech media (it may yet come out) regarding the results of a national representative survey we did on the issue of how #philosophy is perceived by the public. dailynous.com/2025/09/03/h...

How the Public Sees Philosophy: Insights from a National Survey in the Czech Republic (guest post) - Daily Nous

What do ordinary people think philosophy is for? That's one of the questions a pair of philosophers, Vít Gvoždiak and Martin Zach (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences) aimed to answer. ...

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Soon... Registration still open! #ImmunoSky #philbio #philsci Link: pmpos.flu.cas.cz/host-microbe...

Po dlouhé době další blogový příspěvek, tentokrát na výbušné téma ohledně počtu pohlaví. Odkaz 👉 medium.seznam.cz/clanek/marti...

Kolik je pohlaví a proč spousta lidí žádné nemá? - Médium.cz

Kolik je biologických pohlaví? Záleží na definici. Evoluční biologie, genetika, medicína i filosofie vědy ukazují, že pohledů je víc — a některé naznačují, že ne každý člověk pohlaví vůbec má.

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"Immunology Meets Philosophy vol. 2" focuses on host-microbe interactions while highlighting a variety of conceptual approaches and phenomena, from infectious diseases to evolutionary and metabolic perspectives. #ImmunoSky #philbio #philsci On-site / online stream registration - link in comments 👇

Pokračování mého "blogu", tentokrát stručně představuji obor filosofie vědy a k čemu je dobrý. Odkaz 👉 medium.seznam.cz/clanek/marti...

New book by Maël Lemoine in CUP. Very cool stuff! And surely provocative to many in philosophy of medicine. #philmed #philsci

Jak čas dovolí, formou krátkých příspěvků zkusím širšímu publiku představit obor filosofie vědy, včetně kontroverzních témat jako třeba ideologie ve vědě aj. První příspěvek je obecnější o vztahu filosofie a vědy, k čemuž se nejspíš občas vrátím. Za sdílení budu rád. medium.seznam.cz/clanek/marti...

Zabili filosofii, parchanti! - Médium.cz

Filosofie je prý mrtvá, protože neudržela krok s moderní vědou. Jaký má ale filosofie vztah k vědě? Ačkoli určitá část filosofie opravdu zaspala dobu, obecně je filosofie mnohem pestřejší, než by se m...

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"unlike type 1 immune responses, type 2 immunity is perceived as a potential promoter of tumorigenesis. Emerging evidence challenges this perspective, painting a more nuanced picture in which type 2 immunity might protect against or even actively suppress tumour growth and progression." #ImmunoSky

Reinventing type 2 immunity in cancer - Nature

This Review addresses the roles of type 2 immunity in cancer and the potential for cancer immunotherapies targeting this pathway.

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It's scary swimming in the great depths where darkness lurks.

Go follow @philinbiomed.bsky.social if you are interested in keeping track of events on conceptual questions in medicine and biology. #mediky #immunosky #philsci

My colleague, Vladimir Havlik, just published a paper in Synthese on meaning and understanding in LLMs - a controversial topic! Holiday reading for those interested. #AI #LLM #philsci link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Meaning and understanding in large language models - Synthese

Can a machine understand the meanings of natural language? Recent developments in the generative large language models (LLMs) of artificial intelligence have led to the belief that traditional philoso...

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One of the coolest places to do a degree in #philsci #philbio #philmed The training takes place in an immunology lab but welcomes applications from all fields of biology and medicine, and is open to those considering a career in science and/or philosophy.

Check out the new SPSP Newsletter #22, covering biomedical validation, philosophy of science for and with astrophysics, "evolving evolution", Uni of Valpareiso highlights, ... #philsci #philbio #philmed sway.cloud.microsoft/tvRXL53AU0du...

SPSP Newsletter # 22

November 2024

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How did we arrive at our current notion of antibodies? With colleagues we show that the concept of antibodies has been the result of numerous shifts (progressive yet discontinuous conceptual changes in 100+ years) driven also by technology. #philsci #immunosky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How Technical Advances Changed the Concept of Antibodies

Shaped by advances in scientific instrumentation and experimental techniques, the concept of antibody has undergone profound transformations throughout the history of immunology. Serological assays, ...

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Here's a CFP for workshop on AI & consciousness that @tmarvan.bsky.social and I are co-organizing in Prague.

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Call for papers for the 13th Ernst Mach Workshop in Prague is up. Keynotes: Anil Seth (Sussex) & Kathinka Evers (Uppsala) Working on conscious AI? Send us your abstract by the end of February. emw.flu.cas.cz #consci #philmind #philsky

Glad to see this book in print by Alex Krauss. I read and commented on the draft. Now here's the final product in open access at OUP #philsci academic.oup.com/book/58964

Science of Science: Understanding the Foundations and Limits of Science from an Interdisciplinary Perspective

Abstract. How do we drive new knowledge and science? What are their present boundaries? And how can we improve science? We still do not understand these es

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Last week I was invited to give a public lecture on the conceptual changes regarding the understanding of immunity #immunosky, followed by an interview on the role of philosophy of science #philsci in such efforts. It's in Czech though . www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqeK...

IF: Nové pojetí imunity / Revoluce v poznání o fungování našeho těla

YouTube video by Mezinárodní festival dokumentárních filmů Ji.hlava

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Hello blue sky-ers! Long time no see. Looks like this platform may be coming to life after all, or is it? Feels like other social media I am on have become dull. I even set up IG: @martinzach.ig only to realize I don't know what to do there. Is there any hope for blue sky, or also a ghost platform?

📢 2nd CFP for a Special Issue of the *Journal for General Philosophy of Science* "Towards Comparative Philosophy of Science" philevents.org/event/show/1... #philsci #philsky #HPS @jgps.bsky.social @philsci.bsky.social

Towards Comparative Philosophy of Science (Special Issue of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science)

CALL FOR PAPERS: Towards Comparative Philosophy of Science (Special Issue of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science) Guest editors: Simon Lohse (Nijmegen) & Karim Bschir (St....

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Sometimes I can be literally a crybaby: I see a new juicy edited volume on modeling and many other related topics on which I have published as well, I enthusiastically read through it and... and find out I am not being cited a single time. 🤷‍♂️Well, I will grow up one day (COPIUM). #philsci

Recording of Shimon Sakaguchi's talk in Prague. #ImmunoSky The opening includes my remarks on the philosophical flavour of immunology, followed by Dominik Filipp's speech and the Garnet Immunoglobulin award ceremony. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMRt...

Prof. Shimon Sakaguchi (Osaka University): Immune Tolerance and Regulatory T-cells, 20. 6. 2024

Professor Shimon Sakaguchi, a legend in contemporary immunology and the discoverer of a special type of white blood cells, was a guest at the Institute of Ph...

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Thrilled to have received the Otto Wichterle Award "to stimulate and encourage selected, exceptionally outstanding, promising young scientists at the Czech Academy of Sciences for their remarkable contributions to the advancement of scientific knowledge in a given area of science." Ok then!