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How should science policy and philosophy of science relate and inform one another? https://www.philscipolicy.com/

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Lynn Chiu@drlynnchiu.bsky.social · 2y ago

KLI Colloquium 21 Nov 2024 3pm CET Sarah DAVIES @univie.ac.at: How to Succeed in Science: Work Hard, Build Relationships – and Be Lucky What does it mean to succeed within contemporary neoliberal academia, and what is lost through overly narrow criteria for success? www.kli.ac.at/content/coll...

Colloquia | Discover The KLI

The Konrad Lorenz Institute provides a stimulating and creative environment for fellows, visiting scholars, students, and external faculty.

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Matthew J Brown@thehangedman.com · 2y ago

Looking forward to #PSA24 in NOLA! Here are the things I'm doing: Thurs 11/14 8:30-10am - SRPoiSE: Philosophy of Science & Science Education (Chair) Fri 11/15 11:45am-1pm - Paul Feyerabend Centennial (Chair) Sat 11/16 9-11:45am - Public Trust in Science Without the Value-Free Ideal (Co-Presenting)

David Hsu@dhsu.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excellent advice for people of any background, including scientists and engineers, looking to do policy work in the federal government. As usual, the most important words: “reach out” i.e. network. If you meet career feds and they want to work with you, they will figure out how to make it happen.

PhilsciPolicy@philscipolicy.bsky.social · 2y ago

Are you a philosopher, historian or 'STS' scholar that is interested in exploring jobs in 'policy'? Here's my guide for on ways to explore working in federal government. I frame it for HPS types, but advice is general to all Please share/comment! www.philscipolicy.com/exploring-sc...

PhilsciPolicy@philscipolicy.bsky.social · 2y ago

**siren** NSF released an RFI out asking how to include ethical, social, safety and security considerations in research Likely a great opportunity for philosophers/STS scholars to provide input. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Request for Information on the CHIPS and Science Act Section 10343. Research Ethics

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports research at the frontiers of current knowledge, across all fields of science, engineering and education in all...

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Bill Haneberg@haneberg.bsky.social · 2y ago

My take after 35 years as a public and private sector researcher, consultant, and advisor: Scholarship is hard; translating it into understandable and actionable policy support is in many ways harder. Also more rewarding and requiring a different (don't call it "soft") skillset. Give it a try!

PhilsciPolicy@philscipolicy.bsky.social · 2y ago

Are you a philosopher, historian or 'STS' scholar that is interested in exploring jobs in 'policy'? Here's my guide for on ways to explore working in federal government. I frame it for HPS types, but advice is general to all Please share/comment! www.philscipolicy.com/exploring-sc...

Justin Weinberg@dailynous.com · 3y ago

Suppose some of the philosophical activities we engage in are preliminary steps towards answering big philosophical questions, and count as progress in philosophy. In which areas of philosophy, or on what big questions of philosophy, should we expect faster progress?

In Which Areas of Philosophy Should We Expect Faster Progress?

On what we can call the answers model of philosophy, the primary aim of philosophy is to learn philosophical truths, and a primary form of philosophical progress is learning true answers to “the bi...

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PhilsciPolicy@philscipolicy.bsky.social · 3y ago

a neat example of a history of science volume that's framed and relevant to practitioners in policy! also see Marci's recent podcast here: issues.org/episode-37-g...

Marci Baranski@ecomarci.bsky.social · 3y ago

Happy 1 year anniversary to my book! I'm beyond thrilled to have several positive reviews published, including these excerpts: "The Globalization of Wheat stands out as one of the most compelling contributions yet to [studies of The Green Revolution.]" -Helen Anne Curry

A stack of books titled The Globalization of Wheat by Marci Baranski.
Marci Baranski@ecomarci.bsky.social · 3y ago

Happy 1 year anniversary to my book! I'm beyond thrilled to have several positive reviews published, including these excerpts: "The Globalization of Wheat stands out as one of the most compelling contributions yet to [studies of The Green Revolution.]" -Helen Anne Curry

A stack of books titled The Globalization of Wheat by Marci Baranski.
Anna Alexandrova@annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 3y ago

was looking for a readable intro to logical empiricism from somebody who actually believes it. Pleased I found this textbook that Carnap wrote in the 1950s. Ch1 is just perfect philpapers.org/rec/CARAIT Let's not allow Popper's uncharitable statement of inductivism stack the deck against it #philsci

Rudolf Carnap, An introduction to the philosophy of science - PhilPapers

Stimulating, thought-provoking text by one of the 20th century’s most creative philosophers clearly and discerningly makes accessible such topics as probability, measurement and quantitative languag...

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Alex John London@unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 3y ago

Looking forward to kicking off the 64th Annual Lecture Series at Pitt Center for Philosophy of Science, talking about “Epistemic Diversity, Ethics, and the Optimal Timing of Clinical Trials” on Sept 29. #bioethics #philsci www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/als-al...

ALS - Alex John London - The Center for Philosophy of Science

The Annual Lecture Series, the Center’s oldest program, was established in 1960, the year when Adolf Grünbaum founded the Center. Each year the series consists of six to eight lectures, about three...

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Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 3y ago

"Imre Lakatos (1970) sought to reconcile Popper and Kuhn by arguing that science consists of competing fragments of Kuhnian normal science, or "research programmes"...to be assessed...in terms of their relative empirical success and failure" (Maxwell, 2023): philarchive.org/rec/MAXWLO #philsci

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Alisa Bokulich@alisabokulich.bsky.social · 3y ago

Happy to welcome the Extinct Blog to Bluesky! They post regular essays on philosophy of paleontology & historical/earth sciences more broadly. Give them a follow for great content! #philsci #paleo #geosciences #fossils ⚒️🧪🏺 https://bsky.app/profile/extinctblog.bsky.social

Extinct blog@extinctblog.bsky.social · 3y ago

There is a new essay on Extinct (the philosophy of paleontology blog) today! This one examines the problem of interpreting the Ediacaran macrofossils, in particular the blob-like Aspidella and other putative "medusoids." http://www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2023/8/14/ediacaran-enigma

Erik Angner@erikangner.com · 3y ago

🚨 New paper 🚨 "Teaching Economics as Though Values Matter," in press at Fiscal Studies. The paper draws on the philosophical literature on values in science to spell out implications for how we teach, practice, and communicate economics 📈📉 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4534789

Teaching economics as though values matter

Economics is permeated with value judgements, and removing them would be neither possible nor desirable. They are consequential, in the sense that they have a s

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Anna Alexandrova@annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 3y ago

Certainly there is no formula for scientific method and I agree no critique can be purely procedural. Sometimes the open science mvnt doesn’t get that. Effective critique shows violations of norms of trust, those cannot be justified by appeal to personal judgment.

Berna Devezer@devezer.bsky.social · 3y ago

Bureaucratization and proceduralization of science should trouble us more. Trying to take the human out of an essentially human activity can't be the correct solution to our immensely human problems. We must look for and (re)find ourselves in science and science in ourselves, not elsewhere.