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The syllabus for my course Philosophy of Scientific Communication is now available here. Please share to anyone who might be interested in teaching a course like this (and kindly give me an acknowledgment if you use it): drive.google.com/file/d/1LDKY...

David Colaço@davidcolaco.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Several people seemed interested in my Philosophy of Scientific Communication course, so here is my schedule of readings. Thanks to everyone for their help; I hope to get to additional topics mentioned using these as the anchors:

“Theory and Model Building in Psychology” New book edited by @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social and Alexander Wendt, with chapters by @ufeest.bsky.social, @devezer.bsky.social, @mieronen.bsky.social, and @bringmannlaura.bsky.social. link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

After a break, The HPS Podcast is back for Season 6! 🎙️ In our first episode, I'm joined by Dr. Magdalena Skipper, Editor-in-Chief of Nature, for a conversation about trust in science, transparent peer review, COVID-19's legacy, & the inequities that continue to shape who gets published.

S6 E1 - Magdalena Skipper on Scientific Publishing

Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 30 July · 39min

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And it’s out - our homage to the inimitable John Dupré, a giant of contemporary philosophy, from his loving colleagues and a stellar cast of contributors link.springer.com/book/10.1007... : #philsci

Life Beyond Human Boundaries: John Dupré’s Philosophy and the Interdisciplinary Study of the Life Sciences

This open access book is self-standing as the only substantive anthology of writings centered on John Dupre’s work.

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Janet Browne's new condensed and updated single volume biography of #CharlesDarwin is out today, from @princetonupress.bsky.social. Time to get reading! #HPS #histsci #Darwin #books #evolution

The June 2026 SPSP Newsletter is live! Cambridge, Climate, and Computers! #philsci #spsp2026 #cambridge sway.cloud.microsoft/WzkbQNheb1JE...

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I'll be presenting this work at PSA (San Diego, Nov 2026). The question is how to think about "formative" (aggregate) constructs and their empirical measurements in the social sciences (e.g., socio-economic status). The standard view (e.g., Borsboom 2005) requires constructs to be causes of...

PhilSci-Archive@philsci-archive.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New on the Archive: Larroulet Philippi, Cristian (2026) Formative Constructs as Tailored Aggregates. In: UNSPECIFIED. https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29913/

Monte's new paper! It's a goodie

PhilSci-Archive@philsci-archive.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New on the Archive: Cairns, Monte (2026) Expertise-Objections to the Argument from Inductive Risk. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29669/

When patients ask, “What disorder do I really ‘have’?” the honest answer is usually more interesting and messier than a single diagnostic label. I wrote for the @nytimes.com on what I wish people understood about diagnoses and the nature of mental health problems. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Opinion | We’re Thinking About Mental Health Diagnoses All Wrong

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My CUP Element on "Wittgenstein and Relativism" can now be downloaded for free. I hope some of you will find it interesting. www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philosophy #Wittgenstein #relativism

Wittgenstein and Relativism

Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Wittgenstein and Relativism

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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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In the latest #HOPOS, Jamie Shaw, Kevin C. Elliott, and Deivide Garcia da S. Oliveira provide a transcription and critical overview of Paul Feyerabend’s unpublished manuscript “On the Responsibility of Scientists.” Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Registration now open for HOPOS 2026, the 16th Biennial Congress of HOPOS (The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science). Ohio State University, Columbus (OH) 22 to 25 June 2026 buff.ly/SNV412s

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Early-bird registration is now open. To register for HOPOS 2026, navigate to the registration page by clicking here.The

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In "Styles Against Method", Joseba Pascual Alba explores "the connection between Feyerabend’s overarching anarchism and Ian Hacking’s “anarcho-rationalism,” as presented in [Hacking's] “styles project.” Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

CONGRATULATIONS to the new 2025 AAAS-Sect L #HPS Fellows! 🎉 ⭐️Sabina Leonelli, Technical University of Munich @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social ⭐️Deborah G Mayo, Virginia Tech ⭐️Corinna Treitel, Washington University St. Louis ⭐️John Bickle, Mississippi State U For complete list of 2025 AAAS Fellows ⬇️

Suzanne Bachelard "educated more than a generation of French historians and philosophers of science". Ties van Gemert writes on her life and work & translates her lecture “Epistemology and the History of the Sciences”. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

“The Meaning of a Measure: p as a General Measure of Psychopathology” Our referees have now considered your paper and have recommended publication in Philosophical Psychology. :)

News from Association for Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry! My student Derek Braverman received the 2026 Karl Jaspers Award for his paper on Addiction! Congratulations Derek! aapp.press.jhu.edu/jaspers

📅 Mark your calendars for #SIPS2027! The 2027 SIPS conference, organized in collaboration with the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science @aimosinc.bsky.social, will be held in November at the University of Melbourne, Australia. We are looking forward to seeing you there!

A brilliant presentation on history of photography in astronomy, and the blurring of the analog / digital divide, by @carljoseph.bsky.social Winner of Langham prize at this years @aahpsss.bsky.social conference Highly recommend #hps #histsci #scicomm

Carl Joseph@carljoseph.bsky.social · 7mo ago

My presentation that highlights a lengthy period of hybrid analog-digital photography in astronomy.Includes some interesting examples like JPL engineers colouring an image with crayons, and the first astronomical CCD image. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsXX... #histsci #sts #astronomy #hps #photography

Delighted to announce a roundtable discussion of my book Reconsidering Historical Epistemology 🗓️ Feb 2, 2026 📍 Athens (NKUA) Truly honoured - and excited - to have such outstanding scholars engaging with my work. Flyer attached ⬇️

The Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology conference was great. Many thanks to our organisers, wonderful keynotes & big, diverse cohort of participants and ideas. And I'm very grateful to those who stopped to chat with me about how I'm thinking through case studies in psychology

Hey folks! We're running a big repliCATS workshop in Melbourne on 16 Dec, evaluating of replicability of published papers. 🐈 metascience, psych, med, health, education, sociol, quant methods, stats ECRs welcome 💰 AU$200 🎫 + travel subsidies ℹ️ forms.gle/9JvoRBKCzYyY... Re-posts appreciated 🌈

My amazing friend and MetaMelb co-director @simine.com has won the 2025 Einstein Foundation Award! @unimelb.bsky.social @psychunimelb.bsky.social and @replicats.bsky.social are so lucky to have you

Einstein Foundation Berlin@einsteinberlin.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🏆 Individual: @simine.com, psychologist at @unimelb.bsky.social & editor-in-chief of Psychological Science, is recognized for pioneering methodological rigor, reproducibility & collaborative research, driving initiatives such as @improvingpsych.org & the journal Collabra @ucpress.bsky.social. (2/5)

Join us!

AAHPSSS@aahpsss.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The 2025 AAHPSSS conference starts Wednesday, December 3rd. That's just over a week away! There's still time to register for both in-person and remote attendance! For details and to register, see: aahpsss.net.au/conference/2...

My department (philosophy, University of Melbourne) is advertising a 4-yr fixed-term lectureship in metaphysics and philosophy of science. Open to people with Australian work rights. Philosophy folk, please feel free to repost etc unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...

Good to see this by @cristianlarph.bsky.social published. The Stevens prohibition against averages from ordinal scales is hereby lifted. Albeit only when you have evidence that your scale is not purely ordinal #philsi #metascience #measurement

Against Prohibition (or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK) | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

There is a widely held view on measurement inferences that goes back to Stevens’s theory of measurement scales and ‘permissible statistics’. This view defends the following prohibition: you should not...

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🎉 50,000 listens! Thanks to everyone supporting The HPS Podcast, we're so grateful We're proudly graduate-run— & work hard to provide episodes that reflect our community’s questions and passions, and the richness of ideas across HPS Lots to come! Including some exciting developments for S6 (1/2)

@tespiteri.bsky.social wrote a review of my book! #&HPS, #Psychology

Thomas Spiteri@tespiteri.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Uljana Feest’s 'Operationism in Psychology: An Epistemology of Exploration' provides a rigorous and insightful analysis of psychological research. This important contribution is a must-read for anyone interested in the philosophy and history of science. I’ve jotted dow some brief reflections below