Matthew J Brown
@thehangedman.com
Boydston Chair of American Philosophy, Director, Center for Dewey Studies at SIU Carbondale. @deweycenter.siu.edu Editor: @hoposjournal.bsky.social Dewey, Pragmatism, HPS, HOPOS, values in science, TTRPGs, comics. Website: https://thehangedman.com/
New publication from the Dewey Center: Philosophy PhD candidate and former Center graduate assistant Andrii Leonov and Director Matthew Brown @thehangedman.com have published a new paper in EJPAP: "Reintroducing Dewey’s Re-Introduction to Experience and Nature" journals.openedition.org/ejpap/6587
Deadline for applications is July 8. Let me know if you have any questions.
Center for Dewey Studies@deweycenter.siu.edu · 2mo agoWe're hiring! Come join the Dewey Center as a Program Assistant. This is a full-time staff/admin position that assists Director Matthew J Brown @thehangedman.com
The 2026 #HOPOS conference is underway! Hosted by The Ohio State University. A full roster of talks begins today with sessions on logical empiricism, Aristotle, the life sciences, sociology, and neo-Kantianism. Download the full program here: hopos2026.dryfta.com/81-program
Program Booklet
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Nancy Cartwright, professor of philosophy at Durham University and the University of California, San Diego, has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities. dailynous.com/2026/06/15/c...
Cartwright Wins Frontiers of Knowledge Award - Daily Nous
Nancy Cartwright, professor of philosophy at Durham University and the University of California, San Diego, has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in th...
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We're hiring! Come join the Dewey Center as a Program Assistant. This is a full-time staff/admin position that assists Director Matthew J Brown @thehangedman.com
Program Assistant
Salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience, while also considering internal equity.The primary responsibility of this position is to advance the research, teaching, publ...
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Derrida's been dead twenty years, but that's not going to stop Paul Boghossian from being mad at him
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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One of the final publications from the NSF-funded engineering ethics & education project I headed (2013-2023) is finally out. This may not be our most important result, but it might be my favorite: "‘It’s up to the managers’: Strategies engineering students use to avoid discussing ethics" in JRI.
‘It’s up to the managers’: Strategies engineering students use to avoid discussing ethics
Studies show that engineering students are open to discussion of ethics; however, their overall understanding of it tends to be narrow and their engagement decreases over the course of their educat...
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For more information, details, and FAQ on HOPOS's move to Cambridge, follow this link: hopos.org/move-to-camb...
Move to Cambridge University Press | HOPOS – The International Society for History of Philosophy of Science
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We are delighted to announce that HOPOS will become a publication of Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org as of 2027. All publications starting with vol. 17 will be open access. It is an honor to join the Cambridge family of journals. #HOPOS #HPS #philsky #philosophy #histsci
Preprint of a forthcoming paper in HOPOS @hoposjournal.bsky.social on Thomas Kuhn's (unpublished) work on the history of quantum physics
PhilSci-Archive@philsci-archive.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew on the Archive: Potters, Jan (2027) Sharpening Philosophical Concepts: Thomas Kuhn and the History of Quantum Physics. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29809/
New on the Archive: Potters, Jan (2027) Sharpening Philosophical Concepts: Thomas Kuhn and the History of Quantum Physics. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29809/
Today at 12:30pm Central Daylight Time (UTC-5), Jia Chen will give a lunchtime talk on "Rhythm, Nature, and Art in Dewey" at the Center for Dewey Studies. Join us on the live stream via YouTube. #philsky
Jia Chen, Rhythm, Nature, and Art in Dewey (Lunchtime Talk)
Jia Chen (Fudan University),“Rhythm, Nature, and Art in Dewey” The notion of rhythm constitutes a pivotal position in Dewey’s later aesthetic writings. It can be read from several points of view: mat...
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This thing I wrote about Paul Churchland and AI got picked up by the Blog of the APA. #philsky #philsci blog.apaonline.org/2026/04/21/w...
Why We Should Be Reading Paul Churchland Right Now: Neurophilosophy and AI | Blog of the APA
The more I get into philosophical and philosophy-adjacent discussions of current-generation “artificial intelligence” (large language models and the like), the more dismayed I am not to see any discus...
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Join us April 29 for the International Dewey Colloquium (Online) – Ning Sun (Fudan), "Thin World and Thick Experience: The Divergence and Possible Convergence of Classical Pragmatism and New Pragmatism." 12:00pm Noon UTC. Register on Zoom for this event: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Happy Earth Day from the Center for Dewey Studies! “When we say that experience is one point of approach to an account of the world in which we live, we mean then by experience something at least as wide and deep and full as all history on this earth, a history which...
Peter West reviews Andreas Vrahimis's book Bergsonism and the History of Analytic Philosophy in #HOPOS. Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Suppose you know the following statistics for a journal in a given year: new submissions, revised submissions, accept decisions, reject decisions, revise decisions. You also know how many papers get a first-round accept and first-round revise-minor/conditional accept. (1/2)
"Pulling new signal out of old noise." Fascinating discussion of the importance of theory and theory change in science, and not just parapsychology... 🧵
Dr Mircea Zloteanu 🌺🌞🍃@mzloteanu.bsky.social · 5mo ago#statstab #500🥳 How Parapsychology Could Become a Science Churchland asks: why has parapsychology failed to become a successful science despite decades of experiments? A: the absence of a coherent theoretical framework. #critique #philosophy #science thehangedman.com/teaching-fil...
Applications are open for the SIU Center for Dewey Studies Visiting Fellows Program. Fellows are in residence for one or two semesters, enjoy the scholarly resources and intellectual community of the Center, and receive... (1/2)
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"Knowledge is not merely for describing the world. Nor is knowledge merely for getting around in the world. Knowledge is also for creating more knowledge." By @consume.red & @philosofir.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s104...
Drumroll, please! The Editors are delighted to announce the BJPS Referee of the Year for 2025... www.thebsps.org/auxhyp/refer... #philsci #philsky
Oh Hai! You're probably pretty bored, nothing much going on. A perfect time to catch up on podcasts! In this episode of "Stuff is Contingent with Andy and Matt" me and @thehangedman.com talk about AI and Higher Ed. Available below or at any podcast service. stuffiscontingent.org/@afamigliett...
Episode 3: What is Contingent in This Class? AI and Higher Education (Part 1)
We’re back after too long! But good news, this is a two-parter! You’ll hear from us again NEXT WEEK. This one is a conversation about AI and Higher Education. Yeah, AI again. More about why that is soon. We talk about the following pieces in this episode: Marc Watkins, “Can We Justify College?” Carlo Rotella, “I’m a Professor. AI Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.” Patrick Lin, “Why We’re Not Using AI in This Course, Despite Its Obvious Benefits” We also mention one old blog post of mine: “Either the Precarity That Fuels the Banking Model of Education Goes, or We All Do”
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Why I think, in the current A.I. moment, we should be reading Paul Churchland. #philsky #philsci thehangedman.com/philosophy/p...
Why We Should Be Reading Paul Churchland Right Now
The more I get into philosophical and philosophy-adjacent discussions of current-generation "artificial intelligence" (large language models and the like), the more dismayed I am not to see any discus...
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Please join us on Thursday at 1:30pm for Arto Charpentier, “Metaphysics as Method: A Methodological Reading of Dewey’s Metaphysical Theory.” Learn more at deweycenter.siu.edu/center-events/
In case you're interested in the history of the philosophical engagement (or lack thereof) with biological organization, HOPOS has provided me with a link to download my forthcoming paper (limit of 50) at the following link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/RGWQP... #hpbio #philbio #philsci
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Daniel S. Brooks@dsbrooks.bsky.social · last yr.My paper on the history of biological organization was accepted at HOPOS! The paper looks at organicist efforts in the first half of the 20th century to elevate organization in biology as a central practical and theoretical notion. #hpbio #philbio #histbio www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025-2026 Center for Dewey Studies Essay Award: Stephen Houchins, Jessica Soester, and Michael Timm. They have been working since Fall on their essay projects, which cover a wide range of topics in Dewey Studies. See more at deweycenter.siu.edu/center-infor...
