Vanessa Seifert
@vanessaseifert.bsky.social
Philosophy of Chemistry - Philosophy of Science I PI of PExAI project I former MarieSkłodowska Curie fellow I Writer & Co-editor Jargonium.com I Writer ChemistryWorld I vanessa-seifert.com
If anyone by any chance is curious about what Im working on regarding AI, I wrote this short piece in @chemistryworld.com where I explain everything!! www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/coul...
Could AI undermine our (belief in the truth of) scientific theories?
Artificial intelligence models that make predictions based solely on data present problems for philosophers
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New article- open access: The pursuitworthiness of chemical experimentation. This is very different from what I have written so far. Special thanks to @ennofischer.bsky.social & @alejandrofabregastejeda.com for encouraging me to think about this- I learned a lot! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The pursuitworthiness of chemical experimentation - European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Chemistry is an experimental science. One cannot learn nor practice chemistry without conducting experiments and spending some time in a laboratory. To appreciate this, I employ the concept of pursuit...
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News from Jargonium's co-editor @vanessaseifert.bsky.social ! Her new research project, PExAI: Predicting & Explaining w/ AI is officially launched. Join the hybrid kick off event that will take place on the 18th of May in Athens! www.jargonium.com/post/pexai-a...
PExAI: Predicting & Explaining with AI
A new project bridging the philosophy of chemistry with the philosophy of AI.
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‘By discussing the past, we get to appreciate not only the success of our best current science but also the effort that is required to study nature and its workings’, writes @vanessaseifert.bsky.social www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/how-...
How much history should there be in science education?
Understanding how previous shifts in scientific understanding occurred affects how we view current theories
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‘Rewritten after each scientific revolution, textbooks often obscure transformative shifts, portraying scientific progress as a smooth, cumulative process through the lens of the currently accepted paradigm’, writes @vanessaseifert.bsky.social www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/how-...
How much history should there be in science education?
Understanding how previous shifts in scientific understanding occurred affects how we view current theories
chemistryworld.com
The book Rethinking Emergence ed. by A.Bryant & D.Yates is now out and Im in it too 🥰 academic.oup.com/book/62412
The 2nd edition of Paul Needham's book, Macroscopic Metaphysics, is now out! Check out what its all about in this short piece by the author himself!!! www.jargonium.com/post/a-new-e...
Second edition of Paul Needham's book, Macroscopic Metaphysics, is now out!
A new edition of Paul Needham's book, Macroscopic Metaphysics: Middle-Sized Objects and Longish Processes, is now out!
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Huge congrats to Annette Lykknes for this amazing award!!! www.jargonium.com/post/annette...
Annette Lykknes receives the 2026 HIST Award
Annette Lykknes receives the 2026 HIST Award
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This February my new project PExAI commenced Pronounced PEH-kseh; παίξε (v. παίζω) greek word for play but also.. acronym for 'Predicting & Explaining with AI' I will investigate how AI figures in chemical research Check it out: www.vanessa-seifert.com/about-5
PROJECTS | Vanessa Seifert
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If you believe Mendeleev is the one who (first) discovered periodicity in the chemical elements well.. you'd be wrong. Our new article by Pierre Avenas explains why in "The first periodic table? The telluric screw of Chancourtois" www.jargonium.com/post/the-fir...
The first periodic table? The telluric screw of Chancourtois
In 1862 Béguyer de Chancourtois published his classification of elements, the first to identify periodicity on the basis of atomic weight. This post discusses this discovery
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Every March, I write an article for @chemistryworld.com that is dedicated to the role of women in science. This year, I decided to take a more optimistic and fun approach towards this issue, focusing on how women have always figured in chemical practice! www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/chem...
Chemistry has always been women’s business
Female chemists played essential roles in developing chemical practice
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Here is the recording of our Inaugural BSPS Popper prize lecture we gave w/ Alex Franklin at the LSE yesterday. This was such an amazing experience!! @lsephilosophy.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Sa...
Do molecules have structure? The view from quantum physics | LSE Event
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LSE Philosophy@lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 7mo ago📣 Join us for the inaugural BSPS #Popper Prize lecture, delivered by philosophers of science Alexander Franklin and @vanessaseifert.bsky.social. 🗓️ Wednesday 25 February, 6.30pm - 8pm 📍 LSE Campus and online 💻 Register now to attend in-person or online! More: www.lse.ac.uk/events/molec...
⏰ Next week! @aliboyle.bsky.social @thebsps.bsky.social @vanessaseifert.bsky.social #PhilSci #Philosophy #Popper
LSE Philosophy@lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 7mo ago📣 Join us for the inaugural BSPS #Popper Prize lecture, delivered by philosophers of science Alexander Franklin and @vanessaseifert.bsky.social. 🗓️ Wednesday 25 February, 6.30pm - 8pm 📍 LSE Campus and online 💻 Register now to attend in-person or online! More: www.lse.ac.uk/events/molec...
So thrilled this is coming up in just 3 days! Sharing the updated poster for the Athens roundtable on Reconsidering Historical Epistemology (Feb 2). Happy to send the Webex link to anyone who’d like to join online — just message me.
📣 Join us for the inaugural BSPS #Popper Prize lecture, delivered by philosophers of science Alexander Franklin and @vanessaseifert.bsky.social. 🗓️ Wednesday 25 February, 6.30pm - 8pm 📍 LSE Campus and online 💻 Register now to attend in-person or online! More: www.lse.ac.uk/events/molec...
Do molecules have structure? The view from quantum physics | Vanessa Seifert and Alexander Franklin
6.30pm Wed 25 Feb | Vanessa Seifert, Alexander Franklin | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
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Happy new year, with the first article of 2026 already out in @chemistryworld.com !!! www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/demo...
Democratising science, one step at a time
Artifical intelligence is just the latest method to open up chemistry to more people
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Why water may not be a natural kind after all ... or Por qué el agua podría no ser una clase natural después de todo! Very cool to have an article out in the Argentinian journal Analysis Filosofico! Check it out: analisisfilosofico.org/index.php/af...
Por qué el agua podría no ser una clase natural después de todo | Análisis Filosófico
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The new @chemistryworld.com article is about this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry! Check it out 👇 www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/what...
What makes a scientific breakthrough truly chemical?
Why MOFs are a great choice for the Nobel prize in chemistry
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My new article @chemistryworld.com is about how consumer safety can be informed by the analysis of causal relations 👇 www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...
The conceptual challenge of consumer safety
Understanding causation can motivate product improvements
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The #MSCA project #CReaCaL is officially over, so here is one final post that I wrote for @jargonium.bsky.social to sum up what I did in the last couple of years. Not many answers; rather more questions came out of this work! www.jargonium.com/post/chemica...
Chemical reactions as causes? (part III)
In this final article prompted by the work done during the research project "Chemical Reactions as Causes and Laws", I would like to present some of the problems and challenges that I encountered when...
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New article @chemistryworld.com on smell and other senses. Check it out #CReaCaL www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/what...
What the smell of benzene tells us about the world
A philosophical discussion about how much we can trust our senses
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Today Im taking part in a very different event on ‘Women & correspondence’ where I will talk abt Darwin’s correspondence w/ women and discuss it from the perspective of feminist critiques on his work www.historyofideas.gr/2025/06/wome...
Women and Correspondence
Women and Correspondence in the Nineteenth Century Workshop, June 19, 2025 organized with the cooperation of the Book History Lab Department...
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Feminist philosophy of science points out the mechanisms by which sexism has systematically affected women's health and helps us appreciate the different factors that influence how knowers produce knowledge claims. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/how-...
How feminist bioethics can improve women’s health
From correcting research imbalances to placing value on lived experiences
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For this instalment of Jargonium Asks, we are delighted to have Kostas Gavroglu Prof. Emeritus @ the Un. of Athens. He is an expert historian of chemistry, among the few who have illuminated the social, historical & philosophical aspects of early quantum chemistry www.jargonium.com/post/jargoni...
Jargonium asks … Kostas Gavroglu
Kostas Gavroglu is Professor Emeritus at the Department of History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Athens.
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🚨 Today @chemistryworld.com launched a new collection on women's health. From menstruation to menopause, the articles reveal the stark gaps in medical research that have left women overlooked for far too long, and the people working to change the narrative: www.chemistryworld.com/collections/... 🔬💊
Women's health | Chemistry World
Many medical conditions affect only women, or affect them disproportionately, but women's health has historically been neglected in medical research. In this collection, we look at the gender gap in h...
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Im keeping a sort of diary of my research during the #CReaCaL project through a series of short essays in @jargonium.bsky.social. @erc.europa.eu This is part II of my thoughts around chemical reactions as causal relations: www.jargonium.com/post/chemica...
Chemical reactions as causes? (part II)
Some further thoughts on the nature of reactions
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Jargonium is.. *a chemical element that turned out to be a compound * a blog about chemistry * bridging the humanities with chemistry 🧪Check it out! www.jargonium.com
Bridging the Humanities with Chemistry | Jargonium
Established by early-career researchers with a shared research interest in history and philosophy of chemistry, Jargonium showcases short essays on chemistry and alchemy from the perspective of humani...
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Symbols, pictograms and tables have always been part of chemical practice. Delving into that story is quite exciting! Here are some snippets of it in my new article @chemistryworld.com #CReaCaL @erc.europa.eu www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/symb...
Symbols and tables in chemistry
Looking beyond today's periodic table
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