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Alice Murphy

@alicemurphs.bsky.social
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Lecturer at St Andrews, researching philosophy of science, imagination, creativity, aesthetics. She/her

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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The aesthetics of science is a happening place where many of the cool kids hang out and do cool kid stuff (like, uh, think about the relationship between art and science), as @milenaivanova.bsky.social, @alicemurphs.bsky.social and i explain: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/31... #philsci
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Alice Murphy @alicemurphs.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Over the moon to be having Rory join us at @standrewsphil.bsky.social this summer!
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R. D. Kent 🍉 @rdk96.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Excited to share that I'll be joining the University of St Andrews as a Research Fellow from July 🥳 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I'll be contributing my work on ideological scientism to @alicemurphs.bsky.social's excellent aesthetics of science project, which you can read more about here:
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Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science | ArcheAesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science – Arche
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Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
@standrewsphil.bsky.social is becoming the imagination hub -- happening in May, feat. Amy Kind, Nick Wiltsher, Alice Murphy, Mike Stuart, Justin D'Ambrosio , William D'Alessandro, Petronella Randell: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/...
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Alice Murphy @alicemurphs.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the University of St Andrews on my project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science" www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #philosophy #philsci
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Research Fellow - AR3233
Research Fellow - AR3233, Unit: Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies Salary: Grade 6 / £38,784-£42,254 pa Full time Fixed term: 24 months, <p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Application...
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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Postdoc opportunities: The MCMP's Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Language (Prof. Hannes Leitgeb) at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social advertises two Postdoc positions (deadline 31 Jan 2026). See job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...
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Postdoctoral Fellow (m/f/x)
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
What a dream it would be to work with Alice and in beautiful St Andrews!! Share with anyone you think might be interested!!
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Oscar @oscarw.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
New paper just published in Synthese: Instrumental Understanding link.springer.com/article/10.1... In this paper I start developing an account of pragmatic understanding fit for an epistemology of scientific instruments, drawing especially on Davis Baird's Thing Knowledge. #philsci #philsky
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Client Challenge
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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Alice Murphy at st Andrews is looking for a 2 year postdoc on a super cool aesthetics-meets-values-in-science project, real quick turn around on applications so get in thar! #philsci www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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Research Fellow - AR3233
Research Fellow - AR3233, Unit: Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies Salary: Grade 6 / £38,784-£42,254 pa Full time Fixed term: 24 months, <p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Application...
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Alice Murphy @alicemurphs.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the University of St Andrews on my project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science" www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #philosophy #philsci
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Research Fellow - AR3233
Research Fellow - AR3233, Unit: Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies Salary: Grade 6 / £38,784-£42,254 pa Full time Fixed term: 24 months, <p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Application...
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I wrote about my first ever package holiday and the beauty of experiencing weirdness with a dear friend app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/141629...
A picture of Epicurus wearing sunglasses. 

Title: When Epicurus took an all-inclusive holiday
A package resort deal reminded me of one of the most important things in life – the ancient Greek philosopher would have approved

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Two of the novels I read this summer, Süskind’s 'Perfume' and Yuzuki’s 'Butter' both tell stories of murder and revolve around intense sensory experiences. That got me thinking about how little philosophy seems to care about smell and taste app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/140442...
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Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
We have *three* new lecturers joining the castle -- ehm, the department @standrewsphil.bsky.social : Alice Murphy @alicemurphs.bsky.social, Matthew Vermaire, Nick Wiltsher @nickwiltsher.bsky.social. Welcome folks! www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/n...
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Nick Wiltsher @nickwiltsher.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I wrote another blog thing on imagination for The Junkyard. I figure if I write enough of these things I'll end up writing a book by accident and accumulation. junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2025/4/... #philsky
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The value of epistemic imagining — The Junkyard
A post by Nick Wiltsher Here are three related claims to which I’m increasingly sympathetic: (1) Imagination has no distinctive epistemic ends. (2) The epistemic ends that can be pursued using imag...
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Paris friends! Come hear @alicemurphs.bsky.social and I chat about Bergson's life and philosophy at the awesome Red Wheelbarrow Book Store on February 19th!
Wednesday February 19
7 pm 11 rue de Medicis 75005
Emily Herring in conversation with Alice Murphy
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Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Final day of 2024 and my review of Rheinberger's Split and Splice is now available in Studies of #HPS as part of a book forum (technically published in the future👽) Wishing everyone a happy end of the year and a good entry into 2025 🥳💃 OA link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kM5-8yuR2... #Philsci #philbio
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Milena Ivanova @milenaivanova.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Our book The Aesthetics of Scientific Experiments is now available paper back and is on end of year sale! www.routledge.com/The-Aestheti... @alicemurphs.bsky.social #philsci #philsky #aesthetics #booksky #Science #Philosophy
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The Aesthetics of Scientific Experiments
The relationship between aesthetics and science has begun to generate substantial interest. However, for the most part, the focus has been on the beauty of theories, and other aspects of scientific pr...
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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Quick reminder to anybody who happens to be in Munich today: You are warmly invited to 1st event under my new chair at TUM, on Understanding Misinformation, 15:30 in Hansa Haus Briennerstr. 39. we’ll hold a drinks reception afterwards. Registration and more info: www.eventbrite.com/e/1058119206...
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Understanding Misinformation-International Symposium
Let's dive deep into the world of misinformation at our "Understanding Misinformation" international symposium on December 9, 2024!
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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at LMU Munich is now on Bluesky. Please help us spread the word. #Philosophy #Mathematics #Science #Logic
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Floris Winckel @fwinckel.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
What does the #ipcc know about the aesthetic impacts of climate change? A short essay I wrote with @alicemurphs.bsky.social Just went online :) do check it out
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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
12 ✨paid✨ PhD positions in environmental humanities - co/organised by Uni Augsburg and LMU. I’m also an affiliate there - check out the call: rethinking-environment-idk.de
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Alice Murphy @alicemurphs.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
We've seen that the IPCC has engaged with some work in Philosophy of Science, but what about Aesthetics? New piece by @fwinckel.bsky.social and me on What Does the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Know About Aesthetics? #philsky #philsci #envhum
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
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Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship
We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).
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Floris Winckel @fwinckel.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I have an article out :) It's a deep dive into a series of snowflake images made by James and Cecilia Glaisher in 1855. I talk about this couple's work in my dissertation, but their stunning drawings deserved separate treatment. Open Access link (with more pictures) 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Three drawings of different kinds of hexagonal snow crystals, side-by-side, on blue, green, and dark-red backgrounds. The middle snow crystal in particular shows off its striking white highlights on its tips.
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I Support People Protesting in Support of Palestinian Action @srdfrench.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Trumpet blast: my paper ‘Does the Claim that There Are No Theories Imply that there is no History of Theories to be Written?(!)’ is out in the latest issue of The Journal for General Philosophy of Science (on open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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‘Does the Claim that there are no Theories Imply that there is no History of Theories to be Written?(!)’* - Journal for General Philosophy of Science
In There Are No Such Things As Theories (French 2020), the reification of theories is critically analysed and rejected. My aim here is to tease out some of the implications of this approach first of a...
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Uljana Feest @ufeest.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Hi everyone, I am happy to report that my review of Hans-Jörg Rheinberger's 2023 book (Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation) is now online #philsci, #philbio, #philpsy, #hps, #sts, #histsci, #histSTM
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
UK! My biography of Henri Bergson – Herald of a Restless World – is out today!!! I am feeling quite emotional, a mix of pride, joy and nervousness! I hope you will be as inspired by Bergson's life and thought as I am! basicbooks.uk/titles/emily...
A copy of Herald of a Restless World resting on top of a table outside with what looks like a nice English countryside in the background
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 06/05/2024
beautiful article by Arundhati Roy
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Arundhati Roy on Gaza: N̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ Again
The millions of protestors on the streets of Europe and the US are the hope for the future of the world..
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Nick Wiltsher @nickwiltsher.bsky.social · 11/04/2024
I recently took on the role of editor for the Aesthetics section of the Diversity Reading List. The site's aim is to make it easier for people to write more diverse philosophy syllabi by creating a useful database of work. #philsky 1/4
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Contribute – Diversity Reading List
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 01/05/2024
Now would be an excellent moment for the American Philosophical Association to release a statement in support of their students that have been beaten by police for opposing genocide, just as it was a lost moment for the APA to stand in support of their academic colleagues murdered in Gaza
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Elena Popa @elenapopaphi.bsky.social · 09/03/2024
Join our reading group on feminist philosophy of science! We will meet on Mondays, at 17 CET, once per month. Below you will find our schedule and readings.
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Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
an actually good Sydney Sweeney-themed think piece is “The Money Is in All the Wrong Places” by @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social defector.com/the-money-is...
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The Money Is In All The Wrong Places | Defector
You can always tell who in Hollywood has family money by their Instagrams. People like Dakota Johnson, who have a Hollywood lineage deeper than the Mariana Trench, post only rarely. They post about so...
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
My book Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People is now available for pre-order in the US! (UK cover and pre-orders available soon!) US friends you can pre-order the book here: hachettespeakersbureau.com/titles/emily... Release date: October 2024!
Bowler hat floating on a turquoise background. Title: Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People. Author: Emily Herring
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 03/02/2024
Hire me to edit for you! I provide fast, professional, and personalised proofreading, copy editing, and developmental editing services. wellreadherring.com/editing Image unrelated, I just really like Van Gogh's painting of cows
Van Gogh's painting of cows in a field. The sky is a weird yellowy green colour, there is a crow in the distance and five cows in the field.
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Alice Murphy @alicemurphs.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
Excellent interdisciplinary workshop at the MCMP yesterday with our Rachel Carson Center colleagues! Covering climate modelling and understanding, scientific cognitivism and the aesthetics of nature, environmental ethics, methodologies, and invasive species 🌱 #philsci
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I Support People Protesting in Support of Palestinian Action @srdfrench.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
For those who might be interested: My fun little piece of flash 'Blue Moons' just appeared at the oddly named 'Spank the Carp': www.spankthecarp.com/issue79_fren...
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Floris Winckel @fwinckel.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
We're organising a workshop! 🌍Defining and Using Aesthetics in the Environmental Humanities 📆 10-11 April, 2024 📍 Munich 🏁 Register by 28 Feb, 2024 If you can't make it in person, consider registering for the online keynote by Emily Brady! defining-and-using-aesthetics-workshop.eventbrite.de
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Defining and Using Aesthetics in the Environmental Humanities
An Interdisciplinary Experiment
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
A pediatrician’s two weeks inside a hospital in Gaza www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
And if I could offer an example around how that manifests: a seven-year-old had deep lacerations to his leg and needed some suturing. It wasn’t a life or death case—it was very simple—but the only pain relief we had was Motrin, which was frankly cruel, and a cruel undertaking. There was no ketamine. And so I tried to use one of my pediatric tools as a distraction. And so I had a light flasher, but he wasn’t interested in any of those designs that I put on the wall. So I tried to distract him from the pain. Usually what I would do is ask questions like, “So who’s your best friend?” I can’t ask that because what if his best friend’s dead? “What’s your favorite subject at school?” He hasn’t been to school in three months. “What’s your favorite food?” I don’t know when the last time he ate would be. Every single facet of their society has been ripped apart. ♦
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/01/2024
Breaking news: The International Court of Justice on Friday ordered Israel to do more to prevent the killing and harm of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, a landmark decision that will add to calls for a change of course in its campaign against Hamas.
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U.N. court orders Israel to do more to prevent killing, harm in Gaza
The decision focuses on emergency measures to stop the war in Gaza but will not address whether Israel has committed genocide.
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Alice Murphy @alicemurphs.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
Wahoooo go John Dougherty!! The most 'exceptionally thorough, generous, and constructive' colleague too 🥳
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David Colaço @davidcolaco.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
My article "When remediating one artifact results in another: control, confounders, and correction" is now published (open access) in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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When remediating one artifact results in another: control, confounders, and correction - History and...
Scientists aim to remediate artifacts in their experimental datasets. However, the remediation of one artifact can result in another. Why might this happen, and what does this consequence tell us abou...
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Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
I'm starting a thread (or whatever it is called here) with the papers, books, and articles I am reading. First one: Model ensembles of ecosystem services fill global certainty and capacity gaps www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Science | AAAS
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Journal for General Philosophy of Science (JGPS) @jgps.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
If "there are no such things as theories," as Steven French (@srdfrench.bsky.social) has contended, how should philosophers of science understand #histsci & their own #philsci practices? More material for debate in this new open access article in JGPS!  👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...  #philsky
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
CFP: First Feminist Philosophy of Physics Workshop
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First Feminist Philosophy of Physics Workshop
We invite submissions from scholars at all career stages to the first Feminist Philosophy of Physics Workshop, to be held on June 20-21, 2024 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and hybrid on Zoo...
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
You have a talented undergraduate who wants to learn about philosophy of science. Tell them to apply to the Pittsburgh Summer Program in Philosophy of Science. The deadline for applications is March 15, 2024. Please share widely www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/programs/pit.... #philsky
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Pittsburgh Summer Program - The Center for Philosophy of Science
The Summer Program features two daily graduate seminars about core issues and cutting-edge topics in general philosophy of science and philosophy of the special sciences (e.g., physics, biology, cogni...
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I Support People Protesting in Support of Palestinian Action @srdfrench.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
It’s heeeeeere!!! (And the promotion code AAFLYG6 still works!)
Book cover of A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics by Steven French featuring orange and brown strings in a wave-like pattern against a light green background
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Alice Murphy @alicemurphs.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
the MCMP is joining forces with the Rachel Carson Center for an interdisciplinary workshop on Values in Climate and Environmental Sciences, 10th Feb 🌎 www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/events_this-...
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