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The Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Institute of Philosophy, @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social focuses on #logic, #philsci & #AI, with a concentration on the philosophies of the special sciences hiw.kuleuven.be/clps #philsky #HPS

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The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social · 6h
We’re happy to announce that @lljschoenmakers.bsky.social has joined the Ramsey Lab! ludoschoenmakers.nl Ludo will work at the intersection of philosophy, computational biology & empirical research as part of our Boundaries of Life project: research.kuleuven.be/portal/en/pr... #philsci #HPbio 🧪
Photograph of Ludo L.J. Schoenmakers.
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
And here you can learn more about Antognazza's book: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Post-Gettier #epistemology may have yielded a picture of #knowledge that is both historiographically & philosophically misleading—or so Maria Rosa Antognazza argued in her posthumous book. Check out postdoctoral fellow Boaz Schuman’s review of the📘! 👇 philarchive.org/rec/SCHHIL-3 #philsky #HPS
Cover of Maria Rosa Antognazza’s Thinking with Assent: Renewing a Traditional Account of Knowledge and Belief, published by Oxford University Press, featuring a coastal Italian village with a prominent church overlooking the turquoise sea.
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 09/10/2026
Last week, my dear colleague Guido I. Prieto gave a talk on our joint work on model organisms & scientific representation. 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWUG... For those interested, I’ve linked the 📃s below 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #HPbio 🧪
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CEFISES Seminar, Guido Prieto: Are model organisms models?
YouTube video by CEFISES at UCLouvain
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The KU Leuven AI Safety Lab studies the large-scale risks of #AI, from the concentration of power in the companies that build it to the loss of democratic control over its development: www.aisafetylab.eu 📢 You can apply for paid residencies atm 👇 www.aisafetylab.eu/open-calls/ #philsci #philsky 🧪
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KU Leuven AI Safety Lab
Academic research on the large-scale risks of advanced AI and on who controls it.
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The KU Leuven AI Safety Lab studies the large-scale risks of #AI, from the concentration of power in the companies that build it to the loss of democratic control over its development: www.aisafetylab.eu 📢 You can apply for paid residencies atm 👇 www.aisafetylab.eu/open-calls/ #philsci #philsky 🧪
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KU Leuven AI Safety Lab
Academic research on the large-scale risks of advanced AI and on who controls it.
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This Friday, we continue with our new batch of seminars for the new academic year! Atahan Erbas, one of the organizers of our Brown Bag Seminar, will talk about how Aristotelian diagrams and truth diagrams can interact. Join us! 📆 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/... #logic #philsky #PhDsky #philsci
Screenshot of a KU Leuven CLPS event page announcing a Brown Bag Seminar by Atahan Erbas titled “An interaction between Aristotelian diagrams and truth diagrams.” The seminar is scheduled for October 09, 2026, from 1:00 to 2:00 PM in room HIW1-01.20, organized by Atahan Erbas and Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda.

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In this article, we examine the relationship between Aristotelian diagrams (ADs) and truth diagrams (TDs). First, after providing broader definitions for ADs and TDs, we propose a translation between them. Second, we show that by converting an AD to a TD, the maximal and minimal Boolean complexity of the AD can be calculated. Third, by converting a TD to an AD, we show that the well-formed formula represented by the TD and some immediate inferences between the formulas represented by the TD can be found. In addition, we demonstrate that the translation of TDs to ADs allows us to characterize new (sub-)subtypes of Aristotelian diagrams. Finally, we interpret the interaction between AD and TD within the framework of the philosophy of mathematical and logical practice literature. In the literature, using a diagram to prove a property of its target domain is called diagrammatic proof. Proofs made with TDs and ADs stand out as diagrammatic proofs about diagrams themselves.
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This Friday, we continue with our new batch of seminars for the new academic year! Atahan Erbas, one of the organizers of our Brown Bag Seminar, will talk about how Aristotelian diagrams and truth diagrams can interact. Join us! 📆 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/... #logic #philsky #PhDsky #philsci
Screenshot of a KU Leuven CLPS event page announcing a Brown Bag Seminar by Atahan Erbas titled “An interaction between Aristotelian diagrams and truth diagrams.” The seminar is scheduled for October 09, 2026, from 1:00 to 2:00 PM in room HIW1-01.20, organized by Atahan Erbas and Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda.

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In this article, we examine the relationship between Aristotelian diagrams (ADs) and truth diagrams (TDs). First, after providing broader definitions for ADs and TDs, we propose a translation between them. Second, we show that by converting an AD to a TD, the maximal and minimal Boolean complexity of the AD can be calculated. Third, by converting a TD to an AD, we show that the well-formed formula represented by the TD and some immediate inferences between the formulas represented by the TD can be found. In addition, we demonstrate that the translation of TDs to ADs allows us to characterize new (sub-)subtypes of Aristotelian diagrams. Finally, we interpret the interaction between AD and TD within the framework of the philosophy of mathematical and logical practice literature. In the literature, using a diagram to prove a property of its target domain is called diagrammatic proof. Proofs made with TDs and ADs stand out as diagrammatic proofs about diagrams themselves.
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 06/10/2026
I am really happy to share that I have started as PI of an @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social-funded 3-year project @clpskuleuven.bsky.social. I'll investigate how scientists conceptualize, model & measure environments across the life, cognitive, social & Earth sciences! #philsci #philsky #evosky #envhum 🧪
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What makes #mathematics explanatory in science? Philosophers have debated this question extensively. @clpskuleuven.bsky.social alum Lars Arthur Tump offers a fresh perspective in his 📘, bringing together indispensability, abstraction principles & number theory👇 link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #HPS
Book cover for "On Mathematical Explanations of Empirical Phenomena: Indispensability, Number Theory, and Mathematical Counterfactual Dependence" by Lars Arthur Tump. The cover identifies it as volume 517 of Springer’s “Synthese Library: Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science.” The design uses a dark blue gradient with large, translucent text in the background, white typography, and the Springer logo at the bottom.
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#philsci #philsky #academicsky 🧪
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What makes #mathematics explanatory in science? Philosophers have debated this question extensively. @clpskuleuven.bsky.social alum Lars Arthur Tump offers a fresh perspective in his 📘, bringing together indispensability, abstraction principles & number theory👇 link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #HPS
Book cover for "On Mathematical Explanations of Empirical Phenomena: Indispensability, Number Theory, and Mathematical Counterfactual Dependence" by Lars Arthur Tump. The cover identifies it as volume 517 of Springer’s “Synthese Library: Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science.” The design uses a dark blue gradient with large, translucent text in the background, white typography, and the Springer logo at the bottom.
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The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It is widely held that fitness is affected by population size, 'n.' But Grant Ramsey shows, in a new #openaccess paper in @jrnlofphil.bsky.social, that this familiar claim rests on both mathematical and conceptual mistakes.🔥 👇📃 doi.org/10.5840/jphi... #philsci #HPbio #evobio #philsky #HPS 🧪
Promotional black-and-white image announcing the publication of an article in The Journal of Philosophy. The text displays the journal title, the article title "Much Ado About ‘N'othing," and the author’s name, Grant Ramsey, in a minimalist layout.
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The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Are you interested in the past, present & future of Artificial Life (ALife) as a scientific field? 🚨 We are hosting an interdisciplinary minisymposium this December, so send us your work & come along! Please share widely! 🔗 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/... #philsci #academicsky #evobio #AI #HPS
Promotional graphic for a mini-symposium titled “Life As It Could Be: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Life,” taking place 7–8 December 2026 at Aula Symbiosis, BioScience Center, KU Leuven. The text appears over a blue-and-orange honeycomb-like cellular pattern.
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Don't forget to submit your work to this upcoming conference on philosophy #textbooks @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social! The deadline is next week 🚨: October 2, 2026 📅📃 Call for papers: hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/... #philsky #academicsky #EduSky #HPS #BookSky #didactics
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Call for Papers: Textbook Philosophy: Exploring Didactic and Comparative Perspectives on Philosophy Textbooks in Secondary Education
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Sylvia Wenmackers @sylviawenmackers.be · 22/09/2026
Earlier this year, Alicja Kwade had a magnificent solo-exhibition in museum M Leuven. In the catalogue, I compare her sculptures with scientific models: "In the sway of a simple model; A philosophical reflection on Alicja Kwade’s pendulum". Pdf: www.sylviawenmackers.be/documents/We... #Art #PhilSci
Exhibition catalogue of Alicja Kwade, called Dusty Die. The cover shows a white door.Double-page photo of ParaPosition, in which a heavy rock balances above a chair. The wall in the background shows a photo of gray clouds; a real window shows the inner garden.Fragment of my chapter. Scientists usually think and communicate about fictional systems by means of equations and specific names, such as the ‘simple pendulum’, ‘frictionless plane’ or ‘ideal gas’. In doing so, they simulate these abstract model systems mentally. At best, they leave behind cryptic squiggles on a blackboard. In Kwade’s work we encounter similar conceptual abstractions, but she renders them as physical, material objects. She presents us with massive rocks that appear to defy gravity in works like Superheavy Skies and ParaPosition, which make tangible the kind of configurations that scientists only imagine.
It’s like Kwade read Godfrey-Smith’s concept of scientific models as ‘imagined concrete systems’ that ‘would be concrete if real’ (or ‘fictional concreta’) and called his bluff. As if Kwade decided: let’s make them real, then!
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sports medicine raises normative/ethical & socioeconomic questions for philosophers to grapple with. Check out the new 📃 by Silvia Camporesi, @andreasdeblock.bsky.social & Mike McNamee on the philosophy of sports #medicine 👇 link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/... #philsky #HPS #HPBio #SportsScience 🧪
Book cover of Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine, Second Edition, edited by Thomas Schramme and Mary Jean Walker, published by Springer Nature.
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Don't forget to submit your work to this upcoming conference on philosophy #textbooks @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social! The deadline is next week 🚨: October 2, 2026 📅📃 Call for papers: hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/... #philsky #academicsky #EduSky #HPS #BookSky #didactics
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Call for Papers: Textbook Philosophy: Exploring Didactic and Comparative Perspectives on Philosophy Textbooks in Secondary Education
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sports medicine raises normative/ethical & socioeconomic questions for philosophers to grapple with. Check out the new 📃 by Silvia Camporesi, @andreasdeblock.bsky.social & Mike McNamee on the philosophy of sports #medicine 👇 link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/... #philsky #HPS #HPBio #SportsScience 🧪
Book cover of Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine, Second Edition, edited by Thomas Schramme and Mary Jean Walker, published by Springer Nature.
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 14/09/2026
My 📗 is #openaccess thanks to the D2O program of @mitpress.bsky.social: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... This initiative for equitable access to scholarship has just opened its new funding cycle: mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-pres... 🙏 help spread the word & if you represent a library, do consider joining!
Promotional image of the Direct to Open (D2O) initiative of the MIT Press that allows academic books to be read open access. Promotional graphic on a beige background for the book "The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal" (MIT Press, 2026) by Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda. The book cover appears in the center of the image and has a green gradient background. The book series label “The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology” appears at the top. The title is set in large, bold lettering using three colors: white (“The” and “Pairing”), warm yellow (“Organism–”), and bright green (“Environment”). The subtitle appears below in smaller white text, and the author’s name is printed at the bottom. In the lower right, a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) rests on clusters of pink milkweed flowers. Behind it, a large pale-green butterfly silhouette fills the background; its outline follows the shape of a red lacewing butterfly (Cethosia biblis).
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Sylvia Wenmackers @sylviawenmackers.be · 19/09/2026
Column voor Eos: Dat mag niet! Over de Doomsday-formule, delen door nul en extrapolaties. www.sylviawenmackers.be/blog/2026091...
Foto van de column, met citaat: "Ik kwam erachter dat sommige wetenschappers het nog steeds proberen: delen door nul". Link naar volledige tekst staat in de skeet.
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VSC | Vlaams Supercomputer Centrum @vschpc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🔬 RESEARCH SHOWCASE | Is scientific research really becoming less disruptive? VUB & KU Leuven researchers uncovered how missing citation data exaggerated the reported decline, using VSC high-memory computing to analyse millions of papers. 👉 www.vscentrum.be/post/a-hidde... #HPC #Research
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A hidden peak behind the decline in scientific disruption
A new Nature study by researchers from VUB and KU Leuven challenges the reported decline in scientific disruption. Using VSC’s high-memory CPU nodes to analyse citation networks with hundreds of milli...
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Andra Meneganzin @andrameneganzin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Goodbye @theramseylab.bsky.social & @clpskuleuven.bsky.social … it’s been an absolute blast! ❤️🥹 Catching my next train (both physical and metaphorical) with a deep sense of gratitude. Thank y'all! #philbio #philsky #hpbio #evosky #paleosky
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The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hello, #AcademicSky! We are a highly collaborative philosophy group interested in the life sciences—esp. #evobio, #cellbio, #devbio, #PaleoSky, #ethology, #cogsci & #AI. Follow us for research updates & the work catching our eye across #philosophy & science! www.theramseylab.org #philsci #HPbio 🧪
Logo of The Ramsey Philosophy of Biology Lab. The main visual element on the page is a large, black-and-white woodcut illustration of a rhinoceros by Albrecht Dürer. The rhino has armor-like plates with ornate patterns, textured skin, and a small second horn on its back. It stands in profile facing right, drawn in a stylized, almost fantastical manner typical of early European depictions of exotic animals.
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Everyone talks about #AI existential risk—doomsayers & skeptics alike—but closer philosophical scrutiny of these arguments is long overdue. Swoboda & colleagues take up that challenge in their recent 📄, offering an analysis of three skeptical arguments: 🔗👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsky
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Examining popular arguments against AI existential risk: a philosophical analysis - Ethics and Information Technology
Concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential existential risks have garnered significant attention, with figures like Geoffrey Hinton and Dennis Hassabis advocating for robust safegua...
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Everyone talks about #AI existential risk—doomsayers & skeptics alike—but closer philosophical scrutiny of these arguments is long overdue. Swoboda & colleagues take up that challenge in their recent 📄, offering an analysis of three skeptical arguments: 🔗👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsky
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Examining popular arguments against AI existential risk: a philosophical analysis - Ethics and Information Technology
Concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential existential risks have garnered significant attention, with figures like Geoffrey Hinton and Dennis Hassabis advocating for robust safegua...
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Last month @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social hosted the conference "Matter and Material Causation", which gathered scholars to examine the notion of #matter in the Greek, Arabic & Latin philosophical traditions of antiquity up to early modernism. 👇 sehi.info/future #philsky #histsci #academicsky
Conference webpage of "Matter and Material Causation" — displayed in large bold black type on the left.

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Venue and dates: KU Leuven, August 28–30, 2026
Keynote speakers: Anna Marmodoro (Saint Louis University), Filipa Afonso (University of Lisbon), Gyula Klima (Fordham University), and Richard Cross (University of Notre Dame)
Series: Part II of The Four Causes conference series, with links to a provisional program

On the left there is a photograph of the University Library of KU Leuven, showing its ornate tower with a clock and its distinctive stepped-gable Flemish Renaissance façade in red brick and pale stone, with trees and a fountain in the foreground under an overcast sky.
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This conference from the Society for the European History of Ideas is part of a series, each installment of which is dedicated to one of the four Aristotelian causes: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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SEHI project 4 Causes (revised).docx
Conceptual Change in the Emergence of Modernity in Europe: What Ever Happened to the Four Aristotelian Causes? Part of the mission of the Society for the European History of Ideas (SEHI, pronounced “...
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Last month @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social hosted the conference "Matter and Material Causation", which gathered scholars to examine the notion of #matter in the Greek, Arabic & Latin philosophical traditions of antiquity up to early modernism. 👇 sehi.info/future #philsky #histsci #academicsky
Conference webpage of "Matter and Material Causation" — displayed in large bold black type on the left.

Event details (right column):

Venue and dates: KU Leuven, August 28–30, 2026
Keynote speakers: Anna Marmodoro (Saint Louis University), Filipa Afonso (University of Lisbon), Gyula Klima (Fordham University), and Richard Cross (University of Notre Dame)
Series: Part II of The Four Causes conference series, with links to a provisional program

On the left there is a photograph of the University Library of KU Leuven, showing its ornate tower with a clock and its distinctive stepped-gable Flemish Renaissance façade in red brick and pale stone, with trees and a fountain in the foreground under an overcast sky.
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Sylvia Wenmackers @sylviawenmackers.be · 01/09/2026
First author of the critique @vincentholst.bsky.social presented "How Open Code and Data Unveiled Errors in Measuring Scientific Disruption" at STI 2024 in Berlin. Slides available here: data.research.vub.be/sites/defaul... Yes, we firmly agree on the importance of open science in these matters! 🔓
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 02/09/2026
New 📃🚨! @rosetrappes.bsky.social & I explore how #environment & #niche concepts are understood & mobilized across the life sciences & beyond, highlighting similarities & differences through a rich range of examples! 👇 philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30940/ #HPbio #philsci #philsky #evobio #envhum #HPS
A diamond-grid collage of photographs depicting diverse environments and organisms across the biosphere. From top to bottom and left to right: a lush green hillside, giraffes on an African savanna with acacia trees, rolling sand dunes of a desert, zebras grazing on open grassland, a close-up of a frog partially submerged in wetland vegetation, a temperate mountain landscape with a river valley and rocky peaks, a misty tropical rainforest canopy, a sea turtle swimming over a coral reef, an aerial view of a meandering river delta bordered by sparse woodland, a snow-dusted rocky mountain summit, and a close-up of tangled fallen tree trunks in a forest.
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Do you know about the legal design movement (making the law intelligible through #design principles)? Check out the recent 📃 of G Jacquet & L Demey, which explores what the legal design & #philosophy of diagrams communities might gain from joining force 👇 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... #logic
A Springer proceedings cover, "Diagrammatic Representation and Inference", in blue text on the usual blue-and-grey design. Editors listed at the top: Paweł Sobociński, Francesco Bellucci, Amirouche Moktefi, Dave Beisecker, Atsushi Shimojima, Erica de Vries, and Reetu Bhattacharjee. A subtitle marks it as the proceedings of the 15th International Conference, Diagrams 2026, held in Tallinn, Estonia, 25–28 August 2026. The spine reads "LNAI 16833", with the Springer logo at the bottom.
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Do you know about the legal design movement (making the law intelligible through #design principles)? Check out the recent 📃 of G Jacquet & L Demey, which explores what the legal design & #philosophy of diagrams communities might gain from joining force 👇 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... #logic
A Springer proceedings cover, "Diagrammatic Representation and Inference", in blue text on the usual blue-and-grey design. Editors listed at the top: Paweł Sobociński, Francesco Bellucci, Amirouche Moktefi, Dave Beisecker, Atsushi Shimojima, Erica de Vries, and Reetu Bhattacharjee. A subtitle marks it as the proceedings of the 15th International Conference, Diagrams 2026, held in Tallinn, Estonia, 25–28 August 2026. The spine reads "LNAI 16833", with the Springer logo at the bottom.
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The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are immensely proud of @andrameneganzin.bsky.social on her new appointment at @pacea.bsky.social! We are sure she will make waves there & help consolidate the philosophy of #paleoanthropology as a thriving field! Be sure to keep an eye out for her future work! #HPBio #philsci #HPS #Paleosky 🧪
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
One week (!) left to apply to this #PhD opportunity with @sylviawenmackers.be investigating uncertainty & causality in climate models: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... We would be grateful if you could share this with anyone who might be interested! More info in the 🧵👇 #philsci #philsky #HPS #AI 🧪
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
One week (!) left to apply to this #PhD opportunity with @sylviawenmackers.be investigating uncertainty & causality in climate models: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... We would be grateful if you could share this with anyone who might be interested! More info in the 🧵👇 #philsci #philsky #HPS #AI 🧪
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
CfA 🚨: Submit your work for an upcoming conference on the nature, role, development, and impact of philosophy #textbooks at the secondary level (May 26–28, 2027, @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social). Deadline: October 2, 2026. 👇🖥️ hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/... #philsky #academicsky #philsci #EduSky
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Call for Papers: Textbook Philosophy: Exploring Didactic and Comparative Perspectives on Philosophy Textbooks in Secondary Education
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Invited speakers: Sílvio Gallo (UNICAMP, Brazil), Katharina Schulz (Göttingen), and others. Scholars working in philosophy didactics, textbook research, educational sciences, pedagogy, philosophy of education & allied fields are especially encouraged to apply: hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/...
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Call for Papers: Textbook Philosophy: Exploring Didactic and Comparative Perspectives on Philosophy Textbooks in Secondary Education
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The conference is organized by Griet Galle (KU Leuven, Institute of Philosophy), Jelle De Schrijver (UAntwerpen), Karen Van den Bosch (KU Leuven, Institute of Philosophy) & Casper Mullie (KU Leuven, Institute of Philosophy). The keynote speaker will be Eleftherios Klerides (University of Cyprus).
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
CfA 🚨: Submit your work for an upcoming conference on the nature, role, development, and impact of philosophy #textbooks at the secondary level (May 26–28, 2027, @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social). Deadline: October 2, 2026. 👇🖥️ hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/... #philsky #academicsky #philsci #EduSky
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Call for Papers: Textbook Philosophy: Exploring Didactic and Comparative Perspectives on Philosophy Textbooks in Secondary Education
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Sometimes philosophers really dislike the conclusions of certain arguments by reductio & rebrand them as 'paradoxes,' but sometimes they simply do not. Why is this? Find out in Boaz Schuman's recent 📃, which recovers the logical works of Al-Fārābī 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... #philsky #HPS
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Al-Fārābī and Quine on reductio and paradox
If you dislike the conclusion of an argument by reductio, you can rebrand it as a paradox. We did this with Zeno, and more recently McTaggart. But what – if anything – is the principle at play? Is ...
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Thank you so much for sharing the work of our centre, Olúfẹ́mi! We are sure that if you write to Bo, he would be more than happy to provide a copy of the article. His email address can be found on this website: www.boazschuman.com Thanks again!
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Boaz Faraday Schuman
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Sometimes philosophers really dislike the conclusions of certain arguments by reductio & rebrand them as 'paradoxes,' but sometimes they simply do not. Why is this? Find out in Boaz Schuman's recent 📃, which recovers the logical works of Al-Fārābī 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... #philsky #HPS
tandfonline.com
Al-Fārābī and Quine on reductio and paradox
If you dislike the conclusion of an argument by reductio, you can rebrand it as a paradox. We did this with Zeno, and more recently McTaggart. But what – if anything – is the principle at play? Is ...
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New article in @nature.com by @sylviawenmackers.be & a great team of collaborators: the widely reported finding that disruptive science is in decline may be explained by dataset artefacts. Check out the 🧵 by @vincentholst.bsky.social 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #philsci #academicsky #metasci
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Dataset artefacts can partially drive the measured decline in disruption - Nature
Nature - Dataset artefacts can partially drive the measured decline in disruption
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
And in the spirit of full transparency, readers can find some counterpoints to the above reply on this website and draw their own conclusions: vincentholst.github.io/the_curious_... See also the new thread by @vincentholst.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/vinc...
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The Curious Case of the Declining Disruption’s Disappearance
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Here is coverage of the article by The Economist (@economist.com): www.economist.com/science-and-... #HPS #philsci #metasci #academicsky #policysky #SciComm #STS 🧪
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Maybe scientific progress isn’t slowing, after all
A new paper takes aim at the claim that science has become less disruptive
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New article in @nature.com by @sylviawenmackers.be & a great team of collaborators: the widely reported finding that disruptive science is in decline may be explained by dataset artefacts. Check out the 🧵 by @vincentholst.bsky.social 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #philsci #academicsky #metasci
nature.com
Dataset artefacts can partially drive the measured decline in disruption - Nature
Nature - Dataset artefacts can partially drive the measured decline in disruption
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vincentholst.bsky.social @vincentholst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
In 2023, @nature.com published 'Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time', receiving world-wide media attention. Our Matters Arising, published after a 32 month delay (more on that soon), shows that the reported decline can largely be attributed to dataset artefacts. 🧵
The average CD_5 index per year for Web of Science. The original Park et al. decline (top curve) becomes essentially flat (bottom curve) when removing papers with CD_5=1. Those papers largely correspond to dataset artefacts.
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The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
New 📄 🚨! #CellBio is teeming with simulations comprising an extraordinarily high number of components. We argue that model complexity will not automatically lead to a better understanding of biological systems & discuss how modeling practices could be repurposed: arxiv.org/abs/2608.06998 #philsci
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Simulating is not always understanding: When model complexity obscures biology
In cell biology, computational models of biological systems range from minimal representations with a handful of parameters to whole-cell simulations tracking thousands of molecular species across a c...
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Are you interested in the modal logic of Aristotelian diagrams? In their paper, Stef Frijters & Lorenz Demey introduce AD-logic, a hybrid modal system whose "AD-frames" correspond bijectively to finite Aristotelian diagrams 📐👇📄 www.mdpi.com/2075-1680/12... #philsky #logic #mathsky #academicsky
Journal article header from Axioms (MDPI), titled "The Modal Logic of Aristotelian Diagrams" by Stef Frijters and Lorenz Demey, both at KU Leuven.

Abstract
In this paper, we introduce and study AD-logic, i.e., a system of (hybrid) modal logic that can be used to reason about Aristotelian diagrams. The language of AD-logic, ℒ𝐴𝐷, is interpreted on a kind of birelational Kripke frames, which we call “AD-frames”. We establish a sound and strongly complete axiomatization for AD-logic, and prove that there exists a bijection between finite Aristotelian diagrams (up to Aristotelian isomorphism) and finite AD-frames (up to modal isomorphism). We then show how AD-logic can express several major insights about Aristotelian diagrams; for example, for every well-known Aristotelian family A, we exhibit a formula 𝜒𝐴∈ℒ𝐴𝐷 and show that an Aristotelian diagram D belongs to the family A iff 𝜒𝐴 is validated by D (when the latter is viewed as an AD-frame). Finally, we show that AD-logic itself gives rise to new and interesting Aristotelian diagrams, and we reflect on their profoundly peculiar status.
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