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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

From the latest issue: Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice – Ahmad Elabbar Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

ABSTRACT. Setting evidential standards is a core practice of scientific assessment for policy. Philosophers generally agree that the justification of evidential standards must appeal to non-epistemic values but not whether the balance of non-epistemic reasons favours varying those standards or maintaining a fixed high standard. I adjudicate this debate by developing a novel argument from justice, drawing on the IPCC’s assessment of climate impacts as a case study. I argue that in assessments marked by background evidential inequality, maintaining fixed high evidential standards results in an unequal distribution of epistemic power among stakeholders, producing a powerful assessment for the data-rich (a high rate of findings) and a weak assessment for the data-poor (a low rate of findings). Where such inequalities of epistemic power disadvantage those in data-poor regions with respect to fundamental interests, we have decisive reasons of justice to vary evidential standards.

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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I enjoyed speaking to Dr Jahnavi Phalkey about India’s place in the history of modern science, the ways in which that history has been constructed, & how the pursuit of nuclear physics became intertwined with a newly independent nation’s efforts to define its own identity. linktr.ee/thehpspodcast

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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

How do we come to know the hypercomplex object that is the brain? I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr Mazviita Chirimuuta about the history and philosophy of its simplification, its analogy with computers, & the case for theoretical humility in how we study it. Links: linktr.ee/thehpspodcast

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Cristian Larroulet Philippi @cristianlarph.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Planning to go to #PSA26? Open to add something to that trip? Consider joining us just before PSA (17 Nov) at Caltech for a one-day workshop on Progress in Seismology: between theory and observation. See details here: philevents.org/event/show/1... #philsci

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Observation, Theory, and Progress in Seismology

Detailed description:The workshop “Observation, Theory, and Progress in Seismology” will bring together researchers from seismology and from history and philosophy of science to address th...

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Fiona Fidler @fidlerfm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The wonderful HPS Poscast is back with Season 6! Magdalena Skipper, EiC of Nature, discusses trust and equity in science with our host @tespiteri.bsky.social This podcast is produced by graduate students in the #UniMelb History & Philosophy of Science program #HPS #Metascience

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Michela Massimi @michelamassimi.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Summer conference season begins for Philosophy at Edinburgh with this conference this week organised by my excellent colleague Dr Jo Wolff with a fantastic line-up of talks on history and philosophy of measurement 🤩. Welcome everyone to Scotland. #philsci

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2026 – Second Biennial Conference – The Society for the Study of Measurement

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

New from BJPS Review of Books: Plasticity in the Life Sciences – Antonine Nicoglou Reviewed by Olesya Bondarenko www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook... #hpbio #philsci #philsky

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Antonine Nicoglou, Plasticity in the Life Sciences | BJPS Review of Books

Olesya Bondarenko reviews Plasticity in the Life Sciences, by Antonine Nicoglou

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Eugene Y. S. Chua @eugenechua.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Together w/ @miguelohn.bsky.social, I present the 2nd Foundations of Thermodynamics Workshop! We'll trace equilibrium reasoning from Archimedes, (post-)Newton, classical thermo, early QM, GR, to quantum thermo, bio, & econs. Abstracts: www.eugenechua.com/ftg2026-find... #philsky #philphys #philsci

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Eugene Y. S. Chua - FTG2026: Finding Balance

2026 Foundations of Thermodynamics Workshop: Finding Balance Nanyang Technological University Singapore 27-28 July 2026 Venue: NTU School of Humanities, Seminar Room 9 Organizers: Eugene Y. S. Chua (N...

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Cristian Larroulet Philippi @cristianlarph.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

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...

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Lucia C. Neco (Luba) @luciacneco.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

"Mulheres também sabem filosofia" 🇧🇷👩‍🎓 Iniciativa incrível de um banco de dados de filosofas brasileiras. Por favor, compartilhem! Já mandei meu cadastro! #phil #philsky #philsci #HPS #philbio

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Mulheres Também Sabem Filosofia

Projeto acadêmico focado em dar visibilidade a pesquisadoras na área da filosofia. Conheça projetos, entrevistas e a produção filosófica de mulheres.

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Michael D. Barton @darwinsbulldog.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Online #HPS seminar with Henry-James Meiring: "Piratical Knowledge and the Making of the Darwinian Revolution", 1 April, 12pm (Melbourne time): www.hpsunimelb.org/seminars (join the email list to receive link and password) #histsci

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Michael D. Barton @darwinsbulldog.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Check out @jswilkins.bsky.social on "Natural classification and the rise of systematics 1735-1900", HPS at Melbourne seminar on Weds., March 18, 12-1pm (Melbourne time): unimelb.zoom.us/j/8612353200... (password: 535693) #HPS #histsci

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Miguel Ohnesorge @miguelohn.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

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

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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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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Our special issue with @martinkusch.bsky.social is finally complete and here’s at long last our introduction. I pitched the idea to him in 2019! Thank you for your patience and generosity, Martin. I am proud of this manifesto and hope colleagues will join us in rethinking this old debate #philsci

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"Why do we argue about the specialness of the social sciences?"

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

From the new issue: Against Prohibition (or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK) – Cristian Larroulet Philippi Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... #philsci #philsky

ABSTRACT. There is a widely held view on measurement inferences that defends the prohibition that we should not make inferences from averages taken with ordinal scales (versus quantitative scales; interval or ratio). This prohibition is general—applying to all ordinal scales—and is sometimes endorsed without qualification. Adhering to it dramatically limits research in the social and biomedical sciences. I provide a Bayesian analysis of this problem, determining when measurements from ordinal scales can be used to confirm hypotheses about relative group averages. I illustrate with the alleged paradigm ordinal scale—the Mohs scale of mineral hardness—arguing that it has been mischaracterized in the literature. The prohibition, I conclude, cannot be upheld, even in a qualified sense. The beliefs needed to make average comparisons are less demanding than those appropriate for quantitative scales.

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Santa has come early! New issue out now, full of festive treats for all the family. Biochemical functions and quantum fluctuations! Weyl tiles and ordinal scales! Mass extinctions, artificial neural networks and much more…Find it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/bjps/cur... #philsci #philsky

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Volume 76, Issue 4

Table of Contents

Editors' Choice Article:
Semanticization Challenges the Episodic–Semantic Distinction
By Sara Aronowitz

Why the Weyl Tile Argument Is Wrong
By Lu Chen

Biochemical Functions
By Francesca Bellazzi

The Bohmian Approach to the Problems of Cosmological Quantum Fluctuations
By Sheldon Goldstein, Ward Struyve, and Roderich Tumulka

A Hybrid Theory of Induction
By Adrià Segarra

Bayesian Merging of Opinions and Algorithmic Randomness
By Francesca Zaffora Blando

Against Prohibition (or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)
By Cristian Larroulet Philippi

Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking
By Federica Bocchi, Alisa Bokulich, Leticia Castillo Brache, Gloria Grand-Pierre, and Aja Watkins

A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks
By Oliver Buchholz and Eric Raidl

General-Purpose Institutional Decision-Making Heuristics: The Case of Decision-Making under Deep Uncertainty
By David Thorstad

The Typical Principle
By Isaac Wilhelm

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Tom Hardwicke @tomhardwicke.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Job opportunity — Junior Professorship in Psychological Metascience @zpid.bsky.social leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/10kku5n7 h/t @bethclarke.bsky.social

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PSA DEI Caucus @psadeicaucus.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Hello all! The PSA DEI Caucus is coming to BlueSky! Hoping to share news about our wonderful membership and our @philsci.bsky.social community at large! Doggo Pic for attention. #philosophy #hps #dei

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Cristian Larroulet Philippi @cristianlarph.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I’ve just uploaded to philpapers my (preprint) chapter titled “Values and Measurement” forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook of Values in Science. It’s an overview of arguments for values playing significant roles in measurement practices. Comments welcome! philpapers.org/rec/LARVAM-2

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Cristian Larroulet Philippi, Values and Measurement - PhilPapers

At first sight, measurement might appear to be a natural candidate for a scientific practice that is value-free. This chapter reviews prominent arguments supporting the opposite view, i.e., that value...

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Center for PhilSci @center4philsci.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Deadline Extended! Call for abstracts for our Spring Conference - To Be or Not to Be Included in a Causal Model Visit the link for detailed instruction and more information: www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/to…

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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I had a rich and wide-ranging conversation w/ Professor Philip Kitcher for the podcast this week. We discuss his intellectual journey, interventions in creationism, sociobiology & the genome project, his philosophical evolution, and vision for philosophy serving the common good. A real privilege.

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S5 E8 - Philip Kitcher on Philosophy for Science and the Common Good

Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 11/09/2025 · 48m

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Center for PhilSci @center4philsci.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Check out our podcast! Catch up on past episodes as host Dr. Edouard Machery discusses topics with members of the Philosophy of Science community. Spotify - podcasters.spotify.c... YouTube - www.youtube.com/play... Stay tuned for future updates! #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyPodcast

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Eran Tal @erantal.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

We need a new vision for mental health measurement where responsible social interactions are the goal and not a lucky byproduct. This is what Femke Truijens and I argue in this new preprint. Feedback welcome, please share! #ClinPsy #MentalHealth #PsycSci #PsychSciSky #PhilSci osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

A privilege to co-author with the brilliant @alessandrabasso.bsky.social whose mastery of economics of inequality and its philosophy is unparalleled. Our general point: indicators always have more than one ideal to serve, so will have to prioritise and hence sacrifice #philsci #econsky #measurement

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Measurement requires compromises: the case of economic inequality

We examine considerations that enter into design and evaluation of measures in social science, categorizing them into four drivers: epistemic, ethical…

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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

🎙️ New HPS Pod! I chat with Prof. Lydia Patton about HOPOS — the history of philosophy of science. From her editorship of the journal to the future of the discipline, Patton shares why a historical lens reshapes core philosophical questions. 🎧 Link in bio! #HOPOS

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S5 E7 - Lydia Patton on HOPOS

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Cristian Larroulet Philippi @cristianlarph.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I chat with Thomas Spiteri on measurement in the human sciences. I think the interview came along very well 😊 bsky.app/profile/hpsp... Thanks to Thomas for all the work put into the podcast. #philsci #measurement #philsky

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The HPS Podcast @hpspodcast.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

What happens when the old contract between science and society no longer fits? This week, Prof. Heather Douglas unpacks the legacy of the value-free ideal, examines research ethics & funding — and proposes a new social contract for science. This was an illuminating conversation. Listen now! 🎧

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S5 E4 - Heather Douglas on Rethinking Science’s Social Contract

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

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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

It was a true privilege to have had the chance to interview Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, whose work has long influenced both my research interests and engagement with this discipline. It's this week's episode of The HPS Podcast – out now! 🎧 @hpspodcast.bsky.social #hps #histsci #experiments

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S5 E3 - Hans-Jörg Rheinberger on Epistemic Things

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

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The HPS Podcast @hpspodcast.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

We are beyond excited to announce that we have won the prestigious 2024 BSHS Ayrton Prize for Digital Engagement! From our 2023-2024 team - @samaragreenwood.bsky.social @cjcontarino.bsky.social @fidlerfm.bsky.social & Indigo Keel - thank you, it means so much #hps #philsci #histSTM #sts 🧪

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Samara Greenwood @samaragreenwood.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

My interview for *The Philosopher's Zone* podcast on Feminism and Primatology is out now! I managed to scrounge up the courage to listen and I'm quite proud 🙃 You can listen to the ep via the ABC website or in the usual podcast places #hps #sts #histsci #PhilSci #feminism #primatology

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How feminism changed primatology - ABC listen

For decades, primatologists believed that primate societies were structured around aggressive alpha males - until a remarkable push from feminist scientists in the 1960s and 70s changed the narrative....

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I am on a bit of a PhD examining spree lately, so will post links to the great work of the newly minted doctors as they are uploaded. This one is by Ahmad Elabbar (who by the way will be starting as my new colleague next year, yey!). It is a tour de force, co-examined with the amazing Simon Caney

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Justice as an ideal for climate assessment

Confronting a series of planetary crises, the international community has established a complex regime of global environmental assessments. The most prominent of these remains the Intergovernmental Pa...

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Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science @mcps-philsci.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Hybrid series of seminars from the HPS program at the University of Melbourne. Next one Wed 26 March. 1200-1300 AEDT. 8pm Tues 25 March for Central North Americans. Doable! www.hpsunimelb.org/seminars #hpos #philsci

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SEMINARS | HPS @UniMelb

Where to find information about the HPS seminar series, past and present

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The first article in the special issue @martinkusch.bsky.social and I are coediting is out! Thomas Uebel lays to rest various myths about the Vienna Circle views of social sciences, proving yet again that they were right about pretty much everything. #philsci #philsky #histsci #sts

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Logical empiricist anti-exceptionalism in its Austro-German context

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Catherine Herfeld @cherfeld.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

🔥JOB: Come and work with us! The @ERC_Research MODEL TRANSFER team is expanding again: we look for a 2y postdoc with interest and skills in Digital Humanities, Digital/Computational philosophy of science; deadline: Apr 10. Contact me with any questions and share www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/7...

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital Humanities or Digital/Computational Philosophy of Science – Leibniz University Hannover

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Catherine Herfeld @cherfeld.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

CfP: The European Philosophy of Science Association invites submissions for its next conference in Groningen from 27 to 30 August 2025. All the details regarding submission guidelines are on their webpage. The deadline for all submissions is 31 January 2025: philsci.eu/EPSA25/CfP

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European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) - EPSA25 - Submissions

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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

We're looking for a new colleague at Sabanci University, Istanbul working on AI ethics, data ethics, philosophy of AI. Further details can be found here: philjobs.org/job/show/27866 The application deadline is December 15. If you have any questions feel free to reach out to me.

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Assistant or Associate Professor, Sabanci University - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant or Associate Professor, Sabanci University

An international database of jobs for philosophers

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Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science @mcps-philsci.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The video from our latest International Postdoc Forum (IPDF) program is now available on the Center’s YouTube channel. Thanks to @cristianlarph.bsky.social for his presentation of “Quantifying the Human: Values in Measurement or Measuring Value?” #philsci

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Quantifying the Human Values in Measurement or Measuring Value Source

Cristian Larroulet Philippi Gonville and Caius College, University of CambridgeQuantitative measurement in the human sciences remains controversial. Are depr...

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Mark your calendars for the main conference on philosophy and methodology of economics! Sept 17-19 2025 in Bayreuth w great keynotes by @richardpettigrew.bsky.social @furmank.bsky.social, Wendy Carlin. The organisers and the Program Com are meticulous and inclusive #econsky #philsci #philsky

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17th Biennial INEM Conference

Universität Bayreuth

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Miguel Ohnesorge @miguelohn.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

1st-ever symposium on philosophy of seismology: @alisabokulich.bsky.social on Peircean abduction & inverse modelling, @terumiyake.bsky.social on 'problem of the missing model' in seismology, optics, and thermal physics; @cristianlarph.bsky.social on quantification in seismology (joint work with me).

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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

George Smith (1938-2024) RIP

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I put in a lot of heart in this presentation. Tried to show that greater awareness of realities of social science improved #philsci in general. Also gave a tiny preview of where I am heading next, namely the identity of social science which where I started at LSE in the 1990s...

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Anna Alexandrova (University of Cambridge): The Fate of Social Sciences in Philosophy of Science

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GenderSci Lab @genderscilab.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

We sat down with lab member Marion Boulicault for a Q&A 🐻‍❄️ Marion is a feminist philosopher of science and long time member of the lab. She is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. genderscilab.org/blog/q-and-a...

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Q & A with Marion Boulicault — GenderSci Lab

We sat down to talk with Marion Boulicault, who recently became an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. Marion is the Director of Interdisciplinary Research and Community ...

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

The Philosophy of Geosciences Research Group at BU, Φ-Geo, is dedicated to exploring topics in the philosophy of the geosciences (historical & current Earth sciences), broadly understood. We have a big group heading to #PSA24 ⚒️ next week--check out our upcoming talks bokulich.org/%cf%86-geo-g... 🧵 ⬇️

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Olesya Bondarenko @olesyabondarenko.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

If you are interested in integrative biosocial research (and whether philosophy of science can do justice to it), check out the recording of my talk from the U of Minnesota conference.

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Olesya Bondarenko (KLI): Can Philosophy of Science Successfully Engage w/Interdisciplinary Research?

YouTube video by MN Center for Philosophy of Science

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