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Ken Aizawa @kenaizawa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

www.imdb.com/title/tt4423... Compositional Abduction: The Movie

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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am excited to head back to the Center for Philosophy of Science to give an Annual Lecture this Friday, October 9. If you’re in Pittsburgh, I’d love to see you there—and if not, please join us online! www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/annual...

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Annual Lecture Series – Serife Tekin - The Center for Philosophy of Science

Stability and Intervention in Psychiatry Psychiatry is often described as a methodologically unstable or fragmented science, given its reliance on heterogeneous explanatory frameworks ranging from neu...

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Mind and Language has published a symposium on my book Deflating Mental Representation (MIT Press, open access) with excellent commentary by Ken Aizawa kenaizawa.bsky.social, Angela Mendelovici braininavat4eva.bsky.social, and Adam Toon adamtoonphilos.bsky.social, and a reply by me, all open access.

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I appreciate your thoughtful commentary, Ken, as well as Adam’s and Angela’s.

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thanks Adam. It was a pleasure for me to engage with your thoughtful comments.

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I prefer the Canadianism “you guys”

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It's been a fantastic tour so far!

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

What an interesting and accomplished woman... belated condolences.

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Watching vultures riding thermals at our ranch in Texas, it's obvious they're not looking for carrion but just having fun.

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Happy that my book, Deflating Mental Representation, has been long-listed for the Royal Institute of Philosophy's Nayef Al-Rodhan international prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/announc...

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Announcing the 2026 Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize Longlist - Royal Institute of Philosophy

The longlist for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize 2026 has been announced. Find out more about the longlisted titles.

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I put a MacBook Air in my cart last night. When I went to check out this morning it had gone up $200.

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Excellent hire... congratulations to Guelph and to Phillip!

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I know what prompted this comment

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Looking forward to reading this!

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

That would be me if my parents hadn't emigrated from working class Belfast to Canada when I was a child.

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Online book launch for Ken Aizawa's kenaizawa.bsky.social excellent new book May 18, 2026 from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT. Commentaries by Uljana Feest, Gualtiero Piccinini, and Samuel Schindler. For the zoom link email ken.aizawa@gmail.com The book is available open access from CUP:

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Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation

Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation

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Ken Aizawa @kenaizawa.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

link.springer.com/article/10.1... First review of Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation. #hps #philsci

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A science-first theory of confirmation - Metascience

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

On a morning walk at the ranch and wondering how close the oryx will let me get before their prey-animal flight-response kicks in. About 100 yards. (I'm zooming in, so it looks closer.) Unless they have just emerged from the trusty pick-up bearing alfalfa those 2-legged animals are very scary.

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

As an emigrant from Belfast, I love this.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

As an emigrant from Belfast, I love this.

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

This is wonderful... congratulations, Danielle, to you and to OSU!

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

My condolences. He was a great guy and a wonderful philosopher.

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

"The president dropped his demand for a $200 million payment from Harvard, lowering the bar for a potential deal." The New York Times calling extortion a "deal."

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

it may be an attempt to save face after all the cancellations

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Canada's PM Mark Carney at Davos: “The middle powers must act together because if you are not at the table, we’re are on the menu."

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

looking forward to seeing you in Berlin in late February

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

a great line-up... wish I could be there

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Hope it's not necessary for me to clarify that I'm talking about your talk being clear.

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Wow! I would hope that people would have enough courage to say that aloud from the floor.

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I got this too. I love the idea that the ideas they got from my work "are our gift to you."

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Democracy will be imposed, whether they like it or not.

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

So... if the head of a country is acting illegally, other countries can go in and physically remove him and try him for his crimes in their own country? Tell me more...

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Amazing story. Thank you... can't wait to read!

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

excellent new book by Ken Aizawa bsky.app/profile/kena...

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Ken Aizawa @kenaizawa.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

It is out in hard copy! #philsci #hps

A stack of hard copies of Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation.

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