From 25 - 27 August 2027 the third International History of Knowledge Conference will take place in Utrecht. It is now possible to submit contributions that tie in with the central theme of the confer...

Ethics cannot be based on human nature because, as evolutionary biology tells us, there is no such thing

The Technology, Governance and Intellectual Property Law Group at the School of Law, University of Leeds, will host the UK Intellectual Property Office Northern IP Network event.

5. The Principle of Unity: No Essence, but No Emptiness Either Tim Juvshik’s objection to the notion of a principle of unity identifies a real tension in our original formulation. On the one hand, we speak of a principle that concerns the persistence and identity of artifacts; on the other hand, we deny that this principle can be strictly defined, or that it consists in a fixed form or essence of the artifact.

Animal Culture · Episode

To anyone trained in the natural sciences, the phrase “evidence-based medicine”, which became popular in the 1990s, might sound peculiar. What else would medicine be based on if not evidence that a tr...

Or, how I fell in love with a linden

Design has long promised to protect us from disease. But its cures have a way of becoming new sources of harm.

Often when we think of space we think of “out there.” The wonders beyond. But out there includes us! Let’s talk about the weather. On Earth it can delight or…

Il n’aura cessé de penser les événements de l’histoire dans un corps-à-corps haletant avec le siècle. Attaché à relier les savoirs afin d’élaborer sa « pensée complexe », cet intellectuel populaire et profondément humaniste militait pour une insurrection des consciences. Il s’est éteint vendredi 29 mai à Paris, indique son épouse au Monde.

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Pierre-Olivier Dittmar · Enquête historique sur la naissance de l’“animal” comme catégorie, qui n'a pas toujours existé comme on la connaît.

The experience of parenthood, and particularly motherhood, is often used as an example of a ‘transformative experience’ that cannot be understood by non-parents (the ‘non-understanding claim’). We ...

The School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Late Medieval / Early Modern History (1400-1700). This is a 1.0 FTE indefinite appointment to start on 1 August...

This is an extract from the original draft of my forthcoming book The Man Who Broke Reality, a biography of Niels Bohr. Here I explain how Max Planck came up with his quanta. I’m putting it u…

YouTube video by Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery

In this first systematic book-length examination of the organism-environment relationship in the life sciences, Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda addresses a crucial gap in our understanding of a foundational...

Abstract This reply to Aleksandra Vučković clarifies two aspects of my earlier critique of Pre-emptionism and develops a positive alternative account of epistemic authority. It argues that evidentialist approaches may adequately capture epistemic permissions but fail to explain the positive obligations we may bear toward epistemically superior agents. Drawing on systems theory, it proposes understanding epistemic authority within a broader epistemic ecology structured by multiple social epistemic goods, including reputation, trust, and epistemic character.