Reposted by Gregor E. BösSander Verhaegh @sanderverhaegh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026In the 1930s, a group of European philosophers fled fascism and reshaped American philosophy. Why did logical positivism have such an impact on US thought? And why did it play a central role in the culture wars of the 1950s and 1960s? Released today! Logical Positivism: An American History (1/3) 518654
Reposted by Gregor E. BösMel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026As philosophy rushes to claim expertise on AI, AI companies rush to control the philosophical narrative. Unlike other disciplines, philosophy has no standards for reporting conflicts of interest. This petition endeavors to change that: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comOpen Letter about Industry Funding and Disclosure in Philosophy*For full list of signatories, updated every few hours, please click here.* In recent years, philosophical writing on areas such as climate change, technology, misinformation, and artificial intellige... 416678
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Doom emacs makes configuration a lot simpler, in case you want to try it again. By default works as a modal editor, in case you like that about vim. But also fine with classic emacs key bindings. 110
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Would be glad to have your comments - whether before or after! 120
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Then that might be a useful event, even though it's less historical than systematic. Remote participation will be a livestream on the day. But if you'd like to comment on drafts beforehand you can send us a message. 110
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Respondents: Emanuele Caminada Stef Frijters Sybren Heyndels Julia Jansen Enrico Sorrentino Batoul Sukkar Henning Tegtmeyer 000
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 05/05/202614:30-16:00 Agnė Valatkaitė [Leuven] - Grounding Material Inference: Varieties of Evidence and Subjunctive Robustness of Intentional Content 16:30-18:00 Alexander Porto [Duquesne] - We-Intentions and I-Intentions 100
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Programme 10:00-11:30 Gregor Bös [Leuven] - Husserl’s Lifeworld-Foundation of Science and Sellars’ Grain Argument 12:00-13:30 Luz Christopher Seiberth [Potsdam] - Accepting First Principles 100
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Upcoming Workshop: Husserl, Sellars, Intentionality | 12 May 2026 | KU Leuven and online A joint project event by the Husserl Archives and the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science. Speakers below; more information and (free) registration at husserl-sellars-intentionality.pages.dev 2113
Reposted by Gregor E. BösPhilosophy Tilburg University @tilburgphilosophy.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Research from the Tilburg philosophy department: the fully open access book edited by Sander Verhaegh on American Philosophy and the Intellectual Migration. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...degruyterbrill.comAmerican Philosophy and the Intellectual MigrationHow did immigrant scholars such as Rudolf Carnap, Max Horkheimer, and Alfred Schütz influence the development of American philosophy? Why was the U.S. community more receptive to logical empiricism th... 085
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Anthropic shocked, shocked at disrespect for intellectual property www.ft.com/content/0afa...ft.comAnthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of ‘distillation attacks’ on its modelsUS company says it identified actions by rivals DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax 061
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Acrylic is a safe bet. Having a retarding medium, which makes them dry more slowly like oil paints, is really helpful to avoid frustration with smooth transitions. But in my experience, the best predictor for fun vs frustration with painting is how experienced you are with drawing (=seeing). 010
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 28/12/2025Please do write about this! And I'd love to know if this has corollaries for the value of philosophy. When I defended writing without llms along these lines, I was accused of a genetic fallacy... 010
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 24/11/2025AI in humanities and social sciences education in China. Jeffrey Ding offers these annotated translations from Mandarin. Normally they are more technical, but this one is about the impact of AI on Social Sciences teaching. Much first-personal from a professor. docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comHow a University is “Transforming” its Humanities and Social Sciences ProgramHow a University is “Transforming” its Humanities and Social Sciences Program Note: These are Jeffrey Ding’s informal and unofficial translations -- all credit for the original goes to the authors and... 010
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Tomorrow we will have a keynote from Charles Pence (UC Louvain). Thanks to the Dutch Philosophy Research School (OZSW) for supporting this event, and @mnoichl.bsky.social for organizing this with me! 031
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Gregor Betz (KIT) kicking off our "Data Driven Philosophy" Hackathon in Utrecht with his talk: "Doing Philosophy with and for LLMs". Besides input about the state of research and new directions, we're spending three days kicking off new projects. 171
Reposted by Gregor E. BösAlex Fisher @alex-fisher.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Today I discovered a great set of BPA resources for early-career philosophers on publishing, grants/fellowships, and job apps, with loads of sample materials like cover letters, research statements, etc. Do share with those who might find these useful! bpa.ac.uk/resources-fo... #philjobs #philskybpa.ac.ukResources for Early Career Philosophers - British Philosophical AssociationGetting a permanent position in philosophy is difficult, especially in the current financial climate. But there is a good deal of help and advice available on the process of applying for and securing ... 02714
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 30/09/2025There is a moral purity in the dilettante who chases neither perfection nor the thrill of competition. But I think career choices are not quite like picking a hobby. 010
Reposted by Gregor E. BösDoug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 28/09/2025The AfD continued its losing streak today in Germany's most populous states. In all three cities where the party had reached the runoff for mayor, it lost in a big way. In Gelsenkirchen 67-31, in Duisburg 79-21, and in Hagen 72-28. More please! 440392
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Aber ich sehe ihre Irritation jetzt eher darin, dass Sie 'Minderheit' in 'Minderheitssprache' nicht als statistische, sondern soziale Kategorie verstehen, die bestimmte Machtverhältnisse voraussetzt. 010
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Da Sie nur diese Stelle zitiert hatten, schien es als ob sie schon in der Auflistung zweier Beispiele eine umfassendere Analogie sehen. 100
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Danke für die Erläuterung. Mich hatte interessiert inwiefern die Aussage "es gibt verschiedene Fs, so wie a oder b" impliziert dass a und b sich über die F-heit hinaus ähneln. Ich bin eher gewohnt, dass man damit nur Fa und Fb äußert, aber das ist vielleicht eine déformation professionelle. 100
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Since this may be of interest to you, here is the letter by Brentano to Hugo Bergmann, 1 June 1909, cited and translated in Rollinger2010: 110
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Ist diese Dynamik schon Teil des Begriffs 'Minderheitensprache'? D.h. würden Sie FR in DE nicht als Minderheitensprache bezeichnen? Oder geht es darum, dass die Nennung im selben Satz eine Ähnlichkeit suggerieren könnte (vielleicht auch außerhalb des Zitats). 110
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Viele unähnliche Dinge können unter denselben Begriff fallen - deshalb heißt das ja noch nicht, dass man sie vergleicht. Für andere Nicht-Linguisten, könnten Sie kurz sagen was genau Sie schräg finden? Darf eine Minderheitensprache in keinem anderen Kontext eine Mehrheitssprache sein? 110
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Bolzano was remembered as a mathematician, but forgotten as a philosopher. As far as I know, it was Brentano who introduced Bolzano's work as a negative example, with the unintended consequence that his students (Husserl, Twardowski, Meinong) got very excited and rediscovered Bolzano as a logician. 130
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 05/08/2025For the OZSW-Summer School with Hackathon in Utrecht: www.ozsw.nl/activity/dat...ozsw.nlData-driven Methods in Philosophy – ozsw 040
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 05/08/2025For the GAP Satellite Workshop in Utrecht: maxnoichl.eu/blog/2025/ga...maxnoichl.euMax Noichl | GAP-Workshop – Data-Driven Methods for PhilosophyGAP-Satellite workshop 160
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 05/08/2025@mnoichl.bsky.social and I are organizing two workshops where you can learn about and try out digital methods for philosophy: 12th-13th September in Düsseldorf, Keynotes @cherfeld.bsky.social & Adrian Wüthrich 16-18th October in Utrecht, Keynotes Gregor Betz & Charles Pence. Register until 31.8.maxnoichl.euMax Noichl | GAP-Workshop – Data-Driven Methods for PhilosophyGAP-Satellite workshop 1146
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Why worry about which novels already exist if they can be generated as you read? 010
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 15/05/2025The rise and rise of metaphysics... Love that this includes very recent data! 160
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 09/05/2025"Real Possibilities" - what Husserl means by those and what he should have said instead*. Forthcoming in ergo, preprint now here: philpapers.org/rec/BSRPFX *Insofar as they're supposed to link contingent truth and evidencephilpapers.orgG. E. Bös, Real Possibilities for Husserl's Correlation between Truth and Evidence - PhilPapersAlready before endorsing transcendental idealism, Husserl pairs truths and possibilities of evidence. This ‘correlationism’ is central for phenomenological metaphysics, but it remains disputed how it ... 085
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 29/03/2025turns out, edhiphy.org has been nominated for a Digital Humanities Award! There are also lots of other interesting projects to discover, I enjoyed for example Thomas Weibel's 3D visualization of the Antikythera mechanism. Voting is very easy and open until 4th April: dhawards.org/dhawards2024...dhawards.orgDH Awards 2024 Voting | Digital Humanities Awards 031
Reposted by Gregor E. BösDe Gruyter Brill Philosophy @dgb-philosophy.bsky.social · 14/01/2025We are very excited to start the new series De Gruyter History of #Philosophy and #Science with this #OpenAccess volume - and find the hauting relevance of the topic these days not necessarily a pleasant surprise. www.degruyter.com/do... 22011
Reposted by Gregor E. BösHarriet Fagerberg @harrif.bsky.social · 05/01/2025The Philosophy and Medicine Project at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social welcomes abstracts for the 2025 Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable - deadline 1st of February! ✍️ 🎓 www.philosophyandmedicine.org/cfa-philosop...philosophyandmedicine.orgCfA Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable — Philosophy & Medicine 15234
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Lisa Kampen at Radboud university is preparing a philosophy PhD on Calkins. In the edhiphy database we found that Calkins was the most discussed female philosopher pre-WW1. 041
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Interesting! I did not think of Husserl's objection to mathematization in the _Crisis_ in terms of Putnam on the fact-value distinction. But I think that in Husserl's case, non-mathematizable properties need not be evaluative. There just may be no 'mathematically exact' concepts for e.g. colour. 110
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 16/12/2024I've been thinking about this for a while now. I think this point of Husserl's is often dismissed because of objections to his wider metaphysics. Of those 'repeating' his point, does anyone stand out to you as particularly worth engaging with? 210
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Thank you for showcasing! I've noted the mentioned gaps and will make sure to address them in an update. I'm currently doing a larger rewrite to extend the journal coverage and improve the disambiguation. It's a good time to iron out problems or implement new features, so I appreciate any comments! 030
Reposted by Gregor E. BösEric Schwitzgebel @eschwitz.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Philosophers tend to receive most discussion late in life, typically a couple of decades after producing their most influential work. Data and analysis in blog post in comments. 3366
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Just want to clarify that these are mentions of names, not citations of specific publications. That helps for studying periods before formalized citations became standard in philosophy. More on that in link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comBibliometrics beyond citations: introducing mention extraction and analysis - ScientometricsStandard citation-based bibliometric tools have severe limitations when they are applied to periods in the history of science and the humanities before the advent of now-current citation practices. Th... 000
Gregor E. Bös @gregorboes.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Does it recognise philosophy journals based on a doi? 000
Reposted by Gregor E. BösDavid Papineau @davidpapineau.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Did you know Bernard Bosanquet the absolute idealist (1848-1923) was uncle of Bernard Bosanquet inventor of the googly (1877-1936)? Was reminded of this by Eric Schwitzgebel's new post on most-cited philosophers in C20. Look at Bosanquet in the 1920s schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2024/11/phil...schwitzsplinters.blogspot.comPhilosophical Fame, 1890-1960 4235