Reposted by Maarten Van DyckPieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Next week we welcome prof. Charles C. Roseman ( @evoroseman.bsky.social ) for a lecture on a timely topic. Many thanks to prof. Roseman for being so generous with his time. More info (including a link for streaming) can be found here: www.ugent.be/lw/philosoph... 0186
Maarten Van Dyck @mvandyck.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Iedereen kan voor zichzelf besluiten wat hieruit te leren valt. 020
Maarten Van Dyck @mvandyck.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Bijzonder leerrijk draadje over het Cofnas-drijfzand. Het is een beetje een “garden of forking paths”, vandaar dat ik hier de laatste post herplaats, maar het is de moeite om terug helemaal naar boven te gaan en ook alle zijpaden (posts met meer dan één antwoord) te verkennen. 120
Reposted by Maarten Van DyckPieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Een opiniestuk over de verdediging van Cofnas door Maarten Boudry en Wouter Duyck, een bepaalde peiling en frustraties over @terzake.bsky.social apache.be/2026/03/20/b...apache.beBoudry en Duyck verraden eigen principes in verdediging ‘rassenrealist’ Nathan CofnasMaarten Boudry en Wouter Duyck breken een lans voor de racistische pseudowetenschapper. 0136
Reposted by Maarten Van DyckPieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Ik gaf een korte toelichting bij @vrtnws.be over het "onderzoek" van Nathan Cofnas, naar aanleiding van een open mail getekend door meer dan 400 UGent'ers (bij de laatste telling). Hierbij een draadje met voorspellingen over het publieke debat én hoe je niet te laten strikken door mist-spuiers 🧵 43918
Reposted by Maarten Van DyckPieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Omdat het 'Cofnas doet "gewoon" controversieel onderzoek'-narratief ingang begint te krijgen: een aantal verduidelijkingen en informatie voor het bredere publiek dat misschien niet altijd op de hoogte is over racistische pseudowetenschap 🧵 1175
Reposted by Maarten Van DyckMaarten Van Dyck @mvandyck.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Very proud of my former PhD student Ivan Malara - he is such a great scholar! 064
Maarten Van Dyck @mvandyck.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Very proud of my former PhD student Ivan Malara - he is such a great scholar! 064
Reposted by Maarten Van DyckThe HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Suzanne Bachelard "educated more than a generation of French historians and philosophers of science". Ties van Gemert writes on her life and work & translates her lecture “Epistemology and the History of the Sciences”. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 24520
Reposted by Maarten Van DyckThe HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Laura Georgescu reviews David Marshall Miller and Dana Jalobeanu's The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution in #HOPOS. Review: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... Book website: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...cambridge.orgThe Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific RevolutionCambridge Core - History of Science and Technology - The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution 02210
Maarten Van Dyck @mvandyck.bsky.social · 02/02/2026An interesting contextualization of Burtt's work (in two parts) was published a few years ago, offering a more detailed analysis of how it fits in early 20th C American philosophical landscape, putting it in slightly different light: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comHow the Mind-World Problem Shaped the History of Science: A Historiographical Analysis of Edwin Arthur Burtt's The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science Part IThis manuscript, divided into two parts, provides a contextual and historiographical analysis of Edwin Arthur Burtt's classic The Metaphysical Foundat… 110
Maarten Van Dyck @mvandyck.bsky.social · 02/02/2026I always like this older piece by Lorraine Daston on what she called the "elegiac mood" of another (somewhat related) classic from the same period (E.A. Burtt) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...journals.uchicago.eduHistory of Science in an Elegiac Mode: E. A. Burtt's Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science Revisited | Isis: Vol 82, No 3 241
Reposted by Maarten Van DyckPieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 13/01/2026The department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent University is proud to present a lecture series on the topic of eugenics. As philosophers and ethicists, we are concerned about the revival and normalization of eugenic discourse. humanitiesacademie.ugent.be/eugenicshumanitiesacademie.ugent.beEugenics: Critical Perspectives on a Creeping Concept Between Science and Ideology | Humanities Academie 14925
Reposted by Maarten Van DyckMassimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Come join our department! 🚨 Maastricht University is hiring a *second* TT Assistant Professor position in Political Philosophy. This one is focused on the theme of inequality. #philjobs #philsky Feel free to reach out to me with questions! vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nlAssistant Professor in Political PhilosophyAssistant Professor in Political Philosophy 12020
Reposted by Maarten Van DyckMaarten Van Dyck @mvandyck.bsky.social · 26/11/2025You have been wondering about the argument for Bas van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism? In this paper forthcoming in the HOPOS journal, I provide some answers! #philsci #hpsphilpapers.orgMaarten Van Dyck, Defending constructive empiricism - PhilPapersBas van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism has significantly shaped the debate on scientific realism. However, many commentators have been puzzled by the precise nature of the argument for this positi... 1268
Reposted by Maarten Van DyckMel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 14/12/2025If you have to read anything about the prospect of “automating scientific discovery,” “agents for science,” or integrating LLMs into scientific pipelines, please let it be this essay by Kevin T. Baker: artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/context-wi... 28925
Reposted by Maarten Van DyckMassimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Join us! We are hiring an assistant professor in political and social philosophy at Maastricht University with a focus on contemporary challenges to European democracy Feel free to contact me, if you have questions #philsky #philjobs 02821
Reposted by Maarten Van DyckPhilSci-Archive @philsci-archive.bsky.social · 27/11/2025New on the Archive: Van Dyck, Maarten (2026) Defending constructive empiricism. [Preprint] philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27313 052
Maarten Van Dyck @mvandyck.bsky.social · 26/11/2025You have been wondering about the argument for Bas van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism? In this paper forthcoming in the HOPOS journal, I provide some answers! #philsci #hpsphilpapers.orgMaarten Van Dyck, Defending constructive empiricism - PhilPapersBas van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism has significantly shaped the debate on scientific realism. However, many commentators have been puzzled by the precise nature of the argument for this positi... 1268
Reposted by Maarten Van DyckPieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Een aantal jaren geleden schreef ik een artikel over de zogenaamde "science wars" in de jaren '90, wat er daarin misliep en hoe daar de kiemen werden gelegd voor de retoriek dat universiteiten overgenomen waren door "postmodernisme" 1/ www.ethiekenmaatschappij.ugent.be/wp-content/u...ethiekenmaatschappij.ugent.be 112
Reposted by Maarten Van DyckPieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Samen met enkele collega's schreef ik een stuk in Apache waarin we ons distantiëren van de associate van onze vakgroep met racistische pseudowetenschap en eugenetica. apache.be/2025/07/04/r...apache.beRacistische pseudowetenschap hoort niet thuis aan de universiteitVakgroepleden distantiëren zich van haar associatie met racistische pseudowetenschap en eugenetica. 0107
Reposted by Maarten Van DyckSimon Truwant @simontruwant.bsky.social · 12/06/2025🤩 KRIJG NOU WAT!* 🤩 . . . . *Euh, ik bedoel: Koop dit! Vanaf september in uw boekhandel 🥳 1213
Maarten Van Dyck @mvandyck.bsky.social · 12/05/2025An inspiring paper on how to write history of philosophy 131
Maarten Van Dyck @mvandyck.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Looking forward to that! And I think it is absolutely correct to frame this in terms of commitments in the first place, rather than ideas or assumptions… 010
Maarten Van Dyck @mvandyck.bsky.social · 19/04/2025I’m not sure whether I’d consider myself a historian of mathematics, but in this piece I tried to show the importance of what we can learn from Bennett’s analyses (as well as those of a certain Johnston) to a philosophical audience philpapers.org/archive/VANA...philpapers.org 100
Maarten Van Dyck @mvandyck.bsky.social · 26/03/2025His encouragement over the years meant the world to me. One of the true greats in our field. 000
Maarten Van Dyck @mvandyck.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Thanks for pointing this out! So, to be clean: @mvandyck is the only real one… What a madness. 2112
Maarten Van Dyck @mvandyck.bsky.social · 21/01/2025@mvandyck is the real me, whatever that still means in this “social” media madness… 030
Reposted by Maarten Van DyckAlan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Now out and open access! volume 1 of the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social series History of Philosophy and Science: American Philosophy and the Intellectual Migration edited by @sanderverhaegh.bsky.social and featuring a wider variety of papers than you might expect! www.degruyter.com/document/doi...degruyter.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... 12311
Reposted by Maarten Van DyckMaarten Van Dyck @mvandyck.bsky.social · 06/01/2025The Department of Philosophy and Moral Science at Ghent University is hiring a TT assistant professor in Critical Religion Studies & Comparative Philosophy. Deadline for applications: 20 January. Spread the word!jobs.ugent.beProfessor in Critical Religion Studies & Comparative Philosophy (BOF)Professor in Critical Religion Studies & Comparative Philosophy (BOF) 02712
Maarten Van Dyck @mvandyck.bsky.social · 06/01/2025The Department of Philosophy and Moral Science at Ghent University is hiring a TT assistant professor in Critical Religion Studies & Comparative Philosophy. Deadline for applications: 20 January. Spread the word!jobs.ugent.beProfessor in Critical Religion Studies & Comparative Philosophy (BOF)Professor in Critical Religion Studies & Comparative Philosophy (BOF) 02712
Maarten Van Dyck @mvandyck.bsky.social · 02/11/2024Thanks Craig! Jardine's Scenes of Inquiry is a neat proposal to focus on how to delineate what are relevant questions in a certain context of inquiry. 010
Maarten Van Dyck @mvandyck.bsky.social · 30/10/2024Thanks - that was one of the reasons to write the paper! It feels like it is a somewhat underappreciated framework... 110
Maarten Van Dyck @mvandyck.bsky.social · 30/10/2024New paper with Pieter Beck that just came out, in which we engage with Hasok Chang's interpretation of the chemical revolution. A limited number of free copies available in the link. #hps #histsci #philscitandfonline.comGood reasons, real questions and proper aims: Hasok Chang on the rationality of the chemical revolutionIn this article, we provide a detailed discussion of Hasok Chang’s analysis of the Chemical Revolution. Our focus lies on his use of the framework of systems of practice and his claim that the aban... 3167
Reposted by Maarten Van DyckSjang ten Hagen @sjangtenhagen.bsky.social · 13/12/2023CALL FOR ABSTRACTS – I'm teaming up with Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt to edit a special issue of Minerva on the history of peer review in the humanities (and its connection to the sciences). Submit your abstracts by March 15, 2024, and help us spread the word! link.springer.com/collections/...link.springer.comCall for Abstracts: The Past and Present of Humanities Peer ReviewAbstract submission deadline: 15 March 2024 Peer review, i.e. the institutionalized evaluation of scholars and their outputs by others working in the same ... 23026
Maarten Van Dyck @mvandyck.bsky.social · 15/12/2023Aarsleff's excellent piece in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography references "Frank E. Manuel, A Portrait of Isaac Newton (Cambridge, Mass., 1968), pp. 11,49" for the claim that Newton took extensive notes from the Mathematical Magick around 1660. 110
