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Sander Verhaegh

@sanderverhaegh.bsky.social
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History of Philosophy of Science, History of Analytic Philosophy. Assoc. Prof. Tilburg University. PI ERC StG/NWO Vidi project Exiled Empiricists (exiledempiricists.com)

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Adam Tamas Tuboly @tuadam.bsky.social · 12h
Now you can buy "Otto Neurath in Britain" cheaply as a paperback! if you are hesitating why to do that, here is a review from Ivan F. da Cunha in Metascience! I am grateful for that! link.springer.com/article/10.1... www.amazon.com/Otto-Neurath...
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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 13h
READ THIS, and then call or write to your representatives, the governor, the UMN President and Regents. And vote in November for people who will fund higher ed. If you don't live in MN, this is happening or is going to happen to your public university soon.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm honored to deliver the 2027 Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh. Across 6 lectures, On Science, Technology, and Social Values, I will work through the claim that what we build and how we put it to use carry commitments about who counts and what matters in collective life cahss.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator @thrillhouse1701.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Currently unable to put this book down. It's excellent!
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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 29/09/2026
"The story about the analytic turn is more complicated than the McCarthyist thesis suggests..."
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Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post) - Daily Nous
To what extent is the “the story about the analytic turn” in philosophy a story about politics? There’s been an increased discussion in recent years […]
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Sander Verhaegh @sanderverhaegh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is US analytic philosophy a product of McCarthyism?
 In this blog ⬇️, I return to the archival material I studied for my book (departmental records, correspondence, newspapers, personnel files) and argue that the answer is ‘no’. Blog dailynous.com/2026/09/29/a... Book academic.oup.com/book/63149
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Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post) - Daily Nous
To what extent is the “the story about the analytic turn” in philosophy a story about politics? There’s been an increased discussion in recent years […]
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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The first item in our Fall issue is a note from HOPOS Editor Matthew J. Brown, looking back on the first 16 years of the HOPOS Journal. He talks about the founding of the journal, some of the early articles, and how far we’ve come. Brown also discusses some exciting upcoming changes to the journal.
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University of Cincinnati, Department of Philosophy @ucphilosophy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We’re hiring for two positions! One is TT in Ancient, the other an open-rank TT position in mind, science, or ethics. Please share widely! See more on PhilJobs: TT Ancient: philjobs.org/job/show/32273 Open-rank Mind, Science, or Ethics: philjobs.org/job/show/32265
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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
1/ 🧵 The history of the philosophy of experimentation isn't really just a history of what philosophers have said about experiments. In a new #HOPOS paper, I argue that it is also a history of what philosophers thought philosophy of science itself was *for*. #philsci
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claudia-cristalli.bsky.social @claudia-cristalli.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
❗️A bunch of really cool papers that puts the discourse on values in science in historical perspective. Étienne Raduly and myself wrote chapter 10 on the philosophy of Charles W. Morris: “Value as Meaning and as Behavior” 🦫🦫🦫
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Martin Lenz @goingloopy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Postdoctoral Researcher in History of Philosophy / History of Political Thought
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Postdoctoral Researcher in History of Philosophy / History of Political Thought
[The Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy](https://www.jyu.fi/en/humsoc/yfi) is seeking to recruit a Postdoctoral Researcher in History of Philosophy / History of Political Thought starting 1 ...
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Sander Verhaegh @sanderverhaegh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Busted!
"100% of this text is AI" score on the first lines of Wittgenstein's Tractatus (Pangram)
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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
2 new (old) books delivered today and they both belonged to Carl Hempel!
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Adam Tamas Tuboly @tuadam.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I am happy to say that our volume on the history of value-laden ideals of science is out today! I am grateful to the wonderful contributors for their really nice chapters! First of its kind, check it out! www.routledge.com/Histories-of...
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Histories of the Value-Laden Ideals of Science: Philosophical Perspectives
This volume challenges oversimplified accounts of the value-free (VFI) and the value-laden ideals (VLI) in twentieth-century philosophy of science. Rather than a single, unified position, it reveals a...
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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’ve been digging into this recently and it is quite enjoyable in addition to being genuinely illuminating. Lucidly written, fascinating material. Super great if you’re at all interested in the recent-ish history of philosophy and/or science.
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Frank Ramsey now on the wall along with the portraits of other former fellows of @kingscollege.bsky.social I am proud to have advocated for this recent addition
Wall of black and white photo portraits
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Bestor - Belgian Science and Technology Online Resources @bestor2008.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Call for submissions open at Gewina! The Gewina–Descartes–Huygens Thesis Prize recognizes outstanding master’s theses in the history of science and universities. Deadline: 1 November 2026 More information via the link: www.gewina.nl/call-for-sub...
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LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🏆 Congratulations to 2026 #Lakatos Award winner John Norton, who receives the award for his books The Material Theory of Induction and The Large-Scale Structure of Inductive Inference. Congratulations! More: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/n... #PhilSci #LSEPhilosophy @center4philsci.bsky.social
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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hey fellow historians: Does anyone know which history journal first adopted blind peer review of articles as a standard practice (and what year they started doing so)?
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The HPS Podcast @hpspodcast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"But on the night sky, it's like seeing an atom held at arm's length..." This week on the podcast, Peter Galison joins Sophie Ritson to discuss what it took to make the first image of the black hole — and what it means to say we saw it. linktr.ee/thehpspodcast
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Barry Lam @hiphination.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Finally found a use for this meme.
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Barry Lam @hiphination.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I wrote for the Boston Globe about the scandalous higher-ed spending on digital infrastructure that has increased inefficiency. globecollegetown.substack.com/p/higher-ed-...
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College campuses need to be liberated from their administrators
Higher ed is being strangled by absurd and costly rules. What message is that sending to students?
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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide, edited by the inestimable @phieveigl.bsky.social (and me!), has 27 chapters from super-cool philosophers of science explaining how they do their thing, and is now open access! Our baby is free! #philsci direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...
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Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide
A guidebook to methods and methodology, encouraging deeper engagement across the philosophy of science and beyond.The last twenty years have seen multiple
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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hi, I didn't wanna make this video but I need to come clean about something. This whole time I've been a p-zombie with no phenomenal experience or interiority. I've been getting messages asking whether there's anything it's like to be me, and the answer is no. I'd say I'm sorry, but, well, you know.
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Paul L. Franco @loadofbunk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The book launch today was great and I'm excited to check out Sander's book, especially the later chapters on the culture wars!
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Call for Nominations: 2026 Hanneke Janssen Memorial Prize by Radboud University for best work in History &/or Philosophy of Modern Physics, by a student as part of Masters Thesis Prize: 2000 euros Nominations by a supervisor due by October 5, 2026 Qs & submit to sandra.hendriks@donders.ru.nl #HPS ⚛️
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Center for PhilSci @center4philsci.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Applications for the 2027-28 Visiting and Postdoc Fellowships will open later this month. #philsci International applicants: please see our website for important information regarding J-1 and H-1B visas. Deadline: December 7th Visiting: ow.ly/BWUy50ZGwJc Postdoc: ow.ly/g20X50ZGwJb
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Easy: because they wanted to promote fascism through the films of Charlie Chaplin and jazz music.
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ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🚨🚨🚨JOB ALERT: The HSS Department at Penn is hiring a tenure-track or tenured professor in the history of data/info science, computing, or AI. Please share widely! apply.interfolio.com/192132
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Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
On October 13, my book will officially be out into the world! Available open access from MIT Press, made possible in part by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. mitpress.mit.edu/978026205474...
A graphic with white text on a green background, advertising a forthcoming book. Image text reads: "In Referees We Trust? How Peer Review Became a Mark of Scientific Legitimacy, by Melinda Baldwin." The book cover appears at the right of the image.
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Sander Verhaegh @sanderverhaegh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In 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)
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Centre for the Philosophy of Historiography @centrephilohistory.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A FINAL friendly reminder: TODAY is the deadline for abstracts for our conference "Learning from History: The Philosophies of Historiography and the Historical Sciences" that will take place in the end of November: philevents.org/event/show/1.... Send in an abstract if you haven't done so yet!
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Learning from History: The Philosophies of Historiography and the Historical Sciences
Call for Papers: Learning from History: The Philosophies of Historiography and the Historical Sciences The University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, 27-29 November 2026 Confirmed keynote speakers (alphab...
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Brian Weatherson @bweatherson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This very good (forthcoming soon) book goes into a lot of detail about, inter alia, how the concept of analytic philosophy grew out of a tangle of interwar views, with Vienna Circle being one of the central parts. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Sander does fantastic historical scholarship. Looking forward to reading this. We’re doing it for my (hybrid) reading group @mcps-philsci.bsky.social this fall! cla.umn.edu/mcps/mid-cen...
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Mid-Century Philosophy of Science
Join the Mid-Century Philosophy of Science group! Discuss 1950s–60s philosophy, logical empiricism, and classic texts. Meets Mondays via Zoom & Heller Hall.
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Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Who counts as a scientist, who gets to decide what counts as scientific, and are academics relevant to public engagement? Check out this Metascience symposium on Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project. 1/ @mjacquart.bsky.social @metasciencejournal.bsky.social #philsci #scicomm �
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Book symposium: Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project (Angela Potochnik and Melissa Jacquart)
Angela Potochnik and Melissa Jacquart. 2025. Public engagement with science: defining the project. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. This book is the ...
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Paul L. Franco @loadofbunk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Re: Analytic philosophy, status quo, etc. This Aeon piece from Alexander Klein about Bertrand Russell, logical analysis, and nationalism is relevant, in part because it contextualizes the project of analysis by contrasting with other philosophical projects at the time. aeon.co/essays/philo...
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Philosophy at war: nationalism and logical analysis | Aeon Essays
Should philosophy express the national character of a people? Bertrand Russell’s ‘scientific’ philosophy was a bulwark against nationalism
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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 26/08/2026
The new edition of Kurt Gödel’s Philosophical Notebooks is full of useful advice.
Remark: Ways to come into contact with people:
1. strong exhaustion, 2. say something stupid (in general, do not pretend to be anything that you are not), 3. milkshake  (fill your stomach).Maxim: Decline all parties outright (maybe let a doctor attest that parties are harmful).
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 26/08/2026
Know anyone who would be interested in reviewing The Organism-Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social) or other recent books on the environment? @farsouthhistory.bsky.social is looking for reviewers, so you can get in touch with her! 📗🔗 mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #histSTM #philsci #envhum
Promotional graphic on a beige background for the book "The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal" (MIT Press, 2026) by Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda. The book cover appears in the center of the image and has a green gradient background. The book series label “The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology” appears at the top. The title is set in large, bold lettering using three colors: white (“The” and “Pairing”), warm yellow (“Organism–”), and bright green (“Environment”). The subtitle appears below in smaller white text, and the author’s name is printed at the bottom. In the lower right, a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) rests on clusters of pink milkweed flowers. Behind it, a large pale-green butterfly silhouette fills the background; its outline follows the shape of a red lacewing butterfly (Cethosia biblis).
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
this should be an interesting book. Sander is great
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Logical Positivism: An American History
Abstract. This book tells the remarkable story of a group of European philosophers and scientists who fled fascism and reshaped American philosophy. Drawin
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Final Call: PSA Outreach & Engagement Prize Nominations recognizing outstanding work of a scholar or team to engage members of general public about philosophy of science. Recipient will receive a $500 cash prize & recognition at #PSA26 Deadline: September 1, 2026 11:59 pm (anywhere) #philsci
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I will be in Tilburg this week celebrating Serene Khader alongside Kevin Pham Lorna Finlayson
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Uljana Feest @ufeest.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The Carnap Handbook is finally out (open access), with an article by me about Carnap and psychology link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... #HPS #HOPOS #philsci
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Carnap and Psychology
When considering Carnaps relationship to psychology, we can distinguish between the question whether (and to what extent) Carnap’s works contain assumptions about what might plausibly be constru...
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Brian Weatherson @bweatherson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I think that's a dramatic outlier. Stace got hired in 1932. I'm currently working on @sanderverhaegh.bsky.social's excellent new book on Logical Positivism, and one thing that comes through was that the Great Depression was, for most academics seeking jobs, not a blissful dawn.
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The HPS Podcast @hpspodcast.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
In an effort to make our podcast more accessible & reach a broader audience, we're now on YouTube! If you have a moment and enjoy the podcast, it would mean a lot if you could like & subscribe — or leave a comment. This helps more people discover our interviews and our guests' expertise & insights!
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The HPS Podcast
Leading scholars in History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (HPS) introduce contemporary topics for a general audience. Developed by graduate students from the HPS program at the University ...
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Simon Lohse @simonlohse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
One more paper of our special issue on comparative #philsci is out: link.springer.com/article/10.1..., Gonnerman et al. analyse how scientific method, theory, and hypothesis are portrayed in science textbooks across the natural and social sciences. #ScienceEducation
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Comparative Philosophy of Science Through the Lens of Science Textbooks - Journal for General Philosophy of Science
This paper analyzes how scientific method, theory, and hypothesis are portrayed in introductory, college science textbooks across the natural and social sciences. While philosophers of science have lo...
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Routledge have a video to advertise their classics series that offers a number of suggested next reads from the series if you enjoyed other books - the suggestions get enjoyably weirder as they go on, cumulating with 'if you liked The Hunger Games, try Popper's The Open Society and its Enemies'
A screen shot of a 'if you liked, try' image with The Hunger Games' on the left under 'if you liked' and 'The Open Society and its Enemies' on the right under 'try'. A caption reads Popper critiques authoritarianism and closed societies, while the Hunger Games explores the dangers of oppression and political control.
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Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Recipes for Science, coauthored with Matteo Colombo and Cory Wright, will have a Japanese translation coming out in a few months! Here I am with Ryota Morimoto, the translator, at the recent meeting of the Asian Philosophy of Science Association in Singapore. #philsci #philsky #scicomm 🧪
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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Our call for our next history of philosophy of technology conference is out! Spread the word and submit your abstracts. Looking forward seeing you in Maastricht in October! #philtech
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Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science @mcps-philsci.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Please also check out the www.hps-mentoring-in-biology.org that comes from the ideas discussed in this paper. #HPS-mentoring-in-biology
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Home | HPS Mentoring in Science
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Paul L. Franco @loadofbunk.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I found this chart aspirational; I too hope to live to 120 even if it means my influence wanes a bit.
Recent anglophone philosophers discussion by age: age on x axis and some numbers on y axis with a peak around 55 and age extending to 120
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