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Vanessa Seifert

@vanessaseifert.bsky.social
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Philosophy of Chemistry - Philosophy of Science I PI of PExAI project I former MarieSkłodowska Curie fellow I Writer & Co-editor Jargonium.com I Writer ChemistryWorld I vanessa-seifert.com

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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My first paper-attempt to talk about AI is officially out! It's open access & published by Pure and Applied Chemistry which - for those who know- is THE place to publish as a chemist (which I am not but still!!!) www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Finally I can say it: I GOT THE STARTING GRANT 🎉 The project: DiscoChem Discovery in Chemistry! #ERCStG @erc.europa.eu Lots of people to thank who helped in various stages of this but first I just want to thank me because well.. she says it best👇 youtube.com/shorts/fSBfo...
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I👏want👏to👏thank👏me👏. #Emmys #Shorts #NiecyNash
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Very cool to be translated into Turkish by an excellent student-driven platform like The Curious! Sağ ol 🙏 thecurious.tr/yazilar/bili...
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Kimyada Güçlü Belirim — Vanessa Seifert - The Curious
Kimya kuantum fiziğine indirgenebilir mi? Moleküler yapı, güçlü belirim ve aşağı yönlü nedensellik ile kimya felsefesinin temel tartışmasını inceliyoruz
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
If anyone by any chance is curious about what Im working on regarding AI, I wrote this short piece in @chemistryworld.com where I explain everything!! www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/coul...
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Could AI undermine our (belief in the truth of) scientific theories?
Artificial intelligence models that make predictions based solely on data present problems for philosophers
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
New article- open access: The pursuitworthiness of chemical experimentation. This is very different from what I have written so far. Special thanks to @ennofischer.bsky.social & @alejandrofabregastejeda.com for encouraging me to think about this- I learned a lot! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The pursuitworthiness of chemical experimentation - European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Chemistry is an experimental science. One cannot learn nor practice chemistry without conducting experiments and spending some time in a laboratory. To appreciate this, I employ the concept of pursuit...
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Jargonium @jargonium.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
News from Jargonium's co-editor @vanessaseifert.bsky.social ! Her new research project, PExAI: Predicting & Explaining w/ AI is officially launched. Join the hybrid kick off event that will take place on the 18th of May in Athens! www.jargonium.com/post/pexai-a...
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PExAI: Predicting & Explaining with AI
A new project bridging the philosophy of chemistry with the philosophy of AI.
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 29/04/2026
‘By discussing the past, we get to appreciate not only the success of our best current science but also the effort that is required to study nature and its workings’, writes @vanessaseifert.bsky.social www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/how-...
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How much history should there be in science education?
Understanding how previous shifts in scientific understanding occurred affects how we view current theories
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 28/04/2026
‘Rewritten after each scientific revolution, textbooks often obscure transformative shifts, portraying scientific progress as a smooth, cumulative process through the lens of the currently accepted paradigm’, writes @vanessaseifert.bsky.social www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/how-...
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How much history should there be in science education?
Understanding how previous shifts in scientific understanding occurred affects how we view current theories
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The book Rethinking Emergence ed. by A.Bryant & D.Yates is now out and Im in it too 🥰 academic.oup.com/book/62412
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Jargonium @jargonium.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The 2nd edition of Paul Needham's book, Macroscopic Metaphysics, is now out! Check out what its all about in this short piece by the author himself!!! www.jargonium.com/post/a-new-e...
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Second edition of Paul Needham's book, Macroscopic Metaphysics, is now out!
A new edition of Paul Needham's book, Macroscopic Metaphysics: Middle-Sized Objects and Longish Processes, is now out!
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Jargonium @jargonium.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Jargonium asks... Annette Lykknes! www.jargonium.com/post/jargoni...
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Jargonium asks …Annette Lykknes
We are honoured to interview Annette Lykknes, Professor of chemistry education and historian of chemistry.
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Jargonium @jargonium.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Huge congrats to Annette Lykknes for this amazing award!!! www.jargonium.com/post/annette...
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Annette Lykknes receives the 2026 HIST Award
Annette Lykknes receives the 2026 HIST Award
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
This February my new project PExAI commenced Pronounced PEH-kseh; παίξε (v. παίζω) greek word for play but also.. acronym for 'Predicting & Explaining with AI' I will investigate how AI figures in chemical research Check it out: www.vanessa-seifert.com/about-5
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PROJECTS | Vanessa Seifert
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Jargonium @jargonium.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
If you believe Mendeleev is the one who (first) discovered periodicity in the chemical elements well.. you'd be wrong. Our new article by Pierre Avenas explains why in "The first periodic table? The telluric screw of Chancourtois" www.jargonium.com/post/the-fir...
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The first periodic table? The telluric screw of Chancourtois
In 1862 Béguyer de Chancourtois published his classification of elements, the first to identify periodicity on the basis of atomic weight. This post discusses this discovery
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Every March, I write an article for @chemistryworld.com that is dedicated to the role of women in science. This year, I decided to take a more optimistic and fun approach towards this issue, focusing on how women have always figured in chemical practice! www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/chem...
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Chemistry has always been women’s business
Female chemists played essential roles in developing chemical practice
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Here is the recording of our Inaugural BSPS Popper prize lecture we gave w/ Alex Franklin at the LSE yesterday. This was such an amazing experience!! @lsephilosophy.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Sa...
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Do molecules have structure? The view from quantum physics | LSE Event
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LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
⏰ Tonight! @aliboyle.bsky.social @thebsps.bsky.social @vanessaseifert.bsky.social #PhilSci #Philosophy #Popper
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LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
⏰ Next week! @aliboyle.bsky.social @thebsps.bsky.social @vanessaseifert.bsky.social #PhilSci #Philosophy #Popper
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Matteo Vagelli @mvagelli.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
So thrilled this is coming up in just 3 days! Sharing the updated poster for the Athens roundtable on Reconsidering Historical Epistemology (Feb 2). Happy to send the Webex link to anyone who’d like to join online — just message me.
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LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
📣 Join us for the inaugural BSPS #Popper Prize lecture, delivered by philosophers of science Alexander Franklin and @vanessaseifert.bsky.social. 🗓️ Wednesday 25 February, 6.30pm - 8pm 📍 LSE Campus and online 💻 Register now to attend in-person or online! More: www.lse.ac.uk/events/molec...
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Do molecules have structure? The view from quantum physics | Vanessa Seifert and Alexander Franklin
6.30pm Wed 25 Feb | Vanessa Seifert, Alexander Franklin | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Happy new year, with the first article of 2026 already out in @chemistryworld.com !!! www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/demo...
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Democratising science, one step at a time
Artifical intelligence is just the latest method to open up chemistry to more people
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Why water may not be a natural kind after all ... or Por qué el agua podría no ser una clase natural después de todo! Very cool to have an article out in the Argentinian journal Analysis Filosofico! Check it out: analisisfilosofico.org/index.php/af...
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Por qué el agua podría no ser una clase natural después de todo | Análisis Filosófico
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The new @chemistryworld.com article is about this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry! Check it out 👇 www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/what...
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What makes a scientific breakthrough truly chemical?
Why MOFs are a great choice for the Nobel prize in chemistry
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
My new article @chemistryworld.com is about how consumer safety can be informed by the analysis of causal relations 👇 www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...
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The conceptual challenge of consumer safety
Understanding causation can motivate product improvements
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The #MSCA project #CReaCaL is officially over, so here is one final post that I wrote for @jargonium.bsky.social to sum up what I did in the last couple of years. Not many answers; rather more questions came out of this work! www.jargonium.com/post/chemica...
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Chemical reactions as causes? (part III)
In this final article prompted by the work done during the research project "Chemical Reactions as Causes and Laws", I would like to present some of the problems and challenges that I encountered when...
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
New article @chemistryworld.com on smell and other senses. Check it out #CReaCaL www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/what...
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What the smell of benzene tells us about the world
A philosophical discussion about how much we can trust our senses
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Today Im taking part in a very different event on ‘Women & correspondence’ where I will talk abt Darwin’s correspondence w/ women and discuss it from the perspective of feminist critiques on his work www.historyofideas.gr/2025/06/wome...
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Women and Correspondence
Women and Correspondence in the Nineteenth Century Workshop, June 19, 2025 organized with the cooperation of the Book History Lab Department...
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 25/05/2025
Feminist philosophy of science points out the mechanisms by which sexism has systematically affected women's health and helps us appreciate the different factors that influence how knowers produce knowledge claims. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/how-...
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How feminist bioethics can improve women’s health
From correcting research imbalances to placing value on lived experiences
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Jargonium @jargonium.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
For this instalment of Jargonium Asks, we are delighted to have Kostas Gavroglu Prof. Emeritus @ the Un. of Athens. He is an expert historian of chemistry, among the few who have illuminated the social, historical & philosophical aspects of early quantum chemistry www.jargonium.com/post/jargoni...
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Jargonium asks … Kostas Gavroglu
Kostas Gavroglu is Professor Emeritus at the Department of History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Athens.
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Julia Robinson @robinson-julia.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🚨 Today @chemistryworld.com launched a new collection on women's health. From menstruation to menopause, the articles reveal the stark gaps in medical research that have left women overlooked for far too long, and the people working to change the narrative: www.chemistryworld.com/collections/... 🔬💊
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Women's health | Chemistry World
Many medical conditions affect only women, or affect them disproportionately, but women's health has historically been neglected in medical research. In this collection, we look at the gender gap in h...
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Im keeping a sort of diary of my research during the #CReaCaL project through a series of short essays in @jargonium.bsky.social. @erc.europa.eu This is part II of my thoughts around chemical reactions as causal relations: www.jargonium.com/post/chemica...
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Chemical reactions as causes? (part II)
Some further thoughts on the nature of reactions
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Jargonium @jargonium.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Jargonium is.. *a chemical element that turned out to be a compound * a blog about chemistry * bridging the humanities with chemistry 🧪Check it out! www.jargonium.com
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Bridging the Humanities with Chemistry | Jargonium
Established by early-career researchers with a shared research interest in history and philosophy of chemistry, Jargonium showcases short essays on chemistry and alchemy from the perspective of humani...
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Symbols, pictograms and tables have always been part of chemical practice. Delving into that story is quite exciting! Here are some snippets of it in my new article @chemistryworld.com #CReaCaL @erc.europa.eu www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/symb...
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Symbols and tables in chemistry
Looking beyond today's periodic table
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
A new print magazine is out called @chalk-magazine.bsky.social & Im honoured to be in the first issue! I talk abt the periodic table & the limits in discovering elements- what does this mean about chemical discovery? 🙏 @willgarbett.bsky.social & Amy Louise!!! www.chalk-magazine.com/articles/the...
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The Limits of the Periodic Table — Chalk
In the quest for new chemical elements, scientists have pushed physics to its breaking point. Their efforts may take us beyond the bounds of the periodic table. Vanessa Seifert
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
My review of Alexander Bird’s book ‘Knowing Science’ just came out @jgps.bsky.social . If you want to get an idea of what’s it about before reading the actual thing, here are my impressions! #msca #creacal link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Alexander Bird: Knowing Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 304 pp., €67.88 (Hardback), ISBN: 9780199606658 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Very honoured to talk at the "Units, Symbols, and Terminology in the Physical Sciences in and for the Digital Era" conference, held at the wonderful Burlington House, the house of the @rsc.org! Thank you @psdi-uk.bsky.social Jeremy Frey & Victoria Hooper! #CReaCaL www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Amp...
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Units, Symbols, and Terminology in the Physical Sciences in and for the Digital Era
YouTube video by PSDI_UK
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IUPAC @iupac.org · 13/03/2025
How #AI will change the future of #Chemistry❓ First #speaker of this meeting 🎤 🔸 Dr Vanessa Seifert, @vanessaseifert.bsky.social, Research Associate, Department of #Philosophy, @bristoluni.bsky.social. 🔹 Prediction, explanation, and #chemical progress in the age of AI. 🌐 www.vanessa-seifert.com
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I tried to give my take on whether water is wet for the BBC World Service - CrowdScience! The episode hosts chemists and material scientists too so this is a really nice & rounded way to approach the question. Here is the link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
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BBC World Service - CrowdScience, Is water wet?
The wetness of water seems obvious - but dive into the science and it's not so clear cut
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
New article @chemistryworld.com #CReaCaL #ERC #MarieCurie #MSCActions 👇 www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/clas...
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Classifications, racial discrimination and Covid-19
Lessons with philosophical significance for how we group people and objects
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I don’t know what to say abt this apart from how honoured and thankful I am. This paper really took a life of its own from the very beginning it came out. It’s a genuine product of interdisciplinarity, merging the philosophy of physics with chemistry.
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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Interested in scales and measurement? 📐 With #AssemblingLife and #CPS we are organising a two days workshop on “ScaM: scales and measurement in the sciences”. We have a great lineup of speakers. Info and registration ➡️ www.hf.uio.no/english/rese...
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ScaM workshop: on scale and measurement in the sciences - Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences (CPS)
Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Here is the talk I gave to undergrad chemists at Andrews University about philosophy of science & chemistry. Presenting philosophical issues to non-philosophers is hard and I wish I could explain some things a bit more carefully but what can you do! www.youtube.com/watch?v=toPY...
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Vanessa Seifert: January 30, 2025 - Chemistry and Philosophy
YouTube video by desmond Murray
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Here it is! My article for @aeon.co is now out and it is about what I currently work on in my Marie Curie project #CReaCaL. Hope you like it! aeon.co/essays/the-n...
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The neglected ‘laws’ of chemistry – and why they matter | Aeon Essays
Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Im taking advantage of my project's Zenodo platform to publish a paper that's always well-received when I talk abt it but not so much when I write it down (weird!) It's open access & will be regularly reviewed so pls send me your comments! #CReaCaL #MarieCurie #ERC zenodo.org/records/1441...
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Why do philosophers disagree on how the sciences relate? A metaphilosophical analysis
How the natural sciences relate and what these relations tell us about the world have been examined in philosophy for a long time. Yet despite the enormous advances in the natural sciences and the gro...
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Our new instalment of #JargoniumAsks hosts Marina P. Banchetti-Robino who answers all our questions abt PhilChem plus gives us some cool book suggestions🙏!!! Check it out here: www.jargonium.com/post/jargoni...
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Jargonium asks … Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino
For this instalment of Jargonium Asks, we are delighted to interview Marina P. Banchetti-Robino, Prof. of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic Un.
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The summits on #climatechange last month were- to put it lighlty- a disappointment... In my new article @chemistryworld.bsky.social Im trying to figure out why that is.. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...
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The moral theories behind climate deadlock
Why is it so controversial to do the right thing for the environment?
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 02/12/2024
How do we judge whether a particular experiment is 'pursuitworthy'? What factors need to be considered? @ennofischer.bsky.social & I are receiving submissions exploring these & related questions for a topical collection in EJPS! Please help us spread the word! tu-dresden.de/gsw/phil/iph... #philsci
Promotional image announcing the call for papers for the topical collection "The Pursuitworthiness of Experiments Across the Sciences" to be published in the European Journal for Philosophy of Science (Guest Editors: Enno Fischer and Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda). The call for papers runs from November 1, 2024 to April 20, 2025.
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
My first paper in the context of the Marie Curie Project #CReaCaL is out and open access! Why think of laws in chemistry? And which case studies are worth investigating from this perspective? Check it out here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The value of laws in chemistry - Foundations of Chemistry
In philosophy, the empirical success of a science is often explained by the fact that it has managed to discover some law(s) of nature. This line of thought has not been thoroughly explored with respe...
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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
It’s out & #OpenAccess 🎉🎉 My 1st book ´Chemistry’s Metaphysics’ is one of the most creative projects Ive undertaken. Filled w/ metaphysical questions explored through a chemical lens, hopefully it contributes to the interaction of chemistry & philosophy www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Chemistry's Metaphysics
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Chemistry's Metaphysics
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